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Conococheague Valley 



;o<.^««^ H A M B E R S FAMILY. 
BENJAMIN CHAMBERS 

(Ijorn in County Antrim, 
Ireland, either in 1 708, or 
1713 — died at Chambers- 
^'tvvCt^^ ^^'^S, Pa., Feb. 17, 1788). 
the pioneer settler in the 
was, according to 
recent investigators, the youngest son 
of Major James Chambers, an officer 
in the service of King William III. 
who was granted one of the confiscated 
estates in the north of Ireland. There 
is some confusion in regard to the 
year of his birth. According to his tomb- 
stone in Falling Spring graveyard, he was 
eighty years old at the time of his death, 
but in an affidavit made by him in 1736, 
he is described as twenty-three. Fie came 
to Pennsylvania about 1725, with his three 
eldest brothers, James, Robert and Joseph. 
The Chambers brothers settled at the mouth 
of Fishing creek, on the Susquehanna, where 
they built a mill and where Benjamin 
learned the trade of a millwright. 

In 1730, according to the familiar story, 
three of the Chambers brothers removed to 
the Cumberland Valley, James settling near 
the head of Big Spring, Robert at Middle 
Spring, and B&njamin, attracted by a wan- 
dering hunter's descri])tion of a beautiful 
cascade that has since disappeared, on Fall- 
ing Spring, at its confluence with the Cono- 
cocheague. It was probabl}- three years 



later that these settlements were made, and' 
Benjamin may not have come to the Falling 
Spring to live before 1736-7. Be this as it 
may, it was as early as 1734 that he deter- 
mined to settle at the mouth of Falling 
Spring, for in that year he obtained the fol-' 
lowing license: 

PENNSYLVANIA, SS : 

By order of the Proprietary. These are 
to license and allow Benjamin Chambers to 
take and settle and Improve of four hundred 
acres of Land at the falling .spring's luouth 
and on lioth sides of the Conegochege 
Creek for the con\-eniency of a Grist Mill 
and plantation. To be hereafter surveyed 
to the said Benjamin on the common terms 
other Lands in those parts are sold. Given 
under my hand this thirtieth day of March, 
1734. Samuel Blunston. 

Lancaster County. 

The Blunston licenses, of which this was 
one of the earliest, were granted to fa\ored 
persons, who consented to settle near the 
Maryland boundary, instead of warrants, 
because the lands west of the Susquehanna 
were not purchased from the Indians. Set- 
tlements on these unpurchased lands had 
Ijecome necessary as a Ijarrier against en- 
croachments of the Marylanders north of 
the line claimed by the Penns. It is prob- 
able that young Chambers took part in the 
conflict that resulted from the boundarv dis- 



BIOGRAPHICAL AXXALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



pute from its inception, but it was not until 
two years after he obtained his Bkniston 
license that we have any certain knowledge 
of his share in these transactions. In May, 
1736, he was at the house of John Wright, 
Jr., on the west side of the Susquehanna, 
where he witnessed an attempt by one 
Franklin to make survey in behalf of Lord 
Baltimore, of a part of the great Springets- 
bury Manor, in York county, protected l)y 
the famous Capt. Thomas Cresap and twen- 
ty men under his command. Later in the 
same year he was able to perform a very 
important service for the Proprietaries of 
the Pennsylvania. He went as if in search 
of a runaway servant from Falling Spring 
to ascertain what preparations the Maryland 
authorities were making for an invasion of 
the disputed territory, and after a stormy 
interview with Colonel Rigby, who was in 
command of the militia, lie succeeded in 
making his escape and bringing the news of 
a projected rendezvous at Wright's Ferry. 
This information prevented the success of 
^he movement. As a reward for this serv- 
ice, Thomas Penn promised him a grant for 
a corn mill and plantation, but whether he 
profited by it has not been ascertained. 

When Benjamin Chamijers began to 
make improvements at the mouth of the 
Falling Spring is uncertain. The Chambers 
traditions give us no dates. We only know 
that at some time before his marriage to 
Sarah Patterson the young bachelor built 
himself a log house, that he covered with 
cedar shingles held fast by nails. His house 
stood on the high ground above the Falling 
Spring cascade, but, going to the Susque- 
hanna on business, it was burnt during his 
absence by some unprincipled person for 
the sake of the nails. L'ndaunted by this 
misfortune, he built himself a new and bet- 
ter dwelling, which was followed in a few 
vears bv a mill for the accommodation of 



the settlers who had followed him to the 
Conococheague. He was one of the wit- 
nesses sent to England, after Cresap's war, 
to testify in behalf of the Penns in the 
boundary disi)ute with Lord Baltimore. 
This \isit altorded him an opportunity to 
make a brief sojourn at his old home in 
County Antrim, and to induce some of the 
Chambers acquaintances to emigrate to 
Pennsylvania and settle on the Falling 
SjM'ing anil the Conococheague. It seems 
that Major James Chambers had four 
daughters, as well as four sons. These four 
daughters, with their husbands and children, 
were all early Conococheague settlers. The 
names of a few of the other settlers in the 
neighborhood may be drawn from the pro- 
vincial and ecclesiastical records, but any- 
thing like a satisfactory account of the set- 
tlement is impossible. 

Beginning with, 1736, BenjaiiT:. 
Chambers was for many years recogM.zC' 
as one of the leading men in the Cumberland 
\'alley. Early in that year he was appointed 
by the court at Lancaster as one of the vrew- 
ers to review a road from the Susquehanna 
toward the Potomac, the report of the first 
set of viewers having proved unsatisfactory 
to some of the inhabitants. In 1747-48, 
when the "Association" fever, in conse- 
quence of a prevailing fear of French inva- 
sion, was at its height in the province, an 
Associated Regiment was formed in the 
Cuml)erland N'alley, of which Benjamin 
Chambers was made colonel, with Robert 
Dunning as lieutenant-colonel and William 
Maxwell as major. The peace of 1748 made 
it imnecessary for the regiment to go into 
active service. When Cumberland county 
was created in 1730. Colonel Chambers was 
one of the trustees to purchase a site for a 
courthouse and jail, and to erect these nec- 
essary county buildings. The trustees were 
also directed to join with the trustees of 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRAXKLIX COUNTY. 



York county to fix the boundary line l)e- 
tween the two new counties. 

Colonel Chambers was named in the Act 
creating Cumberland county as its first col- 
lector of the excise, and he was also appoint- 
ed one of the first justices of the peace for 
the new courity. His first important iluty 
as a magistrate could scarcely ha\e been an 
agreeable one. In ]\Iay, 1750, with the other 
magistrates, lie accompanied Secretary Rich- 
ard Peters to the Juniata, and later to Path 
V^alley, Aughwick. and the Big and Little 
Coves, besides making a detour with George 
Croghan to Shearman's creek, to assist in 
dispossessing the squatters who had settled 
at these in disregard of the Indian title. As 
a justice of the peace he was one of the 
judges of the county courts, and the records 
show that he sometimes sat as the presiding 
justice. 

Colonel Chambers was active in the de- 
fense of the frontier during the French and 
Indian war. When the attack was made 
upon the Big Cove on the last day of Octo- 
ber, 1755, he was one of the first to send 
notice of the appearance of the enemy to the 
inhabitants of the lower end of the valley 
and to the Scotch-Irish settlers on Marsh 
creek, and to appeal to them to come 
to the rescue. The day before the Cove 
massacre, he attended a meeting at Ship- 
pensburg, called by Sherifi: Potter, at which 
it was determined to build fi\e large forts 
for the protection of the upper part of the 
Cumberland \'alley. Chambers Mills was 
one of the sites chosen, and Colonel Cham- 
bers at once began to build a stockade around 
his house at the Falling Spring for the de- 
fense of his own family and as a place for his 
neighbors. The date of this fort is usually 
placed in 1756. but that it was built in 1755 
is apparent from the fact that the receipt for 
the swivel guns, sent to him by the province, 
Avas dated Nov. 25, 1755. His "great guns" 



proved a source of unexpected anntjyance to 
him before they were long in his possession. 
In the autumn of 1756, Commissary James 
Young visited the fort, and as he was much 
of a busybody he injected his recommenda- 
tions into the colonel's affairs in a way to 
disturb the pioneer. Acting upon Young's 
recommendations. Governor Denny directed 
Col. John Armstrong to see that Chambers 
gave up the guns, and when he refused an 
order was issued to seize and remove them. 
Armstrong committed the task of executing 
this order to Lieutenant Thomas Smallman, 
who marched to Falling Spring with all the 
pomp and circumstance of glorious war, 
where he was met by Chambers and the 
country people, and found it would be nec- 
essary to take the fort before he could seize 
the guns. Smallman determined not to risk 
a battle and marched back again to report 
his discomfiture to his superior. A war- 
rant charging Colonel Chambers with sedi- 
tion and disaffection was issued by Governor 
Denny, but nothing came of it. For eight 
years. 1756-64, Fort Chambers served as a 
place of retreat for the people of East Con- 
ococheague. 

Early in 1764, Colonel Chambers gave 
notice that "there is a town laid out on Cone- 
gogig Creek, on both sides of tiie great Fall- 
ing Spring, where it falls into the said 
Creek." He advertised the lots in the Phila- 
delphia newspapers, and appointed the 28th 
of June as the day on which the original 
purchasers should draw for them. Whether 
the drawing was made is in doubt — if it 
was. it was confined to the Chambers family. 
Of the deeds on record for 1764. only one 
is not in the Chambers name. This was to 
Robert Jack, Sept. i, 1764, for the lot on 
which the Bank of Chambersburg now 
stands. According to the records only five 
lots were sold before 1775. and it was not 
until 1778-9 that the luunber of purchasers 



biograph'ical axnals of fraxklix couxty. 






was sufficient to constitute a village. The 
country around the town was sparsely set- 
tled. The Chambers Mills and "grindstones 
going by water," with a few scattered houses, 
nearly all of tliem built of logs, were all there 
was of the future county-seat at the close of 
the Revolution. After the erection of 
Franklin county in 1784, when Chambers- 
burg Ijecanie the county-seat, the growth of 
the town was more rapid. On Jan. i, 1768, 
Colonel Chambers set apart the grounds for 
the Falling Spring church and graveyard by 
a deed in trust for "the Presbyterian Con- 
gregation of Falling Spring." The consid- 
eration was the animal payment of one rose, 
if required. In the picturesque graveyard 
that was part of the gift, the pioneer and 
most of his tlescendants are buried. 

That Colonel Chambers was a man of 
good education his letters show, and both 
history and tradition unite in according him 
the condition of a man of substance. He 
carried a watch, and there is no doubt tliat 
he owned slaves, for the original l)ill of sale 
for one of his negro women to his daughter, 
Ruhamah, is among the treasures of the 
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He 
became an extensive owner of lands not oidy 
in Chambersburg, but in other parts of the 
Concococheague country. He lived long 
enough to see the town that he had founded 
become the count}-seat of the county of 
Franklin. 

Colonel Chambers married (first ) Sept. 
24, 1 741, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 
Sarah Patterson, daughter of Capt. Robert 
Patterson, of Lancaster county ; they had 
issue : 

I. James (H). 

Colonel Chambers married (second), 
1748, Jane Williams (born in 1725 — died 
in 1795), (laughter of a Welsh clergyman 
in \'irc:inia; thev had issue: 



1. RuHAM.\ii married Dr. John Col- 
in lun ( 111 ). 

2. Williams (born at Chambers" Mills, 
in 1752 — died unmarried, June, 1788), 
went to Cambridge as a volunteer with Capt. 
James Chambers" company in July, 1775, 
and served with Colonel Thompson's Bat- 
talion of Riflemen (Second Canadian), Dec. 

'J, ^7/6. 

3. Benjamin (IV). 

4. Joseph (V). 

5. George (born at Chambers Mills, 
in 1760 — died unmarried, Aug. 17, 1802), 
joined with his brothers, Williams and Ben- 
jamin, in establishing Mount Pleasant Irun 
works at the entrance of Path \^alley, in 

1783- 

6. Jane married Adam Ross (\T). 

7. Hadassah (Hetty) married Will- 
iam M. Brown (VU). 

(H) JAMES CHAMBERS (born at 
l'"alling Spring, June 5, 1743 — died at Lou- 
don Forge, April 25, 1805), son of Col. 
Benjamin and Sarah (Patterson) Chambers, 
was brought up in his father's mill, receiving 
only such educational advantages as were 
possible on the frontier. In 1775 he became 
captain of a company of riflemen from the 
Conococheague that marched to Cambridge 
to assist in the leaguer of Boston. The com- 
pany marched by way of Harris' Ferry, 
Bethlehem, and Xew Windsor, on the Huilson 
above West Point, and arrived at Cambridge 
on the 7th of August. The men wore white 
frocks or hunting shirts, and round hats. 
They were expert with the rifle, and often 
picked ofif British officers and soldiers at 
double the distance of common musket shot. 
.•\t Cambrid.ge the Pennsylvania companies 
were formed into a battalion under Col. Wil- 
liam Thompson. This organization was 
known as "Colonel Thompson's Battalion of 
Riflemen." The riflemen were placed on the 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



outposts of the American lines near Prospect 
Hill. The men from the Conococheaguc 
were on the ground scarcely twenty- four 
hours before they exchanged shots with the 
enemy, and on the 26th day of August, Cap- 
tain Chambers was in command of a detach- 
ment that in a spirited action prevented the 
occupation of Ploughed Hill. The company 
with the rest of the command, remained on 
the American front, facing Bunker Hill, 
until early in April, 1776, when the regiment 
was sent to New Utrecht, on Long Island. 

Colonel Thompson having been appointed 
a brigadier-general and Lieut-Col. Ed- 
ward Hand promoted to be colonel of the 
regiment. Captain Chambers became lieu- 
tenant-colonel, March 7, 1776. During the 
months of May and June a majority of the 
men was induced to re-enlist for two years, 
and July i, 1776, the regiment was reor- 
ganized as the First Continental Infantry. 
It participated in the events leading up to 
the battle of Flatbush, and ending with the 
retreat from Long Island. Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Chambers was in the battle of the 27th 
of August, but escaped unhurt. In the re- 
treat from Long Island on the 30th the regi- 
ment formed part of the rear guard. After 
the evacuation of New York city the regi- 
ment went into camp above King's Bridge. 
For his share in Long Island campaign 
Lieut. -Colonel Chambers was promoted to 
be colonel, his commission bearing date from 
Sept. 28, 1776. He was assigned to the 
command of the Tenth Reg't, Pennsylvania 
Line, March 12. 1777. but exactly a month 
later he was transferred to the First Penn- 
sylvania, his old regiment, with which he 
remained until his retirement, Jan. i, 1781. 

Colonel Chambers was in most of the 
battles of the campaigns of 1776-78. In the 
battle of White Plains he had little part, as 
the action was not general. He was in the 
winter campaign of 1776-77, in New- Jersey, 



but apparently was not in the battles of 
Trenton and Princeton, Our first positive 
knowledge of his whereabouts in the spring 
of 1777, was his presence in the Jerseys 
while Washington's meagre army was skir- 
mishing with Lord Cornwallis. He was one 
of the first officers to enter Brunswick in 
June, when Cornwallis was forced to quit 
the place. His regiment was afterward en- 
camped on the mountain back of Bound 
Brook. In the battle of Brandywine Col- 
onel Chambers was conspicuous for his en- 
ergy and courage. His regiment was en- 
gaged at very close range and suffered 
severely. Although the enemy had come 
within thirty yards, and his fire was very 
galling. Col. Chambers succeeded in saving 
all the brigade artillery and retreated in good 
order to the next hill, where he was not fol- 
lowed. He received a Hessian bullet in his 
side, of which he made light in his letters, 
but which gave him much trouble during the 
rest of his life. Part of the First Pennsyl- 
vania was eng-aged in the unfortunate sur- 
prise at Paoli, but Colonel Chambers was 
absent, having been sent by Wayne to guide 
(ieneral Smallwood with the Maryland mili- 
tia to the camp at Warren. The regiment 
was also in the battle of Germantown, but 
the accounts of the operations of the right 
wing are too meagre and confused to enable 
us to learn the share of the colonel in that 
action. Colonel Chambers was at the winter 
encampment at Valley Forge, 1777-78, and 
he led his men at the battle of Monmouth — 
"the drubbing we ga\-e them at Freehold 
Church," he called it in his letters. After 
Monmouth, when the army was again at 
\\'hite Plains, he was in command of the 
First Pennsylvania Brigade. His regiment 
was in the attack on the Bergen block-house, 
July 19. 1780. This was probably the last 
action in which it was engaged, while 
under his command. W'hen the Pennsylva- 



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nia line was reorganized, Jan. 17, 1781, 
lie retired. Colonel Chambers carried with 
him into private life the regrets and at¥ec- 
tion of his officers and men, and the confi- 
dence and esteem of the Commander-in- 
Chief, that he had so long enjoyed. 

Upon his return to Chambersbnrg Colo- 
nel Chambers resumed the duties of civil life 
with avidity. He bought from his father, 
Sept. 8, 1 78 1, a tract of 220 acres of land, 
south of German street, on which he laid out 
a suburban town that he called Chambers- 
town, to distinguish it from the town of 
Chambersbnrg. This tract he afterward 
conveyed to his son-in-law, Andrew Dunlop. 
He was a pioneer in the iron industry in 
Franklin county, and built and conducted 
what was known as "Loudon Forge," above 
the village of Fort Loudon, where he made 
his home. He was one of the petitioners for 
the new county of Franklin in 1784, and was 
the first justice of the peace for Peters town- 
ship appointed after the erection of the 
county. As such he w-as one of the judges 
of the county courts. He was a County 
Commissioner, 1793-96, and an Associate 
Judge, 1795-1805. Colonel Chambers was 
an original Federalist, and an ardent sup- 
porter of President Washington's adminis- 
tration. In the suppression of the "Whiskey 
Insurrection," in 1794. he took an active 
and leading part. He was made brigadier- 
general, and was given command of the 
Third Brigade. It comprised 1,762 men — 
568 from Lancaster county, 550 from York, 
363 from Cumberland, and 281 from Frank- 
lin. William Findley in his "History of the 
Whiskey Insurrection" pronounced it the 
best equipped and best disciplined brigade 
in the expedition. 

General Chambers married I-'eb. 16, 
1763, Katharine Hamilton (born in County 
Tyrone, Ireland, in 1737 — died at Ludlow 
Station, now Cincinnati, Jan. 14, 1820). 



daughter of John and Isabella (Potter) 
Hamilton. She was brought to America by 
her parents in 1741, her mother dying on 
the day of their arrival. Mrs. Hamilton, 
the mother of Katharine (Hamilton) Cham- 
bers, was a sister of Capt. John Potter, the 
first sheriff of Cumberland county, in whose 
family her daughter passed her childhood 
and early girlhood. General James and 
Katharine (Hamilton) Chambers had issue: 

1. Benjamin (VIII). 

2. S.\R.\H Bella, married (first) An- 
drew Dunlop; (second) Archibald McAllis- 
ter (IX). 

3. Charlotte married (first) Col. Is- 
rael Ludlow; (second), Rew David 
Riske (X). 

4. RuHA.MAH married Dr. William B. 
Scott (XI). 

5. Catharine, born Sept. 26, 1775. 
died Oct. 5, 1775. 

(Ill) RUHAMAH CHAMBERS 
(born at Chambers Mills, in 1750 — died 
April 19, 1826) was the eldest daugh- 
ter of Col. Benjamin and Jane (Will- 
iams) Chambers: she married Dr. 
John Colhoun (born in 1740 — died at 
Chanibersburg, Dec. 22, 1782), the 
first physician that settled at Chambersbnrg. 
He was a man of excellent professional at- 
tainments. In the Revolution he was an 
earnest patriot ; he was a member of the 
Cumberland County Committee of Observa- 
tion, in 1774, and a delegate to the Carpen- 
ters' Hall Convention of 1776. Dr. Col- 
houn lived at the north-east corner of Main 
and King streets. At the time of his death 
he was engaged in building the fine stone 
mansion north of the Falling Spring Presby- 
terian Church, that was for many years the 
home of his widow, and in which Col. Ben- 
jamin Chambers died while on a visit to his 
daughter. Both Dr. Colhoun and his wife 
are buried in the Chambers familv enclosure 



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in Falling Spring graveyard. They hat! 
issue : 

1. Benj.\mi.\ went to Baltimore. 

2. ELIZ.^BETH (died at New Orleans. 
La., in 1S46), married Parker Campbell 
(born in 1768 — died at Washington, Pa., 
July 30, 1824). son of Francis and Elizal)eth 
(Parker) Campbell, a lawyer. They had 
issue: Francis; John; Parker; Nancy, who 
married Samuel Lyon ; Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried (first). William Chambers, (second), 
John S. Brady ; and Elinor, who married 
John Ritchie. 

3. Rebecca married Edward Crawford 
[Crawford Family]. 

(IV) BENJAMIN CHAMBERS 
(born at Chambers" Mills, in 1755 — died 
Dec. 29, 1 813), son of Col. Benjamin and 
Jane (Williams) Chambers, passed his in- 
fancy in Fort Chambers during the Indian 
troubles, and was a young man only twenty 
years old at the beginning of the Revolution. 
He went with the riflemen to Cambridge in 
the summer of 1775, and served with them 
through the rest of the year. He was ap- 
pointed second lieutenant in the Berks 
county company. First Continental Infantry, 
Jan. 5, 1776; later he was promoted to be 
first lieutenant of Capt. David Harris' com- 
pany. In his will he left his sword and 
pistols to his son, Benjamin. These pistols 
were a gift from General Washington in 
recognition of his gallantry at the battle of 
Long Island. After his retirement from the 
Continental service Captain Chamljers re- 
turned to Chambersburg. and became the 
virtual successor of his father in the manage- 
ment of the Chambers property and the de- 
velopment of the town. He conducted the 
Chambers mills and worked the parts of the 
plantation not yet turned into town lots. 
In 1 791 he laid out the town west of the 
Conococheague creek, and it was mainly 
through his exertions that the first bridge 



across the creek at Market street was built. 
His first dwelling house was on the west 
side of the Conococheague, opposite the 
Falling Spring graveyard. It was a simple, 
primitive structure, built of logs. In 1787, 
he erected the finest of the early stone man- 
sions for which Chaml^ersburg was noted 
at the Ijeginning of the nineteenth century. 
Captain Chambers was one of the petitioners 
for the creation of the county of Franklin, 
in 1784, and he was the contractor for build- 
ing the first court house. The only office he 
is known to have filled was that of County 
.\uditor, 1793-94. In politics he was an 
ardent Federalist, aiid in religion a Presby- 
terian. In 1796 he gave the lot on which the 
Chambersburg Academy stands, and was 
one of the original trustees named in the 
charter. Captain Chambers married, June, 
1783, Sarah Brown (born in 1759 — died 
July 27, 1837), daughter of George and 
Agnes (Ma.xwell) Brown, of Brown's Mill. 
They had issue : 

1. George (XII). 

2. Benjamin, died Aug. 22, 1825, in 
his twenty-ninth year. 

3. William (died Sept. 11. 1823. in his 
27th year), studied law with his brother, 
George, and was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar, in 1818. He practiced in 
Chamliersburg. He married Elizaljeth 
Campbell, daughter of Parker and Eliza- 
beth (Colhoun) Campbell. No issue. 

4. Joseph (XIII). 

5. Thomas, moved to Danville about 
1840. He married Catharine Duncan, 
daughter of Judge Thomas Duncan, of Car- 
lisle; they had issue: Benjamin died when 
a young man ; Emma died unmarried at 
Saratoga; and Mary married Col. Timothy 
Bryan (a graduate of the Military .\cademy 
at West Point, distinguished in the Civil 
war), and they had Benjamin Chambers, 
L". S. N., Annie, and Fannie. 



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6. Sarah married Dr. William J. 
Clarke, of Philadelphia. 

7. Susan B., horn Oct. 25, 1S04, died 
unmarried Oct. 28, 1884. 

(V) JOSEPH CHAMBERS (horn at 
Chambers' Mills, in 1756 — died Dec. 28, 
181 1 ), son of Col. Benjamin and Jane 
(Williams) Chamhers, was the first of the 
children of Col. Benjamin Chambers whose 
birthplace was within the stockade known as 
Fort Chambers. As a younger son he was 
kept at home during the Revolution, hut was 
enrolled in Capt. William Findley's com- 
pany, Cumberland County Associators. He 
owned an extensive plantation on the Falling 
Spring, east of Chambersburg, and extend- 
ing from the North to the East Point, yiv. 
Chambers married Margaret Rippey (born 
in 1769 — died July 4, 1820), daughter of 
Capt. William and ^Margaret (Finley) Rip- 
pey; they had issue: 

I. ^Iargaret married Rev. John AIc- 
Knight (horn in 1789 — died July 29, 1857). 
son of the Re\'. Dr. John and Susan 
(Brown) ]\IcKnight : lie was pastor of the 
Rocky Spring Presljyterian Church, 1816- 
36. They had two daughters: Alargaret; 
and Susan, who died young. 

(VI) JANE CHAMBERS (l)orn at 
Chambers" ]\Iill'^, in 1762 — died March 19, 
1825), the second daughter of Col. Ben- 
jamin and Jane (Williams) Chambers, mar- 
ried in 1777, Adam Ross (born in Ireland in 
1754 — died Nov. 30. 1827), who came to 
America as a very young man, and settled 
after his marriage on "Ross Common 
Farm." in Guilford township, where his life 
was spent as a farmer, ^ilr^. Ross' death 
was caused by a fall from her horse. .\dam 
Ross and his wife are buried in the Chambers 
family enclosure in Falling Spring grave- 
yard. Thev had issue: 

I. Benjamin, who went to Baltimore 
as a young man and witli liis brother. Adam, 



conducted a grocery store established by his 
uncle, William Ross; he relinquished the 
business alx)ut 1830. He was prominent in 
politics, and a member of the City Council. 

2. William (XIV). 

3. George (died at Somerset, Pa., in 
1867) studied l;iw in Chambersburg, and 
was admitted to the Franklin County Bar 
in 1 810; he then removed to Somerset, 
where he practiced his profession, and was 
for many years engaged in business with 



large 



George Parker. He acquired 
fortune. 

4. James was engaged in the grocery 
business in Baltimore with his uncle William 
and brother Joseph. James and Joseph suc- 
ceeded to the business, but dissolved part- 
nership in 1825. 

5. Joseph (died January, 1839) was in 
the grocery business in Baltimore with his 
bnither James. After they dissolved part- 
nership, he conducted the two stores founded 
by liis uncle William, in conjunction with 
his brother Adam. 

C). Adam was in the grocery business in 
Baltimore with his brother Benjamin, 1820- 
30: afterward with his brother Joseph. 

7. John, 

8. Mary (born in 1782 — died Oct. 22, 
1862) married William Drips, Jan. 25, 
1809. 

9. Hetty married John Flanan. 

10. J.\ne married Henry George (XV). 

11. Ruhamah married Mc- 

Kenzie. 

(VII) HADASSAH (HETTY) 
CHAMBERS (born at Chambers' Mills- 
died at Paris, Tenn.), youngest daughter of 
Col. Benj.amin and Jane (\\'illiams) Cham- 
bers, married in 17Q3, \\'illiam Ma>cwell 
Brown ( born at Brown's Mill in Antrim 
township — died at Paris, Tenn., in 1843), 
youngest son of Capt. George and Agnes 
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made his will, in 1785, he had not yet made 
choice of a profession, and provision was 
made for his edncation in law, divinity or 
piiysic. He was graduated at Princeton, 
and studied law with William Bradford, 
Attorney-General in President Washing- 
ton's cabinet. He was admitted to the 
Philadelphia Bar, Sept. 10, 1789, and two 
years later resolved to begin practice in 
Chambersburg. As a member of the Frank- 
lin County Bar, Mr. Brown attained high 
rank, and amassed a fortune as a lawyer. 
He was an eloquent speaker and a successful 
advocate. In person he was tall and spare. 
He was a man of polished manners and 
unusual taste in dress. He engaged in the 
business of rolling iron and making nails, 
but- met with such serious losses that he 
abandoned his practice, and in 1824 re- 
moved to Paris, Tenn. William M. and 
Hadassah (Chambers) Brown had issue: 

1. William Maxwell (drowned in the 
Tennessee River in 1836) was a physician. 
He went to Paris, Tenn., in 1834. He mar- 
ried Mary Janet Boyles, of Clearspring, 
Md., and they had issue : Llewellyn ; 
Hadassah Chambers, who married Chaun- 
cey F. Shultz, County Judge at St. Louis, 
Mo., and had Maxwell William, Addie, 
Llewellyn Brown and Mary Janet : Car- 
rington; and Benjamin Chambers (died in 
1887), who married and had issue: Benja- 
min, Amiie, Edward, Ploward and Sibley. 

2. George, drowned in the Tennessee 
River in 1836. 

3. Hadassah (Hetty) married Sam- 
uel Hankins. removed to Grenada, Missis- 

-sippi. 

4. Benjamin. 

(VHI) BENJ.VMIN CHAMBERS 

(born in Chambersburg, Pa.. Jan. 4. 1764 — 

died in Saline Co., Mo., Aug. 27, 1850) was 

the only son of Gen. James Chambers. Al- 

itbough only a lad, young Chambers went 



with his father's company of riilenien to 
Cambridge, in 1775, and was in the action 
at Ploughed Hill, on the 26th of August. 
The youth was commissioned an ensign in 
his father's regimeiu, the First Pennsylva- 
nia, June 2, 1778, and promoted to be first 
lieutenant, Sept. 13, 1779. He retired with 
his father, Jan. 17, 1781. His last fight 
was at the Bergen block-house, July 10, 
1780. After leaving the army Lieutenant 
Chambers returned to the Conococheague. 
He again served under his father in the 
"Whiskey Lisurrection." When General 
Chambers failed in the management of the 
Loudon Forge, young Benjamin went to the 
Northwest Territory, and was one of the 
first surveyors of southeastern Indiana. He 
liecame proprietor of Lawrenceburg, after 
the failure of Vance, the original owner. 
In 1803 Governor Harrison appointed him 
a judge of the Common Pleas and Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel of the Dearborn militia. He 
was a member of the first Indiana Council. 
Colonel Chambers, as he was then called, 
being the third of his family to bear the title, 
removed to Missouri about 1820. where he 
remained during the rest of his life. \\'hile 
living near Cincinnati he married, July 22, 
1 80 1, Sarah Lawson Kemper (born in 1780 
— died Dec. 22, 1836), daughter of the 
Rev. James and Judith (Hathaway) 
Kemper : they had issue : 

1. Ruth, born Aug. 6. 1802, died Sept. 
2, 1814. 

2. James Kemper, born Sept. 26, 1804, 
died Sept. i, 1821. 

3. Israel Ludlow, born Jan. 6, 1806, 
died April 30, 1807. 

4. S.\RAH Bella (born Oct. 31. 1807 — 
died May, 1867) married Dr. George Penn ; 
thev had issue, \'irginia, James, Lucy and 
George. 

5. Joseph, born Jan. 2, 1810, died Alay 
24, 1 8 10. 



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6. George Washington, born Aug. 
17, 181 1, died Sept. 22, 1829. 

7. Benj.\min, born Aug. ir. 1813. died 
Nov. 4, 181 4. 

8. Cath.'vrine Judith (born Feb. 6, 
181 5) married April 27, 1836, Jobn Cock- 
rill Pulliam; they had issue: Luther, Jolm, 
Ann, Sarah Bella, Drury, Josephine Cham- 
bers, Virginia Penn, Eliza Caroline, Mary 
Tomson, Thomas Shackelford and Lawson 
Kemper. 

9. Susanna Marv, born Nov. 6, 1816, 
died Sept. 10, 1822. 

10. Ludlow, born Nov. 25. 1819, died 
unmarried, Sept., 1852. 

11. John Hamilton (born Jan. 2^. 
182 1 — died July 2, 1877) removed to Cali- 
fornia; he married and had a son, Ludlow. 

(IX) SARAH BELLA CHAMBERS 
(born in 1759 — died in 1834), daughter of 
General James and Katharine (Hamilton) 
Chambers, married (first) Nov. 18, 1790, 
Andrew Dunlop (torn Sept. 22, 1764 — • 
died May 26, 1816), son of Col. James and 
Jane (Boggs) Dunlop. Andrew Dunlop 
studied law with Jasper Yeates at Lancaster, 
and was admitted to the Lancaster County 
Bar in 1785, and to the Franklin County Bar 
in September of the same year. He prac- 
ticed his profession in Chambersburg, and 
amassed a large fortune, wliich, however. 
was much impaired by the failure of the 
Loudon Forge, in which he was concerned 
with his father-in-law. Gen. James Cham- 
bers. He was a man of large frame and fine 
appearance, and was very witty. It was said 
at his death that he was a successful advo- 
cate, an agreeable companion, and an in- 
dulgent husband and father. Andrew and 
Sarah Bella (Chambers) Dunlop had issue: 

I. James (born in 1795 — died April 9. 
1856) was graduated at Dickinson College 
in 1812. He studied law with his father, 
and was admitted to the Franklin Countv 



Bar in 1817. He began the practice of his 
profession in Chambersburg, and soon be- 
came a leader of the Bar. In 1838 he re- 
moved to Pittsburgh. He compiled a "Di- 
gest of the Laws of Pennsylvania.'" well 
known as "Dunlop's Digest." and a "i^igest 
of the Laws of the United States." He was 
a man of brilliant wit and caustic humor, 
and some of his humorous articles had great 
vogue in their day. He took up his resi- 
dence in Philadelphia in 1855. Mr. Dunlop 
married Maria Maderia and they had issue: 
Sarah Bella, who married John A. Wilson, 
and Helen, who married John Motter. 

2. Catharine married Col. Casper 
Wcver (XVI). 

3. Charlotte A. R. married Charles S. 
Clarkson (XVII). 

4. Josephine married James C. Lud- 
low (XVIII). 

5. Margaretta Hadassah, born in 
1802, died unmarried Dec. 2;^. 1817. 

Mrs. Dunlop married (second) May 6, 
1826. .\rchibald jMcAllister. son of Archi- 
bald and Jane (]\IcClure) McAllister; she 
was his third wife. 

(X) CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS 
(born Nov. 13, 1768), daughter of Gen. 
James and Katharine (Hamilton) Cham- 
bers, married (first) Nov. 10, 1796, Col. 
Israel Ludlow (born at Long Hill Farm, 
near Morristown. N. J., in 1765 — died at 
Ludlow Station, Ohio. Jan., 1804), son of 
Cornelius Ludlow. With his bride. Colonel 
Ludlow left the residence of General Cham- 
Ijers, at Loudon Forge, where they were- 
married, on the 20th of November, for his- 
home at Ludlow Station, now Cincinnati. 
He was virtually the founder of the city, 
which he named in honor of the hereditary 
Societv of the Revolution. Ludlow began 
the survev of the town in tlie aiuumn of 
1789, In December. 1794. Colonel Ludlow 
survcvcd the pl<it of a town, of which he was 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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sole owner, adjacent to Fort Hamilton, and 
in November. 1795, in conjunction with 
Generals St. Clair. Dayton and \\'ilkinson, 
he founded the town of Dayton. Subse- 
quently he was appointed to survey the 
treaty of Greenville, made Iw General 
Wayne in 1795. Col. Israel and Charlotte 
(Cliambers) Ludlow had is^^ue : 

1. James Chambers (XV'III). 

2. Israel married Adelia Stacarn. of 
Alexandria, Ya.. and they had issue: \\'ill- 
iam, Albert and Louisa. 

3. Martha Catharine married Am- 
brose Dudley, of Kentucky. They had is- 
sue: Ethelbert Ludlow, who married Mary 
F. Scott : Louisa, who married J. A. D. 
Burrows : and a daughter, who married 
(first) John Breckinridge, and (second) 
Rev. John W. Cracraft. 

4. Sarah Bella Chambers married 
(first) Jeptha D. Garrard, son of Gov. 
James Garrard, of Kentucky : they had is- 
sue : Israel. George Wood. Kenner. Lewis 
H. and Jeptha. Lewis H. Garrard wrote 
a monograph entitled "Chambersburg in the 
Colony and the Revolution." She married 
(second) John ^IcLean, Associate Justice 
of the L^nited States Supreme Court. 

Mrs. Ludlow married (second) Rev. 
David Riske ; they had issue : 

1. Ruham.JiH married Butler Kenner, 
of Louisiana. They had issue: Charlotte, 
who married George Harding, of Philadel- 
phia ; and Mary, who marrie<l Horace Bin- 
ney. of Philadelphia. 

2. Charlotte married George W. 
Jones. United States Senator from Iowa. 

3. married Xelson Clement. 

of New York city. 

(XI) RUHAMAH CHAMBERS 
(Ixjrn May 13. 1771). daughter of Gen. 
James and Katharine (Hamilton) Cham- 
liers, married July 9, 1795, Dr. \\'illiam 



Berwick Scott, who settlc<l at Cincinnati ; 
they had issue : 

1. James Chambers, born June 21, 
1796, died Sept. 6. 181 7. 

2. William Ludlow (XIX). 

(XII) GEORGE CHAMBERS (born 
in Chambensburg, Feb. 24, 1786 — died 
March 25, 1866), son of Capt. Benjamin 
and Sarah (Brown) Chambers, was edu- 
cated at the Chambersburg .\cademy under 
its founder, James Ross, and his successor, 
Rev. David Denny, and was graduated at 
Princeton College with honors in 1804. He- 
studied law with William M. Brown, Esq., 
in Chambersburg, and with Judge Duncan, 
in Carlisle, and was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar, Nov. 9, 1807. He practiced 
his profession in ChamlDersburg, and contin- 
ued in active practice until 1851, when he 
retired. He was prominent in affairs, and 
was recognized as the leading citizen of the 
town and county throughout his long life. 
He was a member of the Chambersburg 
town council in 1821. and burgess of Cham- 
bersburg, 1829-33. He was a representative 
in Congress, 1833-37, being elected as a 
Whig. He was also a member of the Penn- 
sylvania Convention that formed the Consti- 
tution of 1838. In 1 85 1. Governor John- 
ston commissioned him as Justice of the Su- 
preme Court to fill the vacancy caused by 
the death of Judge Buruside. He was nomi- 
nated by the Whig State Convention of the 
same year as a candidate for Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, under the 
Constitution of 1831, which made the office 
elective, but was defeated with the rest of the 
Whig ticket at the ensuing election. Mr. 
Chambers was always active in business en- 
terprises, and in promoting the educational 
and religious interests of the town and 
county. In 181 4 he was elected a manager 
of the Chambersburg Turni)ike Company, 



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and was afterward its president. In the 
same year he assisted in organizing the 
FrankHn County Bible Society, and was one 
of its ofificers for many years. In 1815 he 
was chosen a trustee of the Chambersburg 
Academy, and was president of the board 
for forty-five years. He was also one of 
the trustees of the Falling Spring Presby- 
terian Church and president of the board for 
many years before his retirement in 1864. 
He was all his life a student of agriculture 
as a science. His knowledge of soils, and 
of fertilizers best adapted to them, was ex- 
tensive and accurate. At the time of his 
death he was the largest land owner in the 
county. His familiarity with the bounda- 
ries of his farms, and the variety of the 
timber trees growing upon them, was often 
surprising to his tenants. He assisted in 
organizing the first agricultural society of 
Franklin County, and was at one time its 
•president. As a lawyer he was well read in 
all branches of the law, but he especially 
excelled in his knowledge of the land laws 
of Pennsylvania. His preparation of his 
cases was laborious and thorough, and he 
spared no pains in the vindication in the 
rights of his clients. His diction was pure 
and elegant, his statement of facts lucid, his 
■reasoning severe and logical, and his manner 
earnest and impressive. Judge Chambers 
was an ardent friend of the Historical So- 
ciety of Pennsylvania. In 1856 he published 
"A Tribute to the Principles, Virtues, 
Habits, and Public Usefulness of the 
Irish and Scotch Early Settlers of Penn- 
sylvania." He also wrote an exhaustive 
biography of Dr. John McDowell, a 
native of the county and at one time 
Provost of the L'niversity of Pennsyl- 
vania, the manuscript of which was de- 
stroyed in the burning of Chambersburg, in 
1864. In 1 861 he received the degree of 
LL.D from Washington College, of Wash- 



ington. Pa. Judge Chambers married, 
March 6, 1810, Alice Armstrong Lyon 
(bom Sept. 25, 1 781 — died ]\Iay 10, 1848), 
daughter of William and Alice (Arm- 
strong) Lyon. Mr. Lyon was an officer in 
the French and Indian War, and for many 
}-ears filletl the court house offices at Car- 
lisle. His wife was a daughter of Col. John 
Armstrong. George and Alice A. (Lyon) 
Chambers had issue : 

1. S.\RAH Anne, born in 1812. died 
unmarried, July 18, 1886. 

2. Margaretta, born in 1814, died 
unmarried, Feb. 21, 1884. 

3. Mary Lvon^ born 181 6 — died July 
4. 1827. 

4. George (born Sept. 15, 1818 — died, 
unmarried, Nov. 30, 1849) was admitted to 
the Franklin County Bar, in 1839. 

5. Benjamin (XX). 

6. William Lyon (XXI). 

(XIII) JOSEPH CHAMBERS (Ixirn 
at Chambersburg, Pa., Feb. 15. 1799 — died 
Oct. 6, 1 851), son of Capt. Benjamin and 
Sarah (Brown) Chambers, recei\ed his 
preparatory education at the Chambersburg 
Academy under the Rev. David Denny, and 
attended the college of New Jersey at 
Princeton, where he was graduated at Nas- 
sau Hall in 1818, with much distinction, be- 
ing awarded the highest honors of his class. 
He read law with his brother. George 
Chambers, and was graduated from the 
celebrated Law School of Judge Gould 
(from which that brilliant statesman J. C. 
Calhoun of South Carolina was graduated), 
at Litchfield, Conn., was admitted to the 
Franklin County Bar Aug. 24, 1821, and 
later to practice before Courts of the county 
of Allegheny, and the Supreme Court of the 
State of Pennsylvania. After practicing 
his profession for some time at Pittsburgh, 
Mr. Chambers returned to the place of his 
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UIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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until tlie time of his death. He was a mem- 
ber of the Chambersburg- Town Council, 
1834-36. When Mr. Cham'lK;rs died, the 
Franklin County Bar held a meeting to tes- 
tify to its res|)ect for his memory. Judge 
Jeremiah S. Black presided and Thomas 
B. Kennedy, Es(|., was secretary of the 
meeting". The adoption of the resolutions 
of respect was nio\ed bv Frederick Smith, 
Esq., and was seconded by tlie Hon. James 
X. McLanahan. Mr. Chambers married 
Sarah Aston Madeira (born Nov. 25, 1799 
^-died June 26, 1867), and they had issue: 

1. Benjamin J., Ix)ni Jan. 5. 1832, 
died June 15, 1833. 

2. IsIaky Aston (born Feb. 12, 1835 
- — died in child-birth, April 2, 1870) mar- 
ried June 2, 1866, Thomas B. Wigfall. 

3. Lucv married Benjamin Ross 
George (XXH). 

4. BENj.\i[iN, born ALay 5, 1840. 
died Aug. 21. 1841. 

Sarah Aston (Madeira) Chambers was 
the daughter of Mary Aston, and the granct- 
daughter of Peter Aston, whose grand- 
father accompanied William Penn horn 
England. The Astons were Quakers and 
settled near Philadelphia, their country 
home being a part of what is now Fair- 
mount Park. Mary Aston (born at Gun 
Powder Falls, near Baltimore, Md.) mar- 
ried John Madeira at Downingtown, Ches- 
ter County, Pa., April 24, 1786, and settled 
in Chambersburg in 1794. Her mother was 
Hannah Jones, aimt of William Jones, 
Philadelphia, who was secretary of the 
Navy under President Madison, and Presi- 
dent of the Bank of United States, Phila- 
delphia. The Madeira ancestors came from 
Portugal, being flri\-en bv religious jierse- 
cution to Holland, and they are descendants 
of Lord Powers, of Holland. [The facts 
with respect to the .Aston and [Madeira 
families are taken fnim obituaries of the 



families by Lucy Chambers George, their 
granddaughter.] 

(XIV) WILLIAM ROSS (born in 
Guilford township in 1789 — died May 2y, 
1832), son of Adam and Jane (Chambers) 
Ross, was a farmer. He married Maria 
Crawford, daughter of John Crawford; they 
had issue : 

1. Edmund C. (born July 24, 1812 — 
died unmarried Aug. 22, 1889) went to 
Baltimore at the age of fifteen years, and' 
entered the grocery stores of his uncles, 
Joseph, Benjamin C. and Adam Ross. He- 
subsequently, in 1846, began the grocery 
business on his own account at No. 15 
West Baltimore street, in which he was 
A-ery successful. At the time of his death 
his store was the oldest of its kind in Balti- 
more. He left a large estate. 

2. Mary A., born Jan. 29. 1819, died 
Jan. 17, 1895. 

3. Benjamin C. (XXIII). 

(XV) JANE ROSS (died May 8,. 
1S76), daughter of Adam and Jane 
(Chambers) Ross, married Henry George, 
{ born in Co. Derry, Ireland — died on the 
old Ross place, "Ross Common," in Guil- 
ford township June 22, 1874), who emi- 
grated to America in 1816. He built the com- 
modious famil}- mansion on the Ross home 
place in 1844. He was a man of promin- 
ence in the community, urbane in his 
manners and of splendid bearing. He was' 
one of the best farmers in the county. 
Henry and Jane (Ross) George had issue: 

1. John engaged in business in Balti- 
more in 1853. 

2. Benjamin R. married Lucy Cham- 
bers (XXII). 

4. RuH.\M.\H R., died unmarried. 

5. M.\RV J.\NE died unmarried, Jan. 
27, 1904. 

(XVI) CATHARIXE DUXLOP. 
daughter of .\ndrew and Sarah Bella 



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(Chambers) Dunlop, married Feb. 13, 
1812, Casper Willis Waver, son of Adam 
Wever, and grandson of Casper von Weber, 
a native of Nuremberg, Bavaria, who was 
graduated at the University of Heidel- 
berg, and afterward served in the body 
guard of King Leopold L He emigrated 
to Pennsylvania in 1720 and settled near 
Harrisburg. After his settlement in Penn- 
sylvania the family name was changed to 
Wever. His widow and family settled near 
Leetown, Berkeley Co., Va., in 1780. Cas- 
per Willis Wever was one of the first civil 
engineers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 
and settled about three miles below Harper's 
Ferry, at the place called Weverton. Cas- 
per W. and Catharine (Dunlop) Wever. 
had nine children. 

(XVII) CHARLOTTE A. R. DUN- 
LOP, daughter of Andrew and Sarah Bella 
(Chambers) Dunlap, married Nov. 2, 1815, 
Charles S. Garkson, of Kentucky ; they had 
a son : 

I. James Dcnlop. 

(XVIII) JOSEPHINE DUNLOP, 
daughter of Andrew and Sarah Bella 
(Chambers) Dunlop, married her cousin, 
James Chambers Ludlow (born at Ludlow 
Station, Ohio, in 1798), son of Col. Israel 
and Charlotte (Chambers) Ludlow. Al- 
though reared amidst the wilderness and 
dangers of pioneer life, he received a superior 
education, and became the beneficent genius 
of his neighborhood. He inherited a large 
estate and devoted much time and money 
to philanthropic work. He was especially 
active with pen and purse in promoting the 
anti-slavery cause. He helped to found 
the first anti-slavery paper edited by James 
G. Birney, and later by Gamaliel Bailey. 
He was a \ery tall man — six feet three 
inches in height — with a manly form, a 
robust constitution, and a winning address. 



James C. and Josephine (Dunlop) Ludlow 
had issue : 

1. James Dunlop. 

2. Benjamin Chambers (born at 
Ludlow Station. Cincinnati, in 1836) 
studied medicine and was graduated M. D. 
at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 
In the Civil war. he participated in many 
important battles and rose to the rank of 
Brevet Brigadier-General. After the war 
he removed to Austin, Tex. General Lud- 
low married in 1873. Frances Jones; they 
had issue : Israel and Randall. 

3. IsR.\Ei, (born at Ludlwv Station, 
Cincinnati, in 1840 — dietl in 1873) ^^''^ 
educated at Andover, Mass., and Yellow 
Springs, Ohio. With the 5th United States 
.Artillery he participated in the battles of 
Pittsburg Landing (Shiloh), Perryville, 
Dogwalk, Stone River and Chickamauga. 
At Chickamauga he was wounded and taken 
prisoner, and confined in Libby Prison. 
.\fter his exchange he was in the battle of 
Cold Harbor, and the closing engagements 
around Petersburg. When the war was 
over Captain Ludlow studied law and began 
practice in Cincinnati, but impaired health 
caused him to remove to Texas, where he 
established a bank. He was a man of 
commanding appearance and genial man- 
ners. 

4. Sar.\h Bella Dunlop (born 
April 20, 1820 — died Jan. 13, 1852) mar- 
ried Nov. 6, 1846, Salmon P. Chase, Gov- 
ernor of Ohio. Secretary of the Treasury 
under President Lincoln, and Chief Justice 
of the United States. She was his third 
wife. They had issue: Janet Ralston, 
who married William Sprigg Hoyt, of New 
York; and Josephine Ludlow, who died in 
infancy. 

.5. Ruhamah married Randall Hunt, 
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RIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



6. Charlotte Chambers married 
Charles App Jones and they had a son Lud- 
low. 

7. Catharine married Lewis White- 
man. 

(XIX) WILLIAM LUDLOW 
SCOTT (bom May 24, 1798), son of 
William Berwick and Ruhamah (Cham- 
bers) Scott, settled in Missouri, where he 
died. He married (first), Aug. 30, 1838, 
Elizabeth Rankin, of Missouri, and ihey 
had issue. 

1. Smith, born Sept. 9, 1839, mar- 
ried. 

2. James C, lx)rn May i, 1841, mar- 
ried. 

3. Elvira, born July 16, 1842, mar- 
ried Oct. 26, 1858, James D. Clarkson, son 
of Charles S. and Charlotte (Dunlop) 
Clarkson; they had issue: Charlotte, who, 
married Alfonso de Figueiredo ; Charles S. 
who married Charlotte M. Nevin, and had 
Lucile and Elizabeth ; and James D., who 
married Olive I. Smith. 

4. Nancy, born Dec. 29, 1843, 'H'li'- 
ried R. H. Writhers. 

5. Mary, torn July 11, 1845, niar- 
ried John Callias. 

6. Cynthia, torn Oct. 22, 1846, mar- 
ried R. R. Rogers. 

7. Sarah, born Dec. 22, 1848. mar- 
ried F. T. Spahr. 

8. William L., born April 23, 1851, 
married. 

9. Elizabeth, born March 13, 1854, 
married. 

Mr. Scott married (second) Dec. 30, 
1S57, Adelia Fisher, and they had issue: Ar- 
thur and Walter. 

(XX) BENJAMIN CHAMBERS 
(born at Chambersburg. July, 1820 — died 
April 4, 1895). son of George and .Mice 
A. (Lyon) Chambers, was educated at the 
Chambersburg Academy. He studied law 



with his father and was admitted to the 
I'Vanklin County Bar in 1843. He prac- 
ticed his profession at Chambersburg for 
a l)rief period, and it is said that an argu- 
ment made by him before Judge Black was 
])ronounced by that eminent jurist, the best 
he had ever heard. After his retirenient 
from the Bar he gave his time to care of 
his estate and to study. He sometimes 
contrilnited articles of local historical inter- 
est to the newspapers. He was a man of 
extensive reading and amiable personal 
traits. Mr. Chambers married Eleanor 
Thomas, of Maryland. They had issue: 

1. George was educated at the Cham- 
bersburg Academy, and was admitted to 
the Franklin County Bar, Aug. 14, 1866. He 
married Emily Bright, and they had issue: 
Eleanor, who married Findlay Van Lear; 
George, who married Rosa Potts; and Ben 
Bright. 

2. Alice, bom in 1847, 'I'^d Julv i, 
1867. 

3. Mary married Chester Allis, of 
Birmingham, Ala., and they had issue: 
Ella, who died in August, 1898; and Ches- 
ter D. 

4. Benjamin, born Jan. 26, 185 1, 
died unmarried, Oct. 30, 1881. 

5. Annie married George Stump, of 
Perryville, Md., and they have one daughter, 
Eleanor Thomas. 

6. Emma, torn Aug. 6, 1855, died 
Dec. 29, 1884. 

7. Oliver, born Aug. i, 1857, died 
unmarried, Jan. 29, 1890. 

8. Ch.vrles died in infancy, Jul\- 14, 
1863. 

9. Bertha, living at Perryville, Md. 

(XXI) WILLIAM LYON CHAM- 
BERS (torn Jan. 13, 1823 — died .April 
26, 1889), son of George and Alice A. 
( Lyon) Chambers, was educated at the 
Chambersburg Academy. He studied at 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Marshall College, Alercersburg, 183S-40, 
and was afterward graduated at Yale, in 
1843. After leaving college he returned 
to his old home, and upon his marriage 
settled on a farm half-way between Scotland 
and Greenvillage, called the Clifton Farm. 
He left the farm in 1855, when he returned 
to Chambersburg, where he lived in the fine 
old stone mansion in which his great-grand- 
father. Col. Benjamin Chambers died. For 
a brief period he was engaged in the for- 
warding and commission business in part- 
nership with Dr. Edmund Culbertson and 
Col. D. O. Gehr. He was for many years 
president of the National Bank of Cham- 
bersburg, and was a director of the Balti- 
more & Cumberland Valley Railroad. For 
many years he was engaged in looking after 
his numerous farms in Franklin county. 
In politics he was a Whig- and Republican. 
He was active in promoting the educational 
interests of the town and county, and was 
a trustee of Wilson College for Women, 
and of the Chambersburg Academy. He 
was a member of the Falling Spring Pres- 
byterian Church. Mr. Chambers married 
Oct. 7, 1847, Emmaline Kennedy, daughter 
of James J. and Margaret (Cowell) Ken- 
nedy; they had issue. 

1. Alice Lyon (born Sept. 9. 1848 — 
died Dec. 9. 1894) married Col. Theodore 
McGowan (died Dec. 17, 1891), son of Dr. 
Daniel S. and Anna (Thomson) McGowan. 
As a young man Col. McGowan taught in a 
classical academy in South Carolina, and 
afterward served M-ith distinction in tlie 
Civil war. After the war he studied law 
and was admitted to the Franklin Countv 
Bar, Jan. 25. 1867: he practiced his pro- 
fession in Chambersburg. Theodore and 
Alice L. (Chambers) McGowan had issue: 
William Chambers, Bessie and Annie T. 

2. Margaret K., born May 19, 1850, 
died Oct. 30, 1899. 



3. Ellex Culbertsox (born Dec. 16, 
1855) married Frank Mehaffey. son of 
Samuel and Margaret (Cassell) Mehaffey. 
He was admitted to the Franklin County 
Bar, -Vug. 11, 1873. ^"d practiced his pro- 
fession at Chambersburg. Frank and Ellen 
C. (Chambers) Mehaffy Imve one son: 
\\'illiam Chambers. 

4. Caroline, born May 27, 1S60, 
died Dec. 19, 1884. 

(XXII) LUCY CHAMBERS (born 
June 6. 1838), daughter of Joseph and 
Sarah A. (Madeira) Chambers, married 
Dec. 17, 1872, Benjamin R. George (born 
on "Ross Common Farm," Guilford town- 
ship, in 1836), son of Henry and Jane 
(Ross) George, was educated at a school 
at Fayetteville and at an academy in Balti- 
more. After leaving school he returned 
home and began farming on the old Ross 
homestead. "Ross Common," in which he 
has continued ever since and is one of the 
leading farmers in Guilford township. In 
politics he is independent and votes for the 
man and not for the partv, and in religion, 
a Presbyterian and a member of the Falling 
Spring Church, Chamtersburg. Benjamin 
R. and Lucy (Chambers) George have 
issue : 

1. Sally ]\L\deira married Ellis 
Elmer Foust (XXIV). 

2. Joseph Chambers (born Aug. i, 
1878) graduated at Chambersburg Acad- 
emy, and attended Princeton Lfni\-ersity ; 
he is now employed in the auditing depart- 
ment of the Cumberland Valley Railroad. 

(XXIII) BENJAMIN CHAM- 
BERS ROSS (born in Guilford township, 
Aug. 27, 1826 — died July 4. 1897). son 
of William and Maria (Crawford) Ross, 
was educated in the public schools, and 
\\hile a young man engaged in business on 
his own account. He was for many years 
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Mill. In his latter years lie lived in retire- 
ment in Chambersbnrg, having inherited 
a large estate. In politics he was an ardent 
Democrat, and reared in the Presbyterian 
faith, he was a life-long member of the Fall- 
ing Spring Presbyterian Church. Mr. Ross 
married in 1872. .\nna V'ink. daughter of 
Peter and Rebecca (Barbour) \'ink, of an 
nld family in Cumberland county, who came 
from Baltimore to Pennsyhania. 

After Mr. Ross's death, Mrs. Ross and 
her daughters built the handsome residence, 
at the corner of Second and Washington 
streets, Chaml^ersburg, in whicl: they now 
li\e. Benjamin C. and Anna (Vink) Ross 
had three daughters, all of whom were edu- 
cated at Wilson College. 

1. Wkmfred M. 

2. Jennie R. 

3. Alice Chambers. 

In the death of Benjamin Chamljers 
Ross the city lost an excellent citizen, who 
upheld its laws, and who belie\ed in good 
government. His memory is held in loving 
remembrance by his family and a large 
circle <if warm personal friends. 

(XXIV) SALLY M A D E I R A 
GEORGE (born Sept. 13. 1873). 
daughter of Benjamin R. and Lucy 
Chambers George, graduated at Wilson 
College 189 — . She married June 10, 
1897. Ellis Elmer Foust (born at 
Milton. Xorthumberland county, Xo\'. 
3, 1866), son of Henry Augustus and 
Mary Elizabeth (Yost) Proust. His mother 
was a native of Lycoming county. His 
paternal grandfather, Philip Henry Foust 
was a farmer in NorthumI>erland county, 
and had the following children. Philip H.; 
Franklin ; Josiah ; Angelina, who married 
(first) Henry Hause, (second), William 
Follmer; Albine; William H. ; and Henry 
A. The maternal great-grandfather, Mar- 
tin Luther Yost, was a native of Holland. 



who emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled 
in Lycoming county. He married Rachel 
Hofford, daughter of Dr. Martin L. Hof- 
ford, and they had four children: Jijseph. 
Reniandus, Mary Elizabeth and Emma IL 
Mr. F'oust was educated in the public schools 
of Milton and by a private tutor. .After 
leaving school he served two years in the' 
offices of the Central Pennsyhania Telephone 
Company, and two years in the offices of the 
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Com- 
pany. In January, 1888, he entered Lafay- 
ette College. Easton, and was graduated in 
1891. .\fter leaving college he came tcr 
Chambersbnrg as assistant principal of the 
Chambersbnrg Academy, where he taught 
1891-95. While engaged in teaching he 
studied law with Irvin C. Elder, Esq., and 
was admitted to the i'ranklin County Bar' 
at the February term, 1894. He has since 
been engaged in the i)ractice of his profes- 
sion in Chambersbnrg. In 1898 he added 
the fire insurance business to his law prac- 
tice, and is agent for fifteen fire insurance 
companies. He is a stockholder and direc- 
tor of the Citizens National Bank <jf 
Waynesboro, and secretary and attorney 
f(ir the board. He was one of the founders 
of the Wayneslx)ro Printing Company, 
publishers of the Herald, a daily and weekly 
news])aper at Wavnesborn, of which he is 
a stockholder, director, secretary and trea.s- 
urer. He is also treasurer of the Waynes- 
boro Gas Light Company, and a stockholder 
of the National Bank of Chambersburg 
and of the Chamliersburg Trust Company. 
He was admitted to practice in the Supreme 
Court of Pennsyhania. March 17, 1896. 
and is a meml>er of the F"ranklin County and 
the Pennsylvania State Bar Associations. 
In religion he is a Presbyterian, and a mem- 
ber and trustee of the Falling Spring 
Church. Ellis E. and Sallie M. (George) 
Foust had issue : 



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1. Benjamin George, born May 28, 
1900, died Jan. 13, 1902. 

2. Lucy Ch.\mbers Foust, born 
April 21, 1905. 

y BARD FAMILY. RICHARD BARD 

(born Feb. 8, 1736 — died Feb., 1799), son 
of Archibald Bard, or Beard, was the ances- 
tor of the Bard family of Franklin county. 
Archibald was a son of David and a grand- 
son of William Baird or Beard, as the name 
was spelled in Ireland. He came to Dela- 
ware previous to 1740, and settled in Miln 
Creek Hundred, Newcastle county, but in 
1 741 he joined with Jeremiah Lochery, 
John Witherow and James McGinley in the 
purchase of 5,000 acres of land in "Car- 
roll's Delight," then supposed to be in 
Frederick county, Md., but afterward found 
to l)e in what is now Adams county. Pa. 
In 1753 Bard sold part of this land to Wil- 
liam Waugh. The rest of his land 
went to his sons William and Richard. 
By a deed dated Feb. 19, 1765, he 
conveyed to Richard his title to a 
tract of land containing 121 acres, known 
as the Mill Place, on Middle Creek, 
in Hamiltonban townsliip, Adams county, 
then York, and 80 acres in "Carroll's 
Delight" adjoining the Mill Place, condi- 
tioned for his support during his life. The 
conveyance was to become void if Richard 
failed to fulfill its conditions. Richard 
Bard sold the mill place to James Marshall, 
and William sold his land to Col. Robert 
McPherson, for whom it was surveyed in 
1765. The mill built by Archibald Bard, 
the successor of which is still standing, 
was probably the first mill on the Marsh 
Creek Settlement. 

Richard Bard was brought up on "Car- 
roll's Delight." near F"airfield, Adams 
county, and after his marriage lived at 
Bard's Mill, built by his father. On April 



13, 1758. his house was attacked by a party 
of nineteen Indians. There were in the 
house at the time of the attack Mr. Bard, 
his wife and child ; Thomas Potter, a cousin, 
who had come on a visit the evening before; 
Hannah McBride, a little girl ; and Fred- 
erick Ferrick, a bound boy. The savages 
were discovered by Hannah McBride, who 
was at the dnor. The girl's warning came 
too late to prevent a rush into the house. 
One Indian directed a blow at Potter with 
a cutlass, but Potter wrested the weapon 
from his hand. Potter attempted to strike 
down the Indian with the ciUlass, Init the 
point struck the ceiling, which turned the 
sword so as only to cut the Indian's hand. 
In the meantime Bard seized a horse-man's 
pistol, that hung on a nail, and snapped it 
at the breast of one of the Indians, but there 
was tow in the pan and it did not go otf". 
Seeing the pistol the Indians ran out of the 
house, and the door was closed, but there 
was no hope for the little garrison. The roof 
of the house was thatched and could easily 
be fired. There was plenty of mill wood 
near at hand that could be piled against 
the house to put it in blaze. The supply 
of powder and lead at hand was exceedingly 
meagre. The number of Indians was so 
great so as to make the contest a very 
unequal one. These conditions disposed 
the beleaguered inmates to surrender on a 
promise that their lives should be spared. 
After the surrender the house was pillaged 
and the mill burned. Two men. Samuel 
Hunter and Daniel Mc^Manimy. who were 
working in a field nearby, and a lad. Wil- 
liam White, who was on his way to the 
mill, were added to the party of captives. 
The Indians that captured the Bard 
family were Delawares — savages of the 
most degraded type. For many years they 
li;id been held in subjection Iw the Iroquois, 
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It was only two years before that tliey had 
<lared to remove the petticoat and declare 
themselves men. They were as treicher- 
ous as they were cruel, and all the more 
bloodthirsty Ijecause they had been so long 
debarred fn^m killing. In the murder of 
their prisoners they were, perhaps, not dif- 
ferent from other Indians, but the killing of 
infants before the eyes of their mothers 
seems to have been a special attribute of 
Delaware ferocity. The war parties that 
desolated the Conococheague Valley were 
especially addicted to the practice, and the 
band of savages that pushed across the Blue 
Ridge and captured the Bard family com- 
prised some of the most debased warriors 
of a debased nation. In spite of their prom- 
ises to their captives they had only gone a 
short distance towards the mountain from 
the dismantled home and burning mill when 
they killed Thomas Potter. On the South 
Mountain, three or four miles from the mill, 
one of the Indians sunk the spear of a 
tomahawk in the child's breast, and after 
repeated blows scalped it. In a quaint bal- 
lad, written by Richard Bard and preserved 
by his descendants, there is this description 
of the inhuman murder of the infant : 

"Out of my arms my child they took. 

As we along did go, 
And to the helpless balje they did 

Their cruel malice show. 

"Both head and heart the tomahawk 
pierced. 

In order him to slay. 
And then they robbed him of his clothes 

And brought his scalp away." 

The Indians who made the foray upon 
Bard's mill moved with their prisoners 
over the South Mountain, and a careful 
investigation of all the contemporary c\i- 



dence indicates that they emerged into the 
Cumberland Valley at Mt. Alto gap. Their 
subsequent course brought them not far 
from the head of Falling Spring. They 
kept well to the right of Fort Chambers 
and passed the house of Albert Torrence, 
which was in Greene township, near the 
present village of Scotland. Torrence ap- 
peared in his doorway and was fired upon 
by one of the Indians, but fortunately was 
not hit. Passing Rocky Spring, evening 
found them near the site of McCord's Fort, 
on the Bossart farm, in Letterkenny town- 
ship, and they encamped in the gap, a 
short distance from the fort. The next 
day they entered Path Valley, but finding a 
party of settlers in pursuit of them they 
hurried to the top of Tuscarora Mountain, 
threatening to tomahawk their prisoners if 
attacked. On the top of the mountain they 
stopped to rest, and Bard and Hunter sat 
down side by side. Without any previous 
warning an Indian sunk a tomahawk into 
Hunter's head, and after repeated blows 
killed and scalped him. This was the third 
murder after the capture. The party did 
not tarry- long on the Tuscarora Mountain 
after the murder of Hunter, and that night 
encamped a few miles north of Sideling Hill. 
On the third day they passed through 
Blair's Gap. On this day half of Bard's 
face was painted red, showing that a council 
had been held, and that his captors were 
equally divided on the question of putting 
him to death. The march westward was 
continued, and on the fifth day Stoney 
Creek, in the Alleghenies, was reached. 
\\'hile crossing the creek Bard's hat. which 
had been appropriated by the savage that 
had him in charge, was blown from the 
Indian's head, and the Indian went some dis- 
tance down the stream to recover it. When 
he returned Bard was across the stream. 
This incensed the Indian, who at once began 






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to l>eat the prisoner with his gun, nearly dis- thence to Fort Duquesne. They remained at 

abling- Bard from travehng any fartlier. the fort only one night, and then went to 

Because of his disabled condition, and of al- an Indian village about twenty miles down 

most certain death in the future. Bartl then the Ohio, where Mrs. Bard was severely 

determined to try to make his escape at the beaten by the squaws. From this place they 

first opportunity. took their prisoners to "Cususkey," — Kas- 

Mrs. Bard had been kept separated from kaskunk — on the Beaver. This was Glick- 
her husi)and during the whole five tlays' Iiickan's town. Here McManimy was i)ut 
journey. That evening, however, they were to death after being horribly tortured. The 
permitted to assist each other in plucking a two boys and the girl, Hannah McBride. 
turkey. This afforded him a chance to com- were detained here, but Mrs. Bard was sent 
municate his design to his wife, and, as it to another town to becmne an adopted re- 
turned out, she was able to assist him in lation in an Indian family, and never saw 
getting away unobserved. A favorite di- her fellow captives again until they were 
vertisement of the Indians in camp was to liberated. In every town she entered Mrs. 
dress some of their number in the clothes of Bard was unmercifully beaten by the squaws, 
their female captives. On this evening one and even after she was taken into the council 
of the captors was amusing the others by house for adoption, two Indian women en- 
dressing himself in Mrs. Bard's gown, tered and struck her. It was contrary to 
While this amusement was in progress, Mr. usage to strike a prisoner in the council- 
Bard was sent to the spring near tlie encamp- house, and the warriors were angered at 
ment for water. Just as he reached the these acts of the squaws. After the women 
spring Mrs. Bard began to take part in the had been rebuked for their disorderly con- 
fun, and succeeded in concentrating the at- duct, a chief took Mrs. Bard by the hand and 
tention of the Indians upon the gown so com- delivered her to two men to take the place 
pletely that they forgot all atout their pris- of a deceased sister. She had not l^een with 
oner. These precious moments were utilized lier new relations a month, when they de- 
by Richard Bard in getting into the brush, termined to go to the headwaters of the Sus- 
Presently a cry was raised from another quehanna. This was a painful journey for a 
fire, "Your mian is gone!" A dash was made woman in her condition. She had not yet 
toward the spring, and one of the Indians, recovered from the fatigrie from the long- 
picking up the can in which Bard was to have march over the mountains that followed her 
brought the water, cried out, "Here is the capture, and was still suffering from the ex- 
quart, but no man !" A search for the es- traordinary strain to which she had been 
caped prisoner was at once begun, but al- sulijected. Her feet were sore and her limbs 
though it was continued for two days it was swollen. Fortunately for her. one of her 
unsuccessful. The spring from which Rich- adopted brothers gave her a horse, which 
ard Bard e.scaped is still pointed out on the enabled her to start with comparative com- 
farm of John McGee, about a mile west of fort, but one of the pack horses dying, she 
Homer City, in Indiana county. was compelled to give hers to fill his place. 

When the fruitless search for Bard was L'pon arriving at their destination, havings 

abandoned, the Indians resumed the march traxeled in all nearly five Inmdred miles, she 

with their prisoners. They went down was o\-ercome with a severe fit of sickness, 

Stonev Creek to the Allegheny river, and the result of fatigue and cold and hunger. 



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For two months she lay ill without much appease his hunger, he found a rattlesnake, 

prospect of recovery. She had no com- which he killed and ate raw. In the ballad 

panion in whom she could confide, or who f|uoted below he gave a description of these 

could sympathize with her in her distress, fixe days of starvation and suffering in the 

The cold earth in a miserable cabin was her wilderness: 

bed, a blanket her only co\-ering. and boiled 

corn her only food. She thought herself on "Though I'm not able now to walk, 

the verge of tlissolution ; but in spite of dis- I creep upon my knees; , 

cmiragement and suffering she recovered. To gather herbs that I may eat, 

and began to look forward with hope and My stomach to appease. 

longing to iier rescue from captivity. 

Richard Bard, after his escape, managed "A rattlesnake, both flesh and bone, 
to elude his pursuers by concealing himself All but the head I eat; 
in a hollow log. The tradition is that his And though 'twas raw. it seemed to me 
place of concealment was McKonkey's Cliff, Exceeding pleasant meat." 
at the bridge below Homer. When the In- 
dians, who were in search of him, had gone By using a thorn as a needle Bard was 
by, and were out of hearing he resumed his able to puncture the festering wounds in his 
flight in a dift'erent direction. His situation feet, and thus allay the swelling. Then, tear- 
was perilous, and because of his condition ing up his breeches, he bound up his feet as 
he made his way with difificulty. Soon after well as he could, and in this forlorn condi- 
beginning his return journey he came to a tion he resumed his journey, limping along 
mountain four miles across, overgrown with with great pain. He had no alternative ex- 
laurel and co\ered with snow. He was al- cept to die where he was. His condition at 
most exhausted and was without food, ex- this time is illustrated by a delusion that 
cept a few buds picked from the trees as he was the result of the excitable state of his 
went along. His shoes were worn out. The nerves. Soon after resuming his journey he 
country was very rough, and in many places w as startled by the sound of a drum. He 
the ground was covered with poisonous called as loud as he could, but there was no 
briars, which lacerated his feet and poisoned answer. His imagination had played him a 
his wounds. His feet and legs became trick. Just before dark on the eighth day 
swollen, and in his weak condition, impeded after his escape, Mr. Bard came to the 
as he was by the snow on the leaves of the Juniata. His only way of crossing the 
laurel, he was rendered unalile to walk, and stream was by wading it, which, l>ecause of 
was compelled to creep on his hands and his lameness, was accomplished with great 
knees under the branches. Besides, he feared difficulty. The night was very cold and 
that the Indians might still be in pursuit of dark, his clothes were wet, and in his be- 
him, and would be able to find his tracks in numbed condition he was afraid to lie down 
the snow. In spite of the danger of discov- lest he perish. Wearied and lame as he was 
ery. it became imperative that he should lie he determined to pursue his journey, but dur- 
by until his feet healed suf^ciently to enable ing the night he was attracted by a fire, ap- 
him to walk. On the fifth da}- after bis iiarently abandoned the day before, probably 
escape, as he was creeping along on his hands b\- a party of settlers who were in pursuit of 
and knees in search of buds and herbs to the savages. Here he remained until morn- 



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ing, when he discovered a path leading in 
the direction of the settlements. Besides a 
few buds and berries his food up to this time 
had consisted only of rattlesnakes, of which, 
altogether, he had killed and eaten 
four. Although the first one was "ex- 
ceeding pleasant meat," one is tempted 
to believe that this unusual diet was 
beginning to pall upon him. Fortunate- 
ly, he was nearing the end of his journey, but 
he was destined, however, to undergo one 
more alarm before he reached a place of 
safety. At a turn in the path, in the after- 
noon, he suddenly found himself face to face 
with three Indians. They proved to be 
friendly, and conducted him to Fort Lyttle- 
ton, which he reached on the ninth day after 
his escape. These Indians were Cherokees, 
who had comfe from Virginia to assist in the 
defense of the frontier of Pennsylvania and 
Maryland. At Fort Lyttleton Bard was 
among friends, and there lie remained until 
he had sufficiently recovered from the fa- 
tigue and exposure of his captivity and 
escape to be able to resume his journey. 
After his return the contemporary news- 
papers reported him as ill at his fatiier's, 
near Marsh Creek. "Richard Beard," 
George Stevenson, Esq., of York, wrote to 
Secretary Peters, May 7, 1758, "who was 
captivated last month from ]\Iarsh Creek 
is returned, having made his escape some- 
where among the Allegheny Hills. He was 
not got so far as his father's, near ]Marsh 
Creek, last Thursday evening; he has been 
so much beat and abused by Tedyiscung's 
friend Indians that his life is despaired of." 
He hail so far recovered. May 12. 1758. that 
he was able to make an affidavit before Mr. 
Stevenson reciting the story of the abduction 
and murders. 

With his wife in captivity ^Ir. Bard 
could not remain quietly at home, but de- 
voted most of his time to long and dangerous 



journeys in quest of information concerning 
her. In the autumn of 1758, after the cap- 
ture of Fort Duquesne by the expedition un- 
der Gen. Forbes, he went to Fort Pitt, as 
the fortress was called after its capture, and 
he was there at the time of Forbes' treaty 
with the Indians. In the Indian encamp- 
ment, on the opposite side of the river, were 
a number of the Delawares who had been 
concerned in his capture. To these he made 
himself known, but they first pretended not 
to remember him, finally admitting, however, 
that they were among his captors. They said 
they knew nothing of his wife, but they 
promised to give him some information upon 
his return the next day. Bard was followed 
to the fort by a young man, who had been 
taken by the Indians when a child, by whom 
he was advised not to return to the camp, as 
his captors had detemiined to kill him for 
making his escape if he returned. He took 
the hint and did not go back. 

At a later period Mr. Bard made a sec- 
ond journey to Fort Pitt, going with a con- 
voy of wagons as far as Fort Bedford. There 
he induced the commanding officer to secure 
the consent of the famous Captain White 
Eyes to accompany him to Pittsburgh. White 
Eyes subsequently was the steadfast friend 
of the Moravian missionaries, but his treat- 
ment of Bard shows that at this time he 
was a wily and treacherous savage. He 
consented readily enough to conduct Mr. 
Bard to Fort Pitt, but the party had gone 
only a few miles when one of the Indians 
turned off the road and brought in a scalp 
that had been taken that morning from the 
head of one of the wagoners. Further on 
some of the Indians again turned off 
the road and brought in a number 
of horses and a keg of whisky. The 
Indians then began to drink, and some 
of them became ven,- drunk. The "first 
war captain of the Delawares," as Los- 



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kie! calls Wliite Eyes, was soon under Uic 
influence of the liquor, and the natural 
ferocity of the savage became predominant. 
He told Bard that as he had before escaped 
from his Delaware captors lie would shoot 
him then, and raised his gun to take aim. 
Bard stepped behind a tree and kept stepping 
round it while White Eyes followed. This 
afforded much amusement to the Indians un- 
til a yovmg man twisted the gun out of the 
chief's hand and hid it under a log. White 
Eyes then attacked Bard with a large stick, 
giving him a blow on the arm that blackened 
it for weeks. During the attack an Indian 
belonging to another nation, who had been 
sent on an express to Bedford, came by. 
White Eyes asked him for his gun to shoot 
Bard, but the Indian refused, as the killing 
would bring on another war. These experi- 
ences determined Bard to make his escape 
from his escort, and mounting his horse he 
took to the road, expecting every minute to 
receive a ball in the back. Fearing pursuit, 
he rode as fast as his horse could go, and 
after traveling all night got to Pittsburgh in 
the morning. 

.■\t Pittsburgh ?^Ir. Bard found an oppor- 
tunity to write to his wife that if her adopted 
friends would bring her in he would pay 
them forty pounds. To this letter he re- 
ceived no answer, and after an unsuccessful 
attempt to induce an Indian to steal her away 
for a reward, he determined to undertake the 
dangerous mission himself and to bring her 
at all hazards. He accordingly went to 
Shamokin (Sunbury) on the Susquehanna, 
and thence to the Big Cherry Trees, where 
he started along an Indian path that he knew 
led to the place of his wife's abode. He had 
not gone far when he met a part}' of Indians 
who were bringing her in. Bard told the 
Indians that he would pay the forty pounds 
he had promised by letter when they reached 
Sunbury, but they were suspicious and said 



that if he got them among the whites he 
would refuse to pay them. To allay their 
suspicions he told them to keep him as a 
hostage, while they sent Mrs. Bard into the 
town with an order for the money. This put 
the savages in a good humor, and they con- 
sented to enter the town with Bard and his 
wife, where the ransom was paid, and she 
was released after a captivity of two years 
and five months. 

After the return of his wife from cap- 
tivity Richard Bard purchased a plantation 
near what is now the village of Williamson, 
on the East Conocociieague, where he was 
visited by one of Mrs. Bard's brothers by 
Indian adoption, to whom he had given an 
in\"itation when he was at Sunbury to secure 
her release. One day the Indian went to a 
tavern, known as McCormack's. where he 
became slightly intoxicated. While in this 
condition one of the notorious Nugent broth- 
ers, of the family of Conococheague outlaws, 
attempted to cut his throat. Nugent stuck 
a knife into the Indian's neck, but partly 
missed his aim and only succeeded in cutting 
the forepart of the windpipe. The Indian 
was cared for at Mr. Bard's house until lie 
recovered, but he was afterward put to death 
by his tribe on the pretense that he had 
joined the white people. 

Mr. Bard served in Capt. Joseph Culbert- 
son's marching company under the call of 
Jnly 28, 1777, in the campaign around Phila- 
delphia, and afterward in the ranging com- 
pany of Capt. Walter McKinnie on the west- 
ern Ixirder. He never held any political 
office except that of Justice of the Peace for 
Peters township, at the time when the jus- 
tices were the judges of the county courts. 
His commission was dated March 15. 1786. 
He was, however, a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Convention of 1787, to which the Con- 
stitution framed by the Federal Convention 
was submitted. He was an .\nti-Federalist, 



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ami refused to sign tlie ratification. Siil)se- 
quently he was a delegate to the Harrishurg 
Convention of 1788 in opposition to the 
Federal Constitution. Air. Bard's colleague 
in the Convention of 1787 was Col. John Al- 
lison, who was an ardent Federalist, and sec- 
onded the motion to ratify, made hy Thomas 
McKean. His opposition to the Federal 
Constitution, hefore and after its ratification, 
had a disastrous effect upon his political for- 
tunes, and during the next ten years he was 
sometimes virulently assailed in the Franklin 
Repository, the Federalist organ in the 
county. In 1 798 he made a spirited reply to 
some strictures of Rohert Harper, the pub- 
lisher of the Repository, in a letter printed in 
the Farmers' Register, the first Republican 
newspaper published in Chambersburg. "I 
do hereby," he said, "in this public manner, 
call upon you to employ every resource, to 
put in practice e\ery artifice, and to summons 
and to arouse up all your deliberative and 
inventive powers, in order to prove, if you 
can, the charge to be true." 

Mr. Bard was the owner of considerable 
real estate in Franklin county, besides his 
plantation in Peters township. There is a 
tradition among the Bards of Bardstown that 
he went to Kentucky at a very early period 
with his brother William, and built a cabin 
that entitled him to a thousand acres of land 
near Danville. Early land entries in Ken- 
tucky prove this, and entries copied by Col- 
onel Durrett. of Louisville, and deeds and 
other instruments of writing on record in 
Nelson county, Kentucky, show his owner- 
ship of land adjacent to Bardstown. 1780-88. 
An important part of his personal estate at 
his death was liis four slaves, \-alued at f 180. 

Mr. Bard married, in 1756. Catherine 
Poe (torn in 1737 — died Aug. 31, 1811), 
daughter of Tliomas and Mary (Potter) 
Poe, early settlers on the Conococheague. 
near Williamson. She was a sister of Capt. 



James Poe. a Revolutionar\- ofticer. Richard 
and Catharine Bard had issue : 

1. John, born Sept. 27, 1757. killed 
))y Indians, April 13, 1758. 

2. I.s.'\.\c (born Feb. 8, 1762 — died 
July 28, 1806) married April 30, 1789, Jane 
McDowell (born Feb. 13. 1771 — died Jan. 
27,. 1847). daughter of James and Jane 
(Smith) McDowell. They had no issue. 
His widow married Col. John Findlay. 

3. Marv married James Dunlap (II). 

4. ,\rchib.\ld (III). 

5. Olivi.a married James Erw in (IV). 
0). Thom.\s (V). 

7. WiLi.i.\M, born March 23. 1771, 
died }'oung. 

8. Eliz.\beth married James McKin- 
nie (VI). 

9. M.\RG.\RET, torn Oct. 21. 1774, died 
unmarried, June 21, 1805. 

10. C.\TH.\RiNE married Stephen Mc- 
Farland (VII). 

11. M.VRTH.A. (torn Nov. 12. 1778 — 
died in 181 3) married W^illiam Wilson, a 
native of Peters township; and they had 
issue: John and Martha Bard. 

(II) MARY BARD (born Aug. 25, 
1763 — died in Clermont county, Ohio), 
daughter of Richard and Catharine ( Poe) 
Bard, married James Dunlap (died April 19, 
1806), son of Joseph Dunlap. a farmer of 
Peters township, and they had isstie : 

1. J.\MES engaged in business in Cin- 
cinnati with his uncle Stephen McFarland. 
He married (fir.st). Nov. 17, 1807, Mar- 
garet Dunlap (died .\ug., 1808). and (sec- 
ond), Nov. I, 181 7. Jane McDowell, daugh- 
ter of Robert McDowell. By his second 
marriage he bail issue: James. Elizatoth, 
Robert, Richard, John Williams, Jo- 
se])li Frwin. Margaret Jane and Archi- 
bald Bard. 

2. John married Elizatoth and 

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3. RtCHARD, l:)orn in 1785, died un- 
married, at LeClaire, Iowa, in 1863. 

4. JosEru went to Clermont county, 
Ohio. 

5. Mary Poe married James McDowell 
(McDowell Family). 

6. Elizabeth Bard married Richard 
Bard (VIII). 

(Ill) ARCHIBALD BARD (horn 
June 27, 1765 — died Oct. 18, 1832), son of 
Richard and Catherine (Poe) Bard, was a 
prominent citizen of Peters township, and 
for twenty-one years was an Associate Judge 
of Franklin county. He held this office con- 
tinuously from his first appointment, April 
2, 181 1, until his death, serving under five 
successive President Judges as follows : 
James Hamilton, 1811-19: Charles Smith, 
1819-20: John Reed, 1820-24; John Tod. 
1824-27; and Alexander Thomson, 1827-32. 
After he had l>een on the Bench six years 
Judge Bard was amhitious to succeed Gen. 
John Rea in Congress, according to a letter 
printed in the Philadelphia Aurora. May 28, 
1817. 

"It may be proper here to mention," says 
the writer, "that we ha\e in this county, as 
well as si^me others, that kind of aristocracy 
wliich is called family interest, in which the 
public is sacrificed to family combinations. 
This county is divided into several connex- 
ions of this kind, instead of parties. These 
are the Reas, the Maclays, the Bards, the 
Findlays, and several others, none of them 
powerful enough alone, others not of suffi- 
cient consequence to be noticed. In the first 
instance General Rea went to Congress, but 
Judge Bard began to think that he would 
liK)k quite as well there as tl:e General. At 
one of their delegate meetings Bard was 
brought forward by General Waddle, but our 
delegates and those from Bedford would not 
consent to it, so he fell through, and seeing 
his connexions were too weak of themselves. 



he formed a league with the Maclays and 
finally ousted Rea; ludicrous to tell, William 
Maclay was taken up instead of Bard, 
and he is .still obliged to stick to the 
judgeship." 

Judge Bard was concerned in the settle- 
ment of many estates, and was held in much 
esteetn by his neighbors as an adviser. He 
came to Chambersliurg to a meeting of the 
return judges on the 12th of October, the 
day of the cholera outbreak of 1832, took the 
infection and was one of the victims of the 
epidemic. He married Elizabeth Beatty 
(born Jan. 17, 1771 — died Jan. 9, 1852), 
only daughter of William and Mary Beatty. 
They had issue : 

1. RiCH.-VRD (bom July 5, 1800 — died 
unmarried, Jan. 26, 1831) was graduated at 
Princeton. He studied law in Chamliers- 
burg, and was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar at the August term, 1823. He 
removed to Washington county, whence his 
father and mother brought back his Ixidy in 
a sleigh for interment in the old Church-hill 
graveyard. 

2. Maria (born in 1801 — died Oct. 24, 
1830) married .Xdam ATcKinnie, Sheriff of 
Franklin county, 1844-9. They had one son, 
Bard. 

3. CATHARINE (born in 1802) married 
Dec. 4, 1834, Franklin Darragh, and re- 
moved to Michigan, .\rchibald B. Darragh, 
M. C, Michigan, is their son. 

4. W'lLLiAM Beatty (Ixirn May 13, 
1803 — died unmarried, at Delaware, Ohio, 
Feb. 29, 1880) was a merchant at Mercers- 
burg and captain of a military comiiany. He 
went to California in 1852, and remained 
there nineteen years ; then returning to Ohio, 
he made his home with his brother Isaac and 
sister Olivia until his death. 

5. Margaret married .Alexander E. 
McDow^ell (McDowell Family). 

6. I.S.XAC (IX). 



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7. James Johnston died Dec. 7, 1810, 
aged eight months. 

8. Eliza Jane married Abner M. 
Fuller, admitted to the Franklin County Bar 
in 1844; removed to Delaware, Ohio. 

9. Archibald died May 21, 181 6, 
aged six months. 

10. Martha Olivia, baptized Sept. 
21, 1 81 7, died in Ohio. 

11. Elizabeth Johnston died Aug. 
25, 1819, aged eight months. 

(IV) OLIVIA BARD (born March 
28. 1867), daughter of Richard and Catha- 
rine (Poe) Bard, married James Erwin 
(bom in 1742 — died April 14, 18 19), a 
farmer in Peters township. He was an 
active meniber of the Upper West Con- 
ococheague Presbyterian Church, and was 
clerk of the session. James and Olivia 
(Bard) Erwin had issue: 

1. John (born near Mercersburg. June 
9, 1803 — died at Bryn Mawr, March 24, 
1872), married Martha Brevard, and had no 
issue. 

2. James Bard (X) 

3. Martha (born Dec. 9, 1794) mar- 
ried William Rankin. 

4. Catharine Poe (born Jan. 9, 
1797) married Joseph McFarland. 

5. Mary married Alexander Waddell. 

6. Olivia Bard (bom July 5, 1807) 
married Dr. V. B. McGahan. 

(V) THOMAS BARD (born April 2, 
1769 — died July 9, 1845), son of Richard 
and Catharine (Poe) Bard, was for many 
years a prominent citizen of Peters town- 
ship. In 1814 he formed a company of vol- 
unteers among his neighbors, which formed 
part of the regiment under command of Col. 
John Findlay, and marched to the defense of 
Baltimnre. In Capt. Baird's company were 
his brother. Judge Archibald Bard: William 
Wilson, whose first wife was his sister, Mar- 



tha ; Joseph Dunlap, his nephew ; and James 
McDowell, William McDowell, Sr., and 
Matthew Patton. Captain Bard subse- 
quently removed to Washington county, 
Md. After his return to Franklin county he 
was elected a member of the Pennsylvania 
Legislature, 1822-23. He married March 
26, 1807, Jean (Jeanie) McFarland (born 
Dec. 17, 1783 — died Aug. 31, 1857), daugli- 
ter of Robert and Jean (Cochran) McFar- 
land, the ancestors of a noteworthy Peters 
township family. She was a sister of 
Stephen McFarland, who married Captain 
Bard's sister, Catharine Bard. Thomas and 
Jane Bard had issue : 

1. Richard (XI). 

2. Robert McF.\rland (XII). 

3. Thomas Poe (XIII). 

4. John (XIV). 

5. Archibald (born Nov. 9, 1815— 
died at Dayton, Ky., May 3, 1895) went to 
Kentucky, where he was employed by the 
government as a bridge builder during the 
Civil war. His wife, Elizabeth, died Aug. 
I, 1895. They had issue, among others, a 
daughter, Jennie. 

6. Oliver Barbolr, baptized in May, 
181 7, (lied in infancy. 

7. Eliz.\ Cath.arixe, born April 4, 
1823, died Oct. 6, 1823. 

'(VI) ELIZABETH BARD (born Feb. 
i^, ^77 Z — <Jied July 9. 1824), daughter of 
Richard and Catharine (Poe) Bard, married 
James McKinnie (died July 27, 181 1), a 
Peters township farmer. He was a son of 
Josiah and Isabel McKinnie, who settled at 
Church Hill in 1757. James and Elizabeth 
(Bard) McKinnie had issue: 

I. James (died at Abington, 111.) went 
to New Boston, near Cincinnati, in 1835, ''"^ 
subsequently remo\ed to Illinois. He mar- 
ried (first) March 30. 1820, Sarah Moore, 
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Elizabeth, Margaret, Rachel and Sarah. lie 
married (second) Mrs. Jane Scott, and had 
a daughter. 

2. Richard B.\rd (born in 1800— died 
in Ohio) lived near Goshen, Clermont Co., 
Ohio. He married Dec. 9, 1824, Lydia 
Sleigh, and they had issue : Thornton, John, 
David Elliot, Elizabeth Bard, Ann Jane, 
Harriet and Mary Bell. 

3. Walter. 

4. JosiAH went to Goshen, Clermont 
Co., Ohio. He married Sept. 22, 18 14, Eliza 
Campbell, and had issue, among others : 
Richard Bard and Samuel. 

5. John died June 24, 1810. 

6. Catharine (died Aug. 18, 1834) 
married Feb. 15, 18 16, Alexander McMul- 
len (died in Indiana county, in 1864), son of 
John and Mary (Poe) McMullen. John 
McMullen was a leading citizen of Mercers- 
burg, and his wife was the widow of Alex- 
ander Long, and a daughter of Thomas Poe. 
John and Mary McMullen had issue: Alex- 
ander, James Poe, Thomas, ^^largaret and 
Rachel. The issue of Alexander and Cath- 
arine McMullen were : John, James, 
Thomas, Mary Poe, Elizabeth, Margaret and 
Jane. 

7. Marg.aret (born April 2, 1804 — 
died Sept. 28, 1884), married April 7, 1825. 
James Turner (born Feb. 2, 1802 — died 
Jan. 26, 1878), son of Joseph and Margaret 
( Porter) Turner, and they had issue : Jo- 
seph Gardner, James McKinnie, William, 
Richard Bard, Elizabeth Bard. Mary. Mar- 
garet Porter, Catharine. Eleanor. Lydia 
Jane and Violet Louisa. 

(VII) CATHARINE BARD (born 
March l, 1777 — -died in Cincinnati, Ohio). 
daughter of Richard and Catharine (Poe) 
Bard, married Nov. 13, 1800, Stephen Mc- 
Farland (born Aug. 15. 1772 — died at Cin- 
cinnati Nov. 8. 1832). son of Robert and 
Jean (Gxhran) McFarland. His father 



was an early settler in Peters tawnship. He- 
went to Cincinnati in the early days of that 
city, where he engaged in business as a hat- 
ter. Subsequently he kept the "Columbian 
Inn." He amassed a considerable fortune, 
and retired to a rural residence in the neigh- 
borhood of his adopted city, but about 1820, 
lie became seriously embarrassed in bank- 
ing operations, and was reduced from afflu- 
ence to poverty. There is a trace of 
regret at his misfortune in his lather's will. 
Stephen and Catherine McFarland had 
issue : 

1. Robert, baptized Sept. 20, 1801. 

2. Isaac B,\rd^ baptized Dec. 5, 1802, 
died without issue. 

3. John. 

4. Thomas, baptized March 18, 1806. 

5. Jane married Ira Atherton, of Cin-- 
cinnati. 

(VIII) ELIZABETH BARD DUN- 
LAP (born in 1783 — died in 1866), daugh- 
ter of James and Mary (Bard) Dunlap, 
married June 6, 1806, Richard Bard (born 
in 1777 — died in 1859). son of the Rev. 
David and Elizabeth (Diemer) Bard. The 
Rev. David Bard was a Presbyterian min- 
ister and for many years a member of Con- 
gress. After his marriage Richard Bard 
lived near Johnstown, Pa., and later re- 
moved to Iowa, where both he and his wife 
died. They were buried in Jack's graveyard, 
near Le Claire. Richard and Elizabeth 
Bard had issue : 

1. James went West. 

2. David died unmarried in Baltimore. 

3. Richard was drowned, aged three 
years. 

4. W'lLLiAM died at Curwensville, 
Pa. He married Susan Patton. and had 
seven children. 

5. Harrison died at Bradford. 111., in 
1899: he married Jane Adams, and had four 
children. 



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6. RiCH.aLRD (born June 5, 1819 — died 
at Le Claire, Iowa. Oct. 12, 1900) married 
Phoebe Living-ston (born May 17, 1835 — 
died March 21, 1893), '"i"'' '^^'l seven chil- 
dren. His daughter, I'annie, married John 
Dunlap. 

7. John D. was killed in California in 
the early fifties. 

8. M.\Rv married John McDowell. 

9. Eliz.a J.\ne married Stewart Camp- 
;bell. 

10. C.-\TH.vRi.\'E PoE. unmarried, lives 
-at Davenport, Iowa. 

(IX) ISAAC BARD (born April 28, 
1808 — died July 6, 1876), son of Archibald 
and Elizabeth (Beatty) Bard, lived on his 
father's farm, near Mercersburg, until 1851. 
In the autumn of 1852, he removed to Dela- 
ware county, Ohio, and is buried in Liberty 

.graveyard. Mr. Bard married, Feb. 10, 
1840, Rowana Humphrey (born March 17, 
1808 — died June 2I1. 1852), daughter of 
David and Nancy (Clark) Humphrey, 

■prominent citizens of Peters township. 
Isaac and Rowana Bard had issue : 

1. Archib.\ld, born Sept. 21, 1841 ; 
died Oct. 18. 1843. 

2. M.'VRY Agnes (born Jan. 17, 1844 
— died at Spring City, Tenn., July 22, 

1894) married Nov. 16, 1876, George C. 
Cellar, and had issue: George Bard, Jo- 
seph Humphrey and Wilson Fuller. 

3. Eliz.\beth Johnston (born Feb. 3, 
1846) married Feb. 18, 1897, W. L. Bart- 
lett, of New Plymouth, Vinton Co., Ohio. 

4. D.wiD HuMPHREV (horn Dec. 5, 
1848) lives at Westerville. Ohio. He mar- 
ried Dec. 5, 1878, Sarah Elizabeth Mc- 
Dowell (died April 2, 1901), daughter of 
Capt. William E. and Mary E. (Davidson) 
McDowell, and they had issue: \A^illiam 
Fuller, Lottie Eliza, Nellie Rowana and 

"Marv McDowell. 



5. Row.\N.\ Humphrey, born Jan. 5, 
1852. 

(N) JAMES BARD ERWIN (born 
April 30. 1 8 10 — died at Sewickley, Alle- 
gheny county, Oct. 20, 1883), son of James 
and Olivia (Bard) Erwin. learned the trade 
of a tanner with Andrew McEhvain, at New- 
ville; he removed to Pittsburgh, where he 
engaged in business. Mr. Erwin married 
Nov. 3, 1831, Isabel McKee McElwain 
(born Feb. 27, 1809 — died Jan. 6, 1888), 
daughter of Robert McElwain, of Newville, 
and they had issue : 

1. James Bard (bom Nov. 20, 1832 
— died Jan. 22, 1902) married July 4, 1859, 
Elizabeth Deborah Grady (born June 23, 
1832), daughter of David Grady. They 
had issue: Charles Shannon, Henry Bard, 
Ellen Whaley, Minnie Bell, Jane Emily and 
Elizabeth Maria. 

2. Robert McElw.\in (born Jan. 6, 
1834 — died June 4, 1902) married in 1864, 
Ann Ecca Tracy (born March 17, 1840 — 
died Aug. 4, 1899), '^"<^^ ''''^'' issue: John 
Dickson. William Kingsley. Robert McEl- 
wain, Walter Tracy, Edward Eaton, Kath- 
erine Bruce, .\nna May and Jane Tracy. 

3. John Richard, born July 28, 1838, 
died Aug. 16, 1863. 

4. Jane M.^ry (born April 21, 1840) 
married (first), in 1847, Jason C. Sw-ayze 
(died at Topeka, Kans., March 23, 1877), 
and had issue : Horace George and Jason 
Clark; (second) Dr. Phinneas M. Sturges. 

5. Katherine born Aug. 7, 1842, is 
in business in Pittsburgh. 

6. Thomas McElwain (born Oct. 12, 
1844) married Jan. 14, 1869, Jennie Cath- 
arine Neemes (born in England, July, 1846 
— died .\pril 2~. 1879), and had issue: 
Scott W'ard, Mary Belle and Louisa \Vil- 
son. He married (second) .\pril 16, 1880, 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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had issue: Frank Howard, Russell C, Jay 
Clyde and Alice. 

7. Sarah Belle (born in 1852J mar- 
ried Levi A. McKnight. 

(XI) RICHARD BARD (born Feb. 
17, 1806 — died at Allegheny City, Aug. y. 
1867), eldest son of Thomas and Jane (AIc- 
Farland) Bard. li\ed in Big Cove after his 
marriage. In 1843, '^^ removed to Pitts- 
burg, where he engaged in the leather busi- 
ness, in which he continued until his death. 
He was a man of high character, a prominent 
member of the Presbyterian church, and 
active in church work in Allegheny City. 
Mr. Bard married (first), in 1832, Eliza 
Jane Carson (born March 23. 1816 — died 
Dec, i860), daughter of Thomas and Ag- 
nes (King) Carson, of Mercersburg. Mrs. 
Bard's father was a leading man in the 
county ; he served in both branches of the 
Legislature, and was Speaker of the Senate. 
Her mother was a daughter of George and 
Margaret (McDowell) King, and a niece 
of the Rev. Dr. John King, for nearly half 
a century pastor of the upper West Cono- 
cocheague Presbyterian church. Richard 
and Eliza J. Bard had issue: 

1. Thom.\s Carson, born April 10, 
1835, died young. 

2. Robert Washington (born April 
20, 1837 — died at Camp Humphreys, Va., 
Feb. II, 1863) served with the Pittsburgh 
Rifles in the summer of 1862, and enlisted 
in company H, 123rd P. V. I., Aug. 9, 1862. 
He was promoted from sergeant to ist ser- 
geant, and participated in the battle of Chan- 
cellorsville. 

3. Andrew Melville, born in 1839, 
died young. 

4. James William (born in 1841 — 
died at Baton Rouge, La., in 1874) enlisted 
in Company A, of the Roundhead Regiment, 
looth P. V. I., Aug. 22, 1861 : was cap- 



tured in the first skirmish in which his regi- 
ment was engaged, June 3, 1862, but was 
exchanged in time to participate in the bat- 
tle of Fredericksburg. He was promoted 
to be sergeant, Feb. i, 1863, and went with 
his regiment to Kentucky, Mississippi and 
Tennessee. He reenlisted Jan. i, 1864, and, 
was promoted to be sergeant major, March 
18, 1864. He was severely wounded iu: 
the knee in the battle of Spottsylvania on, 
the 13th of May, and only escaped losing 
his leg by amputation by threatening the 
surgeons with a pistol. He was promoted 
to be second lieutenant, Aug. 7, 1864; cap- 
tain. Oct. 16, 1864; and major, March 25, 
1865. After the war he was engaged in 
business in Pittsburgh with John W. Mor- 
rison, afterward State Treasurer. He went 
to Louisiana in 1872, and was engaged in^ 
cotton packing at Baton Rouge. He died 
of lock-jaw, resulting from his arm being- 
badly mangled by machinery. Major Bard 
married in 1870, ]\Iary Clark, now deceased, 
daughter of James D. Clark, of Newcastle^ 
Pa. They had no issue. 

5. Melville (died in Watertown, Da- 
kota, in 1885). served through the Civil- 
war with the First Ohio Cavalry. 

6. Elliot (born Dec. 19, 1843), 1'^" 
ing at Wayne, Pa., married April 23, 1872, 
Mary M. Frazier (born June 9, 1846),. 
daughter of James and Margaret (Rex) 
Frazier. They had issue : James Frazier, 
born May 4, 1874, married May 19, 1898, 
Anna Cochran Johnson, and have Catherine 
Frazier. Richard Johnson and Elliot; and 
Margaret Carson, born May 14. 1877, mar- 
ried Oct. 7, 1902, Gustave Faure, of Paris, 
and have Gustave Melville Bard. 

7. Richard (born Dec. 31. 1843) lives 
in Pittsburgh. He married Sept. 21, 1871. 
Ellen Morehead (born Nov. 6, 1847). 
daughter of Hugh H. and Rachel (Falls)- 



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Morehead, of New Castle, Pa., and they had 
issue: Era Morehead, Richard, Andrew 
Melville and Thomas Henderson. 

8. Mary Emma married Alexander L. 
Boggs, son of x\lexander and Susan (Greer) 
Boggs, and they have one daughter, Clara 
Louise, who married Dr. Henry K. Pan- 

: coast, of Philadelphia. 

9. Agnes Carson (born Jan. 29, 
1851) married Sept. 2, 1875, Frank H. 
Stuchfield (died Aug. 14, 1900), son of 
William Davis and Naomi (Rhodes) 
Stuchfield, of Hanwell. England. They had 
issue : Bessie, Ella Davis, Frank Bard and 
Cora Lotta. 

10. Lilly Jane (born July 29, 1854) 
married Sept. 25, 1878, the Rev. William 
A. Edie, now pastor of the Presbyterian 

•church at Connellsville, Pa. They have is- 
sue : Elliott Bard, Mary Carson and Will- 
iam Woodburn. 

11. Sophia McLaren (born Sept. 20, 
1856 — died July 29, 1899) married April, 
1885, John Dutton Steele (died April, 
1887), of Coatesville, Pa. They had issue: 
Hugh Exton and Hannah Bard. 

( XH ) ROBERT McFARLAND 
BARD (born Dec. 12, 1809 — died Jan. 
28, 1851), son of Capt. Thomas and Jean 
(McFarland) Bard, was educated at the 
Hagerstown Academy, which he left in his 
twentieth year. In 1830, he began the study 
of the law at Chambersburg under the Hon. 
George Chambers, and was admitted to the 
Franklin County Bar, Jan. 14. 1834. After 
■ coming to the Bar he went to Macomb, 111., 
intending to settle there in the practice of 
his profession, but remained only one year, 
returning to Chambersburg in 1835, where 
he soon acquired a large and lucrative prac- 
tice. During two years of his brief career 
at the Bar of Chambersburg, 1842-44, Mr. 
Bard was in partnership with the Hon. 
James X. McLanahan, one of the leading 



lawyers of that period. He soon attained 
a high position at the Bar of his native 
county, and in his later years enjoyed a 
wide reputation in the State as a lawyer 
of great ability. "Mr. Bard was a peculiarly 
gifted man intellectually," wrote one of his 
contemporaries, "he had a profound knowl- 
edge of the law, was ardently devoted to 
his profession, managed every case entrusted 
to him with masterly skill and force, and 
would, had not death removed him in the 
meridian of his years, been one of the 
country's grandest jurists." He possessed 
an active, vigorous and logical mind, and 
his legal learning was extensive and pro- 
found. His arguments to the court were 
cogent, and free from prolixity and re- 
dundancy. His addresses before a jury 
were eloquent, convincing and directed to- 
ward presenting the strong points of his case 
clearly and strenuously. He judiciously re- 
frained from dwelling at length on matters 
of minor importance. When he gave a 
legal opinion to a client on a difficult point 
of law he was able to give it confidently, 
because it was the result of the most pains- 
taking investigation and study. 

In politics Mr. Bard was a Whig, but 
he was never an aspirant for political of- 
fice. In 1839, when he was only thirty 
years old, and the public school system was 
in its infancy, he was elected a member of 
the Chambersburg school board, and he was 
chosen Chief Burgess of the borough in 
1847. In 1850 he was nominated for Con- 
gress by the Whigs, his successful com- 
petitor being his former law partner, James 
X. McLanahan. The campaign of that year 
was conducted on the race issue. Poor 
white men were asked to remember that 
if they did not wish to become the com- 
panions of negroes, and work for ten cents 
a day or get nothing to do, they must vote 
for James X. IMcLanahan. "Ask the Whig 




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editors," exclaimed tiie Democratic writers, 
"if they have ever seen any poor white man 
sawing a cord of wood for Mr. Bard for 
years. They will be compelled to say, 'No.' 
Then ask them if they ever saw a negro saw- 
ing wood at Mr. McLanahan's house. They 
will have to say, 'No.' " This was, perhaps, 
the only campaign in a Northern Con- 
gress district in ante-bellum days, in which 
the race issue was so boldly urged, or was 
successful. Mr. Bard was a man of strong 
convictions, with the courage to avow tliem. 
He was conspicuous as an influential and 
consistent advocate of temperance at a time 
when opposition to the Rum Power and 
the Slave Power were alike regarded as a 
species of fanaticism. 

Mr. Bard married Feb. 12, 1839, Eliza- 
beth Smith Little (born Dec. 12, 181 3 — 
died at Hueneme, Cal, Dec. 7, 1881), 
daughter of Dr. Peter W. and Mary S. 
(Parker) Little, of Mercersburg. They had 
issue: 

Mary P.\rker lives at Chambers- 



I. 
bursr. 



4- 
burpf. 



Thomas Robert (XV). 
Cephas Little (XVI). 
LoL'is.\ J.\NE lives at Chambers- 



(XIII) THOMAS POE BARD (born 
Oct. 9, 181 1 — died May 31, 1885), son of 
Thomas and Jean (McFarland) Bard, en- 
gaged in business as a merchant at Mer- 
cersburg, and was postmaster there 1841-45. 
He was prothonotary of Franklin county, 
1845-48. In 1850 he removed to Virginia, 
and conducted a foundry, first at Waynes- 
boro and afterward at Scottsville. He was 
the first foundryman that made and intro- 
duced cooking stoves in the Valley of Vir- 
ginia. In 1855 he went to Baltimore, and 
was in business there until failing health 
compelled his retirement in 1875. He had 
the mechanical sfenius shown bv tlie mem- 



bers of the Bard family, and its character- 
istic modesty. His life was marked by 
quiet, unobtrusive acts of kindness and char- 
ity. He was fond of reading, and never 
lost his intelligent interest in public ques- 
tions. Mr. Bard married Nov. 29, 1836, 
Matilda Van Lear Cowan (born Feb. 16, 
181 7 — died March 4. 1880). daughter of 
Hugh Cowan, of Mercersburg. They had 
issue : 

1. Jennie McFarland (born March 
30, 1838) married Oct. 18, 1866, William 
Dugdale (born Jan. 6, 1842). and they 
have one daughter, Jennie Bard. 

2. Maria Louisa, born Nov. 6, 1842, 
died Nov. 19, 1882. 

3. John Edwin, born Jan. 29, 1845, 
died June 13, 1845. 

4. Susan Emma, born May 16, 1848, 
died July 18, 1848. 

5. William, born May 10, 1854, died 
June 10, 1854. 

(XIV) JOHN BARD (born Sept. 10, 
1813 — died at Sedalia, Mo., April 16, 
1888), son of Capt. Thomas and Jean (Mc- 
Farland) Bard, learned the trade of a tanner, 
at which he was engaged both in Pennsyl- 
vania and Illinois. About 1843 1^^ removed 
to Winchester, 111., but in 1859 he gave 
up the tanning business, and went with his 
family by ox team to Missouri, where he 
became a farmer. His last years were spent 
at Sedalia. Mr. Bard married Feb. i. 1837, 
Mary Poe Evans (born June 10, 181 6 — 
died May 8, 1891), daughter of Jeremiah 
and Rachel Evans. They had issue: 

1. Richard Alexander (born Dec. 
23. 1837 — died in 1873) married in 1868. 
Lucia Mcintosh, a Cherokee, who was a 
handsome, curly-haired woman and well- 
educated. They had one son, Daniel. 

2. William Evans (born Aug. 13, 
1840 — died Feb. 14, 1900) was a druggist 
at Sedalia. Mo. He married (first) Sept.' 



32 JJIUGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN CUUNTY. 

21, 1864, Sarah Elizabetli Talbot, (died invasions of Maryland and Pennsylvania by 

Aug. 8, 1881 j, and had issue: William the Confederates. One day with a com- 

Evans, Mary Talbot, Charles Harlan, Lillie panion he penetrated the lines of the enemy 

Moore, Levi and Frances Elizabeth. He and was captured. They were on the point 

married (second) Nov. 10, 1889, Anna Is- of being hanged as spies, when a sudden 

bell, and had a daughter, JNlildred Gentry. rush of Union cavalry rescued them from 

3. Robert McFarland (born Aug. their distressing situation. In the autumn 
10, 1842) lives in California. He married of 1864, Thomas A. Scott, Assistant Sec- 
Arabella Robertson (died May 13, 1904), retary of War and afterwards President of 
and had issue: Maude and Ora. the Pennsylvania Railroad, was in search 

4. Ellen Jane (born Dec. 15, 1846) of a capable young man to take charge of 
married May 4, 1869, Arthur Paine Morey, his extensive interests in Southern Califor- 
of Strafford, Vt., and they had issue : Rich- nia, which included oil lands that it was 
ard, Walter, Laura Calma and Jennie Jas- believed would rival the oil regions of Penn- 
per. sylvania. Mr. Bard was chosen for the 

5. Kate (born Dec. 13, 1848) married, work, and after spending several months in 
in 1873, Marcellus H. Carton, and they Col. Scott's office was placed in control of 
have issue : Claude, Rilla Colvic, Xelle, his holdings in Ventura, Los Angeles and 
Bruce, Lillie, Lottie and Edwin. Humboldt counties, comprising about 2"]^,- 

0. F^ANNiE, born June 11, 1851, died 000 acres. These holdings inckuled 113.- 

April, 1900. 000 acres in Rancho Si mi : 26.600, Las 

7. Georgetta (bom May 31, 1854) Posas; 48,000. San Francisco; 10,000, Cal- 
married May 27, 1874, William S. Young, legnas; 45,000, El Rio de Santa Clara O'la 
and they have issue: Etta, Roscoe, Lena, Colonia; 6,600 in the Canad Clara ; and 16,- 
Roxie, Aria, Carl and Gerry. 000 in the Ojai. At that time there were 

8. Mattie Homes (born Jan. 17, not more than a dozen Americans in the 
1859) married May 7, 1892, James W. entire region. It was not long, however, 
Snoddy, and they have issue : Ola, Ethel, until squatters began to swarm over a part 
Lois, Mary, Bard and Laurance. of Scott's land. In the description of the 

(XV) THOMAS ROBERT BARD old Rancho la Colonia one line ran from a 
(born Dec. 8, 1841), son of Robert M. and certain monument to a point on the Santa. 
Elizabeth S. (Little) Bard, was educated Barbara channel shore between two esteros. 
at the Chambersburg Academy, and began Lagoons were numerous along that shore, 
the study of the law under the Hon. George and it was ea.sy for a designing and un- 
Chambers, at Chambersburg. Impaired scrupulous person to raise a doubt in re- 
health led him to abandon his preparation gard to the two esteros between which the 
for the Bar and engage in a more active Rancho line ran. .\ Sacramento lawyer as- 
business life. He became a member of the serted that the line ran to a point near where 
forwarding and commission house of Zeller the Hueneme lighthouse now stands. This 
& Co., at Hagerstown, Md., in 1861, and was in direct conflict with Scott's claim, and 
also served the Cumberland Valley Rail- would have deprived him of about 17,000 
road at that place until August. 1864. Dur- acres of as rich, level land as was to be 
ing this period he saw some dangerous serv- found along the coast. The lawyer set on 
ice as a volunteer scout in the successive the squatters, who at once began to drop 



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down on the 1 7.000 acres. Scott insisted 
on his claim, and Bard was on the i^mund 
to defend his rights and to dri\e the s(inat- 
ters oft. The settlers talked "shoot" and 
"hang," hut Bard kept after them. At the 
ontset he had a snrvey made iiy the L'nited 
States Surveyi)r General, and as the line 
fitted the Scott claim he, was unyielding in 
enforcing it. The conflict lasted fur vears 
with varying fortunes. The settlers stt)le 
a march on Scott hv obtaining a decision in 
their favor from the Land Office at Wash- 
ington, but Scott succeeded in haxing it re- 
versed, and it has remained reversed to this 
day. When Gro\er Cleveland became Pres- 
ident the squatters made their last attempt 
to get the Colonia lands, hut Attorne\-Gen- 
eral Garland upheld the old Scott line and 
that was the end of it. Diu-ing all these 
years of conflict Bard was on the firing line. 
He had desperate men to deal with hut 
he never flinchefl. He kept the court of 
the county busy dealing with the cases of 
the squatters. After he had won he dealt 
so generous!}- with the men who had been 
his bitter enemies that thev became his 
friends. 

While Mr. Bard was Colonel Scott's 
agent he had .some thrilling e.\]5eriences. 
The California Petroleum Compain- was 
<;>rganized to develop the oil on Scott's hold- 
ings. Well No. I was put down on the 
Ojai country, and there Bard made his 
home when he first went to Southern Cali- 
fornia. One night in 1874 he was the \ic- 
tim of an attempted "holdup" while dri\- 
ing to No. I on the Ojai with a large sum 
of money in his possession. He had for- 
gotten his pistol, but the landlord at the 
hotel, where he recei\ed the monev, loaned 
him an old derringer, with which to defend 
himself in case of attack. He was driving 
four-in-hand. It was not an easy thing to 
hold up four bronchos on the run, but on 



an u]) grade a man got in front of the lead- 
ers, while another came to the forward 
wheels demanding Bard's money. Bard 
blazed away with the ancient derringer, 
missing his man. but hurting himself with 
the old weapon, the handle of whicii burst 
in his hand, l^'rightened by the e.xpiosion 
the leaders dashed forward and Bard wa>< 
out of the reach of the highwaymen. Des- 
peradoes among the S(|uatters on the Scott 
lands and other bad men plotted to take 
Mr. Bard's life on a ninnber of occasions,- 
but these plots always failed. These antag- 
onisms ha\e passed away, and now he is 
held in the highest esteem by all classes in 
Southern California for what he has 
achieved for the dexelopment of his section 
of the State. 

When Mr. Bard went to Caliform'a, 
Ventura county, in which he lives, was part 
of Santa Barbara. He was supervisor of 
the \'entura district, 1868-72, and when 
A^entura county was formed in the latter 
years he was one of the three commission- 
ers to set the county government going. In 
1877 he was the Republican candidate for 
State Senator from the district comprising 
Ventura. Santa Barbara and San Luis Obis- 
po counties; he carried the first two but 
was beaten by his Democratic opponent in 
San Luis Obispo by a small margin. In 
189J he was on the Republican electoral 
ticket, and was chosen a Presidential Elector, 
although the Democrats carried the rest of 
their ticket. He received more votes on 
the close jioll than the three lowest of the 
Demf)cratic candidates. In 1899 the Cali- 
fornia Legislature failed to elect a United 
States Senator, and the "dead-lock" was 
not broken until February. if)oo. when Mr. 
Bard was chosen. He was not a candidate 
and his election was a surprise. In the 
Senate he soon acquired the respect of that 
augir-;t body for his wide knowledge of the 



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interests and needs of the Pacific Slope. 
He was chairman of the Senate Committee 
on Irrigation. The term for which he was 
elected expired March 4, 1905. 

Senator Bard has been a successful busi- 
ness man. He lias extensive landed inter- 
ests in Ventura and adjoining counties. At 
his home at Hueneme. called "Berylvvood," 
after his eldest daughter, he indulges his 
taste for gardening, and has succeeded in 
developing two new roses that he named 
"Beauty of Berylwood" and "Dr. Bard." 
In religion he is a Presbyterian. He built 
the handsome little Presbyterian Church at 
Hueneme. in which he is a ruling elder and 
superintendent of the Sunday School. He 
has represented California in the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. 

Mr. Bard married in 1876. Mary Ger- 
berding, daughter of one of the founders 
of the San Francisco Bulletin ; they have 
issue ; 

1 . Beryl. 

2. Thomas. 

3. Mary Louise. 

4. Anna. 

5. Elizabeth. 

6. Richard. 

7. Philip. 

(XVI) CEPHAS LITTLE BARD 
(born April 7, 1843 — died April 20, 1902), 
son of Robert M. and Elizabeth S. (Little) 
Bard, was educated at the Chambersburg 
Academy. After leaving school he began 
the study of medicine in the office of Dr. 
Abraham H. Senseny in Chambersburg, 
but his studies were interrupted by his en- 
listment in Company A, 126th P. \'. I., 
Aug. II, 1862. He participated in the 
sanguinary battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 
13. 1862, and the battle of Chancellorsville, 
Mav 3, 1863. L^pon being mustered out 
with his regiment, May 20, 1863, he re- 
sumed his medical studies and was gradu- 



ated 'SI. D. at Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, in 1864. Soon after receiv- 
ing his degree he was appointed assistant 
surgeon of the 210th P. V. I., and served 
until the close of the war. After the war 
he began the practice of his profession in 
his native county, but in 1868, he left Cham- 
bersburg to begin a new and remarkable 
career as a practitioner in Southern Cali- 
fornia. Dr. Bard was the first American 
physician with a diploma that settled in Ven- 
tura County, of which he was one of the 
pioneers. He became an integral part of 
;he county, — a fixed figure in its social and 
civic life. With him the hardships that be- 
fall a country physician with a large prac- 
tice had no power to draw him to a large 
city, where the routine of his professional 
life would be easier and the emolimients 
greater. He found his reward in the grati- 
tude, love and esteem that the people he 
served so unselfishly bestowed upon him. It 
was a common occurrence with him to risk 
his life in the roaring Santa Clara when the 
summons came to him from a patient on 
a winter night. "Oh, I have to do it," was 
his own comment on his unselfish devotion 
to duty. He always felt the keenest satis- 
faction in the success of his professional ef- 
forts. For more than thirty years there was 
no pul)lic highway in \'entura county so 
long, or mountain trail so distant, that it 
was not tra\erse(l by him again and again 
on his errands of merc)-. He knew nearly 
every man, woman and child in the county ; 
knew their names, their dispositions, their 
ailments and their limitations. The tenac- 
ity of his memory was as marvelous as the 
accuracy of his knowledge. His quick 
intuitions made him a leader of men as well 
as a skillful and unerring physician. After 
his death the \'entura Society of Pioneers, 
of which he was the virtual founder, un- 
veiled a bust in honor of the popular physi- 





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cian in the beautiful Elizabeth Bard Me- 
morial Hospital, in San Buenaventura, 
founded by Dr. Bard and his brother. Sen- 
ator Bard, in memory of their mother. 

Dr. Bard held many positions of honor 
and trust. In the early days he was Cor- 
oner of Ventura county. He served as 
Health Officer of his county, and as County 
Physician and Surgeon for many years 
and as a member of the board of Pension 
Examiners. He was president of the State 
Medical Society of California, and of the 
Ventura County Medical Society. For over 
ten years he was president of the City 
school Board, and he was also president of 
the Society of Pioneers. In the Grand 
Army of the Republic he was always an 
active, zealous and patriotic comrade. His 
last achievement was the completion of the 
Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital, which 
was finished only a short time before his 
death, and in which he was the first pa- 
tient. 

1 
LYMAX STUART CLARKE was at 
the time of his death the oldest practicing 
attorney at the Franklin County Bar, and he 
was for years one of the most honored resi- 
dents of Chambersburg. He had made his 
home in this county from 1845. 

Mr. Clarke was a native of Heath, 
Franklin county, Mass., born March 10. 
1825, and was one of the six children of 
Lewis and Ann (Stuart) Clarke, viz.: Will- 
iam, Willard, N'athaniel, Lyman S., Roena 
(Mrs. Stratten) and Lucretia (Mrs. Samuel 
Riddell). The family is of Scotch-Irish ex- 
traction and has long been settled in Massa- 
chusetts. In his native State Mr. Clarke 
received his early education, and later be- 
came a student in the Brattleboro (Vt.) 
Academy, from which he was graduated. 
He attended a preparaton- school and read 
law in Wilmington, \'t., there beginning his 



preparation for his profession under B. O. 
Shafter, who subsequently became Chief 
Justice of California. In 1845 ^^ came to 
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and taught 
school for a time, and on Nov. 2, 1848, after 
continuing his law studies under Joseph 
Brady, he was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar. He followed his chosen calling 
until his death, and rose to a place among 
the most eminent members of the Bar. In 
1S55 ]\Ir. Clarke filled the unexpired term 
of Col. T. B. Kennedy, as district attorney, 
and in 1856 was elected to that office, serving 
three years. Mr. Clarke was held in particu- 
lar esteem in the circle where his talents and 
attainments could be most appreciated, 
among his professional associates, by whom 
he was considered one of the best judges of 
law in the county, and he was regarded as a 
leader in his active years. For many years 
preceding his death he served as secretary 
and treasurer of the Franklin County Mutual 
Fire Insurance Company, discharging the 
duties of that position with characteristic 
ability and fidelity. Mr. Clarke was for 
many years a stanch adherent to the princi- 
ples of the Republican party, but in his later 
years he became an ardent Prohibitionist, 
being one of the leading and most earnest 
workers in the cause: he was frequently 
the candidate of that party for official 
position. 

Mr. Clarke died IMarch 2^. 1893, at his 
Imme in East Market street. Chambersburg, 
uf pneumonia, and, although his death was 
not unexpected, it came as a severe blow to 
his wide circle of friends and acquaintances. 
He was laid to rest in Cedar Grove cemeter\ . 
just before the funeral a meeting of the Bar 
was held in the law library, at which it was 
suesested that resolutions should be drav>n 
up expressing the sentiment of the Bar upon 
Mr. Clarke's merits and death. A committee 
was appointed to prepare such resolutions 



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and report to the Bar Wecitiesday niorniiig. 
after which the members of the Bar attended 
the funeral in a body. Tlie resokitions, etc., 
were issuetl in a memorial leaflet, on the 
iirst page of which appeared tlie following: 
"Lyman Stuart Cl.\rke gradnatetl 
at the Brattleboro Academy, began the study 
of law under lion. B. O. Shafter. of Wil- 
mington, \'t.. afterward Chief Justice of 
California. He was admitted to Franklin 
County Bar, 1848. 



"But yesterday, he whose life was a daily 
record and teacher of thoughtfulness, of wis- 
(k)m, of patience, of courtesy, and mirthful- 
ness, of singular tenderness, of modest be- 
nevolence and parental love, was here and 
speaking, and to-day the record is finished 
and the \olume closed forexer. 

"F"or forty years he was here an earnest 
and untiring worker in the rugged and ar- 
duous way of a profession. 

"The way he went was always upward, 
aiming for honesty and uprightness to his 
fellowmen. 

"His strength and mind had its human 
limit. His tender and considerate heart has 
ceased to beat, to move again only with 
those of the 'just men made perfect.' 

"The widow weeps and children listen 
in vain for his \-oice of afTection. the court 
has paid him a loving heartfelt testimonial. 

"Ex'erv man who knew him will remem- 
jjer him and his new made grave utters a 
Requiescat and farewell." 



Then follows "The Bar's Testimo- 
nial," w Inch reads as follows : 

".A brief session of court was held this 
morning. After the adjournment of court 
Judge Stewart called a Bar meeting. The 
committee appointed yesterday, consisting of 
Hon. C. M. Duncan, Jno. R. Orr, Hon. W. 
Rush Gillan, George Chambers, and Hon. 



H. Gehr, presented through Mr. Duncan the 
following minutes : 

" "The committee appointed by the court 
to prepare an e.xpressitm of the sentiment of 
the Bar of Franklin county on the occasion 
of the death of Lyman S. Clarke, Esq.. who 
died at his residence in Chambersburg on 
Saturday, March 25, 1893, respectfully sub- 
mit the following" ; 

" 'Lyman S. Clarke. Esq., who for forty- 
five years was engaged as an acti\e practi- 
tioner at our Bar. achie\ed the well-earned 
distinction of an industrious cuul faithful 
lawyer. As district attorney for a period of 
about four years he prosecuted the pleas of 
the State with ability and fidelity. For his 
love of the right and his hatred of the wrong, 
for the ]nirity of his private and the honesty 
(jf his jjublic life, for the example he has set 
mankind as a Christian wlm has kept the 
faith, we do cherish his memory. In the 
death of Lyman S. Clarke the bar of the 
county loses one of its most respected mem- 
bers, the church one of its most active mem- 
liers, the community a Christian gentleman, 
his friends an agreeable companion, his fam- 
ily a most gentle and kind husband and fa- 
ther. To them we extend our most sincere 
sympathy. 

" 'Rcsoh'cd, That this minute be entered 
upon the records of the court, a copy sent to 
the familv and that it be furnished the press 
for ]Hil)lication." 

"In nim'ing the adoption of the resolu- 
tions Mr. Duncan paid a high tribute to Mr. 
Clarke, whom he had known as a lawyer and 
as a near neighlior for years. Mr. Duncan 
said, in brief: 'He was one of the most ex- 
emplary domestic men 1 ever met. He was 
kind and gentle to his family yet he had a 
degree of firmness and of positiveness. He 
had one of the kindest hearts that e\er beat 
in any human breast and that governed and 
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ber of the Bar he stood well and was liig-hl_\- 
respected. 'i"he whole community appreci- 
ated his worth.' 

"Mr. (iillan seconded the resolutions. 
Mr. Clarke, he said, had earned distinction 
as an honest, upright, faithful man. '.\ny of 
us of whom that may be said when we come 
to die will not have lived in vain.' Mr. 
Clarke's life was a success. Air. Gillan said. 
He had known him from his youth and to 
him Mr. Clarke was always the soul of 
kindness. "Sometimes we do not measure 
properlv the opportunities men have. Mr. 
Clarke was not bom into luxury. He came 
into this county and taught school when, 
even more than now. school teaching af- 
forded poor reniimeration. He leaves behind 
him an unsullied name. Saying this we have 
said what he deserves. He w ill lie missed in 
the church, in the community and at the Bar. 
It behooves us all to at least follow in the 
virtuotis footsteps he left behind him.' 

"Mr. Chambers believed that it would be 
many years before Mr. Clarke will be forgot- 
ten in this community and especially will his 
memory be long treasured at the Bar. He 
was a safe and reliable counsellor and a law- 
yer in whose integrity everyone always hatl 
the most implicit confidence. He was genial, 
unswerving in integrity, had the courage of 
his convictions and always stood for the 
right. It was an honor to the Bar to have 
Mr. Clarke a member of it and an honor to 
the county to have him as a citizen. His 
loss will be mourned and regretted for many 
years to come. 

"Judge Stewart pronotmced an elofpient 
eulogium over Mr. Clarke. Briefly reportetl. 
he said: 'I give my personal concurrence 
to all that has been said in praise of the mem- 
ory of Mr. Clarke. I was particularly pleased 
with the manner in which the delightful char- 
acter of Mr. Clarke was set forth. The reso- 
lutions were not lacking in praise, and that 



l)raise was not untrue. It has been said that 
he ha.s not recently practiced actively at the 
Bar. I am led to believe that this was be- 
cause his physical vigcjr was not what it once 
was. When I came to the Bar he was an 
active member of it. He had many clients. 
He was a man of great public spirit. During 
his nearly fifty years at the Bar he has ob- 
served due fidelity to the court and to his 
clients. This is a high tribute to pay to any 
man. In his walk and conversation he was 
upright. He had the esteem of all the law- 
}ers and all who knew him. He was honest 
and required honesty in others, \\hate\er 
honored and dignified mankind he respected 
in others and cultivated in himself. We will 
miss him as a neighbor and companion. We 
bore him to his grave, commanding the re- 
spect and esteem of all who knew him and the 
love of his closest friends.' " 

Mr. Clarke was first married to Miss 
Elizabeth Aughinbaugh, of Chambersburg, 
sister of Dr. G. W. Aughinbaugh, of Mer- 
cersburg College, and of Edw. Aughin- 
l)augh, of Hagerstown. Mrs. Clarke passed 
away in 1853, and on March 8, 1855, Mr. 
Clarke married Miss Catherine M. Swiler, of 
Hoguestown, Cumberland Co., Pa., daugh- 
ter of Mathias and Margaret Swiler. Mrs. 
Clarke is still a resident of Chambersburg. 
There were no children by the first union, but 
by the second there were four, all of whom 
survive : 

1. Mary Eliz.^beth. 

2. John C. (II). 

3. SCS.XN. 

4. C.\THERINK B. 

(ID JOHN C. CLARKE was 
born -Aug. 7. 1859. in Chambersburg 
and received his education there, at- 
tending the public schools and Cham- 
bersburg Academy. At the age of seventeen 
he commenced his business life as bookkeq^er 
for E. W. Curriden, who conducted a book 



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and stationery Inisiness in Chambersburg. 
After he liatl l)een with iiim two years, Mr. 
M. A. Clendenin lx)ught the store, and Mr. 
Clarke clerked for him two years, after which 
he went to Waynesboro and learned the trade 
of machinist with the Geiser Company. Re- 
turning to Chambersburg. he entered the 
draughting department of the Taylor Manu- 
facturing Company of this place, remaining 
with them nearly three years. On Jan. i, 
1884, he engaged in the hardware business 
in partnership with Jacob S. Brand, with 
whom he continued for two years, at the end 
of that time buying out his partner, and he 
has since carried on the business alone. In 
March, 1902, he moved to his present loca- 
tion, on West Market street. ]\Ir. Clarke is 
a member of the Presbyterian Church, to 
which he has belonged for many years. 

Mr. Clarke was married, Jan. 17, 1898, 
to Miss Harriet W. Reid, daughter of George 
Reid, of Norfolk, Va., and they have had 
children : 

1. Lyman Stuart. 

2. Elizabeth Gray. 

3. George Reid. 

KENNEDY FAMILY. The Ken- 
nedys of Ayrshire are the ancestors not 
only of the widespread Kennedy family of 
America, but of many Scotch-Irish Ameri- 
cans that have no suspicion that they are 
descended from this turbulent stock. The 
Irish archaeologists trace the origin of the 
Kennedy family back to Doncliuan, brother 
of Brian Boru, but some of the Scotch 
genealogists are content with one Kenneth 
of whom nobody knows anything, and oth- 
ers find the beginning with Duncan de Car- 
rick, who owned a considerable estate in 
Carrick, Ayrshire, about the beginning of 
the 13th century. The first of the name 
on record are .\lexander Kennedy, canon of 
Glasgow, and Huwe Kennedy, chevalier. 



Lanarkshire, who swore fealty to King Ed- 
ward I of England. These names appear 
on the Ragman Roll for 1296. Sir Gilbert 
de Carrick obtained a charter of the lands 
of Kennedy. Sir John Kennedy, designated 
son of Sir Gilbert de Carrick in many writs, 
obtained a confirmation charter of the lands 
of Castlys from King David II. His son. 
Sir Gilbert Kennedy, was one of the host- 
ages to the English, in 1357, for the libera- 
tion of the King. 

This Sir Gilbert Kennedy was the fa- 
ther by his first marriage with Marion, 
daughter of Sir James Sandilands, of 
Calder, of Thomas Kennedy of Bargany: 
and by a second marriage, of Sir James 
Kennedy, who married Mary Stewart, a 
daughter of King Robert III. Under the 
circumstances it is scarcely surprising that 
the eldest son of this youngest son became 
the first Lord Kennedy. Sir Gilbert Ken- 
nedy, called after his grandfather. Sir Gil- 
bert the hostage, who was the first Lord 
Kennedy, was grandfather of David Ken- 
nedy, the third lord and first Earl of Cas- 
silis. The first Earl of Cassilis fell at the 
battle of Flodden in 1513, leaving a son. 
Gilbert, by Agmes. daughter of William. 
Lord Borthwick. 

Gilbert Kennedy, second Earl of Cas- 
silis, was killed in December, 1527, while 
endeavoring to rescue King James V from 
the Earl of Arran. He married Isabel 
Campbell, daughter of the Earl of Argyll, 
and had a son, Gilbert. 

Gilbert Kennedy, third Earl of Cassilis. 
was Lord Treasurer of Scotland under King 
James V and was one of the peers sent over 
to France to assist at the marriage of Marj', 
Oueen of Scots, with Francis, the Dauphin, 
afterward King Francis II. He died at 
Dieppe in 1558. while on this mission. His 
wife was Margaret, daughter of .Alexander 
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garet was tlie second wife of John Barde, 
of Kilhenzie. Their brother was also Gil- 
bert Kennedy, Laird of Bargany. The lat- 
ter Gilbert married Janet Stewart, "the 
Queen's Maideyne." Gilbert Kennedy, 
Earl of Cassilis, had two sons, Gilbert 
(fourth Earl) and Thomas, of Culleen, but 
Gilbert Kennedy and Janet Stewart had 
only one son, Thomas, who died without 
issue. 

Gilbert Kennedy, fourth Earl of Cas- 
silis, was one of the Privy Council to Queen 
Mary. He died in 1576. He married 
Margaret Lyon, daughter of John, ninth 
Lord Glamis, and had two sons, John (fifth 
Earl) and Gilbert, Laird of Drumurchie. 
After his death his widow married James, 
the first Marquis Hamilton. 

John Kennedy, fifth Earl of Cassilis, 
was, like his grandfather, Lord Treasurer, 
but he died in 1616, without issue. He was 
succeeded by his nephew, John Kennedy, 
son of the Laird of Drumurchie. This was 
the Earl of Cassilis concerned in the feud 
with the Laird of Bargany, occasioned by 
the young Laird of Kilhenzie's treatment of 
his stepmother, to whom his father had 
"left sum wittuel. quhilk the young Laird of 
Keilzeny had tane fra hir perforce." She 
complained to her brother, the Laird of 
Bargany, and he sent his son and ten or 
twelve horse and "brak the zett, and tuik 
alfe meikill wittuell with thame, as was 
reft fra hir and her feruand." As the Laird 
of Keilzeny (Kilhenzie) was a depender 
of the Earl of Cassilis, "my Lord thoct 
the samin done to him." He determined 
upon a reprisal and entrusted the job to John 
Kennedy, of Carlok. The plots and coun- 
terplots that resulted from this trifling reft 
of "wittuell" from the old Laird of Kil- 
henzie's second wife would have furnished 
Sir Walter Scott with material for a novel 
as striking as any of his picturesque worl<s 



of fiction. It was first proposed to abduct 
the young Laird of Bargany and his brother, 
on the assumption that the old Laird would 
die for sorrow, because he would ha\e 
"none to succeed to him bot Benand, quha 
is one deboishit man." The Laird of Coh- 
zene (Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culleen) 
objected to this, "for being one sistersone 
of the house, was owr neir cumit theirof to 
craiff their bluid." But the feud could not 
be stopped. There was a plot to murder 
the tutor of Cassilis, and a plot to murder 
the Laird of Colziane (Kilhenzie). and it 
was only after much violence and blood- 
shed that the Earl of Cassilis and the Laird 
of Bargany were reconciled through the 
interposition of the king. With the excep- 
tion of 01i\'er Barde, whose act brought 
about the conflict, the parties to the feud 
were all Kennedys, descendants of Sir Gil- 
bert Kennedy of Cassilis by his two mar- 
riages. The Laird of Bargany, whose sis- 
ter was despoiled of her goods by the Laird 
of Kilhenzie, was descended from Sir Gil- 
bert Kennedy and Marion Sandilands, while 
the Cassilis Kennedys, who acknowledged 
the same paternity, sprang from the daugh- 
ter of a king. It was natural under the cir- 
cumstances that the elder branch, who were 
only lairds, should hate with Scottish in- 
tensity the younger branch, who were lords. 
John Kennedy, sixth Earl of Cassilis, 
never did anything more important than to 
marry well and have children who also mar- 
ried well. He was twice married. His 
first wife was Jane Hamilton, daughter of 
Thomas, the first Lord Haddington. She 
left him two daughters : Catharine, who 
married William, Lord Cochran, son of the 
Earl of Dundonakl : and Margaret, who be- 
came the wife of Dr. Gilliert Burnet. Bishop 
of Salisbury and the celebrated historian of 
his own time. The Earl married secondly 
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daughter of William Hay. Earl of Errol. 
By her he had John, his successor: and a 
daughter. Mary. 

The Earl's brother. Col. Gilbert Ken- 
nedy, who was with Cromwell at the battle 
of Marston Moor, was in Ireland with the 
Scotch troops in 1645. when he was only 
a captain, and was very active in helping to 
supply the Scotch Presbyterians in Ireland 
with ministers. His son, the Rev. Anthony 
Kennedy, was ordained minister at Temple- 
patrick, Oct. 30, 1646. where he remained 
until his ileath, Dec. 11, 1697, in the eighty- 
third year of his age. Col. Gilbert Kennedy 
had two other sons Thomas and Gilbert, 
who were Presbyterian ministers in Ireland. 
The Re\-. Thomas Kennedy died Jan. ^o, 
1716, lea\ing four sons, Thomas and John, 
who were Presbyterian ministers in Ire- 
land, and Robert and William, who emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania. The Rev. Thomas 
Kennedy was moderator of the General 
Synod of Ulster, in 1696. Thomas Ken- 
nedy, Jr., was ordained by the Presbytery 
of Tyrone, Sept. 9, 1700, and John Kennedy 
at Benburb, July 13, 1714. The Rev. Gil- 
bert Kennedy, the younger brother of 
Thomas, was ordained at Girvan, Ayrshire, 
in 1 65 1. Later he was settled at Dun Don- 
ald, near Belfast, where he died, Feb. 6, 
1688. His son Gilbert was ordained min- 
ister of Tullylish in 1704, and had also a 
daughter Catherine, who married. May 15, 
1702, the Rev. William Tennent, the 
founder of the celebrated "Log College" at 
Neshaminy. 

DESCENDANTS 

OF 

WILLIAM KEXXEDY. 

(1) WILLIAM KENNEDY (born in 
the North of Ireland in 1695 — •^1'^'' ''"• 
Bucks county. Pa., in 1777 or 1778), son 



of the Rev. Thomas Kennedy, emigrated 
to Pennsylvania, with his elder brother 
Robert, in 1730. and settled in Bucks county. 
He married in Ireland, Mary (or Marian) 
llenderson, and thev had issue: 

1. Thomas. 

2. James (II). 

3. Robert (born March 28, 173-3 — 
died -April 13, 1812) married in 1764 Eliza- 
beth Heanrie. They had issue: John; 
Mary Ann. who married John R. Reatling; 
Jane, who married Daniel Reading; Han- 
nah ; Enoch ; Elizabeth, who married James 
Matlack ; Keturah Cook, who married James 
Matlack ; Robert Heanrie; and Esther 
Heanrie, who married John Killie. 

4. John died unmarried. 

5. Lucv. 

6. Mary (died July 29, 1817) mar- 
ried Col. Arthur Erwin, who was assassin- 
ated July 9, 1 79 1. He was a soldier o£ 
the Re\-olution and became an extensivf 
lamlowner. They had issue: Samuel; 
I'rank ; Arthur; John: Rebecca, who mar- 
ried Dr. McKeen ; and Mary, who married 
Dr. John Cooper. 

7. Rebecc.\ J.\ne died uimiarried. 
(11) JAMES KENNEDY (bom in 

Bucks county, in 1730 — died Oct. 2, 1799), 
son of William and Mary (Henderson) 
Kennedy, was a farmer. Late in life he 
lived at the Gap, Lancaster county, where 
he owned 480 acres of land, purchased in 
1788. He married, in 1761, Jane Maxwell 
(burn 1742 — died Sept. 7, 1784), daugh- 
ter of John Maxwell, of New Jersey, and 
sister of Gen. William Maxwell of the Revo- 
lution. James and Jane (Maxwell) Ken- 
nedy had issue : 

I. .\.NN (born 1762) married Phineas 
Barber, and they hatl issue: James: Mary, 
whii married William Marr; Lillie: John; 
Jane, who married Robert McCurley ; 
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Henderson; William; Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried Robert ]\Ioorhead ; Daniel M. ; Sallie, 
who married (first) John McCollum. (sec- 
ond) Peter Weigle; Peggy, who married 
William H. Sullivan; Jesse: and Robert. 

2. Thomas (born. 1764 — died, 1847) 
married Margaret Stewart, and they had 
issue : James ; Sarah, who married John 
Kerr; Jane, who married Alexander Innes; 
Margaret, who marrietl .\dam D. Runkle; 
Ann; Elizabeth, who married George Bar- 
ber ; Robert S. ; and Mary. 

3. William (HI)- 

4. John (born 1768) married Eliza- 
beth Linn, and they had issue ; Jane Max- 
well, wdio married Michael Cliristian ; 
James: Thmomas; Katharine; John; Mar- 
garet ; and Robert. 

5. Lucy, born 1770. died young. 

6. Jane (born 1772) married April. 
1791, Samuel Kennedy, and they had issue: 
Robert Montgomery ; Jane Maxwell, wdio 
married David B. King; Nancy, who mar- 
ried Samuel King; Mary Barber, who mar- 
ried William King; Thomas; William B. ; 
James ; Maxwell ; Tabitha. who married 
Samuel Kennedy; Elizabeth, who married 
Montgomery Anderson ; and Ann, who mar- 
ried Morris J. Iddings. 

7. Elizabeth (IV). 

8. James (born 1776) married Eliza- 
beth Maxwell, and they had issue: Jane: 
AVilliam S. ; and Anna Maria, who married 
George S. Green. 

9. Robert (V). 

ID. M.\RY (born 17S0) married John 
Logan, and they had issue : Jane, who mar- 
ried James Kennedy Moorhead ; Eliza; 
James K. ; John T. ; and Mary K.. who mar- 
ried William H. Boyd. 

II. Maxwell (born 1782, died 1844) 
married Margaret Maxwell, and they had 
issue: Elinor: Robert T. ; Winfield Scott; 



Sylvester: William Maxwell; and Jane, 
who married Andrew Eyers. 

(III) \\'iLi,L\M Kl■;.v^•I■:l)^■ (born in 
1766 — died at Easton. Jan. 29. 1851 ), son 
of James and Jane (Maxwell) Kennedy, 
served in the Revolution on the staff of his 
uncle. Gen, William Maxwell, of .\'c\v Jer- 
sey. He represented the counties of Susse.x 
and Warren in the Xew Jersey Legislature, 
and was Speaker of the .\ssembly, and after- 
ward ser\ed as a Judge of the County 
Courts. I'^ir many years he was an elder of 
the Presljyterian Church at Greenwich, X. J. 
He married Sarah Stewart, and they had 
issue : 

1 . Robert Stewart died young. 

2. Jane, born May 5, 1791, married 
Jose])Ii Kerr. No issue. 

3. James J. (VI). 

4. William Maxw^ell (born Sept. 2^, 
1795 — died Sept. 25, 1839) married Feb. 
17, 1825, Maria Kerr, and had issue: Jane 
and Sarah. 

3. Stewart ( VH). 

6. Thomas (born Oct. 7. 1800 — died 
Oct. 4. 1827) married Jane Gorilla Green. 
He was a Presbyterian minister. 

7. Phineas B. (born Oct. 28, 1802) 
married Priscilla Kerr, and they had issue : 
Sarah Jane, who married Henry Reeves; 
William : Alfred ; Francis ; Emma, who mar- 
ried Edwin E. Brewster; Edward Thomas; 
Elizabeth Wilson; Mary Belle, who married 
John E. Kennedy; John Carr; and P. B. 
Maxwell. 

8. Sallie (born Oct. 21. 1804 — died 
June 26. 1843) married George S. Green, 
and they had issue: W'illiam Henry; Sarah 
Elizabeth, who married Rev. John Thomas 
Duftield. D. D. : Anna Gorilla, who married 
(first) Edward D. Yeomans. (second) Mir- 
cot S. Morgan ; and Edward T. 

(IV) Elizabeth Kennedy (torn 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



1774 — died July 24, 1847), daughter of 
James and Jane (Maxwell) Kennedy, mar- 
ried (first) John Young, and they had issue: 

1. Jane married Jacob Bare. 

2. Eleanor died unmarried. 

3. Maria, (bom Jan. i, 1801 — died in 
1826) married in 181 7, William Cowhick, 
and they had issue: Anna Elizabeth, who 
married (first) Pierson Bates, (second) 
Thomas Jefferson Phillis, (third) Samuel 
New: Ellen; Joseph Benson; John Young; 
and Maria. 

Mrs. Young married (second) William 
Moorhead, and they had issue : 

1. Eliza (born March 15, 1803 — died 
Aug. 29, 1858) married Jan. 24, 1826, Will- 
iam Montgomery. They had issue : Charles 
M. : William M. : Emily R., who married S. 
L. Russel : James B. ; Julia E. ; and Sarah 
E.. who married Dr. T. S. Minor. 

2. Ann, born Oct 24, 1804, died Feb. 
24, 1808. 

3. James Kennedy (VIII). 

4. W^illiam Garroway (born July 7, 
181 1 ) married Dec. 9. 1833, Sarah Cook. 
They had issue: Catherine; William Elew- 
theros; and Ysidora Beatrice, who married 
Henry Henly Dodge. 

5. Joel B.\rlow (born April 13. 
1813) married Feli. 7, 1837. Elizabeth 
Hirons. They had issue: Chnrles Hirons: 
Ada Elizabeth, who married George Clif- 
ford; Thomas; Clara Alice, who married 
Jay Cooke, Jr. ; and Caroline Frances, who 
married Joseph Earlston Thropp. 

6. Adeline died unmarried May 2, 
1877. 

7. Henry Clay, born March 10, 181 5, 
died unmarried April 15. 1861, 

(V) ROBERT KENNEDY (born 
in Lancaster county, July 4, 1778 — died Oct. 
31, 1843), son of James and Jane (Max- 
well) Kennedy, was educated under the Rev. 



Nathan Grier, of Brandywine I\Ianor, and 
was graduated at Dickinson College. Car- 
lisle, in 1797, He was licensed to preach at 
Lipper Octoraro, Aug. 20, 1799, and was or- 
dained pastor of the Greencastle and Welsh 
Run Presbyterian churches, Aug. 13. 1803. 
In 1 816, he removed to Cumberland, Md., 
but returned to W^elsh Run in 1825. where 
he remained until his death. He was a man 
of vigorous intellect and a fine scholar, 
especially in the classics. He married 
(first) Feb. 17, 1801, Jane Herron (bora at 
Herron's Branch, in 1777 — died Mav 31, 
1803), daughter of John and Mary (Jack) 
Herron, She was a sister of the Rev. Dr. 
Francis Herron, the eminent Presbyterian 
divine. They had issue: 

1. John Herron (IX). 

2. Robert^ bom May 11, 1803. died 
Oct. I, 1804. 

Mr. Kennedy married (second) June 5, 
1806, Mary Davidson (born Aug. 16. 1785 
— died March 14, 1845), daughter of Elias 
and Agnes (McDowell) Davidson. Her 
mother was a daughter of John McDowell, 
of McDowell's Mill. Rev. Robert and 
Mary Kennedy had issue : 

1. Nancy Da\-idson (born April 13, 
1807 — (lied July 16, 1842) married April 
23, 1824. David Hunt, and they had issue: 
Robert Thomas, John David.son, and Luther 
Martin. 

2. James Maxwell (born Feb. 24, 
1809 — died March 9, 1848) married Nov. 
23, 1836, Sabilla Stone Morris, daughter of 
Evan Morris, of Chester county. They had 
issue: Herbert Morris, Amelia Theresa and 
James Maxwell, 

3. Eliza J. Herron, born Feb. 5, 
iSii, died March 27, 1816. 

4. Mary Ann (born Feb. 4, 181 3 — 
died Jan. 23, 1863) married March 5. 1840, 
Lewis Martin. Thev had issue : Robert 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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Kennedy, Mary Elizabetli, Emma Bell, 
William Thomas, Sibilla J. K., Edward, 
Henry Lewis and Ella. 

5. Elias Davidson, born May 30, 
181 5, died June 20, 1816. 

6. Elizabeth Jane (born June 15, 
1 81 7 — died Sept. 26, 1851) married July 20, 
1847, Enoch Bowen. 

7. Elias Davidson (born Dec. 27, 
18 19) married April 20, 1854, Agnes Shields 
Clarke, daughter of Thomas Shields and 
Eliza (Thaw) Clarke. /Fhey had issue: 
Alice, Davidson, Clarke, Charles Clarke, 
Eliza Clarke, Albert Edward and Howard. 

8. Robert Theophilus, born Jan. 17, 
1822, died Aug. 8. 1822. 

9. William Thomas, born June 18. 
1825, died Dec. 8, 1855. 

10. Henry Martyn, born Aug. 5, 
1828, died Oct. 26, 1846. 

(VI) JAMES J. KENNEDY (born in 
Warren county, N. J., July 14, 1793 — died 
Nov. 9. 1863). son of William and Sarah 
(Stewart) Kennedy, was a farmer in his 
native county until 1839 when he removed to 
Franklin county, purchasing the Dunlop 
farm on the Conococheague, below Cham- 
bersburg, which is now the property of his 
son. Col. Thomas B. Kennedy. It was 
found soon after his removal that his agri- 
cultural methods were more advanced than 
those of the neighboring farmers. He cut 
his wheat earlier than was the custom in 
this section. .At first he was criticized for 
this apparent haste, but it was not many 
years until his neighbors learned that wheat 
weighed heavier and made more and better 
flour when cut early. He was a Democrat 
and an ardent politician, and he made friends 
with such facility that he was made an Asso- 
ciate Judge in 1842, although he was then 
resident in the county only three years. In 
1847 'is ^^'^is the Democratic candidate for 
the State Senate. At the outbreak of the 



Civil war he espoused the cause of the Union 
with the decisiveness and energy that were 
parts of his character. He was a man of 
medium height, with a strong and rugged 
frame. In manner he was cordial, and he 
always had a friendly greeting for his ac- 
quaintances. He was a frequent visitor in 
Chambersburg until his death, coming intO' 
town with no other assistance than that of 
the stout stick that he always carried. One 
who knew him well said that he was a man 
after his own pattern, and that the pattern 
was unusually good. Judge Kennedy mar- 
ried Jan. 28, 1819, Margaret Cowell (born 
April 25. 1799 — died Feb. 3, 1866). They 
had issue : 

1. William S., born Aug. 20, 1S20,. 
died Aug. 22, 1842. 

2. Ellen H. (born Aug. 11. 1822) 
married May 14, 1844, Edmund Culbertson- 
(born Jan. 12, 1812 — died March 4. 1883), 
son of Dr. Samuel D. and Nancy (Pur-- 
viance) Culbertson. At the time of his- 
death he was president of the National Bank 
of Chambersburg. They had issue: Lucy, 
Emma S., Samuel D., Nancy Purviance. and 
James Kennedy (died April 23, 1896). 

3. Joseph C. (born May 15, 1825— 
died Oct. 27, 1902) married April 6, 1862, 
Margaret Catharine Smith (born March 21. 
1830 — died July 23, 1885), daughter of 
Henrv Smith,- of Chambersburg. They had 
issue: Thomas, Margaret, Henry Smith, 
Emma, Elizabeth, Ariana Ellen, Jane Pa- 
tience and Mary. 

4. Thomas B. (X). 

5. Emmeline (born June 11, 1829) 
married Oct. 5, 1847. William L. Chambers 
(born Jan. 13, 1823 — died .April 26, 1889), 
son of Judge George and Alice A. (Lyon) 
Chambers. They had issue : .Alice Arm- 
strong, Margaret Kennedy, Ellen and Carrie. 

6. Maxwell (bom Nov. 16, 183 1 — 
died March 10, 1885), a physician at June-- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRAXKLIX COUNTY. 



tion City. Kans.. married. Dec. 13. 1859. 
Martha Orr. daugliter ui Col. James P.. Orr. 
They iiad i.-^sue : James, Thomas, John, 
Frank, Hettie and Margaret. 

7. James (born Nov. 8. 1834) married 
Emma Gray. They have had issue: Gray, 
Guy. W'iUiam and Mary Emma (deceased). 

8. M.>lRG.\ret. h(irn June u. 1838. 
died in intanc}'. 

9. John Log.an (born Xov. 8, 1840), 
Hves in California. He married November, 
1881, Henrietta Wright, and tliey had issue: 
Carrie. 

(VII) STEWART KENNEDY (born 
Sept. 17, 1798 — died March 1, 1852), son of 
William and Sarah (Stewart) Kennedy, 
was a physician and practiced his profession 
at Chambersburg. He married May 
3, 1 82 1. .Ann Ferguson, and they had 
issue : 

1. Sarah (born F>b 
Aug. 25, 1853) married 
James Craig McLanahan (born Sept. 12. 
181 6 — died in 1893). ^O" of Samuel and 
Margaret (Allison) McLanahan, of Antrim 
township. They had issue: Stewart Ken- 
nedy, who died young; and Samuel, a Pres- 
byterian minister. li\ing at Lawrenceville, 
New Jersey. 

2. James Ferguson (born Sept. 27, 
1824 — died Sept. 6, 1901) was graduated at 
Lafayette College, Easton. in 1839, and at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, in 1845. 
He was ordained by the Presbytery of Lu- 
zerne, Dec. 12. 1848, as pastor at Berwick. 
He was principal of the Chambersburg 
Academy, 1S51-55, and pastor of the Dick- 
inson Church, 1855-59. He lost the sight 
of an eye in 1856, and became totally blind 
in 1857. Notwithstanding his affliction he 
was a hard student and an authority on Bibli- 
cal interpretation. Dr. Kennedy married 
July 6, 1852. Louisa Weiss McKinley. 
daughter of Rev. Daniel and Mary ( Wyeth) 



II, 1822 — died 
April 9, 1850, 



AIcKinle\'. They had issue: Daniel ]\lcKin- 
ley and James Stewart. 

3. Matilda (born Oct. 1. 1827) mar- 
ried May 17. 1855. Edward A. Lesley. They 
had issue: James. Nellie. Mav. Morence, 
Carroll. Edward and Edith Stewart. 

4. Elmir.\. born March 30. 1830. died 
April 1 , 1841. 

5. Stewart (born Sept. 13. 1833), 
was a surgeon. L'. S. N.. and died unmar- 
ried March 8, 1864. 

6. William (born Sept. 22. 1838: 

died ), was a lawyer and journalist. 

He married (hrst) Ellen Culbertson, and 
(second) Mar_\- Hanch. By his second mar- 
riage he had issue: Stewart. William and 
Helen. 

(VIII) JAMES KENNEDY MOOR- 
HEAD (born in Dauphin county. Sept. 7. 
1806 — died March 6. 1884), son of William 
and Elizabeth Kennedy (Young) Moorhead. 
was a contractor on the Pennsylvania Canal. 
1827-38, when he became interested in the 
Pioneer Packet Line between Philadelpliia 
and Pittsburgh. In 1839. he was appointed 
postmaster of Pittsburgh. He was exten- 
sively engaged in business in that citv for 
many years, and amassed a large fortune. 
He was a representative in Congress, 1859- 
69. Mr. Moorhead married Dec. 17, 1829. 
Jane Logan, of Lancaster county, and they 
had issue : 

1. Ma.xwlll (born Se|)t. 5, 1831) 
married .\pril 24, 1855, Mary Heberton. 
and they had issue: Lizzie H. and Jennie 
Logan. 

2. John Logan, born Feb. 4, 1833, 
died Jan. 29. 1835. 

3. Caroline Louisa, born July 26. 
1834. died Sept. 4, 1834. 

4. Marv Eliz.abeth, born lulv 19, 
1836. 

5. Hen'riett.\ Louisa, born Vug. 7, 
1838. 




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'). William Jefferson (born Feb. 17, 
1840) married Jan. 5. 1864. Emily B. 
Black, and tlie\" had issue : Lizzie Butler, 
James Kennedy. Samuel W. Black, Helen 
and .Maxwell K. 

7. J.\ME.s Hi:.\Rv. born Jan. j(). 184J. 
died Feb. 7. 1849. 

8. Jane Adeline (born Aug. 18. 
1844) married Oct. _'4. 1867. James B. 
Murdnck. a physician. They had issue: 
James K. Monrhead. John. Florence and 
William Moorhead. 

(IX) JOHN HERRON KENNEDY 
(born at Herron's Branch Nov. 11. 1801 — 
died Dec. 15, 1840). son of Rev. Robert 
and Jane (Herron) Kennedy, was gradu- 
ated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg. in 
1820 and at the Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary, in 182,^. He was licensed to ])reach 
in October. 1822, and was ordained jxustor 
of the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Phila- 
del])hia in Xo\-ember 1825. In 1830 he be- 
came professor of mathematics in Jefferson 
College, and took charge of the Centre con- 
gregation near Canonsburg. He afterward 
accepted the chair of Natural Philosophx- 
and Chemistry, which he retained until his 
death. Prof. Kennedy married Feb. 15. 
1827. Harriet McCalmont, and they had 
issue : 

1. Ann Kittera, born Nov. 16, 1828. 

2. Robert Peebles (born F"eb. 3. 
183 1 ) is a Presbyterian minister at Reil 
Clay Creek. 

3. Ceorge McC.ai.mo.nt. born Jime (1. 
1833, died unmarried, 1856. 

4. James Maxwell (born Jan. 5. 
1836 — dierl unmarried, Sept. 20. 1871 ). was 
a lawyer in California. 

,T. 1'"rancis Herron (born l-'eb. 3. 
1829 — died June 20. 1871). was a lawyer in 
California. 

(X) THOMAS B. KENNEDY (born 
in Warren county. X'. J., Au,g. i. 1827). 



son of James J. and Margaret (Cowellj 
Kennedy, came to h'ranklin county with his 
parents in 1839 and received jiis academic 
education at the Chambersburg Academy. 
He entered the Sophcjmore class of Marshall 
College. Mercersburg. at the a.ge of fourteen 
and was graduated with hon<irs in 1844. 
When the .Mexican war brcike out under 
President J 'oik he was an earnest ajjplicant 
for a lieutenancy in the 1st Pennsylvania 
Regiment, but the ai)pointment went to 
Charles T. C'aiuphell. a heroic soldier, who 
rose to the rank of brigadier-general in the 
Civil War. He studied law with Judge 
Alexander Thomson, and was admitted to 
the FTanklin County Bar, April 11, 1848. 
The next year he cros.sed the Plains as the 
leader of a ])arty bound for California, where 
he engaged in minin,g for gold and at the 
same time entered upon the practice of hi.'r 
profession at Downie\ille. In 1851 he re- 
turned to Chambersburg. where he soon ob- 
tained a Incratixe practice, and was elected 
District .\ttorney in 1854. .\fter his mar- 
riage he sjient six months traveling in 
Europe. L'pon his return he entered into 
partnerslii]) with the Hon. James Nill, one 
of the leading members of the FVanklln 
County Bar at that time. The firm of Nill 
& Kennedy had a very extensive practice, 
and continued until Mr. Nill was elected 
President Judge of the district in 1861. 
.After Judge .Xill was elevated to the Bench 
Mr. Kennedy retained the extensive business 
of the firm, first in ])artnership with T. Jef- 
fer.son Nill. the firm name bein.g chan.ged to 
Kennedy & Nill, and later with John Stew- 
art, now President Jud,ge of the district, as 
Kennedy & Stewart. His jjosition at the 
liar may be judged from the large number 
of Supreme Court cases in which his name 
ap])ears, manv of them leading cases and 
authorities on the points decided. Resides 
his law practice he had large private inter- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



ests and was connected with the Cumberland 
Valley Railroad as stockholder, director and 
.counsel. When Judge Watts, the president 
of the company, resigned, in 1872, to become 
commissioner of Agriculture under Presi- 
dent Grant, Mr. Kennedy was elected his 
successor as president of the Cumberland 
Valley Railroad. His familiarity with the 
business of the company, his capacity as a 
man of affairs, and his accurate knowledge 
of the country and its needs, had early indi- 
• cated him as the proper person to become 
Judge Watts" successor. Under his man- 
agement the road had been developed and 
improved to a remarkable extent. When he 
assumed the presidency it was only a local 
■enterprise and a feeder of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. Through his foresight and enter- 
prise the main line of the Cumberland Valley 
road was extended to Winchester, Va., and 
the two branches — the South Penn Railroad, 
and the Mont Alto Railroad (now the Cum- 
berland Valley & Waynesboro Railroad) 
were built in the early years of his adminis- 
tration. The result of his careful but pro- 
gressive methods had been to afford the 
people of the Cumberland and Shenandoah 
Valleys a service that is not surpassed by 
that of any railroad in the United States. In- 
deed, it can be claimed for it that the facili- 
ties for travel are better than those afforded 
by the great trunk lines of an equal distance 
from the leading cities. This in itself is a 
great achievement, and the freight traffic 
has also grown enormously. Both for pass- 
engers and freight the road is the most im- 
portant of its kind in the United States, and 
it will continue to grow in importance from 
the initiative that President Kennedy gave it, 
both in the earlier and later years of his man- 
agement. He is still active in the develop- 
ment of its facilities and in promoting the 
increase in its business and its carrying ca- 



pacity. Energetic in action, sound in judg- 
ment, wise in counsel, fair in dealing, and 
gentle and sympathetic in demeanor, Mr. 
Kennedy moved to the front as a leader, as 
by natural right. Perhaps one of the great- 
est secrets of his success in managing the 
affairs of the Cumberland Valley Railroad 
was his relations with his fellow employes. 
He has always taken the deepest interest 
in the welfare of those in the company's em- 
ploy, and has kept himself in personal touch 
with them, knows them by name, sympa- 
thizes with them in their sorrows, rejoices 
with them in their prosperity, patiently hears 
their real or fancied grievances, and in a 
gentle manner sets them right, or rights 
their wrongs. The result of this attitude has 
been to surround him with a corps of intelli- 
gent and loyal co-workers that are a credit 
to him and the Company. His personal 
magnetism, his devotion to his friends, his 
quiet dignity, and the conscientious manner 
in which he has conducted the affairs of the 
Company he has so well served, are features 
of his life that have impressed all who have 
come in contact with him. He has also been 
prominently identified with every movement 
for the advancement of the Valley, and has 
always liberally aided in local enterprises 
tending to promote the welfare of the com- 
munity. For many years he has served as 
one of the trustees of the Chambersburg 
Academy. He was one of the originators 
and founders of Wilson College, and has 
been a member of its board of management 
since its foundation. 

Mr. Kennedy married April 22, 1856, 
Ariana Stuart Riddle, (born Oct. 4, 1836), 
daughter of John Stuart and Mary (Bemus) 
Riddle. They have issue : 

1. John Stuart (XI). 

2. Mary Margaret married Rev. 
Alexander R. Stevenson (XII). 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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3. MOORHEAD COWELL (XIII). 

4. James Riddle, born Oct. 26, 1863, 
died Jan. i, 1871. 

5. Thomas Benjamin (XIV). 

6. Ariana Rebecca married Irvin C. 
Elder (XV). 

[Since the above was written we have 
received notice of Mr. Kennedy's deatli, on 
June 19, 1905. — Ed.] 

(XI) JOHN STUART KENNEDY 
(born June 21. 1838), son of Thomas B. 
and Ariana S. (Riddle) Kennedy, was edu- 
cated at the Chambersburg Academy, and 
afterward graduated from the Scientific De- 
partment of Andover ( Mass. ) Academy in 
the class of 1877. He later studied Mining 
Engineering. Chemistry and Metallurgy for 
several years at the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute at Troy, N. Y., and for one year 
at the school of Mines, Columbia College. 
New York City. Since 1880 he has been en- 
gaged in the iron business, and for the last 
five years has been the general manager of 
the MusconetC(ing Iron Works at Stanhope, 
N. J. In x\pril, 1902, he organized the Citi- 
zens National Bank of Netcong, N. J., of 
which he is the president. Mr. Kennedy 
married Jan. 17, 1888, Lucy Harrison Tay- 
lor, daughter of Dr. R. Kidder Taylor, of 
Lynchburg, Va., and Lavinia (Harrison) 
Taylor, of Brandon, Virginia. 

(XII) MARY MARGARET KEN- 
NEDY (born Dec. 3, 1859), daughter of 
Thomas B. and Ariana S. (Riddle) Ken- 
nedy, married April 11, 1882, Alexander 
Russell Stevenson (born Dec. 29, 1856), 
son of John M. and Margaretta E. (Paxton) 
Stevenson. He is descended from Joseph 
Stevenson, an early settler in Letterkenny 
township and a member of Rocky Spring 
Presbyterian Church. Joseph Stevenson, 
the pioneer, had two sons, John and Robert, 
and two daughters, Mary (who married 



Stephen Caldwell) and Rebecca (who mar- 
ried James Scott). John Stevenson re- 
moved to Westmoreland county and Rol^ert 
died before his father. Mr. Stevenson's 
great-grandfather, Joseph Stevenson, was a 
son of Robert. He removed to the West 
in 1803. He had two sons, George and John 
Mitchell. His sister Elizal)eth married 
Zachrias Sprigg. John Mitchell Stevenson 
married Nancy Russell, a daughter of Alex- 
ander and Mary (McPherson) Russell, of 
Bedford. Mrs. Stevenson was a niece of 
Judge Riddle, her mother being a daughter 
of Col. Robert McPherson, of York. John 
McPherson Stevenson, son of John Mitchell 
and Nancy (Russell) Stevenson, married 
Margaretta E., daughter of James D. and 
Jane M. (Miller) Paxton, and they had 
issue: William Paxton (torn Feb. 24, 1855) 
and Alexander Russell (born Dec. 29, 
1856). The elder son was named after his 
maternal grandfather, the Rev. William 
Paxton, D. D., for half a century pastor of 
the Lower Marsh Creek Presbyterian 
Church, and the younger, who is a Presby- 
terian minister, for his great-grandfather, 
Alexander Russell, who was lieutenant of 
Capt. Alexander's company in the Sexenth 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Line. Rev. Alex- 
ander Russell Stevenson was graduated at 
Princeton College in 1876, and at Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1880. He was or- 
dained by the Presbytery of Lehigh, and was 
pastor of the Brainerd Presbyterian Church, 
Easton, Pa., 1880-88, and of the First Pres- 
byterian Church, Schenectady, since 1888. 
Rev. A. Russell and Mary M. (Keimedy) 
Stevenson have issue : 

1. Thomas Kennedy, born Nov. 10, 
1883. 

2. Caroline Paxton, born March 5, 
1888, died Nov. 28, 1895. 

3. Alexander Russell, born May 
28, 1893. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



4. Stuart Riddle, born Nov. 14, 
1896. 

(XIII) MOORHEAD COWELL 
KENNEDY (born March 10, 1862), son 
of Thomas B. and Ariana S. (Riddle) Ken- 
nedy, was educated at the Chambersljurg- 
Academy, and was graduated from the 
Scientific Department of Andover (Mass.) 
Academy, in 1880. He then entered the 
John C. Green School of Science of Prince- 
ton University, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1884, with the degree of Civil En- 
gineer. While at school and college he took 
an active part in athletic sports, and in his 
Senior year at Princeton gained a position 
on the University football team. This love 
for sport and outdoor life led him, upon 
graduation from college, to the plains of 
Wyoming, where he purchased a ranch and 
engaged in the cattle business in those stir- 
ring times between 1884 and 1887. From 
there he moved to Junction City. Kans., 
where he organized and conducted a private 
bank under the firm name of Kennedy & 
Kennedy until 1889, when he returned to 
Chambersburg to resume his chosen profes- 
sion and entered the service of the Cumber- 
land Valley Railroad, as assistant to the 
President. While only a boy in years, his 
inclination in this direction was manifested 
by his spending a summer's vacation as fire- 
man on one of the old wood burning pass- 
enger locomotives named "Col. Lull." then 
in use on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, 
while other of his vacations were spent in 
the fields on Engineering Corps. In his 
course of studies he was specially attracted 
to those subjects that were related to rail- 
road matters. The same interests that so 
early engaged his thoughts distinguish him 
now. In 1892 he was elected to his present 
position of Vice-President of the company, 
and in 1903, when the vast increase of the 



business of the road required a reorganiza- 
tion of the official staff, the duties of General 
Superintendent were added to those that he 
then filled as Vice-President. These duties 
are very exacting, but both by natural apti- 
tude and educational training he is specially 
fitted for the work in which his interest cen- 
ters, and his chief pride is in maintaining 
and adxancing the standard of the road 
with which he is connected. He enjoys in a 
marked degree the confidence of the public 
and the respect of his associates, and was 
one of the founders and is now vice-presi- 
dent of the Valley National Bank of Cham- 
bersburg, Pa. He lives during the summer 
at his country home, "Ragged Edge," along 
the upper Conococheague Creek, on the line 
of the Waynesboro branch of the Cumber- 
land \'alley Railroad. 

Mr. Kennedy married, June 25, 1891^ 
Margaret Odbert Coyle (born Sept. 14^ 
1862), daughter of James Huston and Su^ 
-san (McCurdy) Coyle, of Philadelphia. 
They have issue: 

1. Thom.\s B. (Ill), born Sept. ij, 
1892. 

2. J.^MES CoYLE, born Nov. 30. 1893. 

3. M.'\RG.'\RET Riddle, born July 21^ 
1896. 

4. Moorhe.\d Cowell, Jr., born Jan. 
18, 1901. 

(XIV) THOMAS BENJAMIN KEN- 
NEDY (born Oct. 22. 1870), son of 
Thomas B. and Ariana S. (Riddle) Ken- 
nedy, was educated at the Chambersburg 
Academy, and afterward studied a year at 
Lafayette College and two years at Prince- 
ton. After leaving college he went West, 
but returned to Chambersburg and entered 
the service of the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
i"oad, and now occupies the position of 
Supervisor of the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
road. He married, April 4, 1895, -^n"'^ 



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down on tlie 17,000 acres. Scotl insisted 
on his claim, and Bard was on the grountl 
to defend his rights and to (h'ive the S(|uat- 
ters off. The settlers talked '"shcint" and 
"hang," but Bard kept after them. .\t the 
outset lie had a .survey made by the L'nited 
States Sur\-eyor tleneral, rnid as the line 
fitted the Scott claim he. was unyielding in 
enforcing it. The conflict lasted for years 
with varying fortunes. The settlers stole 
a march on Scott by obtaining a decision in 
their favor from the Land Oftice at Wash- 
ington, but Scott succeeded in ha\ing it re- 
versed, and it has remained rexersed to this 
day. When Grover Cleveland became Pres- 
ident the squatters made their last attempt 
to get the Colonia lands. Init .\ttorney-Gen- 
eral Garland upheld the old Scott line and 
that was the end of it. During all these 
years of conflict Bard was on the tiring line. 
He had desperate men to deal with but 
he never flinched. He ke]it the court of 
the county busy dealing with the cases of 
the squatters. After he had won he dealt 
so generouslv with the men who h;ul been 
his flitter enemies that tliev became his 
friends. 

While -Mr. Bard was Colonel Scott's 
agent lie had some thrilling experiences. 
The California Petroleum Company was 
organized to develop the oil on Scott"s hold- 
ings. AX'ell Xo. I was put down on the 
Ojai countrv. and there BanI made his 
home when he first went to Southern Cali- 
fornia. One night in 1874 he was the \ic- 
tim of an attempted "holdup" while dri\- 
ing to Xo. I on the Ojai w ith a large smn 
of money in his possession. He had for- 
gotten his pistol, but the landlord at the 
hotel, where he received the money, loaned 
him an old derringer, with which to defeiifl 
himself in case of attack. He was driving 
four-in-hand. It was not an easy thing to 
hold up four bronchos on the run, but on 



an up grade a man got in front of the lead- 
ers, while another came to the forward 
wheels demanding Bard's monev. Bard 
blazed away w ith the ancient derringer, 
missing his man. but hurting himself with 
the old weapon, the handle of which burst 
in his hand. I'"rightcned b\- the explosion 
the leaders dashed forward and Bard was 
out of the reach of the highwaymen. Des-^ 
peradoes among the scpiatters on the Scott 
lands and other bad men plotted to take 
'Sir. Bard's life on a number of occasions,- 
but these plots always failed. These antag- 
onisms lia\e passed away, and now he is 
held in the highest esteem by all classes in 
Southern California for what he has 
achie\"ed for the development of his section^ 
of the State. 

When Mr. I'.ard went to California^ 
Ventura county, in which lie lix-es. was part 
of Santa Barbara. He was supervisor of 
the \'entnra district, 1868-72, and when 
X'entura county was formed in the latter 
years he was one of the three commission- 
ers to set the county government going. In 
1877 he was the Republican candidate for 
State Senator from the district comprising 
X'entura. Santa Barbara and San Luis Obis- 
po counties : he carried the first two but 
was beaten hv his Deni<icratic opponent in 
San Luis Obispo by a small margin. In 
1892 he was on the Re])ublican electoral 
ticket, and was chosen a Presidential Elector, 
although the Democrats carried the rest of 
their ticket. He received more votes on 
the close poll than the three lowest of the 
DeiiK^cratic candidates. In 1899 the Cali- 
fornia Legislature failed to elect a L'nited 
States Senator, and the "dead-lock" was 
not broken until February. 1900. when Mr. 
Bard was chosen. He was not a candidate 
and his election was a surprise. In the 
Senate he soon acquired the respect of that 
august body for his wide knowledge of the 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



interests and needs of the Pacific Slope. 
He was chairman of the Senate Comniiftee 
on Irrigation. The term for which he was 
elected expired March 4, 1905. 

Senator Bard has been a successful busi- 
ness man. He has extensive landed inter- 
ests in Ventura and adjoining counties. At 
his home at Hueneme, called "Berylwood," 
after his eklest daughter, he indulges his 
taste for gardening, and has succeeded in 
developing two new roses that he named 
"Beauty of Berylwood" and "Dr. Bard." 
In religion he is a Presbyterian. He built 
the handsome little Presbyterian Churcli at 
Hueneme, in which he is a ruling elder and 
superintendent of the Sunday School. He 
has represented California in the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. 

Mr. Bard married in 1876, Mary Ger- 
berding, daughter of one of the founders 
of the San Francisco Bulletin ; they ha\e 
issue : 

1 . Beryl. 

2. Thomas. 

3. Mary Louise. 

4. Anna. 

5. Elizabeth. 

6. Richard. 

7. Philip. 

(XVI) CEPHAS LITTLE BARD 
(born April 7. 1843 — died April 20, 1902), 
son of Robert U. and Elizabeth S. (Little) 
Bard, was educated at the Chambersburg 
Academy. After leaving school he began 
the study of medicine in the office of Dr. 
Abraham H. Senseny in Chambersburg, 
but his studies were interrupted by his en- 
listment in Company A, 126th P. V. I., 
Aug. II, 1862. He participated in the 
sanguinary battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 
13, 1862, and the battle of Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. Upon being mustered out 
with his regiment. May 20, 1863. he re- 
sumed his medical studies and was gradu- 



ated M. D. at Jefiferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, in 1864. Soon after receiv- 
ing his degree he was appointed assistant 
surgeon of the 210th P. \^. I., and served 
until the close of the war. After the war 
he l)egan the practice of his profession in 
his native county, but in 1868, he left Cham- 
bersburg to begin a new and remarkable 
career as a practitioner in Southern Cali- 
fornia. Dr. Bard was the first .\merican 
physician with a diploma that settled in Ven- 
tura County, of which he was one of the 
pioneers. He became an integral part of 
the county. — a fixed figure in its social and 
civic life. With him the hardships that be- 
fall a country physician with a large prac- 
tice had no power to draw him to a large 
city, where the routine of his professional 
life would be easier and the emoluments 
greater. He found his reward in the grati- 
tude, love and esteem that the people he 
served so unselfishlv bestowed upon him. It 
was a common occurrence with him to risk 
his life in the roaring Santa Clara when the 
summons came to him from a patient on 
a winter night. "Oh, I have to do it," was 
his own comment on his unselfish devotion 
to duty. He always felt the keenest satis- 
faction in the success of his professional ef- 
forts. For more than thirty years there was 
no ])ublic highway in Ventura county so 
long, or mountain trail so distant, that it 
was not traversed by him again and again 
on his errands of mercy. He knew nearly 
every man, woman and child in the county ; 
knew their names, their dispositions, their 
ailments and their limitations. The tenac- 
ity of his memory was as marvelous as the 
accuracy of his knowledge. His quick 
intuitions made him a leader of men as well 
as a skillful and unerring physician. After 
his death the \'entura Societv of Pioneers, 
of which he was the virtual founder, un- 
\ciled a bust in honor of the popular physi- 



BIOGRAPHICAL AXXALS OF FRAXKIJX COUXTY. 



35 



cian in the beautiful Elizabetli Bard Me- 
morial Hospital, iu San Buenaventura, 
founded by Dr. Bard and his brother. Sen- 
ator Bard, in memory of their mother. 

Dr. Bard held many positions of honor 
and trust. In the early days he was Cor- 
oner of Ventura county. He served as 
Health Officer of his county, and as County 
Physician and Surgeon for many years 
and as a member of the board of Pension 
Examiners. He was president of the State 
Medical Society of California, and of the 
Ventura County Medical Society. For over 
ten years he was president of the City 
school Board, and he was also president of 
the Society of Pioneers. In the Grand 
Army of the Republic he was always an 
active, zealous and patriotic comrade. His 
last achievement was the completion of the 
Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital, which 
was finished only a short time before his 
death, and in which he was the first pa- 
tient. 

I 
LYMAX STUART CLARKE was at 
the time of his death the oldest practicing- 
attorney at the Franklin County Bar, and he 
Avas for years one of the most honored resi- 
dents of Chambersburg. He had made his 
home in this county from 1845. 

Mr. Clarke was a native of Heath, 
Franklin county, Mass.. born March 10. 
1825, and was one of the six children of 
Lewis and Ann (Stuart) Clarke, viz.: ^\'ill- 
iam, Willard, Xathaniel, Lyman S., Roena 
(Mrs. Stratten) and Lucretia (Mrs. Samuel 
Riddell). The family is of Scotch-Irish ex- 
traction and has long been settled in Massa- 
chusetts. In his native State Mr. Clarke 
received his early education, and later be- 
came a student in the Brattleboro (Vt.) 
Academy, from which he was graduated. 
He attended a preparatory- school and read 
law in Wilmington, Vt., there beginning his 



preparation for his profession under B. O. 
Shafter, who subsequently became Chief 
Justice of California. In 1845 ''e came to 
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and taught 
school for a time, and on Nov. 2, 1848, after 
continuing his law studies under Joseph 
Brady, he was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar. He followed his chosen calling 
until his death, and rose to a place among 
the most eminent members of the Bar. In 
1855 Mr. Clarke filled the unexpired term 
of Col. T. B. Kennedy, as district attorney, 
and in 1856 was elected to that ofRce, serving 
three years, Mr. Clarke was held in particu- 
lar esteem in the circle where his talents and 
attainments could be most appreciated, 
among his professional associates, by whom 
he was considered one of the best judges of 
law in the county, and he was regarded as a 
leader in his active years. For many years 
preceding his death he served as secretary 
and treasurer of the Franklin County Mutual 
Fire Insurance Company, discharging the 
duties of that position with characteristic 
ability and fidelity. Mr. Clarke was for 
many years a stanch adherent to the princi- 
ples of the Republican party, but in his later 
years he became an ardent Prohibitionist, 
being one of the leading and most earnest 
workers in the cau.se: he was frequently 
the candidate of that party for official 
position. 

Mr. Clarke died March 25, 1S93, at his 
hunie in East Market street, Chambersburg, 
of pneumonia, and, although his death was 
not unexpected, it came as a se\ere blow to 
his wide circle of friends and acquaintances. 
He was laid to rest in Cedar Grove cemeter\ . 
Just before the funeral a n^ceting of the Bar 
was held in the law library, at which it was 
suggested that resolutions should be drawn 
up expressing the sentiment of the Bar upon 
Mr. Clarke's merits and death. A committee 
was appointed to prepare such resolutions 



3b 



r.IOCRAPHICAL AXXALS OF I'RAXKLIX CnUXfY. 



and rei)()rt to the Bar W'eiinesday nmriiiii^. 
after which the members of the Bar attended 
the funeral in a body. The resolutions, etc., 
were issued in a memorial leaflet, on the 
first page of which appeared the following: 
"Lyman Stu.\rt Clarke graduated 
at the BrattlelMjro Academy, began the study 
of law under Hon. B. O. Shafter, of Wil- 
mington, Vt., afterward Chief Justice of 
California. He was admitted to I-'rankhn 
County Bar, 1848. 



"But yesterday, he whose life was a daily 
record and teacher of thoughtfulness, of wis- 
dom, of patience, of courtesy, and mirthful- 
ness, of singular tenderness, of modest be- 
neviilence and parental love, was here and 
speaking, and to-day the record is finished 
and the volume closed fore\'er. 

"For forty years he was here an earnest 
and untiring worker in the rugged and ar- 
iluous way of a profession. 

"The way he went was always upward, 
aiming- for honesty and uprightness to his 
fellowmen. 

"His strength antl mind had its human 
limit. His tender and considerate heart has 
ceased to beat, to mo\e again only with 
those of the 'just men made perfect.' 

"The widow weeps and children listen 
in \ain for his voice of affection, the court 
has paid him a lo\ing heartfelt testimonial. 

"Every man who knew him will remem- 
ber him and his new made grave utters a 
Recjuiescat and farewell."' 



Then follows "The Bar's Testimo- 
nial," u hich reads as follows : 

".\. brief session of court was held this 
morning. After the adjoiu"nment of court 
Judge Stewart called a Bar meeting. The 
committee appointed yesterday, consisting of 
Hon. C. M. Duncan, Jno. R. Orr, Hon. W". 
Rush (iillan, George Chamlicrs, and Hon. 



H. Gehr, presented through Mr. Duncan the 
following minutes : 

" 'The committee appointed by the court 
to prepare an expression of the sentiment of 
the Bar of Franklin county on the occasion 
of the ileath of Lyman S. Clarke, Esq., who 
tiled at his residence in Chambersburg on 
Saturday, March 25, 1893, respectfully sub- 
mit the following : 

" 'Lyman S. Clarke, Est|., who for forty- 
five years was engagetl as an active practi- 
tioner at our Bar, achieved the well-earnetl 
distinction of an industrious and faithful 
law'yer. As district attorney for a period of 
about four years he prosecuted the pleas of 
the State with ability and fidelity. For his 
love of the right and his hatred of the wrong, 
for the purity of his pri\-ate and the honesty 
of his public life, for the e.\aui])le he has set 
mankind as a Christian wlin has kept the 
faith, we do cherish his memory. In the 
death of Lyman S. Clarke the bar of the 
county loses one of its most respected mem- 
bers, the church one of its most active mem- 
bers, the community a Christian gentleman, 
his friends an agreeable companion, his fam- 
ily a most gentle and kind husband and fa- 
ther. To them we extend our most sincere 
s\mpathy. 

" 'Rcsoh'cd, That diis minute be entered 
upon the records of the court, a c<ipy sent to 
the family and that it be furnished the i)ress 
for publication.' 

"In moving the adoptinn of the resolu- 
tions Mr. Duncan paid a high tribute to Mr. 
Clarke, w hom he had known as a lawyer and 
as a near neighbor for years. Mr. Duncan 
said, in brief: 'He was one of the most ex- 
emplary domestic men I eser met. He wa;* 
kind and gentle to his family yet he had a 
degree of firmness and of positiveness. He 
had one of the kindest hearts that ever beat 
in any human breast and that governed and 
controlled him in all his actions. As a mem- 



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17 



ber of the Bar he stood well aiul was highly 
respected. The whole community appreci- 
ated his w orth.' 

"Mr. (iillan seconded the resolutions. 
Mr. Clarke, he said, had earned distinction 
as an honest, upright, faithful man. 'Any of 
us of whom that may he said when we come 
to die will not have li\'ed in vain." Mr. 
Clarke's life was a success. Mr. Gillan said. 
He had known him from his youth and to 
him Mr. Clarke was always the soul t>f 
kindness. 'Sometimes we do not measure 
])roperlv the opportunities men have. Mr. 
Clarke was not born into luxur\-. He came 
into this county and taught school when, 
even more than now, school teaching af- 
forded poor remuneration. He lea\es behind 
him an unsullied name. Saying tiiis we have 
said what he deserves. He will be missed in 
the church, in the community and at the Bar. 
It Ijehooves us all to at least follow in the 
virtuous footsteps he left behind him." 

"Mr. Chambers believed that it would be 
many years before Mr. Clarke will be forgot- 
ten in this community and especially will his 
memory be long treasured at the Bar. He 
was a safe and relialjle counsellor and a law- 
yer in whose integrity everyone always had 
the most implicit confidence. He was genial, 
unswerving in integrity, had the courage of 
his convictions and always stood for the 
right. It was an honor to the Bar to ha\e 
Mr. Clarke a member of it and an honor to 
the county to have him as a citizen. His 
loss will be mourned and regretted for many 
years to come. 

"Judge Stewart pronounced an eloquent 
eulogium over Mr. Clarke. Briefly reported, 
he said: 'I give my personal concurrence 
to all that has been said in praise of the mem- 
ory of Mr. Clarke. I was particularly pleased 
with the manner in which the delightful char- 
acter of Mr. Clarke was set forth. The resci- 
lutions were not lacking in praise, and that 



praise was not untrue. It has been said that 
he has not recently practiced actively at the 
I'-ar. I am led to believe that this was be- 
cause his physical vigor was not what it once 
was. When 1 came to the Bar lie was an 
active member of it. He had manv clients. 
He was a man of great public spirit. During 
his nearly fifty years at the Bar he has ob- 
served due fidelity to the court and to his 
clients. This is a higli tribute to pay to any 
man. In his walk and conversation he was 
upright. He had the esteem of all the law- 
yers and all who knew him. He was honest 
and required honesty in others. Whatever 
honored and dignified mankind he respected 
in others and cultivated in himself. We will 
miss him as a neighbor and companion. We 
bore him to his grave, commanding the re- 
spect and esteem of all who knew him and the 
love of his closest friends.' " 

Mr. Clarke was first married to Miss 
Elizabeth Aughinbaugh. of Chambersburg, 
sister of Dr. G. W. Aughinbaugh, of Mer- 
cersburg College, and of Edw. Aughin- 
baugh, of Hagerstown. Mrs. Clarke passed 
away in 1853. and on March 8, 1855, Mr. 
Clarke married Miss Catherine M. Swiler, of 
Hoguestown, Cumberland Co., Pa., daugh- 
ter of Mathias and Margaret Swiler. Mrs. 
Clarke is still a resident of Chambersburg. 
There were no children by the first union, but 
l)v the second there were four, all of whom 
survive : 

1. Mary Eliz.\beth. 

2. John C. (II). 

3. SUS.XN. 

4. CATHERINE B. 

(II) JOHN C. CLARKE was 
horn Aug. 7, 1859, in Chambersburg 
and received his education there, at- 
tending the public schools and Cham- 
bersburg Academy. .\t the age of seventeen 
he commenced his business life as bookkeeper 
for E. W. Curriden, who conducted a book 



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and stationery business in Chambersburg. 
After lie had been with him two years, Mr. 
M. A. Clendenin bought the store, and Mr. 
Clarke clerked for him two years, after wliicli 
he went to Waynesboro and learned the trade 
of machinist with the Geiser Company. Re- 
turning to Chambersburg, he entered the 
draughting department of the Taylor ^lanu- 
facturing Company of this place, remaining 
with them nearly three years. On Jan. i, 
1884, he engaged in the hardware business 
in partnership with Jacob S. Brand, with 
whom he continued for two years, at the end 
of that time buying out his partner, and he 
has since carried on the business alone. In 
March, 1902, he moved to his present loca- 
tion, on West Market street. Mr. Clarke is 
a member of the Presbyterian Church, to 
Avhich he has belonged for many years. 

Mr. Clarke was married. Jan. 17, 1898. 
to Miss Harriet W. Reid, daughter of George 
Reid, of Norfolk, Va., and they have had 
children : 

1. LvMAN Stuart. 

2. Elizabeth Gray. 

3. George Reid. 

KENNEDY FAMILY. The Ken- 
nedys of Ayrshire are the ancestors not 
only of the widespread Kennedy family of 
America, but of many Scotch-Irish Ameri- 
cans that have no suspicion that they are 
descended from this turbulent stock. The 
Irish archaeologists trace the origin of the 
Kennedy family back to Donchuan, brother 
of Brian Boru, but some of the Scotch 
genealogists are content with one Kenneth 
of whom nobody knows anything, and oth- 
ers find the beginning with Duncan de Car- 
rick, who owned a considerable estate in 
Carrick. Ayrshire, about the beginning of 
the 13th century. The first of the name 
on record are Alexander Kennedv. canon of 
Glasgow, and Huwe Kennedy. che\-alier, 



Lanarkshire, who swore fealty to King Ed- 
ward I of England. These names appear 
on the Ragman Roll for 1296. Sir Gilbert 
de Carrick obtained a charter of the lands 
of Kennedy. Sir John Kennedy, designated 
son of Sir Gilbert de Carrick in many writs., 
obtained a confirmation charter of the lands 
of Castlys from King David II. His son, 
Sir Gilbert Kennedy, was one of the host- 
ages to the English, in 1357, for the libera- 
tion of the King. 

This Sir Gilbert Kennedy was the fa- 
ther by his first marriage with Marion, 
daughter of Sir James Sandilands, of 
Calder, of Thomas Kennedy of Bargany: 
and by a second marriage, of Sir James 
Kennedy, who married Mary Stewart, a 
daughter of King Robert III. Under the 
circumstances it is scarcely surprising that 
the eldest son of this youngest son became 
the first Lord Kennedy. Sir Gilbert Ken- 
nedy, called after his grandfather. Sir Gil- 
bert the hostage, who was the first Lord 
Kennedy, was grandfather of David Ken- 
nedy, the third lord and first Earl of Cas- 
silis. The first Earl of Cassilis fell at the 
battle of Flodden in 15 13, leaving a son. 
Gilbert, by Agnes, daughter of William. 
Lord Borthwick. 

Gilbert Kennedy, second Earl of Cas- 
silis, was killed in December. 1527, while 
endeavoring to rescue King James V from 
the Earl of Arran. He married Isabel 
Campbell, daughter of the Earl of Argyll, 
and had a son, Gilbert. 

Gilbert Kennedy, third Earl of Cassilis, 
was Lord Treasurer of Scotland under King 
James V and was one of the peers sent over 
to France to assist at the marriage of Mary, 
Queen of Scots, with Francis, the Dauphin, 
afterward King Francis II. He died at 
Dieppe in 1558, while on this mission. His 
wife was Margaret, daughter of Alexander 
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garet was the second wife of John Barde, 
of Kilhenzie. Their brotlier was also Gil- 
bert Kennedy, Laird of Bargany. Tlie lat- 
ter Gilbert married Janet Stewart, "the 
Queen's Maideyne." Gilbert Kennedy, 
Earl of Cassilis, had two sons, Gilbert 
(fourth Earl) and Thomas, of Culleen, but 
Gilbert Kennedy and Janet Stewart had 
only one son, Thomas, who died without 
issue. 

Gilbert Kennedy, fourth Earl of Cas- 
silis, was one of the Pri\-y Council to Queen 
Mary. He died in 1576. He married 
Margaret Lyon, daughter of John, ninth 
Lord Glamis, and had two sons, John (fifth 
Earl) and Gilbert, Laird of Drumurchie. 
After his death his widow married James, 
the first Marquis Hamilton. 

John Kennedy, fifth Earl of Cassilis, 
was, like his grandfather. Lord Treasurer, 
but he died in 1616, without issue. He w-as 
succeeded by his nephew, John Kennedy, 
son of the Laird of Drumurchie. This was 
the Earl of Cassilis concerned in the feud 
with the Laird of Bargany, occasioned by 
the young Laird of Kilhenzie's treatment of 
his stepmother, to whom his father had 
"left sum wittuel, quhilk the young Laird of 
Keilzeny had tane fra hir perforce." She 
complained to her lirother, the Laird of 
Bargany, and he sent his son and ten or 
twelve horse and "brak the zett, and tuik 
alfe meikill wittuell with thame. as was 
reft fra hir and her feruand." As the Laird 
of Keilzeny (Kilhenzie) was a depender 
of the Earl of Cassilis, "my Lord thoct 
the samin done to him." He determined 
upon a reprisal and entrusted the job to John 
Kennedy, of Carlok. The plots and coun- 
terplots that resulted from this trifling reft 
of "wittuell" from the old Laird of Kil- 
henzie's second wife would have furnished 
Sir Walter Scott with material for a novel 
as striking as any of his picturesque workTs 



of fiction. It was first proposed to abduct 
the young Laird of Bargany and his brother, 
on the assumption that the old Laird would 
die for sorrow, because he would have 
"none to succeed to him hot Benand, quha 
is one deboishit man." The Laird of Col- 
zene (Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culleen) 
objected to this, "for being one sistersone 
of the house, was owr neir cumit theirof to 
craifl^ their lihiid." But the feud could not 
be stopped. There was a plot to murder 
the tutor of Cassilis, and a plot to murder 
the Laird of Colziane (Kilhenzie), and it 
was only after much violence and blood- 
shed that the Earl of Cassilis and the Laird 
of Bargany were reconciled through the 
interposition of the king. With the excep- 
tion of Oliver Barde, whose act brought 
about the conflict, the parties to the feud 
were all Kennedys, descendants of Sir Gil- 
bert Kennedy of Cassilis by his two mar- 
riages. The Laird of Bargany, whose sis- 
ter was despoiled of her goods by the Laird 
of Kilhenzie, was descended from Sir Gil- 
bert Kennedy and Marion Sandilands, while 
the Cassilis Kennedys, who acknowledged 
the same paternity, sprang from the daugh- 
ter of a king. It was natural under the cir- 
cumstances that the elder branch, who were 
onlv lairds, should hate with Scottish in- 
tensity the younger branch, who were lords. 
John Kennedy, sixth Earl of Cassilis, 
never did anything mnre important than to 
marry well and have children who also mar- 
ried well. He was twice married. His 
first wife was Jane Hamilton, daughter of 
Thomas, the first Lord Haddington. She 
left him two daughters : Catharine, who 
married William, Lord Cochran, son of the 
Earl of Dundonald ; and Margaret, who be- 
came the wife of Dr. Gilbert Burnet, Bishop 
of Salisbury and the celebrated historian of 
his ow-n time. The Earl married secondly 
Margaret, widow of Henry, Lord Kerr, and 



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daughter of William Hay, Earl of Errol. 
By her he had John, his successor : and a 
daughter, Alary. 

The Earl's hrother. Col. Gilbert Ken- 
nedy, who was with Cromwell at the liattle 
of Marston Moor, was in Ireland with the 
Scotch troops in 1645, when he was cmly 
a captain, and was very active in helping to 
supply the Scotch Presbyterians in Ireland 
with ministers. His son. the Rev. .\nthony 
Kennedy, was ordained minister at Temple- 
patrick, Oct. 30, 1646, where he remained 
until his death, Dec. 11, 1697. in the eighty- 
third year of his age. Col. Gilbert Kennedy 
had two other sons Thomas and Gilbert, 
who were Presbyterian ministers in Ireland. 
The Rev. Thomas Kennedy died Jan. 20, 
1716, leaving four sons, Thomas and John, 
who were Presbyterian ministers in Ire- 
land, and Robert and \Viiliam, who emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania. The Rev. Thomas 
Kennedy was moderator of the General 
Synod of Ulster, in 1696. Thomas Ken- 
nedy, Jr., was ordained by the Presbytery 
of Tyrone, Sept. 9, 1700, and John Kennedy 
at Benburb, July 13. 17 14. The Rev. Gil- 
bert Kennedy, the younger brother of 
Thomas, was ordained at Girvan. Ayrshire, 
in 1 65 1 . Later he was settled at Dun Don- 
ald, near Belfast, where he died, Feb. 6, 
1688. His son Gilbert was ordained min- 
ister of Tullylish in 1704, and had also a 
daughter Catherine, who married. May 1 5, 
1702, the Rev. William Tennent, the 
founder of the celebrated "Log College" at 
Neshaminy. 

DESCENDANTS 

OF 

WILLIAM KENNEDY. 

(I) WILLIAM KENNEDY (born in 
the North of Ireland in 1695 — died in 
Bucks county. Pa., in 1777 or 1778), son 



of the Rev. Thomas Kennedy, emigrated 
to Penns}l\ania. with his elder bn^ther 
Robert, in 1730, and settled in Bucks county. 
He married in Irehind, Mary (or Marian) 
Henderson, and the\- had issue: 

1. Thomas. 

2. James (II)- 

3. Robert (born March 28, 1733 — 
died April 13, 1812) married in 1764 Eliza- 
Ijeth Heanrie. They had issue : John ; 
Mary Ann, who married John R. Reading; 
Jane, who married Daniel Reading; Han- 
nah; Enoch; Elizabeth, who married James 
Matlack ; Keturah Cook, who married James 
Matlack ; Robert Heanrie ; and Esther 
Heanrie. who married John Killie. 

4. John died unmarried. 

5. Lucy. 

6. Mary (died July 29. 1817) mar- 
ried Col. Arthur Erwin, who was assassin- 
ated July 9, 1 791. He was a soldier of 
the Revolution and became an extensive 
landowner. They had issue : Samuel ; 
Frank: Artliur; John; Rebecca, who mar- 
ried Dr. McKeen; and Mary, who married 
Dr. John Cooper. 

7. Rebecca Jane died unmarried. 
(II) JAMES KENNEDY (born in 

Bucks county, in 1730 — died Oct. 2, 1799), 
son cif William and Mary (Henderson) 
Kennedy, was a farmer. Late in life he 
lived at the Gap, Lancaster county, where 
he owned 480 acres of land, purcliased in 
1788. He married, in 1761, Jane Maxwell 
(born 1 742 — died Sept. 7, 1784), daugh- 
ter of John Ma.xwell, of New Jersey, and 
sister of Gen. William Maxwell of the Revo- 
lution. James and Jane (Maxwell) Ken- 
nedy had issue : 

I. .Ann (born 1762) married Phineas 
Barber, and they had issue : James ; Mary, 
who married William Marr : Lillie: John; 
Jane, w ho married Robert McCurley ; 
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Henderson; William; Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried Robert Moorhead ; Daniel M. ; Sallie, 
who married (first) John McCollum. (sec- 
ond) Peter W'eigle; regg)-. who married 
William H. Sulli\'an; Jesse; and Robert. 

2. Thomas (born, 1764 — died, 1847) 
married iVIarg;aret Stewart, and they had 
issue : James ; Sarah, who married John 
Kerr; Jane, who married Alexander Innes ; 
Margaret, who married Adam D. Runkle ; 
Ann; Elizabeth, who married George Bar- 
ber; Robert S. ; and Mary. 

3. W'lLLI.\M (HI). 

4. John (born 1768) married Eliza- 
beth Linn, and they had issue : Jane Max- 
well, who married Michael Christian; 
James ; Thmomas ; Katharine ; John ; Mar- 
garet ; and Robert. 

5. Lucv, born 1770, died young". 

6. Jane (born 1772) married April, 
1791, Samuel Kenned\-, and they had issue: 
Robert Montgomery; Jane Maxwell, who 
married David B. King; Nancy, who mar- 
ried Samuel King; Mary Barber, who mar- 
ried William King; Thomas; William B. ; 
James ; Maxwell ; Tabitha, who married 
Samuel Kennedy ; Elizabeth, who married 
Montgomery Anderson ; and Ann, who mar- 
ried Morris J. Iddings. 

7. Elizabeth (IV). 

8. James (born 1776) married Eliza- 
beth Maxwell, and they had issue: Jane; 
William S. ; and Anna Maria, who married 
George S. Green. 

9. Robert (V). 

10. Mary (born 1780) married John 
Logan, and they had issue ; Jane, who mar- 
ried James Kennedy Moorhead; Eliza; 
James K. ; John T. ; and Mary K., who mar- 
ried William H. Boyd. 

11. Maxwell (born 1782, died 1844) 
married Margaret Maxwell, and they had 
issue: Elinor; Robert T. : Winfield Scott; 



Sylvester; William Maxwell; and Jane, 
who married Andrew Bj'ers. 

(Ill) W'lLLiA.M Kkxxkdv (born in 
1766 — died at East(jn, Jan. 29, 1851 ), .son 
of James and Jane (Maxwell) Kennedy, 
served in the Revolution on the staff of his 
uncle. Gen. William Maxwell, of New Jer- 
sey. He represented the counties of Susse.v 
and Warren in the New Jersey Legislature, 
and was Speaker of the Assembly, and after- 
ward served as a Judge of the County 
Courts. For many years he was an elder of 
the Presbyterian Church at Greenwich, N. J. 
He married Sarah Stewart, and the_\- had 
issue : 

1. Robert Stewart died young. 

2. Jane, born May 5, 1791, married 
Joseph Kerr. No issue. 

3. James J. (VI). 

4. William Maxwell (born Sept. 23, 
1795 — died Sept. 25, 1839) married Feb. 
17, 1825, Maria Kerr, and had issue: Jane 
and Sarah. 

5. Stewart (VII). 



6. Thomas (bom Oct. 



1800 — died 



Oct. 4, 1827) married Jane Gorilla (ireen. 
He was a Presbyterian minister. 

7. Phineas P>. (born Oct. 28, 1802) 
married Priscilla Kerr, and they had issue: 
Sarah Jane, who married Henry Reeves; 
William : Alfred ; Francis ; Emma, who mar- 
ried Edwin F. Brewster ; Edward Thomas ; 
Elizabeth Wilson ; Mary Belle, who married 
John F. Kennedy: John Carr; and P. B. 
Maxwell. 

8. Sallie (born Oct. 21, 1804 — died 
June 26, 1843) niarried George S. Green. 
and thev had issue: William Henry; Sarah 
Elizabeth, who married Rev. John Thomas 
Duffiekl. D. D. ; Anna Gorilla, who married 
(first) Edward D. Yeoiuans. (second) Mir- 
cot S. Morgan ; and Edward T. 

(IV) Elizabeth Kennedy (Inirn 



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1774 — died July 24, 1847), daughter of 
James and Jane (Maxwell) Kennedy, mar- 
ried (first) John Young, and they had issue: 

1. Jane married Jacob Bare. 

2. Eleanor died unmarried. 

3. Maria, I born Jan. i, 1801 — died in 
1826) married in 181 7, William Cowhick, 
and they had issue: Anna Elizabeth, who 
married (first) Pierson Bates, (second) 
Thomas Jefferson Phillis. (third) Samuel 
New ; Ellen ; Joseph Benson ; John Young ; 
and Maria. 

Mrs. Young married (second) William 
Moorhead, and they had issue : 

1. Eliza (born March 15, 1803 — died 
Aug. 29, 1858) married Jan. 24, 1826. Will- 
iam Montgomery. They had issue : Charles 
M. : William M. ; Emily R., who married S. 
L. Russel ; James B. ; Julia E. : and Sarah 
E., who married Dr. T. S. Minor. 

2. Ann, born Oct 24, 1804, died Feb. 
24, 1808. 

3. James Kennedy (VIII). 

4. William G.^rroway (born July 7, 
181 1 ) married Dec. g, 1833, Sarah Cook. 
They had issue: Catherine; William Elew- 
theros : and Ysidora Beatrice, who married 
Henry Henly Dodge. 

5. Joel Barlow (born April 13, 
1813) married Feb. 7, 1837, Elizabeth 
Hirons. They had i.ssue: Clinrles Hirons; 
Ada Elizabeth, who married George Clif- 
ford : Thomas ; Clara Alice, who married 
Jay Cooke, Jr. : and Caroline Frances, who 
married Joseph Earlston Thropp. 

6. Adeline died unmarried Mav 2, 
1877. 

7. Henry Clay, born March 10. 1815, 
died unmarried April 15, 1861. 

(V) ROBERT KENNEDY (born 
in Lancaster county, July 4. 1778 — died Oct. 
31, 1843), son of James and Jane (Max- 
well) Kennedy, wa.s educated under the Rev. 



Nathan Grier, of Brandywine Manor, and 
was graduated at Dickinson College, Car- 
lisle, in 1797. He was licensed to preach at 
Upper Octoraro, Aug. 20, 1799, and was or- 
dained pastor of the Greencastle and Welsh 
Run Presbyterian churches, Aug. 13. 1803. 
In 1816, he removed to Cumberland, Md., 
but returned to Welsh Run in 1823, where 
he remained until his death. He was a man 
of vigorous intellect and a fine scholar, 
especially in the classics. He married 
(first) Feb. 17, 1801, Jane Herron (born at 
Herron's Branch, in 1777 — died May 31, 
1803), daughter of John and Mary (Jack) 
Herron. She was a sister of the Rev. Dr. 
F^rancis Herron, the eminent Presbyterian 
divine. They had issue: 

1. John Herron (IX). 

2. Robert, born May 11. 1803, died 
Oct. I, 1804. 

Mr. Kennedy married (second) June 5, 
1806, Mary Davidson (born Aug. 16, 1785 
— died March 14, 1845), daughter of Elias 
and Agnes (McDowell) Davidson. Her 
mother was a daughter of John McDowell, 
of McDowell's Mill. Rev. Robert and 
Mary Kennedy had issue : 

1. Nancy Davidson (born April 13, 
1807 — died July 16, 1842) married April 
23, 1824, David Flunt, and they had issue: 
Robert Thomas, John DavidsoiL and Luther 
Martin. 

2. James Maxwell (born Feb. 24, 
1809 — died March 9. 1848) married Nov. 
23, 1836, Sabilla Stone Morris, daughter of 
Evan Morris, of Chester county. They had 
issue: Herbert Morris. Amelia Theresa and 
James Maxwell. 

3. Eliza J. Herron, born Feb. 5, 
181 1, died March 27, 1816. 

4. Mary Ann (born Feb. 4. 1813 — 
died Jan. 23, 1863) married March 5, 1840, 
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Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth, Emma Bell, 
William Thomas, Sibilla J. K., Edward, 
Henry Lewis and Ella. 

5. Eli AS Davidson, born May 30, 
181 5, died June 20, 1816. 

6. Elizabeth Jane (born June 15, 
1817 — died Sept. 26, 1851) married July 20, 
1847, Enoch Bowen. 

7. Elias Davidson (born Dec. 27, 
18 19) married April 20, 1854. Agnes Shields 
Clarke, daughter of Thomas Shields and 
Eliza (Thaw) Clarke. They had issue: 
Alice, Davidson, Clarke. Charles Clarke, 
Eliza Clarke, Albert Edward and Howard. 

8. Robert Theophilus, bom Jan. 17, 
1822, died Aug. 8, 1822. 

9. William Thomas, born June 18, 
1825, died Dec. 8, 1855. 

10. Henry Martyn, born Aug. 5, 
1828, died Oct. 26, 1846. 

(VI) JAMES J. KENNEDY (born in 
Warren county, N. J., July 14, 1793 — died 
Nov. 9, 1863), son of William and Sarah 
(Stewart) Kennedy, was a farmer in his 
native county until 1839 when he removed to 
Franklin county, purchasing the Dunlop 
farm on the Conococheague. below Cham- 
bersburg, which is now the property of his 
son. Col. Thomas B. Kennedy. It was 
found soon after his removal that his agri- 
cultural methods were more advanced than 
those of the neighboring' farmers. He cut 
his wheat earlier than was the custom in 
this section. At first he was criticized for 
this apparent haste, but it was not many 
years until his neighbors learned that wheat 
weighed heavier and made more and lietter 
flour when cut early. He \\as a Democrat 
and an ardent politician, and he made friends 
with such facility that he was made an Asso- 
ciate Judge in 1842, although he was then 
resident in the county only three years. Tn 
1847 ^16 was the Democratic candidate for 
the State Senate. At the outbreak of the 



Civil war he espoused the cause of the Union 
with the decisiveness and energy that were 
parts of his character. He was a man of 
medium height, with a strong and rug,ged 
frame. In manner he was cordial, and he 
always had a friendly greeting for his ac- 
quaintances. He was a frequent visitor in 
Chambersburg until his death, coming into 
town with no other assistance than that nf 
the stout stick that he always carried. One 
who knew him well said that he was a man 
after his own pattern, and that the pattern 
was unusually good. Judge Kennedy mar- 
ried Jan. 28, 1819. Margaret Cowell (born 
April 25, 1799 — died Feb. 3, 1866). They 
had issue : 

1. William S., born Aug. 20, 1820, 
died Aug. 22, 1842. 

2. Ellen H. (born Aug. 11, 1822) 
married May 14, 1844, Edmund Culbertson 
(born Jan. 12. 181 2 — died March 4, 1883), 
son of Dr. Samuel D. and Nancy (Pur- 
viance) Culbertson. At the time of his 
death he was president of the National Bank 
of Chambersburg. They had issue: Lucy, 
Emma S., Samuel D., Nancy Purviance, and 
James Kennedy (died April 23, 1896). 

3. Joseph C. (born May 15, 1825 — 
died Oct. 27, 1902) married April 6, 1862, 
Margaret Catharine Smith (born March 21. 
1830 — died July 23. 1885), daughter of 
Henry Smith, of Chambersburg. They had 
issue: Thomas, Margaret, Henry Smith, 
Emma, Elizabeth, Ariana Ellen, Jane Pa- 
tience and Mary. 

4. Thomas B. (X). 

5. Emmeline (born June 11. 1829) 
married Oct. 5, 1847, William L. Chambers 
(born Jan. 13. 1823 — died April 26, 1889), 
son of Jud.ge George and Alice A. (Lyon) 
Chambers. They had issue : Alice Arm- 
strong, Margaret Kennedy, Ellen and Carrie. 

6. Maxwell (born Nov. 16, 1831 — 
died March 10, 1885), a physician at June- 



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tion City, Kans., married, Dec. 13, 1S59, 
Martlia Orr, daughter of Col. James 1'. Orr. 
Tliey had issue ; James, Thomas, John, 
Frank. Hettie and Margaret. 

7. James (born Xov. 8, 1S34) married 
Emma Gray. They have had issue : Oay, 
Guy, Wilham and Mary Emma (deceased). 

8. Marg.\ret, horn June 12. 183S, 
died in infancy. 

9. John Logan (born Nov. 8, 1840), 
lives in California. He married November, 
1881, Henrietta Wright, ant! they had issue: 
Carrie. 

(VH) STEWART KENNEDY (l)orn 
Sept. 17, 1798 — died March i. 1852), son of 
William and Sarah ( Stewart ) Kenned}-, 
was a physician and practiced his profession 
at Chambersburg. He married May 
3. 1 82 1. Ann Ferguson, and they had 
issue : 

1. Sarah (born Feb. 11, 1822 — died 
Aug. 25, 1853) married April 9, 1850. 
James Craig McLanahan (born Sept. 12, 
1816 — died in 1893), son of Samuel and 
Margaret (Allison) McLanahan, of Antrim 
township. They had issue: Stewart Ken- 
nedy, who died young; and Samuel, a Pres- 
byterian minister, living at Lawrence\ille, 
New Jersey. 

2. James Ferguson (born Sept. 27, 
1824 — died Sept. 6, 1901) was graduated at 
Lafayette College, Fasten, in 1839, and at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, in 1843. 
He was ordained by the Presbyterv of Lu- 
zerne, Dec. 12, 1848, as pastor at Berwick. 
He was principal of the Chamberslnirg 
Academy. 1851-55, and pastor of the Dick- 
inson Church, 1855-59. He lost the sight 
of an eye in 1856, and became totally blind 
in 1857. Notwithstanding his affliction he 
was a hard student and an authority on Bibli- 
cal interpretation. Dr. Kennedy married 
July 6, 1852, Louisa Weiss McKinley, 
slaughter of Rev. Daniel and Mary (Wjeth) 



McKinley. They had issue: Drniiel McKin- 
ley and James Stewart. 

3. ^Matilda (born Oct. 1. 1827) mar- 
ried May 17, 1855, Edward A. Lesley. They 
had issue: James, X'ellie. May. Florence, 
Carroll, Edward and Edith Stewart. 

4. El.\iir.\. born March 30, 1830, died 
April I. 1 84 1. 

5. Stewart (born Se])t. 13. 1833). 
was a surgeon. L'. S. N.. and died unmar- 
ried March 8, 1864. 

C). William (born Sept. 22, 1838; 

died ), was a lawyer and journalist. 

He married (first) Ellen Culbertson, and 
(second) Mary Hanch. Bv his second mar- 
riage he had issue: Stewart, William and 
Helen. 

(\1I1) JAMES KENNEDY MOOR- 
HEAD (born in Dauphin county, Sept. 7. 
1806 — died March 6. 1884). son of 'William 
and Elizabeth Kennedy (Young) Moorhead, 
was a contractor on the Pennsylvania Canal, 
1827-38, when he became interested in the 
Pioneer Packet Line between Philadelphia 
and P'ittsl)urgh. In 1839, he was appointed 
l)ostmaster of Pittsburgh. He was exten- 
sively engaged in business in that citv for 
many years, and amassed a large fortune. 
He was a representative in Congress, 1859- 
69. Mr. Moorhead married Dec. 17, 1829, 
Jane Logan, of Lancaster county, and they 
had issue : 

1. Maxwell (born Sept. 5, 1831) 
married April 24, 1855. Mary Heljerton. 
and they had issue: Lizzie H. and Jennie 
Logan. 

2. John Logan, born Feb. 4, 1833, 
died Jan. 29, 1835. 

3. Caroline Louisa, born July 26, 
1834, died Sept. 4, 1834. 

4. Mary Elizabeth, horn July 19. 
1836. 

3. Henrietta Louisa, born .\ug. 7, 
1838. 




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C). William Jefferson (born Felj. 17, 
1840) married Jan. 5. 1864. Emily B. 
Blaci<. and the\- had issue: Lizzie Butler. 
James Kenned}'. Samuel W. Black. Helen 
and Maxwell K. 

7. James Hknrv, hnni Jan. jo, 184J, 



died [''eb. 



1849. 



8. Jane Adeline (born .\ug. 18. 
1844) married Oct. 24. 1867, James B. 
Murdock. a physician. Thev had issue: 
James K. Moorhead. John. Florence and 
William Moorhead. 

(IX) JOHN HERRON KENNEDY 
(born at Herron"s Branch Nov. 11. 1801 — 
died Dec. 13. 1840). son of Rev. Robert 
and Jane ( Herron ) Kennedy, was gradu- 
ated at Jefferson College. Canonsburg, in 
1820 and at the Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary, in 1823. He was licensed to preach 
in October. 1822. and was ordained pastor 
of the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Phila- 
delphia in Ncnember 1825. In 1830 he be- 
came professor of mathematics in Jeffer.son 
College, and took charge of the Centre con- 
gregation near Canonsburg. He afterward 
accepted the chair of Natural Philosophy 
and Chemistry, which he retained until his 
death. Prof. Kennedy married Feb. 15, 
1827. Harriet McCalmont, and they had 
issue : 

1. Ann Kittera, born Nov. 16, 1828. 

2. Robert Peebles ( born Feb. 3, 
1831 ) is a Presbyterian minister at Red 
Clay Creek. 

3. George McC.\l.\iont, born June Ci, 
1833, died unmarried. 1856. 

4. James Maxwell (born Jan. 5. 
1836 — died unmarried, Sept. 20. 1871 ). was 
a law\er in California. 

3. Francis Herron (l)orn l-'cb. 3. 
1829 — died June 20. 1871). was a lawyer in 
California. 

(X) THOMAS B. KENNEDY (born 
in Warren county. N. J.. .\ug. i. 1827). 



son of James J. and Margaret (Cowell) 
Kennedy, came to Franklin county with his 
parents in 1839 and received his academic 
education at the Chambersbnrg .\cadcniy. 
He entered the Sophomore class of Marshall 
College, Mercersburg. at the age of fourteen 
and was graduated with honors in 1844. 
When the Mexican war broke out under 
President Polk he was an earnest applicant 
for a lieutenancy in the i.st Pennsylvania 
Regiment, but the apjjointment went to 
Charles T. Campbell, a heroic soldier, who 
rose to the rank of brigadier-general in the 
Ci\il War. He studied law with Judge 
.\le.vander Thom.son, and was admitted to 
the Franklin County Bar, April 11. 1848. 
The next year he crossed the Plains as the 
leader of a party bound for California, where 
he engaged in mining for gold and .at the 
same time entered upon the practice of his 
profession at Downieville. In 1831 he re- 
turned to Chamber.sburg. where he soon ob- 
tained a lucrati\e practice, and was elected 
District Attorney in 1834. After his mar- 
riage he spent six montlis traveling in 
Europe. L"|)on his I'etnrn he entered into 
])artnership with the Hon. James Nill, one 
of the leading members of the I'Vanklhi 
County Bar at that time. The firm of Nill 
& Kennedy had ;i very extensive practice, 
and continued until Mr. Nill was elected 
President Judge of the district in 1861. 
After Judge Nill was elevated to the Bench 
Mr. Kennedy retained the extensive business 
of the firm, first in partnership with T. Jef- 
ferson Nil!, the firm name being changed to 
Kennedy & Nill. and later with John Stew- 
art, now President Judge of the district, as 
Kennedy & Stewart. His |)(jsition at the 
Bar may be judged from the large number 
of Supreme Court ca.ses in which his name 
appears, many of them leading cases and 
authorities on the points decided. Besides 
his law practice be had large private inter- 



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BIOGRAPHIC.\L ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



ests and was connected with the Cumberland 
Valley Railroad as stockholder, director and 
•counsel. When Judge Watts, the president 
of the company, resigned, in 1872, to become 
commissioner of Agriculture under Presi- 
dent Grant, Mr. Kennedy was elected his 
successor as president of the Cumberland 
Valley Railroad. His familiarity with the 
business of the company, his capacity as a 
man of affairs, and his accurate knowledge 
of the country and its needs, had early indi- 
<;ated him as the proper person to become 
Judge Watts' successor. Under his man- 
agement the road had been developed and 
improved to a remarkable extent. When he 
assumed the presidency it was only a local 
enterprise and a feeder of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. Through his foresight and enter- 
prise the main line of the Cumberland Valley 
road was extended to Winchester, Va., and 
the two branches — the South Penn Railroad, 
and the Mont Alto Railroad (now the Cum- 
berland Valley & W^aynesboro Railroad) 
were built in the early years of his adminis- 
tration. The result of his careful but pro- 
gressive methods had been to afford the 
people of the Cumberland and Shenandoah 
Valleys a service that is not surpassed by 
that of any railroad in the United States. In- 
deed, it can be claimed for it that the facili- 
ties for travel are better than those afforded 
by the great trunk lines of an equal distance 
from the leading cities. This in itself is a 
great achievement, and the freight traffic 
has also grown enormously. Both for pass- 
engers and freight the road is the most im- 
portant of its kind in the United States, and 
it will continue to grow in importance from 
the initiative that President Kennedy gave it, 
both in the earlier and later years of his man- 
agement. He is still active in the develop- 
ment of its facilities and in promoting the 
-increase in its business and its carrying ca- 



pacity. Energetic in action, sound in judg- 
ment, wise in counsel, fair in dealing, and 
gentle and sympathetic in demeanor, Mr. 
Kennedy moved to the front as a leader, as 
by natural right. Perhaps one of the great- 
est secrets of his success in managing the 
affairs of the Cumberland Valley Railroad 
was his relations with his fellow employes. 
He has always taken the deepest interest 
in the welfare of those in the company's em- 
ploy, and has kept himself in personal touch 
with them, knows them by name, sympa- 
thizes with them in their sorrows, rejoices 
with them in their prosperity, patiently hears 
their real or fancied grievances, and in a 
gentle manner sets them right, or rights 
their wrongs. The result of this attitude has 
been to surround him with a corps of intelli- 
gent and loyal co-workers that are a credit 
to him and the Company. His personal 
magnetism, his devotion to his friends, his 
quiet dignity, and the conscientious manner 
in which he has conducted the affairs of the 
Company he has so well served, are features 
of his life that have impressed all who have 
come in contact with him. He has also been 
prominently identified with every movement 
for the advancement of the Valley, and has 
always liberally aided in local enterprises 
tending to promote the welfare of the com- 
munity. For many years he has served as 
one of the trustees of the Chambersburg 
Academy. He was one of the originators 
and founders of Wilson College, and has 
been a member of its board of management 
since its foundation. 

Mr. Kennedy married April 22, 1856, 
Ariana Stuart Riddle, (born Oct. 4, 1836), 
daughter of John Stuart and Mary (Bemus) 
Riddle. They have issue : 

1. John Stuart (XI). 

2. M.\RY Margaret married Rev. 
Alexander R. Stevenson (XII). 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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3. MOORHEAD COWELL (XIII). 

4. James Riddle, born Oct. 26, 1863. 
died Jan. i. 1871. 

5. Thomas Benjamin (XIV). 

6. Ariana Rebecca married Irvin C. 
Elder (XV). 

[Since the above was written we liave 
received notice of Mr. Kennedy's death, on 
June 19, 1905. — Ed.] 

(XI) JOHN STUART KENNEDY 
(torn June 21, 1858), son of Thomas B. 
and Ariana S. ( Riddle) Kennedy, was edu- 
■cated at the Chambersburg Acatlemy, and 
afterward graduated from the Scientific De- 
partment of Andover (Mass.) Academy in 
the class of 1877. He later studied Mining 
Engineering. Cliemistry and Metallurgy' for 
several years at the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute at Troy, N. Y.. and for one year 
at the school of Mines, Columbia College, 
New York City. Since 1880 he has been en- 
gaged in the iron business, and for the last 
five years has been the general manager of 
the Musconetcong Iron Works at Stanhope. 
N. J. In April, 1902, he organized the Citi- 
zens National Bank of Netcong. X^. J., of 
which he is the president. Mr. Kennedy 
married Jan. 17. 1888, Lucy Harrison Tay- 
lor, daughter of Dr. R. Kidder Taylor, of 
Lynchburg, Va., and Lavinia (Harrison) 
Taylor, of Brandon, Virginia. 

(XII) MARY MARGARET KEN- 
NEDY (born Dec. 3. 1859). daughter of 
Thomas B. and Ariana S. (Riddle) Ken- 
nedy, married April 11, 1882, Alexander 
Russell Stevenson (born Dec. 29, 1856), 
son of John M. and [Margaretta E. (Paxton) 
Stevenson. He is descended from Joseph 
Stevenson, an early settler in Letterkenny 
township and a member of Rocky Spring 
Presbyterian Church. Joseph Stevenson, 
the pioneer, had two sons, John and Robert, 
and two daughters, Mary (who married 



Stephen Caldwell) and Rebecca (who mar- 
ried James Scott). John Stevenson re- 
moved to Westmoreland county and Robert 
died before his father. Mr. Stevenson's 
great-grandfather, Joseph Stevenson, was a 
son of Robert. He removed to the West 
in 1803. He had two sons, George and John 
Mitchell. His sister Elizabeth married 
Zachrias Sprigg. John Mitchell Stevenson 
married Nancy Russell, a daughter of Alex- 
ander and Mary (McPherson) Russell, of 
Bedford. Mrs. Stevenson was a niece of 
Judge Riddle, her mother being a daughter, 
of Col. Robert McPherson, of York. John 
McPherson Stevenson, son of John Mitchell 
and Nancy (Russell) Stevenson, married 
Margaretta E., daughter of James D. and 
Jane M. (Miller) Paxton, and they had 
issue: William Paxton (born Feb. 24, 1855) 
and Alexander Russell (born Dec. 29, 
1856). The elder son was named after his 
maternal grandfather, the Rev. William 
Paxton, D. D., for half a century pastor of 
the Lower Marsh Creek Presbyterian 
Church, and the younger, who is a Presby- 
terian minister, for his great-grandfather, 
Alexander Russell, who was lieutenant of 
Capt. Alexander's company in the Seventh 
Regiment. Pennsylvania Line. Rev. Alex- 
ander Russell Stevenson was graduated at 
Princeton College in 1876, and at Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1880. He was or- 
dained by the Presbytery of Lehigh, and was 
pastor of the Brainerd Presbyterian Church, 
Easton, Pa., 1880-88, and of the First Pres- 
bvterian Church, Schenectady, since 1888. 
Rev. A. Russell and Mary M. (Kennedy) 
Stevenson have issue : 

1. Thomas Kennedy, born Nov. 10, 
1883. 

2. Caroline Paxton, lx)rn March 5, 
1888, died Nov. 28, 1895. 

3. Alexander Russell, born May 
28, 1893. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



4. Stuart Riddle, torn Nov. 14. 
1896. 

(XIII) MOORHEAD COWELL 
KENNEDY (born March 10. 1862). son 
of Thomas B. and Ariana S. (Riddle) Ken- 
nedy, was educated at the Chamlserslnirg 
Academy, and was graduated from the 
Scientific Department of Andover (Mass.) 
Academy, in 1880. He tlien entered tlie 
John C. Green School of Science of Prince- 
ton University, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1884, with tlie degree of Civil En- 
gineer. While at school and college he took 
an active part in athletic sports, and in his 
Senior year at Princeton gained a position 
on the University football team. This love 
for sport and outdoor life led him. upon 
graduation from college, to the plains of 
Wyoming, where he purchased a ranch and 
engaged in the cattle business in those stir- 
ring times between 1884 and 1887. From 
there he moved to Junction City, Kans., 
where he organized and conducted a private 
bank under the firm name of Kennedy & 
Kennedy until 1889, when he returned to 
Chambersburg to resume his chosen profes- 
sion and entered the service of the Cumber- 
land Valley Railroad, as assistant to the 
President. While only a boy in years, his 
inclination in this direction was manifested 
by his spending a summer's vacation as fire- 
man on one of the old wood burning pass- 
enger locomotives named "Col. Lull," then 
in use on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, 
while other of his vacations were spent in 
the fields on Engineering Corps. In his 
course of studies he was specially attracted 
to those subjects that were related to rail- 
road matters. The same interests that so 
early engaged his thoughts distinguish him 
now. In 1892 he was elected to his present 
position of Vice-President of the company, 
and in 1903, when the vast increase of the 



Inisiness of the road required a reorganiza- 
tion of the official staff, the duties of General 
Superintendent were added to those that he 
then filled as Vice-President. These duties 
are very exacting, but both l)y natural apti- 
tude and educational training he is specially 
fitted for the work in which his interest cen- 
ters, and his chief pride is in maintaining 
and advancing the standard of the road 
widi which he is connected. He enjoys in a 
marked degree the confidence of the public 
and the respect of his associates, and was 
one of the founders and is now vice-presi- 
dent of the Valley National Bank of Cham- 
bersburg, Pa. He lives during the summer 
at his country home. "Ragged Edge," along 
the upper Conococheague Creek, on the line 
of the Waynesboro branch of the Cumber- 
land Valley Railroad. 

Mr. Kennedy married, June 25, 1891,. 
Margaret Odbert Coyle (born Sept. 14. 
1862), daughter of James Huston and Su- 
san (McCurdy) Coyle, of Philadelphia. 
They have issue: 

1. Thomas B. (Ill), born Sept. 13^ 
1892. 

2. J.\MES Coyle, born Nov. 30, 1893. 

3. Margaret Riddle, born July 21, 
1896. 

4. Moorhead Covvell, Jr., born Jan. 
18, 1901. 

(XIV) THOMAS BENJAMIN KEN- 
NEDY (born Oct. 22. 1870). son of 
Thomas B. and Ariana S. (Riddle) Ken- 
nedy, was educated at the Chambersburg 
Academy, and afterward studied a year at 
Lafayette College and two years at Prince- 
ton. After leaving college he went West, 
l)ut returned to Chambersburg and entered 
the service of the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
road, and now occupies the position of 
Supervisor of the Cumberland \'alley Rail- 
road. He married, April 4, 1895, Annie 



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65 



(II) ROBERT SHARP (born in Ire- 
land) emigrated to Pennsylvania with his 
parents, and settled in the Cuniljcrland \'al- 
ley. During the Revolution, he was a wag- 
oner in the Continental arm_\- with his 
brother. Alexander. He married jane 
Boyd, and had issue: 

1. Elizabeth married. Oct. 10. 179,2, 
John Smith, of Franklin count)-, and iiad 
issue: George Caskey, died young; Robert 
Young married and had William R.. and 
John X.; Sidney Arthur; Thomas; George 
Nelson married Jane Matthews, and had 
Elizabeth, Maria, Mary, Arabella and Boyd ; 
Margaret; Jane; Mary; Arabella married 
Montgomery Donaldson, and had Robert ; 
Elizabeth married J. D. Hemminger: Nel- 
son S. ; and Maria. 

2. Thomas. 

3. James married (first) Elizabeth 
Orr, and had issue : two daughters : Leti- 
tia, who married John Dougherty, and had 
Elizabeth (who married Wallace Cialla- 
gher), Mary E., Bell L. (who married 
Milton Duncan) and W. M. : and Mar- 
garet, who married (first) David Ralston, 
and had Elizabeth ( w ho married A. W. 
Taylor), James S.. Nancy (who married 
Mr. Carter) and Thomas E.. and she mar- 
ried (second) James Mitchell. Mr. Sharpe 
married (second) Nancy Huston, and had 
Robert, who married Margaret Hender- 
son, and had B. H. (who married Arabella 
B. Hoobler) and R. M. (wh<i married 
Sarah Letitia Hoobler). 

4. David married Isabella Orr, and 
had issue : Robert and John. 

5. John (born 1773 — died July 12, 
1863) married Dec. 13, 1814. Martha 
Huston. They had issue : .Andrew, born 
Aug. 25. 1816, died young; Margaret, born 
April 18, 1818. died unmarried. Jan. 27, 
i'870; Andrew (2) born March 19, 1820, 
died Nov. 13, 1865, married Eliza Jacf)l)S, 

5 



and had Isabella (who married Ethvard 
Drawbaugh), Mary (who married Alex- 
ander Harlandj and Janet (who married 
William Mcllwaine) ; Martha, born May 
12. 1822, died Sept. 22. 1S61 ; Robert Boyd, 
born Nov. 10, 1824. died March 30. 1874, 
married Catharine Caruthers and had Will- 
iam; Thomas, born May 29. 1827, a farmer 
on the old Sharp homestead, married (first) 
December, 1863, Margaret Jane Jacobs, 
born March 7. 1826. died .\pril 2, 1873. and 
he married (second), Jennie E. Maclay, 
died April i, 1882; and h'ranklin, born Jan. 
3, 183 1, married Paulina Jamison, and re- 
moved to Indiana. 

(III) ANDREW SHARP (horn in 
Cumberland county, in 1750). .son of 
Thomas and Margaret (Elder) Sharp, 
married Annie Woods, and had issue: 

1. Annie married Andrew McCreight. 

2. Joseph married, and had six sons 
and three daughters. 

3. Margaret married John McCul- 
lough. 

4. Hannah married, in 1803. Robert 
Leason, and had issue : Samuel married E. 
C. Bruett ; R. P. ; Lyman S. ; Miriam mar- 
ried Mr. Jack; and Thomas S., a minister, 
married Mary Moore Laird, and had issue, 
Elisse C, M. F. (who married Hannah Ross 
Reynolds; and liatl Mary Laird. Jcft'ers(jn 
R. and Helen Ross), and F.Isic W. 

(IV) ALEXANDER SHARP, son of 
Thomas and Margaret ( Elder) Sharp, was 
an extensive landowner at the head of Big 
Spring, near Xew ville. He is generally de- 
scribed by his descendants as Captain Alex- 
ander. He married (first) Margaret 
McDowell, daughter of John McDowell, a 
native of Scotland and an early settler in the 
Cumberland Valley, many of whose de- 
scendants li\e in Kishacoc|uillas Valley. 
They had issue. 

I. Eleanor married Samuel McCune, 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



son of Samuel and Hannah (Brady) 
McCune, and had issue: Isabella married 
George Allen ; Mary married Alfred Moore, 
and had Harry, Edgar, William, Alice, 
Clara, and Rosalfa; Eleanor married Henry 
Spriggs : Samuel married Mary Ellen Mac- 
lay, daughter of David and Eleanor (Her- 
ron) Maclay, and had David Maclay, John 
Theodore and James Albert; Alexander S. 
married Mary Walker, and had Minnie. 
Ettie and Eleanor ; John ; Bethsheba married 
John T. Green, and had Elizabeth, William 
Elder, Oliver M.. and Annette; and Mar- 
garet (born Oct. 7, 181 1 — died May 23, 
1877) married Feb. 9, 1832, Samuel 
Wherry (born July 22 1804 — died Sept. 2, 
1861), and had Alexander Sharp, Margaret 
Jane, Eleanor Sharp, John, Samuel McCune. 
Robert Sterrett and William Elder. 
2.. Thomas. 

3. Andrew (VI). 

4. Alexander (VII). 

5. William M .(VIII). 
^. John (IX). 

7. Elder. 

Captain Sharp married (second) Isa- 
bella Oliver daughter of James Oliver, of 
East Pennsboro township. In 1S05, she 
published a volume of "Poems," thus becom- 
ing the first poet in the Cumberland Valley. 

(V) Agnes Sharp, daughter of 
Thomas and Margaret (Elder) Sharp, 
married Moses Hemphill, and they had 
issue: 

1. Jane, born in 1768, died July 15, 
1817. 

2. James (born Jan. 10, 1770 — died 
Jnly 25, 1852) married (first), Sept. 3, 
1795, Cynthia Jack (born in 1768 — died 
Fd>. 19, 1827), daughter of James and Jane 
Jack. They had issue: Caroline, born 1803 
— died May 29, 1869; Margaret, married 
Jan. 12, 1836, John H. Maclay; Agnes, born 
1797 — died Aug. 29, 1808; Moses, born 



Dec. 29, 1805. died March 3. 1865, married 
March 25, 1830, Marjory Clark; James 
Jack, born in 1812, died May 28, 1869; and 
Julia Ann married April 4, 1837, William 
Duncan. Mr. Hemphill married (second) 
Sept. 4, 1828, Martha Strain (born Oct. 3. 
1773 — died July 30, 1830), daughter of 
William and Jane Strain. 

(VI) ANDREW SHARP, son of Capt. 
Alexander and Margaret (McDowell; 
Sharp, married Rosanna McDowell (born 
Aug. 21, 1806 — died Nov. 13, 1882), 
daughter of John and Jane (Mitchell) Mc- 
Dowell, of Kishacoquillas Valley. John 
McDowell, Mrs. Sharp's father, was born 
in 1767, in the Cumberland Valley, of which 
his father, also John McDowell, was an early 
settler. John IMcDowell, Jr.. was known as 
Col. John McDowell, because of his rank in 
the Mifflin County Militia. No relationship 
has been traced between the family of John 
McDowell and William McDowell of 
Peters. Andrew and Rosanna (McDowell) 
Sharp had issue : 

1. Marg.-vretta J. lives at Newville. 

2. John McDowell (X). 

3. Andrew died aged nineteen years. 
After ]\[r. McDowell's death his widow 

married William Barr, of Newville. 

(VII) ALEXANDER SHARP (born 
June 12. 1796), son of Capt. Alexander and 
Margaret (AlcDowell) Sharp, was a min- 
ister of the Covenanter branch of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and served the charge at 
Newville for many years. He married, 
Aug. 17. 1824. Elizabeth Bryson (born 
Sept. II. 1797). and had issue: 

1. M.\RGARET Ellen married Thomas 
Patterson, and had issue: Ralph B., John, 
Robert E. and Alexander Sharpe. 

2. Robert Elder married, in March, 
1873, Delia Fitzgerald. 

3. Thom.\s E. married, in August, 
1873. Helen C. Rice, and had issue: James 



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67 



iRice, John McDowell (born April 7, 1874), 
Thomas (born Nov. 19, 1876), and Ethel 
Marie. 

4. Robert Bryson. 

5. Elder McDowell. 

6. John Riddle married, Feb. 2, i860, 
Martha F. Woods, and had issue : Alex- 
iinder A., Mary J. W. and Richard Woods. 

7. William Harkness. 

8. Jane Elizabeth. 

9. Alexander R. married Nellie 
Dent, and had issue : Alexander married 
Josephine Hand, and has one son, Alex- 
ander ; Frederick Dent, married Ellen Bev- 
•erly; Elizabeth Bryson married Major 
James Pettitt L'. S. A.; Ulysses Grant: 
Louis Dent ; Nellie Dent, Julius Dent and 
Julia Dent Grant. 

(VIII) WILLIAM M. SHARPE 
(born July 23, 1798 — died Aug. 20, 1835), 
son of Capt. Alexander and Margaret 
(McDowell) Sharp, was graduated M. D. 
at the Medical Department of the L'niver- 
sity of Pennsylvania, and practiced his pro- 
fession at Newville. He married, June 5, 
1821, Jane Wilson (died July, 1876), 
daughter of Rev. Samuel and Jane (Mahon) 
Wilson. The Wilsons were an old Rocky 
Spring family. John Wilson, the father of 
the Rev. Samuel Wilson, married Sarah 
Reid or Sarah Breckinridge, it is uncertain 
-which. He had five sons: James (born July 
14, 1743, died in 1779) married Agnes Hen- 
derson (born Feb. 14, 1736 — died June 20, 
1796), daughter of James and Mary Hen- 
derson, and had Sarah. Mary. Martha, Ag- 
nes, John, James, Esther, William and Jane: 
John went to North Carolina in 1764; Hugh 
went to Georgia : Samuel : and William. 
Samuel Wilson (born in Letterkenny town- 
ship, in 1754 — died at Newville, March 4, 
1799) was a farmer in early life. In 1778 
he attended his youngest brother, who died 
of a fever contracted in camp. He was in- 



fected by his brother's malady, and being 
very ill resolved to devote himself to the 
ministry if his life was spared. Entering 
Princeton College after his recovery, he was 
graduated in 1782. He studied theology 
with the Rev. Dr. Robert Cooper, of Middle 
Spring, and was licensed by Donegal Pres- 
bytery, Oct. 17, 1786. He was ordained 
pastor of the Big Spring Presbyterian con- 
gregation at Newville, June 20, 1787, where 
he remained until his death. The fine old 
stone church at Newville was Iniiit in his 
early ministry. He married Jane Mahon, 
(born in 1761 — died May 29, 1835). daugh- 
ter of Archibald Mahon, and they had issue: 
John, born in 1793 — died Jan. 30, 1809: and 
Jane, the wife of Dr. William M. Sharp. 
Dr. William M. and Jane (Wilson) Sharp 
had issue : 

1. Samuel Wilson (XI). 

2. Margaret Eleanor (born Feb. 
29, 1824 — died Oct 17, 1889) married 
William Davidson, and had issue : Jennie 
E. : O. C. : Mary M. married Dr. John C. 
Greenewalt. 

3. Alexander Elder (born Sept. 17, 
1826 — died Dec. 13. i860), married Martha 
Weakly, and had issue : James W., married 
Ida G. Hursh, and had a daughter, Hen- 
rietta. 

4. Joshua Williams (born May 24, 
183 1 — died April 7, 1881), was a distin- 
guished soldier of the Civil war. He en- 
tered the service Aug. 16, 1862, as First 
Lieutenant of Company E, 130th P. V. I., 
and was promoted to be captain Dec. 13, 
1862, his promotion dating from the battle 
of Fredericksburg. He was biexeted major 
for meritorious conduct in that battle, and 
after the war was appointed First Lieuten- 
ant, U. S. A. 

(IX) JOHN SHARPE, son of Capt. 
Alexander, and Margaret (McDowell) 
Sharp, married, March 19, 1815, Jane 



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McCune, daughter of James McL'une, and 
they had issue : 

1. Eleanor. 

2. Margaret married James McKee- 
han, and had issue : Ellen Debrow ; J. Louisa 
married James M. Locke; Helen Mar mar- 
ried Rev. Ebenezer Erskine ; Samuel married 
Lydia S. Craig-; and Annabelle. 

3. Hannah married Robert M. Hays, 
and had issue : Margaretta married Samuel 
J. Irwin, and had Robert Hays and Bruce 
Kilgore; John Sharpe married Jennie E. 
McFarlane, and had Belle McKinney, Lucy 
Sharpe and Jennie McFarlane; Edwin R. 
married Mary Louisa McKinney, and had 
Thomas McKinney; and Jane married Ed- 
win McClandish, and had Julia Sharp. 

4. Isabella Oliver married John 
Gracey, and had issue : John Sharpe married 
Margaret Beard, and had William Sharpe 
and Robert Beard; Robert; Jane Mary; 
Laura Belle ; Emma Priscilla ; and James 
Shields. 

5. Samuel M. married Elizabeth 
Hays and had issue : Margaret ; Isabel mar- 
ried Samuel F. Huston, and had James A., 
Samuel and Elizabeth ; David Hays married 
Sadie E. McCullough ; Jane E. married 
Hugh Craig, and had Hugh Boyd, Sam- 
uel Sharpe and John ; Mary Josephine ; 
Martha Ellen; Anna Bertha; and Emma F. 

6. Alexander Brady (born Aug. 12, 
1827) was graduated at Jefferson College 
and studied law under Robert M. Bard, 
Chambersburg, and Frederocks Watts, 
Carlisle. During the Civil war he served 
with the 7th Pennsylvania Reserve, and re- 
ceived the brevet ranks of major, lieutenant- 
colonel and colonel. He married Dec. 19, 
1854, Catharine Mears Blaney, daughter of 
Major George Blaney, U. S. A. 

7. Elder W. married Oct. 7, 1852, 
Elizabeth Kelso, and had issue: John C, a 
Presbyterian minister, married (first). Mary 



E. Reynolds, (second). Mary C. McCul- 
lough, and had issue. James A. ( who married 
Annie Brown) ; Sarah S. married William 
Grasey ; Brady W. married Lodemia U. 
O'Xeil; Edgar married Ida Bell Winters; 
Jennie M. married John Skyles Woodburn ; 
Robert H. married Marian Sollenberger ; 
Wallace W., married Saidie Billingsley ; and 
Elder W. 

8. John married Jan. 21, 1875, ■^^''^■ 
Jennie E. Agnew, and had issue, Mary Ann 
Bigler and Alexander. 

(X) JOHN McDowell sharpe 

(born in Newton township. Cumberland 
County, Oct. 7, 1830 — died Aug. 2;^. 1883), 
son of Andrew and Rosanna { McDowell ) 
Sharp, studied at Marshall College, Mer- 
cersburg, 1844-46, and completed his col- 
legiate course at Jefferson College, Canons- 
burg, from which he was graduated in 1848, 
with the highest honors of his class. He 
studied law- with F'rederick Watts in Car- 
lisle, and was admitted to the Cumberland 
County Bar, in November, 1850. Soon 
after coming to the Bar he detenuined to 
settle in Chambersburg, and was admitted 
to the Franklin County Bar. March 1 1 , 
1 85 1. When he hung out his modest 
"shingle" in Chambersburg. the greatest 
jurist in a State remarkable for great jur- 
ists, was in his last year on the Common 
Pleas Bench. To have practiced, if only for 
a few months, under Judge Black was itself 
a distinction. From the beginning of his 
career as a lawyer he took an active part in 
politics. At first he followed the traditions 
of the Sharpe family in his political affilia- 
tions. His great-grandparents on his fath- 
er's side, Thomas and Margaret (Elder) 
Sharp, were Covenanters, a stock from 
which descended many of the most zealous 
Republicans of 1856. His grandfather, 
Alexander Sharp, was a Federalist. His 
father. Andrew Shaq). was a ^^ hig. The 





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last of the Whig candidates for the Presi- 
dency. General Scott, in 1852, had no more 
ardent or eloquent advocate on the stump 
than McDowell Sharpe. The tendency of 
family tradition and religious principle was 
to make him an uncompromising opponent 
of slavery. But after the disruption of the 
Whig party, tlie political condition of the 
country was chaotic. The Know-Nothing 
movement that dominated State and Nation 
for a number of years afterward, disgusted 
him by its vagaries. He failed to foresee the 
greatness of the mission of the Republican 
party at its inception. His environment 
may have clouded his perceptions of the 
political future. There was no Republican 
party in Pennsylvania until after the election 
of Lincoln in i860. He lived on the border 
hne of the slave system. Fremont in 1856 
must have seemed to him as to many others 
a young adventurer. Buchanan was of a 
Federalist ancestry like his own. There was 
the glamour of a distinguished career around 
the brow of Fremont's opponent. Besides 
James Buchanan was a native of the county. 
?in<l the picturesque surroundings of Bu- 
chanan's birth-place at Stony Batter were 
among the associations of Sharpe's student 
days at Mercersburg. How far these influ- 
ences attected a sensitive and susceptible 
mind it would be dilificult to say. but there 
was great surprise when it was learned that 
McDowell Sharpe had become a Democrat. 
It is a sign of the prominence at the Bar and 
in the county that Mr. Sharpe had acquired 
in five years that his change of political faith, 
in 1856. caused a great sensation in both 
parties. The Democrats welcomed him with 
great efifusion. The men with whom he had 
pre\'iously affiliated were indignant — they 
were more than indignant, they were 
grieved. "How can it be possible." men 
said, "that a man like Sharpe should go over 
to the Democratic party." Some called him 



an "apo.state" and "turn-coat." and other 
hard names, but the prevailing tone was one 
of surprise. 

Mr. Sharpe was essentially a lawyer, and 
a great lawyer — one of the greatest that ever 
graced the Bar of any court, however dis- 
tinguished. After he had been at the Bar a 
few years he entered into partnership with 
the Hon. Wilson Reilly. who was elected a 
Representative in Congress in 1856. There 
was little in common between the two men, 
except the genial temper that distinguished 
both and their acknowledged eminence. 
Reilly was perhaps the more persuasive be- 
fore a jury, but Sharpe had the greater eru- 
dition and the completer mastery of the case 
in hand. In court there was a marked con- 
trast between the two men. Reilly had an 
air of easy indolence that could be quickly 
aroused into impetuous energy or fiery in- 
vective. Sharpe was quiet, gentle, self-con- 
tained, watchful, alert, and intense. He was 
often discursive but never missed a point in 
eliciting truth. Before a jury he was not 
eloquent, but he was convincing. His man- 
ner was colloquial rather than oratorical. 
Sometimes he demolished an opponent's case 
with the swift sweep of a torrent. In argu- 
ing to the court he was a general marshaling 
his forces in battle — sometimes a Napoleon in 
the swiftness of his movements : sometimes 
a Fabius in guarding his defenses and his 
lines of retreat. He w^s sometimes beaten, 
but never until the last line of attack or de- 
fense had failed. His cases w-ere never 
finally lost when the court was against him 
until the Supreme Court had passed upon 
them, and they were often won in the court 
above after being lost in the court below. 
When he won in the Common Pleas he sel- 
dom lost his case in the Supreme Court. In 
this continued round of professional em- 
ployments, in the courts and out, always 
exacting and often involving petty issues, — 



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his career of thirty-two years at tlie Bar was 
spent, and that too without adequate reward 
in money for his services, or fame commen- 
surate with his abilities and learning. 

For one content with great achievements 
in a narrow sphere Mr. Sharpe's profes- 
sional life may have been satisfactory, but 
for a man of his abilities, who knew his own 
worth, his political career was singularly 
barren. Only once was he chosen for a 
work that was worthy of his talents in the 
fullness of his powers. That was as a mem- 
ber of the Constitutional Convention in 
1873. In that body he occupied a high place, 
but his true sphere would have been as a 
representative in Congress, or better still as 
a Senator from Pennsylvania. Either posi- 
tion might easily have been possible to him 
as a Republican. As a Democrat he was 
compelled to be content with three terms in 
the House of Representatives at Harris- 
burg, as a member from Franklin and Ful- 
ton counties in 1S63, from Franklin and 
Perry, in 1864, and from Franklin in 1883. 
His pre-eminence was fully recognized in 
the House, but death closed his career pre- 
maturely. His death ended the possible 
fulfilment of the promise that seemed to 
open before him in his early manhood. 

It was impossible that Mr. Sharpe should 
be a sympathizer with secession or rebellion. 
His moral rectitude, his personal indepen- 
dence, and his elevated patriotism alike for- 
bade his acceptance of the unfortunate Dem- 
ocratic pronouncement of 1864 that war was 
a failure. In 1862 when the State was 
threatened with invasion for the first time. 
before the battle of Antietam. he left his 
books and clients and w'ent out as a private 
in one of the "Home Guards" companies, to 
meet the advancing Confederates. The en- 
emy was near at hand. The town was in a 
panic. Many of the more timid of the citi- 
zens had fled. An attack was expected. The 



"Home Guards'' were summoned to do mili- 
tary duty, and were encamped south of the 
town, near where the works of the Cham- 
bersburg Engineering Company are now- sit- 
uated. Pickets were thrown out. and on the 
outer picket line, on the Greencastle road, 
was Sharpe. Fortunately the foe did not 
put in an appearance, the battle of Antietam. 
saving the valley from an invasion that 
came a year later. Mr. Sharpe possessed an 
attractive personality. His manners were 
refined, and his face showed the dominating 
quality of the man — intellectuality. He 
mingled little in society and devoted much 
of his leisure to study. He was buried in the 
beautiful graveyard of the Falling Spring 
Presbyterian Church. His funeral was at- 
tended by representatives of both Houses of 
the Legislature and by the Bars of both 
Houses of the Legislature, and by the 
Bars of both Cumberland and Franklin 
counties. Mr. Sharpe married Emma King, 
daughter of John and Mary Sharpe (Mac- 
lay) King, of Chambersburg. Mr. King was- 
a leading business man of his time and for 
many years president of the Bank of Cham- 
bersburg. J. McDowell and Emma (King) 
Sharpe had issue : 

1. John King. 

2. RosANNA McDowell. 

3. J. McDowell. 

4. Walter King (XII). 

All died in infancy except Walter King'. 

(XI) Samuel' WILSON sharpe 

(bom March 29, 1822 — died Dec. 6, 1877), 
son of Dr. William McDowell and Jane 
(Wilson) Sharpe. was educated at a Latin 
school at Newville. and in early manhood 
engaged in the grain and forwarding busi- 
ness. As w-as customary at that time, he 
owned his own warehouse and cars in which 
he shipped his produce. He was very suc- 
cessful in business, but retired in 1855 be- 
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admiration of fine stock, and liis stables were 
filled with horses and cattle of high breed- 
ing and pure blood. He was an influential 
man in the community, upright, honest and 
charitable. Mr. Sharpe married (first), 
March 5, 1844, Eliza A. McKeehan, who 
died Jan. 4, 1S58. They had issue: 

1. William McDowell (bom Feb. 
I, 1845) married Calista James, and they 
had issue: Elizabeth, Minnie Belle, Samuel 
Wilson, Marian, Maude and Janet. 

2. Samuel McK. (born Oct. 15, 1846 
— died July, 1901 ) married in December, 
1868, Mary A. Clark. They had issue: 
Annie, Jennie, Blanche (deceased) and 
Louis Clarke. 

3. Alexander, born April 26, 1849, 
died in 1868. 

4. Joshua Wilson (XIII). 

5. James McKeehan, bom Dec. 26, 
1852. 

6. Lewis Williams, born Dec. 8, 
1854, died in 1875. 

Mr. Sharpe married (second), Dec. 29, 
1859, Elizabeth Espey. 

(XII) WALTER KING SHARPE 
(born Dec. 24, 1863). son of J. McDowell 
and Emma (King) Sharpe, was prepared 
for college at the Chambersburg Academy 
under Dr. J. H. Shumaker. He then entered 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., from 
which he was graduated in 1882. He sub- 
sequently entered Princeton College, but the 
death of his father in 1883 necessitated his 
return to Chambersburg to assist in the set- 
tlement of the estate. In the autumn of 
1884 he went to Europe, where he remained 
for nearly a year. Upon his return in 1885, 
he entered the otfice of the Hon. John Stew- 
art, as a student-at-law, and was admitted to 
the Franklin County Bar at the February 
term, 1889. He has since practiced his pro- 
fession in Chambersburg. When he first 
began the practice, he associated himself 



with his cousin, J. W. Sharpe, Esq., under 
the firm name of Sharpe & Sharpe. This 
partnership lasted ten years. In 1899, Irviii 
C. Elder, Esq., entered the partnership, llie 
firm name being changed to Sharpe, Sharpe 
& Elder. In 1901, the partnership was dis- 
solved, Joshua W. Sharpe retiring, and 
a new^ partnership was formed under the 
firm name of Sharpe & Elder. At the Bar 
INlr. Sharpe has shown many of the quali- 
ties of his distinguished father, and he en- 
joys a large and lucrative practice. In poli- 
tics he is nominally a Democrat, but person- 
ally and intellectually he is a man of inde- 
pendent view-s, and so far has manifested no 
political ambition. Like his father he is a 
close student, and he devotes all his time 
to his profession. Mr. Sharpe married, May 
6, 1897, Helen McKeehan Cook, daughter 
of the late Jeremiah Cook, a member of the 
Franklin County Bar, and at one time editor 
of the Franklin Repository, They liave 
issue : 

1. John McDowell. 

2. W'iNIFRED. 

(XIII) JOSHUA WILSON 
SHARPE (born Feb. 8, 1851), son of Sam- 
uel Wilson and Ann Eliza (McKeehan) 
Sharpe. was educated at Tuscarora Acad- 
emv, Academia, and at the Chambersburg 
Academy, and was graduated at Princeton 
College in 1873. He studied law with the 
Hon. J. McDowell Sharpe in Chambers- 
burg, and was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar, Sept. 7, 1875. He began the 
practice of his profession at Washington. D. 
C. but his health failing in 1876, the next 
ten years of his life were spent in the South, 
on a ranch in Montana and in travel abroad. 
In 1887 he resumed the practice of law in 
Chambersburg, in which he continues. He 
is now Chief Burgess of the borough, hav- 
ing been appointed to fill the unexpired term 
of Howard Noble. He was for a number of 



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3'ears a director of the National Bank of 
Cliambersburg, and attorney for the Bank. 
He is a trustee of Wilson College for Wo- 
men, the Chambersburg Academy antl the 
Falling Spring Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Sharpe married June 5. 1889, Sara Flem- 
ing, daughter of David Fleming, Esq., of 



Harrisburg. 



ROWE. This family traces its ances- 
try directly to Castle Pollard, County West- 
meath, Ireland, but may be, ne\ertheless, of 
English origin, some of the Rowe name liav- 
ing come over with Cromwell or before. The 
rectory of the parish of Rathgraff, to which 
Castle Pollard belongs, \vas burned to the 
ground over forty years ago, and all the 
parish records destroyed. In consequence 
the family line upward and its connections 
can not be followed far. If the Rowe family 
of Franklin county is of Irish origin, as is 
most likely, for families of this name are 
found in several counties of Ireland, the 
name came from O'Ruaidh. anglicized Roe 
and Rowe. The name John is very common 
in the Rowe branch of the O'Neill sept. John 
Rowe of Ballybrennan, in County Wexford, 
married Margaret, daughter of Conall 
O'Morcho (Murphy), of Tobberlimnich. 
early in the seventeentli century. Toward the 
close of the nineteenth century Phillis Rowe, 
daughter of John Rowe. of Ballycross 
House, County We.xford, married William 
Francis Forbes, son of Viscount Forbes, eld- 
est son of the Earl of Granard. There was 
a seat called Brideswell, belonging to a gen- 
tleman named Rowe, on the road from Wex- 
ford to Tontern. at the time that John Rowe 
of Castle Pollard, County Westmeath, emi- 
grated to .\merica and settled at Greencastle. 
These examples show the esteem in which 
the Rowes were held in Wexford during a 
period of three hundred years, but they do 
not prove that John the emigrant was de- 



scended from John of Ballybrennan, or was 
of the same family as Rowe of Brideswell, 
or John of Ballycross. The Rowes of Wex- 
ford lived at a distance from the Rowes of 
Westmeath. But the name is found in L'l- 
ster, as well as in Leinster. Near the close 
of the seventeenth century a Miss Rowe 
married John O'Hare, of Crebilly, County 
Antrim, and. dying without issue, left an 
estate to the Rowes. It is probable these 
Rowes were of the same stock as the others, 
as well as the family at the head of which 
was the O'Conner Roe. so called. 

d) JAMES ROWE. whose son John 
was the ancestor of the Rowe family of 
Franklin county, lived at Castle Pollard, in 
the parish of Rathgraff, County Westmeath, 
Leinster, Ireland. It was a market and post 
town, on the road from Dublin to Granard. 
ten miles from Mullinger, and forty-two 
miles from Dublin. The parish is a fertile 
one. much of the land being limestone, and 
at the time that it was the home of James 
Rowe and his family, it had a parochial 
school of the Church of Ireland and six 
private schools. Near it was Pakenham 
Hall, the seat of Lord Longford, and Kin- 
curk, tlie seat of William Pollard. In the 
neighborhood were other gentlemen's seats, 
and its environment was unusually attrac- 
tive, both Lough Lane and Lough Dere- 
varagh being not two miles distant. James 
Rowe is said to have had two children. 

1. James. 

2. John (II). 

(II) JOHN ROWE (born at Castle 
Pollard. County \Vestmeath, Ireland, in 
1776,— died March 25, 1836). son of James 
Rowe, was a hatter, having learned the trade 
in his native town. As he was a churchman 
it is not improbable that he was educated at 
the parocliial school at Castle Pollard, which 
was aided by Lord Longford and the Pol- 
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gfinning of tlie last century, and in 1804 
settled at Greencastle, where he followed 
his trade nntil his death. In 1814 he 
marched to the defepse of Baltimore with 
Capt. Andrew Rohison's company, which in- 
cluded nearly all the leading citizens of the 
town. In 1813. he married Mary Wise, 
daughter of John and Sarah (Robinson) 
Wise, and granddaughter of Christopher 
Wise, whose wife w'as a daughter of William 
]\IcKinney, killed and scalped by the Indi- 
ans. April 2. 1757, on his farm near the Hol- 
liwell papermill, below Chambersburg. 
Christopher Wise came to Antrim township 
from Havre-de-Grace. Md. John and Mary 
Rowe had issue: 

1. John (III). 

2. Sarah Ann died unmarried in 
Scott County, Iowa. 

3. Maria married Michael Garber, and 
they had issue : John, Davis, Mary and 
Harry. 

(Ill) JOHN ROWE (born Oct. 4, 
1814 — died Dec. 27, 1880), son of John and 
]\Iary (Wise) Rowe, was educated in the 
Greencastle schools, and was all his life a 
merchant in Greencastle. He was zealous in 
promoting the growth and prosperity of his 
native town, and was always active and in- 
fluential in politics. Even before his ma- 
jority he began to take a leading part in 
local affairs, and was sent by the Democrats 
■of his district to the Democratic county con- 
vention, and by that body he was, chosen a 
•delegate to the State convention, with in- 
structions to support Martin Van Buren for 
President. In 1840. when only twenty-five 
years old, he was elected a justice of the 
peace, and in 1844 he was a Democratic can- 
didate for the Legislature, but the Whigs 
had a majority. He continued active in the 
support of his party, and in 1851 he was 
elected a representative in the General As- 
sembly, and was again elected in 1852. In 



1856 the Democratic State convention was 
held in Chambersburg, with a view of put- 
ting Major Rowe in nomination for sur- 
veyor-general. He was nominated and 
elected, and though a Douglas Democrat, 
was unanimously nominated for re-election 
in 1859, hut his party failed to carry the 
State. At the outbreak of the Civil war he 
took strong ground in behalf of the Union, 
and in 1861 he was again elected a member 
of the House of Representatives as a war 
Democrat, and was chosen Speaker of the 
House. He was afterward identified with 
the Republican party and was prominent in 
its councils. As a young man he was active 
in promoting the efticiency of the State 
militia, and was chosen major of one of the 
Franklin county battalions. 

Major Rowe married, in 1836, Eliza- 
beth Prather (born Aug. 1814 — died Jan. 
II, 1880). daughter of .\braliam and 
Martha (Watson) Prather. The Prather 
family is one of the oldest in the county and 
is descended from Henry Prather (born 
Sept. 14, 1732 — died Aug. 28, 1775) who 
was brought to America by his parents w hen 
only a year old. He came from Virginia to 
the Conococheague as a young man, and 
married Elizabeth Hicks, daughter of Chris- 
tian Hicks, of Antrim township. His son, 
Abraham Prather, ( born Oct. 16. 1762 — died 
July. 1819). married Sept. 7. 1809. Martha 
Watson, daughter of Col. James and Eliza- 
beth Watson, of Lancaster county. James 
Watson (born in 1743 — died July 2. 1831), 
son of John and Ann (Stephenson) Watson, 
of Donegal. Lancaster county, commanded 
a company in Col. James Cunningham's bat- 
talion of the "Flying Camp." which partic- 
ipated in the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 
1776, under the command of Major Will- 
iam Hays. He was commissioned colonel. 
July I, 1777. of the 2d Battalion, Lancaster 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COL'NTV. 



Rowe has his original commissions as cap- 
tain and colonel. John and Elizabeth Rowe 
had issue : 

1. David Watson (IV). 

2. Anna Mary married Lemuel 
Snively [Snively Family]. 

3. Martha Ellen married Louis H. 
Fletcher [Fletcher Family]. 

4. John Gilmore (born May 31, 
1842 — died Sept. 29, 1874) enlisted as first 
sergeant of Company K, 126th P. V. I., 
Aug. 7, 1862, and was promoted to be first 
lieutenant Aug. 15, 1862; he participated in 
the battle of FVedericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, 
and at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, was 
wounded severely in the forehead. He had 
been a private in Company C, 2d P. V. I. 

5. Elizabeth Prather (born Nov. 
18, 1844) married John M. Stoner. 

6. Florence Sarah (born April 20, 
1846) married William H. Davison (born 
Nov. 2, 1835 — died in 1875), son of An- 
drew and Sarah (Brown) Davison, who was 
captain of Company B, 126th P. V. I. They 
had issue: Watson R., a lawyer: Elizabeth, 
who died young; Jane; and Nellie, who died 
young. 

7. Henry Prather (born Feb. 8. 
1848) died young. 

8. Isabella \\'.\tsox ('oorn Sept. 18, 
1850) married William U. Brewer (born 
April 3, 1844) a member of the F'ranklin 
County Bar, and State Senator, 1893-96. 
They have one son. John R., second lieu- 
tenant, 2 1st United States Infantry. 

(IV) DAVID WATSON ROWE 
(born Nov. 12. 1836), son of John and 
Elizabeth (Prather) Rowe, was educated in 
the schools at Greencastle, where he was pre- 
pared for college. He entered Marshall 
College, Mercersburg, in 185 1. and went 
with the institution to Lancaster, upon the 
consolidation of Franklin and Marshall Col- 
lege, in 1853. He left the college in his 



Junior year to begin the study of the law 
with William McLellan, of Chambersburg, 
and was admitted to the Franklin County 
Bar. Aug. 15, 1857. Although he left col- 
lege before being graduated, he was honore 1 
with the degree of A. M. by Franklin and 
Marshall College, in 1867. After being ad- 
mitted to the Bar he began the practice of his 
profession at Chambersburg, where he was 
engaged at the outbreak of the Civil war. 
With his brother he responded to President 
Lincoln's first call for troops by enlisting, 
becoming a private in Company C, 2d P. V. 
I. A week later he was made sergeant major 
of the regiment, and was promoted to be 
first lieutenant of Company C a few weeks 
later, ser\-ing until the expiration of his 
term of enlistment. When the 126th Regi- 
ment was organized he recruited Company 
K, of which he was appointed captain, Aug. 
8, 1862. He was promoted to be lieutenant- 
colonel of the regiment Aug. 13, 1862, and 
ser\-ed until the expiration of his term of en- 
listment. May 20, 1863. He was present at 
Antietam. but, the regiment being held in re- 
serve, he was not actively engaged. At the 
battle of Fredericksburg. Dec. 13, 1862. the 
regiment, which formed a part of Tyler's 
Brigade. Humphrey's Division, was in ac- 
tion in the attempt to carry the crest of 
Marye's Hill. The cumniaiid was "Charge 
bayonet: officers twelve paces in front." The 
advance was made over the prostrate line 
of the last charging column, up within 
a moment's dash of the stone wall where 
the eneni}' la}-. There it was met by a sheet 
of flame from the fatal wall. Col. Elder 
fell, severely wounded, at the head of his 
men. while heroically urging them on at 
the farthest point of the charge. The com- 
mand then de\'olved upon Lieut. Col. Rowe, 
under whose skillful leadership the fruitless 
struggle was maintained until it was seert 
that further sacrifice was useless, when, inj 



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obedience to orders, he brought his shattered 
regiment off tiie field. On the field of Chan- 
cellorsville, the enemy, having turned the 
Union right, pressed upon the unprotected 
flank occupied for the time by Tyler's Brig- 
ade, to which Col. Rowe's regiment be- 
longed, and, passing round to the rear, 
threatened it with capture. Thus outflanked 
the regiment was forced to retire, but not 
until all the ammunition that the men car- 
ried had been exhausted. Among the 
wounded in this battle, were Lieut. -Col. 
Rowe and his brother, Lieut. John G. Rowe. 
Col. Rowe was hit in the cheek by a rifle 
ball. Gen. Tyler, in his official report of the 
battle, says: "The 126th. Lieut. Col. Rowe, 
was third in line, and for earnest, spirited 
work they could not be excelled. Col. Rowe 
exhibited the true characteristics of a soldier 
— brave, cool and determined-^and his spirit 
was infused into every oflicer and soldier in 
his command." After his return to civil 
life he resumed the practice of his profession, 
in which he continued until 1868. when, at 
the age of thirty-one, he was commissioned 
by Gov. Geary. Additional Law Judge of 
the 1 6th Judicial District, comprising the 
counties of Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and 
Somerset. In the autumn of the same year 
he was elected for the full term of ten years. 
In 1874 the 39th Judicial District was 
formed, comprising the counties of Franklin 
and Fulton, of which he became President 
Judge: he was re-elected in 1878 for a sec- 
ond term of ten years. He retired from 
the Bench in January. 1889. after having 
served twenty-one years. After leaving the 
Bench he resumed his place at the Bar. and 
has since been in active practice. He had 
as his partner. 1889-95, Alexander Stew- 
art, son of Judge John Stewart, forming 
the firm of Rowe & Stewart. Since Mr. 
Stewart's death he has practiced alone, ex- 
cept for a brief period when he had Henry 



P. Fletcher as his partner. He is a member 
nf Housum Post, No. 309, G. A. R., o£ 
which he is a past commander; and of 
George Washington Lodge, No. 143, F. & 
A. M. His religious membership is main- 
tained in Trinity P. E. Church, Chambers- 
burg. 

Col. Rowe married. Aug. 5, 1862. An- 
nie E. Fletcher, daughter of Charles A. and 
Elizabeth (Zeigler) Fletcher. Their mar- 
riage was celebrated the day before he went 
to the front with his regiment. They have 
no children. 

Col. Rowe is six feet in height, of medi- 
um weight, with dark eyes and hair. After 
admission to the Bar, he resided in Cham- 
bersburg, except for the period between 
1873 and 1883, when he lived at his place 
called Rosemont, above Greencastle. For 
the last twenty years he has resided at his 
present home, on the northeast corner of 
Market and Second streets. Judge Rowe 
delivered the oration at the county's memo- 
rable celebration of the centennial anniver- 
sary of the Declaration of Independence. 

GEORGE ROYER KAUFFMAN, SI. 

D. (born May 14, 1841 — died Aug. 13, 
1897), was of the highest type of American 
citizen — a man who did his duty as he saw 
it without fear or favor, and who passed out 
of life mourned by all who knew him. He 
was not unacquainted w'ith grief, trouble and 
hardship had he known, yet the sweetness 
of his disposition, the deep sympathy of his 
great heart, and the unselfish devotion to 
others remained unchanged. Those who 
knew him, loved him. In the rapid advance 
of medical science, specialists are taking the 
place of the good old family doctor — the 
doctor who administered not alone to bodily 
ills, but who gave friendly counsel, who- 
listened with sympathetic interest to all the 
family troubles and kept that confidence in- 



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violate, who was greeted and loved by the 
little children as a friend, and who, however 
busy, worn or worried, never refused his aid 
to those in distress. Dr. Kauffman was pre- 
eminently a family doctor. With the great 
love of humanity characteristic of a great 
soul, he went about doing good. Often mis- 
understood, sometimes maligned, occasional- 
ly intentionally injured by those hoping to 
further selfish ends, he passed fearlessly on, 
ne\er for a moment deterred from doing 
what he thought was right. His health had 
been failing for several years, but the end 
came suddenly from a stroke of apoplexy, 
Aug. 5, 1897. After a week of suffering, 
his mental faculties, however, remaining un- 
clouded to the last, he passed peacefully into 
rest. 

The Kauffmans came originally from 
Switzerland, the founder of the American 
branch of the family becoming an early set- 
tler in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, 
about 1730 or 1740. 

(HI) ANDREW KAUFFMAN, 
grandson of the emigrant, was born in Lan- 
caster county, and he moved to Adams 
county, where he farmed on the banks of 
Little Kanawha creek near the village of 
Berlin. He died in 1853, aged about sev- 
enty. He married Anna Groh, of Lancaster 
•county, who died in 1872, aged ninety-one, 
and they had issue: 

1. Abrah.\m. (IV). 

2. Christian. 

3. Maria. 

4. Andrew. 

5. Samuel. 

6. Henry. 

7. John. 

8. Jacob. 

(IV) ABRAHAM KAUFFMAN(born 
Dec. 21, 1806 — died in Franklin county, 
Aug. 26, 1883), son of Andrew, came to 



Franklin county in his childhood, his first 
location being just east of Chambersburg. 
All his working years were passed in farm- 
ing and milling; for many years he owned 
one of the finest teams on the turnpike be- 
tween Pittsburgh and Baltimore, 'Sid., long 
before the days of the railroad. He was one 
of the honored anil esteemed citizens of the 
county. He married Catherine Royer, and 
among their children was 

I. George Rover (V). 

(V) GEORGE ROYER KAUFF- 
MAN, son of Abraham and Catherine (Roy- 
er) Kauffman. was born and reared on his 
father's farm. His early education was re- 
ceived in the district schools, later being sup- 
plemented by attendance at the Chamliers- 
burg Academy. Study was a pleasure to 
him, and he t(jok high rank among the best 
students. Upon leaving school, he deter- 
mined to take up the medical profession, and 
by so doing to gratify his love of study and 
his natural desire to help those in trouble. 
In 1867 he was graduated from Bellevue 
Medical College, at New York. Soon after- 
ward he located at Mechanicsburg, Cumber- 
land ciiunty. but in a short time came to his 
old home in Franklin, opening an office for 
practice at Kauffman Place. In a short 
time he won the confidence of the people, 
and his practice grew almost beyond his 
ability to look after all of it. No day was 
too stormy or too cold, no journey too long 
for Dr. Kauft'man to answer promptly a 
call to relieve suffering. That a patient was 
poor made no difference, the moral respon- 
sibility of the physician was recognized and 
nobly responded to. On Aug. 13, 1867, he 
married Miss Martha E. Kisecker. daughter 
of the late John and Elizabeth Kisecker. 
They had issue: 

I. Leslie Montgomery (VI). 

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and efficient officer of tlie Evangelical Luth- 
eran Church of Greencastle, and in that faith 
he died. 

During Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania 
in the Civil war, the rebels on retreat, car- 
ried ot¥ a tine buggy belonging to Dr. Kauff- 
nian. at that time a medical student. \\\ 
company with several friends the Doctor 
walked to Hagerstown in the hope of re- 
covering" his buggy. On the way, while 
walking along the tracks of the Cumberland 
Valley Railroad, near the State line, they 
found two rebel pickets, whom they dis- 
armed throwing the guns into a field, but 
allowed the soldiers to proceed. This proved 
the undoing of the entire party, as on their 
arrival at Hagerstown, the atl'air had already 
been reported and the Doctor and his friends 
were arrested, thrown into prison with a lot 
of deserters, criminals, etc., and then 
marched to Richmond, where they were con- 
fined in the notorious Libby prison and 
Castle Thunder, there enduring all the pri- 
vations and misery so familiar to students 
of the history of those dark days. From 
Richmond, Dr. KaulYman was transferred 
at Salisbury, N. C, military prison, where, 
his knowledge of medicine coming to the 
notice of the authorities he was placed in 
charge of the smallpox hospital, some dis- 
tance from the main ])rison. He attempted 
to escape, but was tracked with blood- 
hounds, recaptured and returned to prison. 
After untold suffering, a vulnerable guard 
permitted some of them to esca])e, and after 
traveling over the mountains of North Caro- 
lina, Tennessee and Kentucky, walking by 
night and lying hidden from sight by day, 
they eventually reached the Union lines. 

In the medical profession in Franklin 
county, none stood higher than Dr. Kauff- 
man. The other practitioners had for him 
the respect that is given an honorable man 
of unquestioned ability. Open and honest 



himself, his strong personality compelled 
honesty in others. Pi is death occurred in the 
house in which he was born, and on the fol- 
lowing Monday, Aug. i6, 1897, his remains 
were tenderly laid to rest in the presence of 
huntlreds of sorrowing men and women. His 
widow still resides at the old homestead at 
Kauffman Place. 

(VI) LESLIE MONTGOMERY 
KAUFFMAN, M. D. (born May 9, 1869), 
son of Dr. George Royer Kaufifman, was 
educated in Pennsylvania College at Gettys- 
burg, and completed his medical studies at 
his father's alma mater. Bellevue Medical 
College, New York, graduating in 1893. 
Returning home he took up his profession 
with his father, and since the latter's death 
has continued the care of their large clientele 
alone. On June 12, 1901, he married Nellie 
Geiger, of Shippensburg, daughter of 
Charles and Annie Geiger. Dr. Kauffman 
is a member of the State and County Medi- 
cal Societies, and of the American Medical 
Association, and bids fair to till his father's 
place in the hearts of the people. The Kauff- 
mans ha\e all been upright men and women, 
and good citizens. Politically Dr. Kauft'- 
man is a Republican, and religiously a mem- 
ber of the Lutheran Church of Greencastle. 

WILSON COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, 
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, had its in- 
ception in a resolution adopted by the Pres- 
bytery of Carlisle at Greencastle, April 15, 
1868. In view of the subscriptions made 
for its establishment in different places, its 
location was to be determined by the Board 
of Trustees. Efforts were made by a num- 
ber of towns in the Presbytery to obtain 
the college, but these finally narrowed down 
to a contest t:)etween Chambersburg and 
Greencastle. Chambersburg became the 
successful competitor by a gift of $30,000 
in its interest by Miss Sarah Wilson, then 



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living near St. Thomas, seven miles west 
of Chambersburg. She was a member of 
an old Presbyterian family of the Cumber- 
land Valley that had acquired a considerable 
fortune by tilling the soil. This gift was 
sufficient to enable the trustees to purchase 
the farm of Col. Alexander K. McClure, 
north-east of the borough limits. This farm 
consisted of farming land of the finest qual- 
ity, on which was erected immediately after 
the close of the Civil war an elegant country 
seat to replace the fine old stone mansion 
destroyed by the Confederates in 1864. All 
of the farm land was sold, except thirty 
acres adjoining the mansion, which is a 
part of the college. Wilson College was 
-chartered by the Pennsylvania Legislature, 
March 24, 1869, and it was opened with 
an enrollment of seventy-three students, 
Oct. 12, 1870. Forty of these were from the 
borough of Chambersburg. The first presi- 
dent of the college was the Rev. Tyron Ed- 
wards, D. D., of Hagerstown, Md., with 
the Rev. J. W. Wightman, of Greencastle, 
as vice-president. As Dr. Edwards con- 
tinued to reside in Hagerstown the duties 
of administration devolved principally upon 
Mr. Wightman, who took up his residence 
at the college. At the close of the second 
year both the president and vice-president 
retired from the institution, and then the 
latter offi,te ceased to exist. The next presi- 
dent was the Rev. W. T. Wyley, of Belle- 
fonte, who resigned after a service of two 
years, and was succeeded nominally by the 
Rev. Thomas A. Robinson, D. D., of Har- 
risburg, the understanding being that he 
should not be expected to discharge the 
duties, or meet the responsibilities of the 
position. During the time that Dr. Robin- 
son was nominal president, the real execu- 
tive head of the institution was Miss Abby 
Goodsell, the scholarly and accomplished 
lady principal. In 1881, the Rev. John C. 



Caldwell, D. D., pastor of the Central Pres- 
byterian Church, Chambersburg, was in- 
duced to accept the presidency. It was soon 
found that serving his congregation and ad- 
ministering the presidency of the college 
were duties too exacting for one man, and 
after two years he resigned both the pastor- 
ate and the presidency. His successor was 
the Rev. John Edgar, Ph. D., pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at New Bloomfield, 
with whose administration the real history 
of the college as a successful institution for 
the higher education of women began. 

Owing to the frequent changes in the 
presiding officer and the want of a settled 
policy of administration the first years of 
Wilson College proved disappointing. Some 
of the friends of the enterprise advised that 
it should be abandoned. The income had 
been inadequate to the expenses, and at the 
close of Dr. Caldwell's incumbency a con- 
siderable debt had been incurred. This in- 
debtedness was provided for mainly through 
the efforts of the Rev. William H. Logan, 
upon whose recommendation Dr. Edgar 
was invited to become president of the col- 
lege. L'nlike the distinguished pastors who 
were his predecessors, he was an e.xperienced 
educator. He had taught in the Philadelphia 
High School before entering the ministry, 
and during the greater part of his pastorate 
at New Bloomfield he had been head of a 
flourishing academy at that place. With 
his acceptance of the presidency Wilson Col- 
lege began a new era. Under his adminis- 
tration the number of students increased 
rapidly, the educational standard was ad- 
vanced and the Departments of Music and 
Art were developed to a high degree of ex- 
cellence. In his work he was ably assisted 
by Mrs. Edgar as lady principal, who was 
equally capable and tmtiring with her hus- 
band. Additions were made to the college 
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niodate the increasing number of students, 
so that at the close of his eleven years of 
faithful and arduous service, June 5, 1894, 
when he died, the wings had been added to 
the main building, the east wing being com- 
pleted and Fletcher Hall had been added to 
the college property. The death of Dr. 
Edgar occurred only a week before com- 
mencement day. Out of respect to his mem- 
ory class day and the commencement exer- 
cises for that year were dispensed with. The 
college had been by this time established on 
a hrm basis, and for a year after his death 
the management was under the direction of 
Mrs. Edgar, as lady principal, and her ef- 
ficient assistant. Miss Marshall. 

Early in the spring of 1895, the trustees 
of Wilson College w-ere enabled to secure 
another experienced educator, in the person 
of the Rev. Samuel A. Martin, D. D., who 
was then holding a professorship in Lincoln 
University, Oxford, Pa. Dr. Martin prac- 
tically entered upon the duties of the presi- 
dency before the close of the college year, 
1894-95, his formal inauguration taking 
place May 28, 1895. Great success attended 
the institution during Dr. Martin's admin- 
istration. Advance and improvement were 
the watch words in every department. In 
the summer of 1896, the president's house 
was erected. In 1897 the dormitory known 
as Fletcher Hall, was practically recon- 
structed. In 1898, Science Hall and Latin 
School were added. In 1899, South College 
was built. In 1900 came the gymnasium, 
and finally came the crowning triumph of 
Dr. Martin's administration, the Thomson 
Music Hall. The gymnasium is built '.f 
Cumberland Valley blue limestone, richly 
trimmed with Potomac red sandstone, and 
the music hall of blue limestone, trimmed 
with Seneca sandstone, of a light grey color. 
The Thomson Music Hall is a memorial to 
the late Frank Thomson, president of the 



Pennsylvania Railroad, who was a native 
of Chambersburg. It was provided by a 
gift from his family. It is in Elizabethan 
style, and is a very handsome structure. The 
scheme of buildings adopted under Dr. Mar- 
tin's administration of seven years has given 
Wilson College an equipment that is fully 
adequate for the needs of a high-grade Col- 
lege for Women. The improvements in 
apparatus, musical instruments, library and 
furniture have kept pace with the equipmenrs 
in buildings, so that the school which began 
thirty-five years ago with a few students 
is able to accommodate today over three 
hundred, though even now the large pro- 
\-ision for dormitories is not sufficient to care 
for all the applicants that seek to matriculate 
at Wilson. 

Dr. ^lartin resigned the presidency of 
Wilson College in 1903, and in the summer 
of that year the trustees of the college chose 
AI. H. Reaser, Ph. D., president of 
Lindenwood College, near St. Louis, as his 
successor. Dr. Reaser, like his two immed- 
iate predecessors. Dr. Martin and Dr. Ed- 
gar, is an experienced educator, and has 
chosen the higher education of women as his 
life work. 

During the past two years the growth 
of the school has been remarkable. At the 
close of the year 1902-03, there had been 
a total enrollment of two hundred and sixty- 
six. Last year, after turning away many ap- 
plicants because of lack of room, the total 
enrollment had increased to three hundred 
and twenty-two. During the summer fol- 
lowing, additional rooms were provided and 
the dining room was enlarged and again the 
institution was called upon for more than 
it could supply. The enrollment in the year 
T 004-05 was not less than three hundred 
and sixty. 

The course of study has been raised, and 
a larger election in all the departments of- 



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fered to the students. College athletics 
■have been encouraged, and are enthusiasti- 
cally supported by the young ladies. Self- 
government has been adopted by a practi- 
cally unanimous vote of the student body, 
and has proven itself of inestimable value 
in the government of the school. This is 
equally true of the honor system which has 
been tested during the year just closed. 

The faculty of the institution has been 
kept up to a high standard. The Univer- 
sities of Harvard, Ann Arbor, Chicago, 
Yale, Cornell, Toronto, Berlin, etc. have 
been called upon for teachers who have had 
special preparation in their respective lines. 
Vassar, Holyoke, and other equally known 
institutions for the education of women have 
also provided members of the faculty of Wil- 
son. The Music Department has been no 
less carefully guarded. Teachers with 
European training, and of wide experience, 
have been employed. 

Wilson College is most favorably lo- 
cated. It occupies a position in the Cum- 
berland Valley, about half-w-ay between the 
mountains on either side. The climate is 
mild and pleasant, nor is the situation dif- 
ficult of access, about one hundred and fifty 
miles from Philadelphia and tifty miles 
from the State Capital. It is easily reached 
by either the Pennsylvania Central, from the 
East, West, and North, or by the B. and 
O. and other lines from the South. 

McDowell fa;mily. william 

McDowell (bom in Ireland in 1680— 
died at Wright's Ferry on the Sus(|uehanna 
in 1759), the ancestor of the McDowell 
family in Franklin county, emigrated to 
Pennsylvania between 1714 and 171 7, and 
settled in Chester county. About 1735 he 
removed to the Conococheague Valley and 
obtained a warrant for a plantation at the 
foot of Parnell's Knob, in what is now 



Peters township, Franklin county. Here he 
lived in peace and comfort with his large 
family until the beginning of the French 
and Indian War. after Braddock's defeat 
in 1755. As his sons reached manhood they 
settled on farms in the neighborhood, some 
of which were occupied by descendants of 
the pioneer down to the present generation. 
Because of the Indian forays of 1755-56, 
Mr. McDowell fled to the Susquehanna, and 
(lied there, his remains being interred in 
the graveyartl of Donegal Church, in Lan- 
caster county. He married his wife, Mary, 
in Ireland. Her family name is unknown. 
She died Feb. 18. 1782. William and Mary 
McDowell had issue : 

1. John (II). 

2. William (III). 

3. Nathan (IV). 

4. James (V). 

5. Thomas (died June 2, 1806) was 
first lieutenant of Ca])t. James Patton's com- 
pany in Col. Samuel Culbertson's battalion, 
Cumberland County Associators. 1777-80. 

6. S.\rah married Willirun Piper 
(VI). 

7. Iean married Archibakl Irwin 
(VH)." 

8. Margaret (died Jan. 1803) mar- 
ried Robert Newell (died March 6. 1787) ; 
they had issue: John; Robert: William; 
Margaret, who married Duncan Campbell ; 
Elizabeth, who married Rev. John Black; 
Mary ; .\gnes ; and Martha. 

9. Annabel died April 11. 1800. 

10. Elizabeth married James HdIH- 
day (VIII). 

11. SUSAX. 

(II) JOHN McDowell (bom about 
1 71 5 — died in Peters township, June 6, 
1794), son of William and Mary McDow- 
ell, obtained a warrant fur the land on whicli 
he built the mill, famous in frontier history 
as McDowell's Mill. Dec. 26. 1752. The 



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mill was hiiilt <in the east side of the west 
brancli of the Conococheague, where is sit- 
uated the village long known as Bridgeix)rt, 
but now called Alarkes. When the mill 
was built can nrnv be ascertained onlv a[)- 
proximately. Ilie tirst mention of it in the 
Colonial annals was in the spring of 1755, 
when the mad was projected from McDow- 
ell's Mill to the Three F^orks of the Voughio- 
gheny. for the purpose of furnishing the 
army under General Braddock with supplies. 
The original mill was a log structure, and 
adjacent to it Mr. McDowell built his dwell- 
ing house, also of logs. It was the inten- 
tion of the Peiuisylvania authorities to have 
a magazine at McDowell's Mill, with a 
stockade around the storehouses, as a base 
of supplies for the army that was expected 
to capture Fort Duquesne. "I send you 
the plan of the fort or stockade," Governor 
Morris wrote to General Braddock. July 6. 
1755, "which I shall make by setting logs 
of about ten feet long in the ground, so as 
to enclose the storehouses. I think to place 
two swivel guns in two of the opposite 
bastions, which will be sufficient to guard 
against any attacks of small arms." Three 
days after this letter was written Braddock's 
ill-fated expedition came to an end. The 
magazine became unnecessary, but Mr. Mc- 
Dowell built a stockade around his mill and 
dwelling house, and the two swivels were 
sent to the fort late in the autumn of 1755. 
In the meantime came the first Indian fora\- 
upon the unprotected frontier. The Indians 
swooped down upon the Big Cove with the 
torch and the tomahawk, and finding the 
frontier defenseless, carried their murder- 
ous work into the Conococheague country 
to within sight of McDowell's Mill. Hear- 
ing of the bloody work in the Big Cove. 
Sheriff Potter, who lived near Brown's Mill, 
sent word to the neighbors to meet him at 
McDowell's. When Potter arrived at the 

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mill the next mormng he found one hun- 
dred and sixty men there, but only forty of 
them could be induced to go out in pursuit 
of the Indians, who were still in the neigh- 
borhood. McDowell's became a rendezvous 
for the Indian fighters, there being some- 
times as many as four hundred men there, 
but the fort was not a stron,g one, and Fort 
Loudon was built to replace it. the public 
stores being safely moved from .McDowell's 
to the new fort. Dec. 26. \~^(i. McDowell's 
fort w as, rectangular in shape, and was built 
of logs. It stood until 1840. Mr. Mc- 
Dowell was a ruling elder of the L'])i)er 
West Conococheague Presbyterian church 
froiu Dec. 19. 1767, when he was ordained, 
until Jan. 28, 1785. He married Agnes 
Craig (born in 1717 — died Aug. 8. 1766): 
the}- had issue : 

1. M.\RY married Dr. Richard Brown- 
son (IX). 

2. Agnes married Elias Davidson (X). 

3. Elizabeth (died Dec. 12, 1822) 
married April 2, 1771, Rev. John King 
(born in Lancaster county, Dec. 5, 1743 — 
died July 15, 1813), who came to Conoco- 
cheague as a teacher in 1760. He was grad- 
uated at the College of Philadel])hia ( L^ni- 
versity of Pennsylvania) in 1766. lie was 
pastor of the L'i)]>er West Conococheague 
Presbyterian Chiux'h. 1769-1809. lie was 
an ardent patriot during the Revolution, and 
was chaplain of Col. Samuel Culbertson's 
battalion when in active service. The de- 
gree of D. D. was conferred upon him by 
Dickinson College in 1792. No issue. 

4. M.\Rr,.\RET married George King 
(XI). 

5. Catherine married Nov. 21, 1774. 
Hugh Davidson, brother of Elias, w ho mar- 
ried Agnes AIcDowell. He lived in I5ed- 
ford county, now Huntingdon, and was 
lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Battalion Red- 
ford Count\- Militia, in 1781. and justice 



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of the peace, in 1784. He represented tlie 
county of Huntingdon in the State Legis- 
lature, in 1787 and 1788, and was appointed 
an associate judge in 1791. Hugh and 
Catherine Davidson had issue : John, Ehas, 
Hugh, Nancy, Margaret, Catherine, Mary 
EHzabeth and Arabella. 

(Ill) WILLIAM McDowell (bom 
in Chester county, in 1722 — died in Peters 
township, Sept. 17, 1812), son of William 
and Mary McDowell, was an early settler 
at the base of Mt. Parnell, in the Conoco- 
cheague valley. Although sometimes driven 
from his home he remained on his farm 
during the greater part of the French and 
Indian War. His name figures in a curious 
transaction with Lieut. Charles Grant, com- 
mandant at Fort Loudon, in 1703. On the 
i8th of November, while the fort was be- 
sieged by the "Black Boys," he was given 
the custodv of the arms taken from the 
country people, and gave a receipt for five 
rifles and four smooth lx)re guns to be held 
by him until the Governor's pleasure in their 
.disposition was known. At the same time 
Thomas Orbison, William ]\Iarshall. John 
Welsh and Jonathan Smith executed a bond 
in two hundred pounds, Pennsylvania cur- 
rency, to protect McDowell against arrest 
.or actions at law. He was appointed a jus- 
tice of the peace for Peters township, Nov. 
3, 1778. He was a ruling elder of the Upper 
West Conococheague Presbyterian Cliurch 
from Dec. 19, 1767, until his death. He 
married Mary Maxwell (born in 1737 — 
died April 9, 1805), daughter of William 
and Susanna Maxwell, early settlers in the 
Conococheague valley. They had issue : 

1. William (XII). 

2. John (born Feb. 11. 1751 — died 
Dec. 22, 1820) was graduated at the College 
of Philadelphia (University of Pennsyl- 
vania) in 1 77 1. He spoke the English ora- 
tion at Commencement. He was a tutor in 



the college, 1769-82. Under the call of- 
July 28, I T/"], he served as a private in Capt. 
Samuel Patton's marching company. After 
leaving the university he went to Cam- 
bridge in Dorchester county, on the Eastern 
shore of Maryland, where he engaged in 
teaching and studied law. Among his pu- 
pils was Charles Goldsborough, afterward 
a representative in Congress and Governor 
of Maryland. The teacher inspired his pu- 
pil with sentiments of esteem and affection 
so marked and so lasting that a life-long 
friendship resulted, and found expression 
in an interchange of letters covering a period 
of thirty-five years. Many of the Golds- 
borough letters were preserved by the recip- 
ient and are still in existence. The first of 
the series was written from Philadelphia, 
Jan. 19, 1784, and it shows that Mr. Mc- 
Dowell had just come to the Bar of Dorches- 
ter county, Md., but was uncertain whether 
he would engage in practice at Cambridge. 
He does not seem to have fully made up his 
mind at the close of the year, for he was 
admitted to practice in the Franklin county 
courts at the first trial term in December. 
1784. He finally returned to Cambridge 
and entered upon the practice there. Legal 
memoranda that were preserved with the . 
Goldsborough letters prove that he was in 
full practice in Dorchester in 1789. Among 
his clients were his friends, Charles (lolds- 
borougli and John Henry, the latter one of 
the first Senators in Congress from Mary- 
land. In 1790 he was elected principal of 
St. John's College at Annapolis by a unani- 
mous vote. He had previously filled the 
professorship of Mathematics in the college 
for a short time. He filled this office until 
1806. when he resigned to become pro- 
fessor of Natural Philosophy in the Llni- 
\ersity of Pennsylvania. McDowell Hall, 
in which the centennial anniversary of the 
college was celebrated in 1890, is the monu- 



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ment to his service in beiialf of the institu- 
tion. He was in Philadelphia only a lew 
months when he was elected provost of the 
university. He resigned in 1810, because 
of ill health, but again performed the duties 
of the office for his successor. Dr. Andrews, 
in 1812. He subseqtiently returned to An- 
napolis, and was again elected principal of 
St. John's, in 1815, but declined. His last 
years were spent at the home of his sister, 
Mrs. Maris, in Peters township, where he 
died. In his will he bequeathed his Latin, 
Greek, Mathematical and Philosophical 
books to the University of Pennsylvania. 
He never married, but the Goldsborough 
letters show that he was on terms of the 
•closest intimacy with that distinguished 
Maryland family from his early manhood. 
He received the degree of LL. D. from his 
Alma Mater. 

3. Susan (born in 1752 — died May 
17, 1839) married Feb. 5, 1778, John Mar- 
tin, a physician of Talbot county, Alary- 
land, and they had issue : James, who mar- 
ried Elizabeth Talbot, daughter of Major 
Jeremiah Talbot, a Revolutionary soldier. 
and had William, Jeremiah T. and Matilda 
Crawford ; and William, INIary, Nancy, Jane 
and Margaret. 

4. J.\MES, born in 1754. died young. 

5. Mary (born in 1756 — died May 9, 
1799) married October, 1790. Dr. William 
Magaw (born in 1740 — died May i, 1829), 
son of William and Elizabeth Magaw. He 
was a distinguished surgeon of the Revolu- 
tion. She was his second wife; they had no 
issue. 

6. Nathan fXIII). 

7. Alexander (XIV). 

8. Andrew (XV). 

9. Margaret (born in 1765 — died 
Feb. 17, 1853) married May 6, 1806, Mat- 
thias Maris (born in German township, 
Philadelphia, May 19. 1747 — died Oct. 9, 



181 1 ), a wealthy Baltimore shipping mer- 
chant, who came to Peters township to live 
after his marriage; they had no issue. 

10. Agnes, born August, 1867, died 
June 2, 1 80 1. 

11. Patrick (XVI). 

12. Thomas (XVII). 

(IV) NATHAN McDowell (born 
in 1722 — died June 2, 1801), son of William 
and Mary McDowell, was a farmer and ex- 
tensive land owner. He married Catherine 
Maxwell, daughter of William and Susanna 
Maxwell; they had issue: 

1. Mary (born April 16. 1754 — died 
January, 1828), married Jan. 31, 1775, 
John Holliday (born in 1740 — died in 
1818), son of James and Elizabeth (Mc- 
Dowell) Holliday (XI). He was the first 
Chief Burgess of the borough of Chambers- 
burg; they had no issue. 

2. William^ born May 9, 1756, died 
Jan. 30, 1782. 

3. James, born Aug. 14. 1759, died 
April 9, 1789. 

4. JoHNj born Aug. 5, 1761, died Jan. 

25, 1785- 

5. Sus.-VN, born Feb. 12, 1764, died 
March 29, 1790. 

6. Nathan (XVIII). 

7. Maxwell (born Feb. 8, 1771 — 
died in 1848) was a physician; he prac- 
ticed at York, Pa., and afterward at Bal- 
timore, Md.. where he died. He married 
Ruth Bayley (born in 1773), daughter of 
John and Hannah (Clark) Bayley. They 
had issue: John, Mary and Susainia. 

(V) JAMES McDowell (bom in 
Chester county, in 1728 — died Feb. 5, 
181 1 ), son of William and Mar}- McDowell, 
was a farmer near Mt. Parnell in Peters 
township. He was an accomplished sur- 
veyor. In 1769 he was arrested by Sheriff 
Holmes, of Cumberland county, on sus- 
picion of being concerned with his brother- 



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in-law, Capt. James Smitli. in the capture 
of Fort Bedford. He was an Associate 
Judge of Franklin county, 1791-181 1. Judge 
McDowell married June, 1761. Jane Smith. 
a sister of Col. James Smith, the hero of 
"Border Life," and captain of the "Black- 
Boys." They had issue: 

1. Robert (born June 13, 1766 — died 
Oct. 10, 1806) was a farmer. He married 
Elizabeth Irwin, daughter of Joseph and 
Violet (Porter) Irwin; they had issue: 
James; Thomas; John; Margaretta ; Will- 
iam P. ; Jane, who married James Dunlap 
(Bard Family) ; and Violet, who died 
young. 

2. James, born June 5. 1768, died Nov. 

4. 1770- 

3. William Smith (XIX). 

4. James (XX). 

5. Mary (born April 5, 1762 — died 
Aug. 7, 182 1 ) married Thomas Campbell 
(born in 1751 — died April 5. 1816), son 
of James and Rebecca (Brown) Campbell. 
He was a captain in the "Flying Camp," 
and was captured at Fort Washington, Nov. 
16, 1776. He laid out the village of St. 
Thomas, formerly called "Campbellstown." 
They had issue: Jean, who married Joseph 
McKean ; and Elizabeth and Rebecca Brown. 

6. Annabelle (born Dec. 24, 1783 — ■ 
died Dec. 22, 1807) married Major John 
Johnston (born in 1747 — died Oct. 21, 
1826). son of James and Nancy (Walpole) 
Johnston. She was his second wife. 

7. Jane (born Feb. 13, 1771 — died 
Jan. 2T„ 1847) married (first) April 30, 
1789, Isaac Bard (born Feb. 8, 1762 — died 
July 28, 1806). son of Richard and Cath- 
erine (Poe) Bard. No issue. She mar- 
ried (second). Sept. 7, 1807, Col. John 
Findlay (born March 31. 1766 — died Nov. 

5, 1838). son of Samuel and Jean (Smith) 
Findlay. She was his second wife. 

8. Sarah (born Oct. 13, 1773 — died 



May 18. 1828) married May 5, 1795, Dan- 
iel McLene (died in 1809), son of James 
and Christian (Brown) McLene. They 
had issue : James ; Robert ; Jane, who mar- 
ried Joseph Dunlap; Phanuel. who married 
John Graham ; and Mary. Annabelle and 
Sarah. 

9. i\lARGARET, bom Juue 8, 1772, died 
Dec. 8. 1819. 

(VI) SARAH }>lcDOWELL (born 
Nov. 30, 1738 — died Sept. 5. 1805), daugh- 
ter of William and Mary McDowell, mar- 
ried Dec. 29. 1739. William Piper (bom 
in West Pennsboro township, Cumberland 
county, Oct. 31, 1735-^died Jan. 7, 1793), 
a captain in Col. Clayton's regiment in 1763. 
and served in Col. Bouquet's expedition. In 
1768 he settled on the West Branch of the 
Susquehanna, on one of his grants from 
the Province for his services in the French 
and Indian War. The Indian forays dur- 
ing the Revolution dro\e him back to the 
Cumberland Valley, and he dieil in Peters 
township. He was commissioner of e.xcise 
for Cumberland county, in 1778-80. Capt. 
William and Sarah (McDowell) Piper had 
one daughter : 

I. Margaret, married (first) William 
Smith; (second) James Irwin (XXI). 

(VII) JEAN McDowell (bom 
near Mt. Parnell, April 19, 1736 — died Aug. 
6, 1814), daughter of William and Mary 
McDowell, married in 1757, Archibald Irwin 
(born probably on the Conedogiiinet. in 
Pennsboro township, in 1734 — died of pal- 
sy in the winter of 1798 — 99). son of James 
and Jean Irwin, pioneer settlers in the Cum- 
berland Valley, near Hagerstown. who 
afterward removed to Peters township. 
.Archibald Irwin was ensign of Capt. John 
Steel's company in the Kittanning exjjedi- 
tion under Colonel Armstrong, in 1756. and 
quartermaster of Col. Samuel Culbertson's 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANXALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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1777-80. He built a fine stone dwelling- 
house, still standing, anil a flour and saw- 
mill on the west branch of the Conoco- 
cheague. in Montgomery township. To the 
mills he gave the name of 'Trwinton Mills." 
Archibald and Jean Irwin bad issue: 

1. James (XXI). 

2. W1U.IAM (born Feb. 5, 1766 — died 
July 16, 1824). removed to Cincinnati. He 
married Dec. 5, 1787, Mary Smith, daugh- 
ter of Robert and Grizzel ( Newell ) Smith, 
and they had issue : William ; James Find- 
lay; Jane, who died unmarried, April 12, 
1852; Harriet, who married Thomas Sloo; 
and Louise, who married Lewis W'hiteman. 

3. Archibald (XXII). 

4. John, baptized .\pril 3. 1774. died 
June 8. 1779. 

5. Mary married Matthew Van Lear 
(XXIII). 

6. Margaret, born Sept. 10. 1761, 
died unmarried. 

7. Nancy married William Findlay 
(XXIV). 

8. Elizabeth married Rol>ert Smith 
(XXV). 

9. Jane (born June 22, 1769) mar- 
ried June 13, 1797, James Findlay (born 
near Mercersburg in 1770 — died at Cincin- 
nati), son of Samuel and Jean (Smith) 
Findlay, and brother of Gov. William Find- 
lay. who married Nancy Irwin (XXIV). 
He removed to Ohio in 1795, and was 
mayor of Cincinnati. 1805-06, and 1810-u. 
He commanded a regiment in the war of 
1812 and was at Hull's surrender. During 
the war he erected Fort Findlay on the 
south branch of Blanchard's Fork, as a pro- 
tection against the savages and the English. 
In recogi-iition of his services he was made 
a brigadier-general of the Ohio militia. 
Gen. Findlay was a member of Congress. 
1825-33. 



(VIII) ELIZABETH McDOWELL, 
daughter of William and Mary Mcl>nvell, 
married (first) James HoUiday (born in 
Ireland — died June 9. 1757). .son of John 
Holliday, a pioneer of Peters townshi]j. 1 le 
was lieutenant of Capt. John Steel's com- 
pany, and participated in the Kittanning ex- 
pedition in 1756. He commanded a detach- 
ment sent to reconnoitre the n-iounlains west 
of Fort Loudon, June 9, 1757, and was sur- 
prised and killed by the Indians in the Big 
Cove. James and Elizabeth Holliday had 
issue : 

1. John married Mary McDowell 
(IV— I). 

2. William died before 1761. 

3. Samuel (born March 24. 1745 — ■ 
died Nov. 10, 1841 ). removed to the Presque 
Isle settlement in 1795, and became a prom- 
inent citizen of Erie. .'Mthough ])ast the mil- 
itary age he served in the war of 181 2. He 
married Jennet Campbell (born July, 1755 — 
died June 2-, 1851), daughter of William 
and Jane Campbell, of Mercersburg; they 
had issue: John, Samuel. William, Elizabeth, 
Jane and Lucinda. Major S. P. Holliday, of 
Erie, is a descendant of William. 

Mrs. Hollidav married (second), before 
1762. Daniel McAllister, son of .Archibald 
and Jane (McClure) McAllister, pioneers of 
Cumberland county ; they had issue : Mar)', 
txirn in I7(x), married William McClure, and 
removed to the Monongahela ; Jane, born in 
1762, married William McClure. brother of 
William, and lived near Jersey Shore; and 
Elizabeth niarried John Mitchell, who lived 
in Virginia, and afterward in Kentucky. 
Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchell was a son of Eliza- 
beth McAllister and John Mitchell. 

(IX) MARY McDowell (bom in 
1743 — died .April 22. 1833), daughter of 
John and .Agries (Craig) McDowell, mar- 
ried Dr. Richard Brownson (died March 25, 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FR,\NKLIN COUNTY. 



1790), a nephew of Dr. Nathan Brownson, 
deputy surveyor of hospitals for the South- 
em Army, 1781-83, and governor of 
Georgia. He came to Peters township be- 
for the Revolution, where he practiced med- 
icine. He was surgeon of Col. Samuel Cul- 
bertson's battalion, Cumberland County As- 
sociators, 1777-80. Dr. Richard and Mary 
Brownson had issue : 

1. Nancy married Col. John Findlay 
(XXVI). 

2. John (XXVII). 

3. Timothy, born in 1771, died Aug. 

I, 1777- 

4. Abigail, born in 1773, died unmar- 
ried, May 12, 1816. 

5. Asa died unmarried, in Cincinnati, 
Sept. ID, 1805. 

6. Nathan, born Oct. 2, 1776, died un- 
married Jan. 26, 1856. 

7. Elizabeth, born in 1779, died un- 
married, April 3, 1845. 

(X) AGNES McDOWELL (born Sept. 
9, 1740 — died June g, 1790), daughter of 
John and Agnes (Craig) McDowell, mar- 
ried March 9, 1771, Elias Davidson (born in 
1736 — died April 1 5. 1806) , who came to the 
Conococheague valley as a young man, and 
was a captain in the "Flying Camp" in 1776, 
and of Col. Abraham Smith's battalion, 
Cumberland County Associators, 1777-79. 
After the Revolution he became an extensiv-e 
land owner, and owned a large number of 
slaves. He was a ruling elder in the Pres- 
byterian church at Greencastle. Elias and 
Agnes Davidson had issue : 

1. Patrick. 

2. Elias (born in Antrim township — 
died September, 1828) married (first) 
Nancy Allison (Iwrn Dec. 14. 1780 — died 
Dec. 25, 1 8 18), and (second) Rebecca Alli- 
son (born April i. 1789 — died June 22, 
1824), both daughters of Col. John and 
Elizabeth (Wilkin) Allison. By his first 



marriage he had issue: John Allison, born 
July 4, 1812, died March 28. 1841 ; Elias 
Wilkin, born July 17, 1814, died May 7, 
1865; and Elizabeth Lydia (bom Oct. i, 
1818 — died Sept. 3, i860), married Jan. 30, 
1850, William Dorris, of Huntingdon, and 
had William Wilkin and John Davidson. 

3. John M. (XXVIII). 

4. William. 

5. Nancy married Lazarus Brown 
(died Dec. 1842), son of George and Agnes 
(Maxwell) Brown; they had issue: George, 
Thomas, William, Maxwell and Nancy. , 

6. Elizabeth married Patrick Mc- 
Dowell (XVI). 

7. Mary married Rev. Robert Ken- 
nedy (Kennedy Family). 

(XI) MARGARET McDOWELL. 
daughter of John and Agnes { Craig) Mc- 
Dowell, married June 6, 1786, George King 
(born in Lancaster county, in' 1758 — died 
March 24, 1840). a brother of Rev. Dr. John 
King. He settled in Peters township; they 
had issue : 

1. Robert (bom in 1792 — died Aug. 
29, 1856), was captain of the Alercersburg 
Light Infantry, and was postmaster at Mer- 
cersburg, 1827-29. He married Jan. i, 
1824, Jane Skiles (died Dec. 25. 1857), and 
they had issue: James C, John S. (a physi- 
cian) and George Davidson (died in Cali- 
fornia). 

2. John McDowell, bom in 1791. 

3. James (born in 1797) married April 
24. 1823, Jane Morrison, and they had issue: 
John McDowell. 

4. George McL.aughlix. born in 
1800. 

5. Agnes Craig married Thomas Car- 
son (XXIX). 

(XII) WILLIAM McDOWELL (bom 
in 1750 — died Jvme 19, 1835), son of Will- 
iam and Mary (Maxwell) McDowell, was 
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BICGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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was appointed second lieutenant in the ist 
'Regiment Pennsylvania Line, May 13, 1777; 
promoted to be first lieutenant, March 22, 
1778; transferred to the 2d Pennsylvania, 
Jan. I, 1783, and served to Nov. 3, 17S3. 
He was in most of the battles of Washing- 
ton's army from the campaign around Phil- 
adelphia to the capture of Yorktown, and 
he was one of the forlorn hope that surprised 
Stony Point. After the surrender of Cnrn- 
wallis he participated in the Southern cam- 
paign. His journal, which he began at Y^ork, 
Pa., May 26, 1781, and closed with his re- 
turn to his father's house in Peters town- 
ship, Dec. 21, 1782, is a full record of the 
operations of Gen. Wayne's command in the 
South for a period covering nearly two years. 
It is preserved in the Pennsylvania Archives, 
2d Series, "Vol. XV. After the Revolution 
Capt. McDowell settled on his farm in his 
native township. When Baltimore was 
threatened by the British in 18 14, this vet- 
eran officer of the Revolution served as a 
private in Capt. Thomas Bard's company. 
Capt. McDowell married Feb. 8, 1786, Eliza- 
beth Van Lear (died June 14, 1814), and 
they had issue ; 

1. Mary I^L-iXwell, born Nov. 24, 
1.786, died unmarried. May 4, 1840. 

2. Elizabeth^ born in 1788, died July, 
1803. 

3. Jane Van Lear married Patrick 
M. Davidson (XXVIII— i). 

4. William (XXX). 

5. Marg.\ret, born in 1794. died 
March 11, 1853. 

6. John (born in 1796 — died Nov. 11, 
1879) removed to Delavan. 111. He mar- 
ried (first) June 23, 1842. Agnes (Nancy) 
McDowell (born in 1806 — died June 19, 
1845), daughter of Patrick and Elizabeth 
(Davidson) McDowell, and they had issue: 
Mary Alice (died July 7. 1844) and Eliza- 
beth, twins, bom May 30. 1843. He married 



(second), July 18, 1855, Margaret Irwin 
Brownson (bom Feb. 12, 181 2 — died Aug. 
31, 1875), daughter of John and Sarah 
(Smith) Brownson. 

7. Matthew Van Le.\r, born in 1798, 
died in 1823. 

8. Nathan, born in 1802. died Sept. 
I, 1803. 

(XIII) NATHAN McDowell 

(horn in 1759— died Feb. i, 1830), son of 
William and Mary (Maxwell) McDowell, 
served as a private in Capt. Samuel Patton's 
marching company under the call of July 28, 
1777, and a second time in 1778. In 1785, he 
was appointed an ensign of the Pennsylvania 
quota in Lieut. Col. Josiah Harmar's regi- 
ment of Federal militia, designed to protect 
the Western frontier from Indian forays. His 
original commission was dated Oct. 21, 1784. 
The regiment was stationed at Fort Mcin- 
tosh. While serving under Lieut. Col. Har- 
mar, a detachment of which he had the com- 
mand was attacked by the Tawawa and Chip- 
pewa Indians, but in consequence of a gallant 
defense the assailants were repulsed with 
considerable loss. By this engagement the 
victors were reduced by killed, wounded and 
missing to ten in number, ha\ing charge of 
six prisoners taken in the contest. In this 
perilous situation they remained until rein- 
forced from the main army. On joining the 
army Mr. McDowell received the thanks of 
Gen. Harmar for his spirited defense and 
gallant conduct. As a soldier he was cool, 
collected and intrepid, and by his urbanity of 
manner he endeared him.self to all his com- 
panions in arms. After leaving the army he 
returned to his home in Peters township, 
w-here the rest of his life was spent. He mar- 
ried Mary McLanahan (died Oct. 22. 1818), 
daughter of John and Rebecca , (A gnew) 
McLanahan : they had issue : 

I. William (born Jan. 28. 1793 — 
died May 9, 1825) served in Capt. John 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Flanagan's company for the defense of Bal- 
timore in 1814. He married Martha Gal- 
lagher, daughter of Alexander Gallagher, 
and they had issue: Eliza Robison (born 
March 6. 1821) married in 1843, Andrew N. 
Rankin, and had issue : Adella, Margaret, 
"VVilliam M., Andrew B., and Arie Alcesta : 
and Mary McLanahan. 

2. Sarah, born Sept. 19, 1794. died 
Oct. 3, 1794. 

3. Sarah (born Jan. 25, 1796 — died 
Oct. 16. 1856) married George W. Eaker 
(born Nov. 14, 1796 — died March 4. 1849), 
son of George and Mary Eaker, of Welsh 
Run. George Eaker was a Revolutionary 
soldier. George W. and Sarah (McDowell) 
Eaker had issue: Nathan McDowell, born 
April I, 1832, died July 22, 1845. 

4. Mary Maxwell, born Dec. 17, 
1797, died March 18, 1843. 

5. Susanna Bella, born Nov. 16, 
1799, died June 25, 1800. 

6. John McLanahan (XXXI). 

7. Nathan (XXXIl). 

8. Rebecca Margaret married Will- 
iam M. Riddle [Riddle Family]. 

(XIV) ALEXANDER McDOWELL 
(born in the Conococheague Valley in 1760 
— died at Franklin, Venango County. Jan. 4, 
1816). son of William and Mary ( Ma.xwell) 
McDowell, adopted surveying as a profes- 
sion. In 1794, he went to Venango county 
as a deputy surveyor and agent for the Hol- 
land Land Company, He made his home 
on the site of Franklin, building himself a 
log house that was without windows or 
doors. He took his family to his new home 
in 1797. A few years later he built a new 
weather-boarded house, which was com- 
pleted in 1802. This house stood on the 
edge of the bluff overlooking French creek, 
and it was not demoFished until 1874, At 
the time that Colonel McDowell settled at 
Franklin there were manv Indians in the 



neighborhood, but they gave the McDowells- 
no trouble beyond the noise that attended 
their debauches. Colonel McDowell was 
well acquainted with Cornplanter, the fa- 
mous Indian chief, whose friendship he ob- 
tained thnjugh his fairness in surveying the 
chief's land on the Allegheny. His favor 
with the early white settleis was equally 
marked. He was a justice of the peace, and 
was the general arbiter in setthng the differ- 
ences between man and man. He was a 
gentleman of the old school, sedate and dig- 
nified. Colonel McDowell married in 1795, 
Sarah Parker (born in 1762 — died Septem- 
ber, 1865), a native of Philadelphia. Mrs. 
McDowell's tombstone bears testimony of 
her remarkable age of 103 years. She was 
a woman small in stature, graceful in form 
and beautiful in feature. Col, Alexander and 
Sarah McDowell had issue : 

1. Elizabeth, born in 1796, died in 
1808. 

2. Susan, born in 1798: died in 1806. 

3. Margaretta (born in 1799 — died 
Jan. 2S. 1825) married in December, 18 19, 
Archibald Tanner. They had issue : Sarah 
Parker, born July 3, 182 1, died June 3, 1849; 
and Laura Margaret, born Sept. 9, 1823, 
married Glenni W. Scofield. born March 11, 
1817), member of Congress, 1863-75. 

4. Sarah (born in 1801 — died July 21, 
1821) married Alexander S. Hays. 

5. Thomas Skelly (XXXIII), 
\ViLLL\M (born Jan. 25, 1805 — 

\pril 21, 1839), married Elvina Mc- 
and thev had issue : Sarah and Her- 



6 
died 
Nutt. 
bert. 



8, 
9- 



Alex.^nder (XXXIV). 

Parker (XXXV). 

M.ARY, bom in 1813, died in 1820. 
(XV) ANDREW McDowell (Iwrn 
in 1761 — died Jan. 13, 1846). son of Will- 
iam and Mary (Maxwell) McDowell, was 
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ment of tlie University of Pennsylvania, in 
1787. He was for a Ijrief period professor 
of Latin and Greek in tiie University, but 
soon after receiving his medical degree he 
settled at Chambersburg. where he was in 
active and successful practice for more than 
forty years. He was physician to the Frank- 
lin county poor-house, 1815-1S, and 1829-30. 
He was one of the founders of the first med- 
ical society in the county, organized in 1825. 
Admonished by advancing years he finally 
relinquished his practice, and made his home 
with his son. Dr. John McDowell, at Mer- 
cersburg. Dr. McDowell married May 9, 
1793, Agnes McPherson (born in 1765 — 
died Nov. 9, 1827), daughter of Col. Robert 
and Agnes (Miller) McPherson, of York. 
They had issue : 

1. William M. (born in 1794 — died 
Sept. 21, 1825) studied law, but the record 
of his admission to the Bar has been lost. He 
was clerk to the County Commissioners, 
1811-15. and prosecuting attorney, 1815-19. 
He served in Capt. Samuel D. Culbertson's 
company for the flefense of Baltimore in 
1814. His uncle, John McDowell. LL. D., 
in 1820, left $300 in trust for him for the 
purchase of law books, if he chose to con- 
tinue to pursue his profession. 

2. John (XXXVI). 

3. Agnes M. married Otho Williams. 
(XXXVII). 

4. Robert M. (XXXVIII). 

5. Andrew N. (XXXIX). 

6. Mary M.^xwell married Samuel 
Bailey, and they had issue : Andrew Mc- 
Dowell, who married Elizabeth Breading 
Dalzell, and had Otho Williams, Mary Mc- 
Dowell. Robert Dalzell, Kate Dalzell and 
Alice. 

(XVI) PATRICK McDowell 

(bom Feb. 10, 1770 — died April 24, 1846), 
son of William and Mary (Maxwell) Mc- 
Dowell, was a farmer and hotel-keeper at the 



"White House," near St. Thomas. He mar- 
ried .Nov. 22, 1803, Elizabeth Davidson 
(born May, 1780 — died Aug. 2, 1851), 
daughter of Elias and Agnes (McDowell) 
Davidson ; they had issue : 

1. Agnes married John McDowell 
(_X11— 6). 

2. Mary Ma.xwell, born in 1807, died 
Nov. I, 1899. 

3. William -\ndrew, born Nov. i, 
181 1, died Nov. 17, 1835. 

4. Elizabeth King (born in 1813) 
married March 26, 1835, William Campbell 
(born June 15, 1802 — died Jan. 13, 1840), 
and they had issue: Sarah M., Iwrn 
April, 1837, died Nov. 23, 1857; and 
Elizabeth D., born May 31, 1838, died 
June 13, 1857. 

5. Elias Davidson (born in 181 5) 
kept a hotel near Mt. Parnell ; he married 
Mary Earl. 

6. Margaret (born in 18 17 — died 
Sept. 2, 1866) married Dr. Mathias Maris. 

(XVII) THOMAS McDowell 

(born in 1772 — died Aug. 4, 1851), son of 
William and Mary (Maxwell) McDowell, 
was a farmer in Peters township, and a rul- 
ing elder of the Upper West Conococheague 
Presbyterian Church, from 1814 until his 
death. He married March 12, 1807, Mary 
Craig Davidson (born in 1784 — died Oct. 
31, 1854), daughter of Elias and Agnes 
(McDowell) Davidson. They had issue : 

1. Mary Maxwell married (first) 
Dr. William Humphreys; (second) Rev. A. 
K. Nelson (XL). 

2. Catherine Davidson (born .\pril 
2, 181 1 — died Oct. 21, 1893). married Nov. 
I, 1842, Rev. Nathan Grier White (born in 
Eagg's Manor, April 11. 1810 — died Sept. 
29, 1895). son of Rev. Robert and Nancy 
(Grier) White. He was graduated at Dick- 
inson College and the Princeton Theological 
Seminary, and was pastor of the McCon- 



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nellsburg Presbyterian Church for thirty 
years, 1834-64. He afterward served con- 
gregations at WilHamsburg and New Haven, 
Pa. She was his second wife. They had 
issue: Thomas Henry, born Oct. 26, 1845, 
married Clara V. Ake; Anna Mary, born 
June 26, 1848, married William L. Neff ; and 
Edwin McCrea, born Aug. 31, 1850, died 
May 8, 1859. 

3. William H. (XLI). 

4. Hugh Davidson^ born September, 
1814, died Feb. 16, 1840. 

5. John Alexander, bom in 1819. 

6. Susan Agnes, born June 21, 1822, 
died June 18, 1843. 

(XVIII) NATHAN McDOW^ELL 
(born Dec. 19, 1767 — died Oct. 21. 1820). 
son of Nathan and Catherine (Maxwell) 
McDowell, was a farmer. He married 
March 14, 1792. Jean Irwin, daughter of Jo- 
seph and Violet (Porter) Irwin; they had 
issue : 

1. Catherine married Otho Williams. 

2. Mary J., born Aug. 16, 1795. 

3. James, born Aug. 27, 1797, died in 
1798. 

4. Martha I., born March i, 1799. 
• 5- Nathan (XLII). 

6. Matilda, born April 13, 1804. 

7. Joseph Irwin, born Jan. 28, 1806. 

8. John H., born April 18. 1808. 

(XIX) WILLIAM SMITH Mc- 
DOWELL (born Oct. 20, 1776— died Jan. 
23, 1834), son of James and Jane (Smith) 
McDowell, was a farmer in Peters township; 
he was a member of the State Legislature, 
1833-34. He married Mary Erwin (born 
Jan. 8, 1781 — died Jan. 4, i860), and they 
had issue: 

1. Mary Holmes (born in 1806) mar- 
ried James Campbell. 

2. Alexander Erwin (XLIII). 

3. Robert, born in 1812, went West. 
• 4. William Erwin (XLIV). 



5. Jane Elizabeth (born in 1816) 
married Jacob Shellenberger. 

6. Annabella Johnston married 
Thomas Gillan [Gillan Family]. 

7. James McDowell, born Aug. 23, 
1826, died Sept. 4, 1S77. 

(XX) JAMES McDowell (bom 
Dec. 6, 1782 — died April 8, 1861), son of 
James and Jane (Smith) McDowell was 
reared on his father's farm at Mt. Parnell, 
and was a farmer. He was first lieutenant 
of Capt. Thomas Bard's company, which 
marched to the defense of Baltimore in 181 4, 
and when the Franklin County companies 
were organized into a regiment he became 
its adjutant. He married Oct. 2'j, 1813, 
Mary Poe Dunlap (born Jan. 20. 1789 — 
died Oct. 9, 1876), daughter of James and 
Mary (Bard) Dunlap; they had issue: 

1. Mary Bard, born Aug. 14. 1814, 
died unmarried, Feb. 13, 1871. 

2. James Dunlap (born March 16, 
1 81 6 — died unmarried Oct. 9, 1887) was 
educated in the neighborhood schools. In 
early life he followed surveying and teach- 
ing. As a teacher he was held in great es- 
teem. In politics he was a W'hig and Re- 
publican. He was \ery acti\e in the Whig 
campaign of 1848. In 185 1, he was a can- 
didate for the ^^^^ig nomination for pro- 
thonotary. but was defeated in the county 
convention. He was elected an Associate 
Jud.ge in 1871, and .served until 1876. being 
the last Associate Judge of the county. He 
was elected a member of the Legislature in 
1880. and was one of the Independent Re- 
publicans who refused to support the caucus 
nominee for United States Senator in 1881- 
82. He was postmaster at Mt. Parnell, 
1878-80. 

3. Jane Smith married Charles Gillan 
[Gillan Family]. 

4. Sarah Margaret, born July 26, 
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5. Elizabeth Olivia, born Sept. 21, 
1 82 1, died unmarried Dec. 16, 1878. 

6. William Findlay, born June 23, 
1824, died Feb. 5, 1890. 

7. Robert Holmes, born Oct. 8, 1826, 
lived in St. Thomas. 

8. Catharine Poe (born July u. 
1828 — died Oct. 19, 1890) married Alex- 
ander C. Armstrong. 

(XXI) MARGARET PIPER (born 
April 3, 1765 — died Feb. 20. 1852), daugh- 
ter of William and Sarah (McDowell) 
Piper, was the subject of a charming de- 
scription in the diary of the Rev. Mr. Fithian, 
a Presbyterian minister. "There is no one 
in the society," he wrote July 13 ,1775, "but 
my little W^ain that can tell you what is ef- 
fectual calling. Indeed this little Wain is a 
lovely girl. She is an only child just ten 
years old. She seems to me to be remark- 
ably intelligent ; reads very clear attends 
well to the quantity of words ; has a sweet, 
nervous accent. Indeed I have not been so 
lately pleased as with this rosy-cheeked Miss 
Peggy Piper." She married (first) Sept. 2, 
1783. William Smith (born in 1764 — died 
April. 1786). son of William and Mary 
(Smith) Smith, -who inherited the site of 
Mercersburg. which he was engaged in lay- 
ing out as a town when he died. He was 
lieutenant of Capt. William Huston's com- 
pany in Col. Samuel Culbertson's battalion, 
Cumberland County Associators, in 1780. 
They had one daughter : 

I. S.\rah married John Brownson 

(xxvin. 

Mrs. Smith married (second) Dec. 5, 
178^, James Irwin (born April 14, 1758 — 
died Nov. 9, 1843), son of Archibald and 
Jeaii (McDowein Irwin, a private in the 
Revolution and assistant commissarv with 
the western army. He was born in York 
G6imty, owing to the flight of his parents 



from the French and Indians. James and 
Margaret Irwin had issue: 

1. Archibald, born Oct. 9, 1788, died 
May 31, 1797. 

2. Mary Smith (born Jan. 6, 1790 — 
died June 12, 1863) married James McClel- 
land (born July 29, 1776 — died April 27, 
1863), son of John and Sidney (Roddy) 
McClelland. They had issue : John ; Sidney, 
who married Matthew Sims Van Lear; and 
Margaret Irwin. 

3. William (born Nov. 24, 1791) 
married Ann Hamilton, and they had issue: 
Mary, Ann, Sarah, William P., John, Mar- 
garet, Elizabeth and James. 

4. John, born Feb. i, 1794, died Oct. 
13, 1838. 

5. James, born March 28, 1797, died 
March 4, 1798. 

6. Archibald James (born Dec. 15, 
1798 — died in St. Louis, Nov. 14, 1867) 
married Mary Stuart Hunter, daughter of 
Charles Hunter. 

7. Matthew (born Sept. 5, 1800 — • 
died Nov. 22, 1869) was for many years a 
popular school teacher at Mercersburg. He 
married Florence ^^'ilson. and they had is- 
sue : Margaret ; Mary McClelland, who mar- 
ried Thomas A. Creigh ; Elizabeth Wilson ; 
Emmeline Van Lear ; James McClelland ; and 
Ada Jane. 

8. J.\NE F., born June 30, 1803. died 
April 12, 1852. 

(XXII) ARCHIBALD IRWIN (born 
Feb. 13, 1772 — died March 3, 1840), son of 
Archibald and Jean (McDowell) Irwin, in- 
herited "Irwinton Mills" under his father's 
will. He was a prominent man in the Con- 
ococheague Valley. He married (first) Oct. 
II, 1798, Mar\' Ramsey (born March 30, 
1781 — died Feb. 10, 1813), daughter of 
Major James and Elizabeth (Porter) Ram- 
sey. Major Ramsey built the mill on the 



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West Conococlieague, two miles above "Ir- 
winton Mills,"' now known as Hiester's Mill. 
Archibald and Mary Irwin had issue : 

1. James Ramsey (born at "Irwinton 
Mills." Dec. I, 1800 — died in the City of 
JMexico, Jan. 10. 1848), was graduated at the 
Military Academy at West Point, in 1825. 
He served in the Seminole War, 1836-38. 
and was a captain in the ist Artillery, U./ S. 
A., at the beginning of the war with Mexico. 
In the Mexican War, he was quartermaster 
of the army under Major General Scott, and 
was present at the battles of Cerro Gordo. 
Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, 
and the capture of the City of Mexico. 

2. Jane (born July 2^. 1804 — died 
May II. 1846) married Feb. 8. 1824, Will- 
iam Henry Harrison, (Ijorn in 1802 — died 
in 1838). son of Gen. William H. and Anna 
'(S_vmmes) Harrison, a lawyer in Cincin- 
nati. When General Harrison became Pres- 
ident of the United States his son's widow 
accompanied him to Washington, and dur- 
ing his brief administration was mistress of 
the White House. The younger William H. 
and Jane Harrison had two sons : James 
Findlay and William Henr}'. James Find- 
lay Harrison married (first) Carrie Alston, 
and they had issue: James F., William A. 
and William H., all dead. He married (sec- 
ond) Alice Miriam Kennedy, and they had 
issue: Jane Alice, John Scott. William H.. 
Mary Randolph, James F. and Archibald 
Irwin. William Henry Harrison III, died in 
1849. Mrs. Jane Harrison married (sec- 
ond) Lewis Whiteman. 

3. John Ramsey (born May 22. 1807) 
married Anna Eaton. 

4. Archibald (born May 22, 1807 — 
died September, 1852) married Martha 
Sumwault. 

5. Elizabeth married John Scott Har- 
rison (XLV). 

Mr. Irwin married (second) Dec. 13, 



1813, Sidney Grubb — (born March 9, 1789 
— died March 30, 1869), daughter of Joseph 
and Jane (McClelland) Grubb, and they 
had issue : 

1. Joseph (jrubb, bom Oct. 10, 1814, 
died unmarried. 

2. William Findlay (born July 18, 
1 81 7 — died Dec. 2j. 1900) married Harriet 
Irwin Whiteman, daughter of Lewis and 
Louisa (Irwin) Whiteman. and they had 
issue: Archibald I., Lewis \\'., Louisa, Jane 
Findlay, Kate and Harriet. 

3. Mary Jane, born Oct. 16, 18 19, 
died Dec. 21, 1836. 

4. Nancy Isabella (born April 9, 
1822 — died Feb. 12, 1843) married Cephas 
Bell Huston (born in 1820), son of William 
and Mary Ann (Bell) Huston. They had 
issue : Mary Cowan, who married Ira Harris, 
and had Ira and Louise: and Jane Whiteman 
who marrieil Rev. John Dixon, D. D. (born 
Jan. 25, 1847), a Presbyterian minister, and 
had Huston and Marion. 

5. Louisa married Charles B. MacJay 
[Maclay Family]. 

6. Sarah Ellen (born Oct. 7, 1828 — 
died Sept. 13. 1889) married Nov. 2, 1859. 
Dr. Frisby S. Newcomer (born Dec. 10, 
1828 — died Sept. 13, 1889), son of Martin 
and Mary (Snively) Newcomer. They had 
issue : Mary, Nancy and George. 

7. Sidney (born Feb. 20, 1833 — died 
Jan. 10, 1865) married John Grubb, and 
they had issue : Archibald Irwin and William 
Irwin. 

(XXIII) MARY IRWIN (bom Feb. 
14. 1760 — died June 28, 1828), daughter of 
Archibald and Jean (McDowell) Irwin, 
married December, 1782. Matthew Van 
Lear (born in Lancaster county in 1755 — 
died in Washington county, Md.. July 2^, 
1823), son of John Van Lear, was a mer- 
chant in early life but spent his later years on 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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iamsport, Md.. comprising a tract of twehe 
huiulred acres. This estate was not di- 
vided nntil 1862. He erected the well-known 
Van Lear mansion on the road hetween 
Hag-erstown and Williamsport. ^Matthew 
and Mar\- Van Lear had issue : 

1. Jane (born Feb. 16, 1784 — died 
Alarch 26, 1828) married November, 1802, 
John Ramsey (born Jan. 19. 1779 — died at 
Maysville. Ky., in 1833), son of Major 
James and Ehzabeth (Porter) Ramsey, was 
the founder of Ligdnier, in Westmoreland 
county, which he named "Ramseytown." and 
later kept a hotel at Pittsburgh, where he en- 
tertained General Lafayette, in 1825. They 
had issue : James, Matthew, John, Mary 
Jane, Eliza Jane, Sarah Louisa. Sophia 
Alice, Nancy Caroline, Susan Emma and 
Frances Harriet. 

2. John (born Nov. 18, 1786 — died 
unmarried April 24, 1857) was a merchant 
in Baltimore, and afterward president and 
later cashier of the W'ashington cninty 
(Md.) Bank. 

3. M.ARv (born Feb. 9. 1790 — died 
June 12, 1818) married Jan. 12, 181 5, John 
Finley, son of Ebenezer Finley, a merchant 
of Baltimore. 

4. Eliza (born Feb. 9, 1790) marrierl 
Oct. 3, 1809, Michael A. Finley (Ixirn in 
1786 — died March 25, 1848), son of Eben- 
ezer Finley, a physician at Williamsport, 
Maryland. 

5. William (born Jan. 26, 1794 — died 
May, 1837) was a physician at Williamsport, 
Md. He married Susan Graham (born in 
1800 — diefl December, 1855), of Bedford, 
Pa. They had issue : John, William G.. Ed- 
ward W., John Horace. Matthew and Mary 
Irwin. 

6. Matthew Sims (born July 8. 1795 
— died Dec. 19. 1852), married -\ug. 29, 
1843, Sidney McClelland (born .Aug. 29, 



1818— died Feb. 7, 1864). daughter of 
James and Mary (Smith) .McClelland. 

7. James, born Dec. 16, 179O, died un- 
married, July 20, 1820. 

8. HoR.vTio Nelson, born Sept. 6,, 
1798, died unmarried, Aug. 20. 1823. 

9. Joseph Sims, born .\pril 10, 1800, 
died unmarried, Oct. 21, 1859. 

10. Sophia married .Archibald 1. Find- 
lay (XXIV— 2). 

(XXIV) NANCY IRWIN (l)orn .Xpril 
27. 1763— (lied July 27, 1824), daughter of 
.Archibald and Jean McDowell Irwin, mar- 
ried Dec. 7, 1791, William Findlay (born at 
Mercersburg, June 20, 1768 — died Nov. 12, 
1846), son of Samuel and Jean (Smith) 
Fmdlay, a member of the Pennsylvasia Leg- 
islature, 1803-07; State Treasurer, 1807-17; 
Governor of Pennsylvania. 1817-20; and 
United States Senator, 1821-27. William 
and Nancy Findlay had issue ; 

1. S.'^MUEL (born in 1797 — died un- 
married, at Pittsburgh), was a lawyer at 
Cincinnati. 

2. .Archibald Irwin (born Jan. 21, 
1799 — died Oct. 8, 1839) was admitted to 
the Franklin County Bar, .April 21, 1821, 
and practiced at Chambersburg. He married 
October, 1829, Sophia Van Lear (born Feb. 
12, 1804— died .\pril 21. 1881), daughter of 
Matthew and Mary (Irwin) Van Lear. 
They had issue: Nancy, Mary F., William, 
James Irwin and John Van Lear. The 
youngest son is a leading member of the 
Baltimore Bar. 

3. Ja.mes (born in 1801 — died in 1843) 
was a prominent Pittsburgh lawver. He 
was a member of the Pennsyl\ania Legis- 
lature. 1831-33, and Speaker of the House 
ill 1833. 

4. John Kinc, (born May, 1803 — 
died Sept. 13, 1885) was graduated at West 
Point Military .\cademy in 1824, but re- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



signed from the army in 1828. He prac- 
ticed law in Lancaster, 1 831 -41 ; was re- 
corder of the city, 1841-45 ; Associate Judge 
of the District Court, Philadelphia. 1845- 
51 ; and President Judge of the 3d Judicial 
District, 1857-62. He married (first) Su- 
san Oglesby, and (second) Sabilla S. 
(Morris) Kennedy. By his second mar- 
riage he had issue : William, who died 
young; and Mary Irwin, who married John 
H. Van Lear. 

5. Robert Smith. 

6. Jane married Francis R. Shunk 
(XLVI). 

(XXV) ELIZABETH IRWIN (born 
Aug. 24, i767^died March 20, 1814) 
daughter of Archibald and Jean (McDow- 
ell) Irwin, married Nov. 16, 1790, Robert 
Smith (born in 1766 — died April 21, 1849). 
son of William and Mary (Smith) Smith, 
a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 
1807-09, 1811-14 and 181 5-16, and 
Speaker of the House in 1813; a State 
Senator, 1819-23, and Associate Judge of 
Franklin county. 1836-43. They had issue: 

1. Mary (born April 30, 1792 — died 
April 29, 1827) married Alexander Tracy 
Dean (bom in 1788 — died Nov. 4, 1834), 
a physician. They had issue: Robert 
Smith, Elizabeth and Mary Ann. 

2. William (XLVII). 

3. Sarah married John Findlay 
(XLVIII). 

(XXVI) NANCY BROWNSON 
(born in 1766 — died in 1805), daughter 
of Dr. Richard and Mary (McDowell) 
Brownson, married March 11, 1788, John 
Findlay (born March 31, 1766 — died Nov. 
5- i835)> son of Samuel and Jean (Smith) 
Findlay. for many years a leading citizen 
of Chambersburg. He was colonel of the 
Franklin county regiment that marched to 
the defense of Baltimore, in 1814: held 
nearly all the Court-house offices, 1809-21: 



was a representative in Congress, 1821-27, 
and postmaster at Chambersburg, 1827-35. 
They had issue : 

1. Samuel B. married Elizabeth Pat- 
terson, and they had issue. John, Mary T., 
Ellen and Jane. 

2. Jane married John Maclay [Ma- 
clay Family). 

3. Mary B. married Feb. 12, 181 1, 
George Paull Torrence, son of Joseph and 
Mary (Paull) Torrence, and they had issue: 
James Findlay, Joseph, John Findlay, Sam- 
uel, Aaron, William I., Nancy B., Mary 
P., Eliza Jane and Harriet R. 

4. Rebecca married Aug. 23, 18 19, 
Thomas Sloo, and they had issue : Laura, 
Thomas, Jane F. and Elizabeth. 

5. Elizabeth King, born in 1797. 

6. John (XLVIII). 

7. Eleanor married Oct. 4, 1837, 
Matthew Smith (born in 181 1 — died July 
26, 1873). They had issue: John Findlay. 

(XXVII) JOHN BROWNSON 
(born in 1768 — died Feb. 20, 1836), son 
of Dr. Richard and Mary (McDowell) 
Brownson. was for many years a leading 
citizen of Mercersburg. He was a soldier 
in the War of 181 2. and a prominent officer 
in the Pennsylvania militia. He married 
Oct. 7, 1807, Sarah Smith (born June, 
1784 — died July 25, 1859), daughter of 
William and Margaret (Piper) Smith: 
they had issue: 

1. Margaret married John McDow- 
ell, who died in ^lercersburg. She was 
his second wife, his first marriage having 
been to his cousin, Nancy McDowell. 

2. Nancy, bom in 1814, died in in- 
fancy. 

3. Richard, born in 181 5, died in 
infancy. 

4. James Irwin (XLIX). 

5. John, IxTrn in 1819, died in in- 
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6. Nathan Asa, born in 1S21, died 
in infancy. 

7. Sarah Jane^ born in i82_^. died 
July 22, 1S43. 

8. Mary Elizabeth, born in 1825, 
died May 13, 1826. 

9. Robert Smith (born Oct. 27, 1827 
— died June 15, 1885) was graduated at 
Marsliall College in 1847, and as an M. D. 
at the L'niversity of Pennsylvania in 185 1 : 
lie practiced his profession at Mercersburg. 
He recruited Company C, 126th P. V. I., 
of which he was commissioned captain. 
Aug. II, 1862; he was promoted to be 
major, March 9, 1863. He married Mary 
Coyle, daughter of Andrew L. Coyle. 

(XXVIII) JOHN McDowell 

DAVIDSON (born Jan. 4, 1772— died 
Jan. 5, 181 1 ), son of Elias and Agnes 
(McDowell) Davidson, was a farmer in 
Adams county, and afterward in Antrim 
township. He married (first) April 16, 
1793, Rachel Maxwell (born in 1772 — 
died in 1806), daughter of Patrick Max- 
well. They had issue. 

1. Patrick McDowell (born in 1795 
— died in 1853) removed to Delavan, 111. 
He married ]\Iarch 3. 1818, Jane Van Lear 
McDowell (Ixirn in 1798 — died Jan. 22. 
1878), daughter of Capt. William and 
Elizabeth (\'an Lear) McDowell. They 
liad issue: John McD., Mary E., Rachel 
N. and Sarah Belle. 

2. Elias (born in 1796) married 
Cyntha Bell Long. 

3. William, born in 1798, died in 
1879. 

4. John, born in 1800, died in .\ug"- 
ust , 1820. 

5. Nancv, born in 1802. died in 1828. 

6. Susan, born in 1804, died in 1835. 
Mr. Davidson married (second) April 7. 

1809, Mary McLaughlin (born in 1774 — 
died Jan. 28. 1851), daughter of James 



H. and Mary McLaughlin. They had issue: 
I. James King (born h'eb. 10, 1810), 
was graduated at Dickinson College in 
1829, and as an M. D. at Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 1833. He prac- 
ticed his profession at Greencastle, and was 
also president of the First National Bank. 
He married Nov. 22. 1836, Martha M. 
Robison, daughter of Andrew Robison. 



2. George H. (born in 181 1 — died 
Dec. 22, 1896) was a merchant at Green- 
castle. and Deputy Collector, United States 
Internal Revenue, under President Grant. 
He married March 27,. 1835, Catherine 
Snively (born in 1816 — died April 23, 
1879). daughter of Henry and Elizabeth 
(Snively) Snively. 

3. ]\Iary a. E., burn in 181 1, died 
March 9. 1835. 

(XXIX) AGNES CRAIG KING 
(born in 1788 — died Aug. 21, 1862), 
daughter of George and Margaret (Mc- 
Dowell) King married March 23, 181 5, 
Thomas Carson (Ixjrn Aug. 6, 1791 — died 
April 17, 1857), son of David and Jean 
(Oliver) Carson, a teacher and afterward 
a Justice of the Peace at Mercersburg. He 
was a member of the Pennsylvania Legis- 
lature. 1834-35 and 1843-44, and a State 
Senator, 1845-47 and 1851-53. He was 
Speaker of the Senate, 1851-53. In poli- 
tics he was a Whig. Thomas and Agnes 
Carson had issue: 

1. Eliza Jane married Richard Bard 
[Bard Family]. 

2. Washington King (born July 4. 
1817) was a merchant in Baltimore: he 
married Mary C. Johnston. 

3. Thomas (Iwrn Jan. 26, 1819). a 
nierchant in Ohio and Philadelphia; he 
married Sarah J. Leiper. 

4. William (born Nov. 7, 1820 — 
died Oct. 1877) married Louisa Ward of 
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5. Margaret Emicline (Imni Jan. 
26. 1822) married Marcli 17, 1S47. 
Thomas Johnston ; thej' removed to Law- 
rence county. 

6. David Erskine. horn March 18. 
1827. died May 3. 1862. 

7. RosANNA Mary (horn Nov. 9, 
1828 — died June 22, 1885) married h'ln. 

'18. 1849. Dr. Wilham Maxwell W .».,], 
surgeon, L'nited States Navy. 

(XXX) WILLIAM McDowell 

(horn in 1792 — died in 1862). son of Capt. 
William and Elizaheth ( \'an Lear ) Mc- 
Dowell, married May 15, 1820, Sarah 
Work, and they had issue : 

1. William Edmund (L). 

2. Sar-^h Jane married James II. 
McKinstry (LI). 

3. Henry Cr.vwford (Lll). 

4. Matthew Van Lear (LIII). 

5 . James T i lc. h m a n ( horn in 1 S 3 1 
died in 1864), a soldier in the Civil war. 

6. Elizabeth Laira, horn in 1836, 
died in 1863. 

( XXXI ) JOHN McL A N A H A N 
McDowell (Ikmh May 2, 1801— died 
Sept. 20, 1882). son of Nathan and Mary 
(iMcLanahan) McDowell, was a fanner 
and miller. For many years he conducted 
the Mazara Mills in Montgomery tt)\\nship. 
which he owned. He did a large husiness. 
He removed to Chamhershurg in 1858. He 
was coroner of Franklin county, 1844-49. 
For many years he was a director of the 
Washington County Bank at Williamsport, 
Md., and while he li\ed in Chamhershurg 
was a director of the Chamhershurg Bank. 
He was seized with dvsenter\' while mak- 
ing a visit to his son \\'. Craig, near Miles 
City, Mont., and died on his stm's ranch 
a few days after his arrival. Mr. Mc- 
Dowell married Oct. 22. 1833, Margaret 
Allison A'IcLanahan ( liorn March 22. 1S14 
— died in 1889), daughter of Samuel and 



Margaret f .\llison ) McLanahan. I'hey 
had issue : 

1. Alllson (horn .\ug. 9. 1834) was 
corporal of Company A, 2d 1'. \'. 1., in 
the three months service. He enlisted in 
the .\nderson Trooj), Se])t. i, 1861, and 
was pj-onioted to he 2d Lieut. i_)f Company 
B, 15th Pa, Cav., Oct. 3, 1862, and resigned 
heh. 2~. 1863. He lives in Chamhershurg", 

2. Tench (LIV), 

3. Saml'el McL.\x.\ii.\.\' I liorn July 
3, 1842 — died June 2j, 1864) was a gal- 
lant .soldier of the Civil war. He was in 
the same company with his hrother Allison 
in the three months ser\-ice, with the rank 
of corporal. He entered the three year 
service Nov. 6. 1861, with a hattery re- 
cruited hy Capt. P. B. Housum, for the 
77th P. \'. I., and afterward known as 
Inde])endent Battery li. He was jjromoted 
from first lieutenant to l)e captain, Jan, 11, 
1864, and was in command of the hattery 
at Kenesaw Mountain, (ia., June 2j. 1864, 
where he was killed. 

4. Mary .\nx (horn Ma\- 15, 1849) 
lives in Chaml)ersl)urg, 

5. John Van Lear, horn July 22. 
1851, died Oct. 15, 1854. 

6. Wii.KEN Craig (horn Oct. 10, 
1853) is a ranchman in Montana. He mar- 
ried Oct. 10. 1898, I""anny Rogers McGurk, 

7. George Davidson ( horn Nov. 20, 
1857 — died unmarried. Now 8, 1897) ^^'^^ 
a memher of the hranklin County Bar, He 
was a graduate of Lafayette College, and 
a Repuhlican in politics, 

(XXXII) N.\THAX McDowell 

(horn .\ug. 5. 1803 — died Oct. 30, i860), 
son of Nathan and Marv ( McLanahan) 
McDowell, married Emily (iahhy. They 
had issue : 

I. Anna M.\rgaret married (first), 
Leander McKee, and they had issue : 
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ried W. H. Hidden, engaged in Inisiness 
in Cambridge, Mass. ; and \\'^illiam L. Slie 
married (second). Rev. William C. Stitt, 
D. D. (born in 1833), a Presbyterian min- 
ister and literary editor of the New York 
Evangelist. 

2. Joseph Gabby married June 25, 
1862, Lucretia McCardell, and they had 
issue: Lucretia, Emily Gabby, Charles 
Kendall and Josephine. 

3. William Marcus married Leila 
Cushwa, and they had issue: Mary, Max- 
well and Anna Virginia. 

4. Sarah Jane married Charles E. 
Baechtel, and they had issue : Edward Mc- 
Dowell, Emily, Elizabeth, William, Anna 
McLanahan and Luther. 

5. Elizabeth M. married John W. 
Emmert. and they had issue : Mark, Paul, 
John and Elizabeth. 

6. Charles married Mary Criswell, 
and they had issue: ^lary K., Florence 
Virginia and Emily. 

(XXXIII) THOMAS SKELLY Mc- 
DOWELL (born at Franklin, April 25, 
1803 — died Feb. 7. 1876). son of Alexan- 
der and Sarah (Parker) MeDowell, lived 
all his life at Meadville. He married Jan. 
30, 1825, Emily Nevins Ayers (born Mar. 
9, 1808 — died June 27. 1862). They had 
issue : 

1. Margaretta Rachel (born July 
II, 1827 — died Aug. 5, 1890) married Aug. 
I, 1850, E. B. Gray (born in Campbell 
county, Ky., April 20. 1823). They had 
issue: Emily Jane, born May 18, 185 1. 
married Joseph Fleming: Anna Cynthia, 
born March : , 18;^. married James P. 
Newell ; Williai. Galbraith, born August, 
1855, died October, 1856: and Margaretta, 
born May 24. 1858. married (first) Henry 
S. Church, and (second) Albert J. Newell. 

2. Emily Elizabeth, born Aug. iC\ 
1829, died June 18, 1847. 

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3. Sakah J'akkeu (Ijorn .\ug. 13, 
1831 — died June 18, 1894) married Aug; 
28, 1854, Royal Atwater (born in Vermf)nt, 
April 30, 1829 — died in Iowa, July 7, 
1885). They had issue: Elizabeth, Dan- 
iel W., Ayers B., Louis C, Laura .\1., 
Charles S., Louisa C. and James R. 

4. Archibald Tanxek (born May 
31, 1834 — died Jan. 18, 1894) married 
Aug.. i860, Mrs. Frank Homer, nee Tif- 
fany (born April 12, 1842 — died .\pril i, 
1895). They had issue: Anna, born May 
27, 1863, married B. C. Anderson; Bertha, 
born May 4, 1866. married E. L. Weck- 
erly; and William T., born June i, 
1868. 

5. Amy Elizabeth, born .\ug. 8, 
1836. died in September, 1849. 

6. Josephine Cecelia (born June 28, 
1839) married July 19, 1862, Philander 
Raymond Gray. They had issue: Elisha 
Burrett. Philander R., \\'illiani Ayers, 
Frederick Charles, Fanny Josephine, Alan- 
son McDowell, John Lathrop, Emily Jane, 
McDowell. Thomas Tarvin and Josephine 
]\'k:Dowell. 

7. Jane Houston (born Aug. 16, 
1841 — died Feb. 23. 1900) married Jan. 
27, 1871. James \\\ Sparks. They had 
issue: William Wylie. Estelle McDowell, 
Joseph, b'rank Owens. Thomas .\3'ers and 
Margaretta C. 

8. Helen Delia (torn April 6, 1844 
— died Jul}- 30, 1879) married Aug. 17, 
187 1, Robert Zebina Newton, and had one 
son. Philander. 

9. Fanny Galbraith, born .\ug. 26, 
1846. 

10. Thomas Skelly (born April 6, 
1849) married July 19. 1865, Jennie Day. 
They harl issue: ]\Iary !•"., William A.. 
Jennie E.. Emily E.. Sarah J., I'anny E., 
Archibald T.. Frank E., Thomas Skelly.. 
Joseph A., Irene N. and \'incent I). 



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(XXXIV) ALEXANDER McDOW- 
ELL (born Nov. 23, 1807 — died Dec. 8, 
1875), son of Alexander and Sarah 
(Parker) McDowell, married Nov. 3, 1842. 
Anna Moffatt (born Aug. 21.. 1821). They 
had issue: 

1. William Parker (born Aug. 27, 
1843) married Feb. 19, 1863, Lydia A. Fry. 

2. Sarah Parker (born July 6, 
1845; married Sept. 29, 1864, George B. 
Fry, and had issue: Amy L. and George 
B.' 

3. Eleaxor Moff.\tt (Ixirn March 
31, 1847) married June 12, 1883. Thomas 
Matthews, and tliey had one son, James. 

4. TiiOM.AS ^Ioffatt (born Dec. 25, 
1848) married Aug. 24, 1882, Jennie Jones, 
and they had issue: Harry Y., Alfred B., 
Roscoe C, Emma E. and Anna M. 

5. Eliza, born Jan. 31, 1851, died 
Aug. 3, 1898. 

6. Hattie C. born May i, 1853. died 
Oct. 2T,, i860. 

7. .Alexander H. (torn Feb. 24. 
1855) married (first), Oct. 21, 1881, .\da 
T. Lane. They had issue: Hazel M. and 
Grace L. He married (second), Nov. 29, 
J 895. Mary C. Cunningham, and they had 
one son, Kenneth C. 

8. Marg.\ret J. (born April 24. 1857) 
married Aug. 5. 1880, Joseph .\. W'eikal. 

9. Robert R. (born Feb. 28, 1858) 
married Dec. 2'i. 1893, Minnie Faber, and 
they had issue : Robert F. and Ruth B. 

10. Charles T. (born March 22. 
1861) married ^larch 22. 1883. Anna Mil- 
ler, and they have issue: Simon \\'.. Mary 
P., Gertrude. Wilda S.. Orren C, Glenni 
S. and Wilkin T. 

11. Glexxi Scofield (born March 
31, 1864 — drowned in Lake Geneva, in 
August, 1902), married Oct. 21, 1886, Cora 
C. Richey. They liad issue : Harold R. 
iind Laura S. 



(XXXV) PARKER McDOWELL 
(born in 1815 — died Aug. 16, i860), son 
of Alexander and Sarah (Parker) Mc- 
Dowell, married May 15, 1839, Lavinia 
Titus (torn Feb. 22, 181 7 — died May 9, 
1893). They had issue: 

1. Mary E.. torn May 2, 1840. 

2. S.^RAH P.\RKER (bom Feb. 7, 
1842) married Feb. 20, 1868. James W. 
Rowland (born April 16, 1838), and they 
had issue : Harry W. and Frederick J. 

3. Alexander (LV). 

4. Jonathan T. (born Sept. 11, 
1846) married June i, 1870, Anna M. 
Jcn\ey, and they had issue: Josephine J., 
who married Dory A. Smith. 

5. Parker (born Nov. 8, 1848) mar- 
ried June 4, 1879, Martha A. McClain, and 
they had issue : William C, Alexander W. 
and Sarah Rowland. 

6. L.wiNiA (born Jan. 8, 1S56) mar- 
ried Sept. 15, 1875, John Patterson (born 
?vlarch 17, 1849 — ^''^'^1 June 7, 1894), a 
native of Mercer county: the\' had one son, 
Orrin J. 

(XXXVI) JOHN McDOWELL 
(bom in 1793 — died Nov. 13, 1878), son 
of Dr. Andrew and Agnes ( McPherson) 
McDowell, was a physician. He began the 
j)ractice of his profession at Danville, but 
aljout 1 83 1 he removed to Mercersburg, 
where he practiced for nearly half a cen- 
tury. He married Margaret Montgomery, 
and ihey had issue: 

1. William Montgomery (torn 
Nov. 11, 1820) was educated at Marshall 
College, and was graduated an M. D. at the 
University of New York, in 1843. He 
practiced at Republic. Ohio, and Canton, 
III. In 1849 'le married Malvina S. Tyler, 
of New York State. 

2. Ann.v Mary married Nov. 21, 
1843. Thomas Hurst, and they had issue: 
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3. Andrew Edmund married Calista 
Patterson, and they had one son, John. 

4. Carolina Amanda married James 
Cochran, and tliey had issue: Anna Vir- 
ginia, John McDowell and James Alex- 
ander. 

5. Virginia Margaret (born Aug. 
_M, 1835) married Arthur Bell, and they 
liad issue : William McDowell, Sarah 
Margaret and Robert McPherson. 

(XXXVII) AGNES MILLER Mc- 
DOWELL, daughter of Dr. Andrew and 
Agnes (McPherson) AIcDowell, married 
May zy, 1823, Otho U'illiams, son of Maj. 
Thomas Williams, of Maryland. They had 
issue : 

1. Anna McPherson^ born April 24, 
1824, died in infancy. 

2. Mary Emma, born May 20, 1826, 
•died in 1841. 

3. Anna McDowell, born July 2-], 

1828, died in infancy. 

4. Helen Margaret, lx)rn Dec. 2, 

1829, died in 1831. 

5. Virginia Washington (born Jan. 
2, 1833) married Nov. 10, 1858, Alonza 
Berry (born in 1830 — died Nov. 10, 1898). 
They had issue : Agnes McDowell, bom 
Feb. 4, i860, married June 3, 189 1, Fred- 
eric Crawford. 

(XXXVIII) ROBERT McPHER- 
SON McDowell, son of Dr. Andrew 
and Agnes (McPherson) McDowell, stud- 
ied law and was admitted to the Franklin 
■County Bar, in 1821. He married (first), 
Eliza Jane Cochran, daughter of Thomas 
P. and Sophia M. (Porter) Cochran, of 
Perry county. They had issue: 

I. Sophia Porter married Allen M. 
Thompson, and they had issue : Thomas 
Chalmers, Lizzie Jane. Henry Martyn, Wil- 
liam, James. Robert ]\IcDowell, Anna Mary. 
Sophia Kate, Grace and Orella. 

Mr. and Mrs. McDowell were divorced. 



He married (second) Emily Norvel Pal- 
mer, and they had issue : 

1. Thomas Andrew married Eliza- 
beth Finley, daughter of Dr. William A. 
and Barbara S. Finley. They had issue: 
William Finley and Lillie. 

2. William Andrew. 

3. Mary Agnes. 

4. Lucius Palmer. 

5. John Otho. 

6. Luther Bingham. 

Mr. McDowell married (third) Eliza 
Jane (Cochran) McDowell (born Oct. 18, 
1805 — died April 20, 1881), his first wife. 

( XXXIX) ANDREW NATHAN 
McDowell (bom in Chambersburg — • 
died in Pittsburg in 1849), son of Dr. An- 
drew and Agnes (McPherson) McDowell, 
studied medicine with his father and began 
practice in his native town. He afterward 
removed to Pittsburg. He married in 
1826, Jane Denny Porter (died August, 
1895), of Pittsburg, and they had issue: 

1. Marian (born Nov. 10. 1827 — 
died May 23, 1890) married April i-j, 1848, 
John Desmond Scully (bom April 8. 1825 
— died Jan. 9, 1898). They had issue: 
Jeanie. Anna O'Hara, Andrew McDowell, 
John, Alice, Marian, Emma Gertrude,. 
Joseph Edwin, Catherine Bailey and Ger- 
trude. 

2. Jane (born Dec. 10, 1829 — died 
Jan. 7. 1903) married (first). June. 1850, 
Stephen Collins Foster (bom April 17, 
1826 — died Jan. 13, 1864). the celebrated 
song writer, author of "Suwannee River," 
"Old Folks at Home," etc. They had issue: 
Marian, born April 17. 1851, married Wal- 
ter Walsh. Mrs. Foster married (second), 
in 1874. Matthew D. Wiley, of Allegheny 
City. 

3. Agnes McPherson (born Afarch 
25, 1832) married May 16, 1856. Sephar- 
ius Selins Cummings (torn in 1817 — died 



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Oct. 29, 1864), and had issue: Willie 
Happer, James McDowell, Margaret Maris, 
John McPherson and Mary Denny. 

4. Mary Maxwell. 

5. Alice. 

6. Margaret. 

7. Elizabeth. 

(XL) MARY MAXWELL Mc- 
DOWELL (born March 17, 1808— died 
Oct. 20, 1874). daughter of Thomas and 
Mary C. (Davidson) McDowell, married 
(first), March 7. 1838. Dr. William Hum- 
phreys; he died leaving no issue. She mar- 
ried (second), March 15, 1842, Rev. 
Alexander Kirkpatrick Nelson (born in 
County Tyrone, Ireland, Oct. i, 1793 — 
died Sept. 3, 1886), son of William and 
Margaretta (Turner) Nelson, who emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania when their son was 
only a year old, and settled in the south- 
eastern part of York county. Mr. Nelson 
■was educated at the Nottingham Academy, 
in Maryland ; he studied Hebrew and The- 
ology under Rev. Dr. Samuel Martin, pas- 
tor of Chanceford Presbyterian Church, 
and was graduated at Princeton Theologi- 
cal Seminary in 1834. He was ordained 
by the Presbytery of Carlisle, in 1837, pas- 
tor of the Centre and Upper congregations 
in Perry county. His only subsequent 
pastorate was that of the Rocky Spring and 
St. Thomas churches, with which he re- 
mained thirty-three years. 1840-73. His 
home was in Chaml^ersburg. Rev. A. K. 
and Mary M. Nelson had issue: 

1. Margaretta, born March 11, 1846, 
died unmarried, .\pril 5, 1872. 

2. Thomas McDowell (LVI). 
(XLI) WILLIAM HENRY Mc- 

DOWELL (born Feb. 6. 1813— died Jan. 
3, 1900), son of Thomas and Mary C. 
(Davidson) M-cDowell, was a farmer in 
early life, but failing health induced him 



to quit farming, and he removed to Cliam- 
bersburg in 1856. He was a Whig and Re- 
publican in politics, and an ardent Union 
man during the Civil war. When the Home 
Guards were organized in Chambersburg, 
in 1862, to repel a threatened invasion, he 
acted as secretary to the provost marshal. 
He lost heavily in the burning of Cham- 
bersburg, in 1864, his dwelling house be- 
ing among the burned buildings. Mr. Mc- 
Dowell went to Warren county, in 1865, as 
superintendent of an oil company, but re- 
mained only six months. In 1866 he was 
elected prothonotary of Franklin county, 
serving one term, 1867-69. Subsequently, 
1879-82, he was deputy prothonotary for 
his son, John M. McDowell. He was a 
member of the Mercersburg Presbyterian 
Church, previous to his removal to Cham- 
bersburg, and afterward of the Falling 
Spring Presbyterian Church. Mr. McDow- 
ell married Dec. 27, 1837, Jane C. Mc- 
Farland (born June 29, 18 13 — died March 
20, 1893), daughter of John and Eliza 
(Parker) McFarland. They had issue: 

1. Mary Davh)S0.m. born Dec. 10, 
1838, died Jan. 16, 1849. 

2. Eliza Parker (born Feb. 3, 1841 
— died unmarried Aug. 2;^, 1892) was a 
teacher in the public schools of Chambers- 
burg. 

3. Thomas Hugh, born Jan. 13, 1843, 
lives in the West. 

4. John McFarlaxd (L\'ir). 

5. Henry C, born Feb. 3, 1848, lives 
in the West. 

6. William, born ^Fay 2, 1850, died 
Sept. 7, 1850. 

7. Robert, born May 2, 1850, died 
Jan. 3, 1 85 1. 

8. Annie Catherine, born July 1, 
1852, is a clerk in the Chamljersburg post- 
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9. Frank died young. 

10. Edwwrd C.\mpbell^ born Oct. 13, 
1855, died voung. 

(XLII)' NATHAN McDOWELL 
(born July 24, 1802 — died Nov. 9, 1843), 
son of Nathan and Jean (Irwin) McDowell, 
removed to Blair's Gap, Huntingdon county, 
and latter to Western Pennsylvania. He 
married Nov. 2, 1832, Sarah E. Marshall 
(born at Huntingdon, Oct. 20. 1802 — died 
June 24, 1867). They had issue: 

1. Anna Mari.\ Blodget (born 
March 10, 1835 — died Aug. 11, 1889) mar- 
ried Oct. 26, 1856, James H. Stokes, of 
Allegiieny City. They had issue: Harry 
Marshall. Charles Ernst, Anna Marian, 
John Wilmer and Florence Elizabeth. 

2. Nathan Marshall (born Aug. 
18, 1837) married March 20, i860, Eliza 
J. Martin. They had issue: Kennedy 
Moorhead, Eliza Martin, Edward Nathan. 
Frank Marshall, William Reamer and Clara 
Mary. 

3. Joseph Henry, bom Aug. 30, 
1839, died in February, 1840. 

4. MiLLNOR Robert (born Aug. 12. 
1841) married March 10, 1873, Letitia 
Woodruff. They had issue : Millnor Ray- 
mond and Nathan Marshall. 

(XLIII) ALEXANDER ERWIN 
McDOWELL (born Feb. 2, 1808— died 
March 8, 1891), son of William Smith and 
Mary (Erwin) McDowell, was a farmer in 
Peters township. He was well known and 
much esteemed. He married May 14, 1834. 
Margaret Bard (born July 31, 1806 — died 
Sept. 28, 1835), daughter of Archibald and 
Elizabeth (Beatty) Bard. They had issue: 

I. M.\Rv J.\ne (born in 1835 — died 
Dec. 6, 1856) married Feb. 6. 1856, Wil- 
liam A. McKinnie (born Feb. 2. 1831), son 
of Robert and Eliza (Waddell) McKinnie. 
They had one son, Alexander, who died in 
infancy. 



2. Archibald Bard (born Oct. 20. 
1837 — died Nov. 12, 1884), a practical 
farmer and worthy citizen of Peters town- 
ship, married April 28. 1859, Margaretta 
McKinnie, daughter of Robert and Eliza 
(Waddell) McKinnie. They had issue: 
Alexander Bard, Robert Creigh, Annabella 
and Mary Jane. 

3. Elizabeth married Samuel H. 
Johnston [Johnston Family]. 

4. William married Elizabeth Dar- 
rah. 

(XLIV) WILLIAM ERWIN Mc- 
DOWELL (bom in August, 1824— died 
at Bloomfield, Neb., July 4, 1892), son of 
William Smith and Mary (Erwin) Mc- 
Dowell, was a farmer near St. Thomas, and 
a ruling elder of the St. Thomas Presby- 
terian church. He served in the Civil war, 
being commissioned captain of Company I, 
158th P. V. I., Nov. 4, 1862, and was 
mustered out Aug. 12, 1863. He was a 
member of the G. A. R. Capt. McDowell 
removed to Nebraska in 1883, settling in 
Hitchcock county. He married Rebecca 
Jane Gillan (born Aug. 22, 1826 — died 
Sept. 4, 1877). daughter of James and 
Margaret (Read) Gillan, and they had 
issue : 

1. William Smith, Iwm in Octol:)er, 
1850, lives in Nebraska. 

2. Margaret Jane (born Dec. 9, 
1838 — died March 19, 1904) married Dec. 
I. 1880, John Johnston Bradley (born Dec. 
9. 1838), son of Samuel and Mary H. 
(Johnston) Bradley. They had issue: 
William McDowell, John Samuel. Linn 
Johnston, Mary Rebecca, Holmes Erwin, 
Ernst Van Fossen and Keren Nellie. 

3. Mary Holmes (born in 1854) mar- 
ried John Samuel Patton, son of James and 
Mary (McCoy) Patton, and they had issue: 
James McDowell, John McCoy, William, 
\^''ashington Irving and Mary Rebecca. 



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4. Sarah Elizabeth married David 
H. Bard [Bard Family]. 

5. Annabelle died in infancy. 

6. James Gillan died in infancy. 

7. Alexander Erwin lives in Ne- 
braska. 

(XLV) ELIZABETH IRWIN (born 
July 18, 1810 — died Aug. 15, 1850), 
daughter of Archibald and Mary ( Ramsey ) 
Irwin, married Aug. 12. 1831. John Scott 
Harrison (born Oct. 4, 1804 — died May 26. 
1878), son of Gen. William H. and .Anna 
(Symmes) Harrison. He was a represen- 
tative in Congress from Ohio, ^^^3-^7- 
They had issue : 

1. Benjamin (LVIII). 

2. Archibald Irwin, born June 9, 
1832, died in December, 1870. 

3. Mary Jane, born July 5, 1836 
died Sept. 14, 1867. 

4. Carter Bassett, born Sept. 26, 
1840, died at Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

5. Anna Symmes (born Nov. 4, 
1842) married Samuel V. Morris. 

6. John Scott, bom Nov. 16, 1S44, 
lives at Kansas City. 

(XLVI) JANE FINDLAY (died in 
1878), daughter of William and Nancy 
(Irwin) Findlay, married Francis Rawn 
Shunk (born Aug. 7, 1778 — died July 30. 
1848), son of John and Elizabeth (Rawn) 
Shunk. John Shunk emigrated from the 
Palatinate, of wdiich his wife's parents, Cas- 
per and Barbara Rawn were also natives. 
Francis R. Shunk filled a number of cleri- 
cal positions in the public offices at Harris- 
burg, and was Secretary of the Common- 
wealth, 1839-42. He was elected Governor 
of Pennsylvania in 1844. and re-elected in 
1847. Admonished by a copious hemor- 
rhage he resigned July 9, 1848. Francis 
R. and Jane Shunk had issue : 

I. Francis J. (died Dec. 15, 1867), 
was a major in the United States .\rniy. 



2. William Findlay. chief engineer 
of the Inter-Colonial Railroad. He married 
Gertrude Wyeth, daughter of John Wyeth, 
and they had issue: Francis Rawn, Jane 
Findlay, Nellie Findlay, Mary Douglas, 
(lertrude Wyeth and Elizabeth Brown. 

3. Casper married Mary Irwin Van 
Lear (born in 1826 — died in i860), daugh- 
ter of William and Susan (Graham) Van 
Lear. They had issue: Mary Van Lear, 
who married Robert Bradden Wright. 

4. James Findlay (born April 18. 
1836 — died Jan. 20. 1874) was a well 
known journalist. He married Rebecca 
Black, daughter of Jeremiah S. and Mary 
(Forward) Black. 

5. Nancy Fixdl.\y married Henry 
Chapman, State Senator, member of Con- 
gress, and President Judge of the Buck.t 
County Courts ; they had issue : .'\rthur 
and Francis. 

6. Elizabeth married Charles Brown, 
member of C<ingress and Collector of the 
Port of Philadelphia. They had issue : 
Charles Francis Shunk, William Findla\\ 
.Alexander Miller. Elizabeth Shunk, Anne, 
Jane Findlay and Lillie. 

(XLVli) WILLIA:\I smith (bom 
Dec. 26, 1796 — died Oct. 15, 1846), son 
of Robert and Elizabeth (Irwin) Smith, 
was a corporal in Capt. Thomas Bard's 
Company for the defence of Baltimore in 
1814. He married Nov. 4, 1818, Mary S. 
Johnston (born in 1770 — died Aug. 14, 
1840), daughter of Maj. John and Rebecca 
(Smith) Johnston. They had issue: 

1. Elizabeth Irwin (born Sept. 2. 
1820 — died Nov. 21, 1899) married Oct. 
24. 1844. John S. Crawford, son of Dr. 
William Crawford, of Gettysburg. They 
had issue: William H., Robert Smith. 
George Douglas and Mary Johnston. 

2. W^iLLi.-VM J. (died in Iowa, Feb. 28. 
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of Samuel Jolinston Work. Tliey had issue : 
William Work, Samuel Johnston, Mary Re- 
becca and Anna Elizabetli. 

3. John Johnston, born in i8_'3, 
died in August. 1827. 

4. Mary Parker, born in September, 
1825, died Dec. 10. 1830. 

5. Annabella married Samuel 11. 
Giesy, a minister of the Reformed Church. 
They had issue: Harry, Ann and Mary E. 

6. RoBERT_, born March, 1828, died 
Aug. 24. 1828. 

7. Jane died in Gettysburg. 

8. Sarah Rebecca, born in December, 
1837, died May 5, 1841. 

g. James Findlay, born June 30, 
1844, fl'^fl July 13- 1844. 

(XLVlil)'jOHN FINDLAY (born in 
August, 1798 — died Oct. 14. 1832), son of 
Col. John and Nancy (Brownson) Findlay, 
was Register and Recorder and Clerk of 
the Courts, 1824-30. He married Nov. 29, 
1824, Sarah Smith (born Oct. 10, 1803 — ■ 
died Dec. 9, 1856), daughter of Robert and 
Elizabeth (Irwin) Smith. Mrs. Findlay 
was postmaster at Mercersburg, 1849-53. 
They had issue: . 

1. A son, born April 8, 1827, died 
in infancy. 

2. John, born June 26, 1828, died Dec. 
29, 1832. 

3. Robert Smith (born March 28, 
1832 — died at Osceola. Iowa, Aug. 3, 1900) 
served in Company C, 126th P. V. I. He 
went West in 1868. and was a merchant and 
Clerk of the District Court. He married 
Sept. 14. 1876, Emma J. Lash, daughter 
of James Lash, of ^It. Pleasant, Iowa ; 
they had issue: John Torrence, \Villiam 
Perry, Robert Smith, James Lash, Eliza- 
beth Rice, Emma Lash, Anna Mary and 
Grace Rice. 

4. Elizabeth (born Dec. 8, 1825) 
married Dec. 21, 1852. Perry A. Rice (born 



in 1822 — died in Libby Prison, l-"cb. 23, 
1863), a native of Frederick, Md. lie was 
graduated at Marshall College in 1846. and 
continued to reside in Merccrslnu\g. where 
he was editor of the Journal and a Justice 
of the Peace. He was taken prisoner during 
the Confederate raid in 1862. Mrs. Rice 
was postmaster at Mercersburg, 1867-69. 
They had issue : John Findlay, Thomas 
W'illiard, Sara Findlay, Robert Smith I-'ind- 
lay and William Perry. 

(XLIX) JAMES IRWIN BROWN- 
SON (born March 14, 1817), son of John 
and Sarah (Smith) Brownson, received his 
preparatory training under the Rev. Rob- 
ert Kennedy, pastor of the Lower Cono- 
cocheague Presbyterian Church, and was 
graduated at Washington College, Wash- 
ington, Pa., in 1836. After leaving college 
he spent a year as a teacher of languages 
and mathematics in the Bucks County .Acad- 
emy at Newtown, and then entered the West- 
ern • Theological Seminary at Allegheny 
City. He was licensed to preach by the 
Presbytery of Carlisle in 1840. In his long 
ministry of more than three score years, he 
has had only two charges — Greensburg and 
Mount Pleasant, 1841-49, and Washington, 
Pa., after 1849. During vacancies he acted 
as president of Washington College, 1852- 
53, and of Washington and JefTerson Col- 
lege, 1869-70. 

Dr. Brownson married (first) May 14. 
1843, Sarah Ellen ]\Iaclay, daughter of 
John and Hannah (Reynolds) Maclay: 
they had issue : 

1. John Macl.w married Mary Con- 
rad, and had issue: ^ferle Conrad and 
James Maclay. 

2. Elliott C. died without issue. 

3. Sarah Smith married Henry R. 
Whitehill. and they had issue: James and 
Margaret. 

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5. Marv R. diet! unmarried. 

Dr. Brownson married (second), Jan. 9, 
1855, Eleanor McCulloug-li Acheson, and 
they had issue : 

1. James Irwin, a lawyer. 

2. Marcus A. (born June 24, 1859) 
was graduated at Washington and Jefferson 
College in 1873, and the Western Theologi- 
cal Seminary in 1881. He is a prominent 
minister of the Presbyterian Church. He 
married Julia J. Bush, and they had a son, 
George Bush, who died young. 

3. Robert M. 

4. Ale.xander Acheson. 

5. Mary W. 

6. Marg.\ret McK. married Prof. Ed- 
win Linton, of Washington and Jefferson 
College. They had issue : Edwin and 
Eleanor Brownson. 

7. Lauretta Morgan. 

(L) WILLIAM EDMUND Mc- 
DOWELL (born in 1821— died in 1885), 
son of William and Sarah (Work) Mc- 
Dowell, married Dec. i, 1847, Mary Eliza- 
beth Davidson (born in 1821 — died in 
1892). They had issue: 

1. Sarah Work (Ixirn Oct. 14, 1848) 
married Aaron Sheeley. 

2. John Maxwell (born May 27, 
1850) married in 1876. Elizabeth Irwin. 
They had issue: Myrtle M., Pearl, William 
Edmund and Rachel. 

(LI) SARAH JANE McDOWELL 
(born in 1823) married March 3, 1853, 
James Huston McKinstry, and they had 
issue. 

1. Sarah died in infancy. 

2. William Van Lear (born in 
1856) married in 1879. Minnie Bryant, and 
had Helen B.. born 1887. 

3. Elizabeth Laura (lx)rn in 1858") 
married in 1879. George A. Warden, and 
they had issue: Charlotte J., born in 
1890. 



4. Margaret died young. 

5. Thom.\s (born in 1861 — died in 
1883) married in 1882, Miriam Bailey, and 
had Bethania, born in 1884. 

6. Charlotte, born in 1863, died in 
1882. 

7. J.kmes T., born in 1866. 

8. Ella May, born in 1868. 

(LII) HENRY CRAWFORD Mc- 
DOWELL (born in 1827— died in 1897), 
son of William and Sarah (Work) Mc- 
Dowell, married in 1856, Eleanor Glead. 
They had issue : 

1. William H. (torn in i860) mar- 
ried in 1885, Jaidee Martin, and had 
issue : Alma B. and Florence. 

2. George A. (born in 1863) married 
in 1885, Mary Stevens, and had issue: 
Henry, George, Frank, Joseph and Ada. 

3. Laura died young. 

4. Carrie May (born in 1869) mar- 
ried in 1889. G. \\\ Regur, and they have 
issue : Halljert C. and George. 

5. Thomas died youn^. 

6. Charles died in 1897. 

7. Mary G., born in 1882. 

(LIII) MATTHEW VAN LEAR 
McDOWELL (born in 1829— died in 
1883), son of William and Sarah (Work) 
McDowell, married in 1855, Margaret Hall. 
They had issue : 

1. Mary Van Lear, Ixjrn April 13, 
1856. 

2. Jane Hall, born in 1858. 

3. William C. (born in 1861) mar- 
ried in 1897, Nellie McClain, and have 
issue : Harley Van Lear and Robert S. 

4. James T., born in 1863, died in 
1887. 

5. John D. (born in 1866) married, 
in 1894, Ola Hough, and have issue: Mar- 
garet J. and Don H. 

6. Robert B.. born in 1868. 

7. Laura A., born in 1871. 




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(LIV) TENCH McDowell (bom 
Dec. 17, 1836), son of John M. and Mar- 
garet (McLanahan) McDowell, was edu- 
cated at Chambersburg Academy, and was 
graduated at Duff's Business College in 
Pittsburg, in 1857. He came to Chambers- 
burg as a young man, where he has since 
lived. For many years he was a director of 
the Chambersburg Gas Company. He was 
deputy postmaster under Postmaster D. O. 
Gehr, 1877-84. He married June 22, 1865, 
Eliza Gehr (born Aug. 9, 1835), daughter 
of Daniel O. and Harriet (Berryhill) Gehr. 
They had issue : 

1. Wilkin Brewer (born May 27, 
1866) was one of the honor graduates of 
Lafayette College, class of 1888. He was 
admitted to the Franklin County Bar, Feb. 
26, 1890, but afterward went West and 
lives in Montana, on account of ill health. _ 

2. Percy, born Nov. 25, 1869, died 
Jan. 31, 1882. 

(LV) ALEXANDER McDOWELL 
(born March 4, 1845), son of Parker and 
Lavinia (Titus) McDowell, lives at Sharon, 
Mercer county. He was a representative 
in the LHId Congress, being elected at- 
large from Pennsylvania, and he is now 
clerk of the National House of Representa- 
tives. He married, Sept. 17, 1867, Clara 
Bleakley (born April 6, 1847). They have 
issue : 

1. J.\MES Parker, born Feb. 19, 1869. 

2. Lizzie (born Nov. 15, 1872) mar- 
ried Sept. 25, 1895, Edward Bucholtz. 

3. Willis (born Feb. 6, 1875), mar- 
ried June 14, 1899, Grace A. Dellemater 
(born April 6, 1847), and they have issue: 
Percival Eaton, born April 10, 1900. 

4. Mary B., born Aug. 22, 1876. 

5. Clara, born Jan. 3, 1880. 

6. Harry B., born April 19, 1882. 
(LVI) THOMAS McDOWELL 

NELSON (born June 12, 1849), son of 



Rev. Alexander K. and Mary (McDowell) 
Nelson, was educated in the public schools 
of St. Thomas and Chambersburg, in the 
Chambersburg Academy and at Lafayette 
College. He engaged in civil engineering 
with Walling & Gray, of Boston, on the 
Mont Alto, Cumberland Valley, Pennsylva- 
nia and New York Central railroads, from 
July, 1870, until the spring of 1875. He 
was elected Justice of the Peace of the 
Fourth ward, Chambersburg, that year, and 
appointed Clerk of the County Commission- 
ers Jan. 18, 1876. He was engaged in the 
lumber business in Chambersburg with J. W. 
Craig from 1879 to 1887, and became as- 
sociated with A. Buchanan in the bridge 
business in 1883. He was president of 
the Pittsburg Bridge Company from 
1896 to 1900, and lived in Pittsburg 
during that time. In 1901 the firm 
of Nelson & Buchanan was changed 
to Nelson & Buchanan Company by taking 
into the partnership Ed. A. Merydith and 
Alex. H. Nelson, both of Pittsburg. He 
is also interested in and president of the 
Chambersburg Trust Company, the Cham- 
bersburg Shoe Manufacturing Company, and 
the Chambersburg Hosiery Company. Mr. 
Nelson married at Ghent, N. Y., Dec. 25, 
1 87 1, Esther .\nne Hollinger (born .\pril 
r, 1851), daughter of Jacob S. and Sarah 
(Diehl) Hollinger. They had issue: 

1. Margaret McDowell (born .\pril 
21, 1873) married, March 27, 1895, George 
C. Lewis (born at Watertown, Wis., June 
2-j, 1871), son of George Burnham and 
Sarah ( Ingalsbe) Lewis; they have one son, 
Thomas McDowell Nelson, horn March 26, 
1896. Mrs. Lewis was graduated at Wilson 
College. 

2. Alexander Howard (born Nov. 
19. 1874) was graduated at Princeton Uni- 
versity in 1S95, and as C. E. at the Boston 
Institute of Technology, 1897. He mar- 



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ried, Jan. 25, 1902, Eliza Bartles McCand- 
less (born at Pittsburg April 21, 1874). 
iThey have issue: Margaret McCandless, 
born Jan. 8, 1903. 

3. Sallie Je.\nnette (born March 
18, 1876) was graduated at Wilson Col- 
lege in 1895. She married, June 30, 1904, 
Rev. Merle H. Anderson, a Presbyterian 
minister, who graduated from Washington 
^nd Jefferson College in 1893. 

4. Tom McDowell (born 2\Iarch 29. 
1879) was graduated at Washington and 
Jefferson College in 1900, and was admitted 
to the Franklin County Bar in 1902. He 
married, Oct. 14, 1902, Louise Prather, 
daughter of Samuel H. and Laura C. 
(Brewer) Prather. They have issue : Anne 
Louise, born July 26, 1903. 

5. Anne (born Jan. 20, 1883) was 
graduated at Wilson College in 1903. 

I 6. Robert B., born June 6, 1884. 
' (LVII) JOHN McFARLAND :Mc- 
DOWELL (born Aug. i, 1845), son of 
William H. and Jane C. (McFarland) ]\Ic- 
Dowell, was educated at the Chambersburg 
Academy, the Elder's Ridge Academy, and 
Washington and Jefferson College. He 
began his business life as a clerk in Shry- 
ock's book store in Chambersburg, 1863-64. 
He afterward taught a classical school, 
1867-68, and studied law with Kennedy & 
Stewart, being admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar, April 12, 1869. He practiced 
his profession in Chaml:)ersburg until 1879, 
when he was elected prothonotary of Frank- 
lin county. He was a candidate for re- 
election in 1881, but was defeated. The 
county was very close, the Republican ma- 
jority being only 100. He ran ahead of his 
ticket in every district except Fayetteville, 
Guilford and Metal, Fayetteville being re- 
sponsible for his defeat. He was secretary 
and treasurer of the Taylor Manufacturing 
Company, 1882-93. He afterward resumed 



the practice of his profession in Chambers- 
burg until 1903, when he accepted the 
position of United States Commissioner 
at Nome, Alaska, where he now is. He 
is a member of the Royal Arcanum and 
the Heptasophs. He has been connected 
with Falling Spring Presbyterian Church 
since 1876, and has Ijeen a trustee since 
1882. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. 
McDowell married, Jan. 15, 1880, Clara E. 
Clendenin (born June 30, 1849), daughter 
of Judge John Clendenin. of Hogestown; 
they have issue: 

1. Jane, born June 27, 1881. 

2. John Clendenin, bom May 23, 
1883. 

3. Milton G., born Jan. 9, 1887. 
(LVIII) BENJAMIN HARRISON 

(born Aug. 20, 1833 — died March 13, 
1901), son of John Scott and Elizabeth 
(Irwin) Harrison, was graduated at Miami 
University, Ohio, in 1852. He studied law 
in Cincinnati, and began the practice at 
Indianapolis, Ind., in 1854. In i860 he 
was chosen reporter of the Supreme Court 
of Indiana. He entered the Union service 
in 1862, as a second lieutenant of volunteers. 
Later he organized a company for the 70th 
Ind. V. I., of which he was commissioned 
colonel. He served through the war, re- 
ceiving the brevet rank of Brigadier-Gen- 
eral of Volunteers, Jan. 23, 1865. After 
his return to Indianapolis he resumed his 
duties as reporter of the Supreme Court, 
to which office he had been re-elected in 
1864. At the expiration of his second term, 
he declined a renomination. He was de- 
feated for Governor of Indiana in 1876. but 
was chosen L'nited States Senator in 1880. 
He was elected President of the United 
States in 1888; he was again nominated 
in 1892, but was defeated by Grover Cleve- 
land, whiim he had beaten in 1888. His 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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by Gen. Lew. Wallace, the author of "Ben 
Hur." Alter his retirement from the pres- 
idential office, he resumed the practice of 
his profession, in which he continued until 
his death. General Harrison married 
(first) Oct. 20, 1853, Caroline Lavinia 
Scott (born at Oxford, Ohio, Oct. i, 1832 
— died Oct. 25. 1892), daughter of Prof. 
John W. Scott, of Miami University. She 
was graduated at Oxford Seminaiy in 
1 852. They had issue : 

1. Russell was graduated at Lafay- 
ette in 1877, as a mining engineer ; he is now 
a resident of Montana, where he has a 
cattle ranch. 

2. M.\RV married Robert J. IMcKee, a 
merchant i>f Indianapolis. 

SELHEIMER FAMILY. The Sel- 
heimer family of Mifflin and the Seilhamer 
family of Franklin county are both descend- 
ed from Nicholas Selheimer or Sailhamer, a 
native <^f \\'urtemberg, Germany, who emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania, from Rotterdam, 
on the ship "Charming Molly," landing at 
Philadelphia Oct. 22, 1773. The name, the 
exact spelling of which can not be deter- 
mined, means a man of many castles. In the 
records of the Pension Office at Washington 
it is given as Saleheimer and Salehammer. 
His descendants in jMifflin county write and 
pronounce it Selheimer, while many of the 
Franklin county Seilhamers pronounce it 
Salehammer. He emigrated to avoid ser\'- 
ice in the German army, but, espousing the 
cause of the American Colonies, he enlisted 
in Capt. Bartholomew von Heer's Company, 
in the Pennsylvania State Regiment of Ar- 
tillery, as a matross. in 1777, and served 
with the liatteiy three years and six 
months, under Capt. von Heer and Capt. 
Robert Coltman. The Comptroller-Gen- 
eral of Pennsylvania found the amount 
due him on depreciated certificates, April 



12, 1782, to be £66 17s. 2d., and the 
accrued interest £4 2d. He participated in 
the battles of Brandy wine and Gcrmantown. 
In the former action he received the personal 
thanks of General Washington on the field 
for saving his gun from capture, after 
emptying its contents into the approaching 
c'.iemy. After tiie Revolution he settled 
near Middle Spring, in the Cumberland Val- 
ley. Later he lived at Bellefonte, but re- 
turned to his old home at Middle Spring 
in his declining years. Nicholas Selheimer 
(born in 1749 — died in 1822) married at 
Rotterdam, Holland, in 1773. before em- 
barking, Elizabeth Powell (lx>rn in 1749 — 
died in 1849), ^^'lo was of a Dutch family 
of English extraction: they had issue: 

1. WiLLLVM (II). 

2. CoNR.^D went to Western Penn- 
sylvania. 

3. George (III). 

4. John (died unmarried. Sept. 10, 
1813). was a saddler at Bellefonte. He 
enlisted in Capt. George Record's Company 
May 5, 1813. and served on the Niagara 
frontier. A call for volunteers to serve on 
Commodore Perry's flagship, the "Niagara," 
was made, only unmarried men being ac- 
cepted. Of these Selheimer was one. He 
was killed in the action that ensued. The 
story of his death, as related by Gov. An- 
drew G. Curtin, who was born in the house 
next to that in w'hich Selheimer lived in 
Bellefonte. was that he was struck by a spent 
shell that completely disemboweled him and 
fell at his feet. He .stooped, picked it up, 
and threw it into the lake before it had time 
to explode. He then fell to the deck dead. 
For this gallant action the State of Pennsyl- 
vania awarded a medal made in his honor, 
the inscription on which is as follows : "To 
John Sylhamer in testimony of his pat- 
riotism and bravery in the naval action on 
Lake Erie, Sept. 10. 1813." 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



5. Jacob (died unmarried) served in 
Capt. George Record's Company, 1813-14. 

6. Susan (died Feb. 27, 1835) mar- 
ried John Rook. 

(II) WILLIAM SELHEIMER (born 
April, 1776, died Sept. 9, 1826), son of 
Niciiolas and Elizabeth (Powell) Selheimer, 
was a paper manufacturer. He built a pap- 
er mill in Chester county that he conducted 
until 18 1 6, when he removed to the 
Juniata Valley, buying a large tract of land 
in what is now Juniata county, on which 
he built a paper mill that he managed until 
his death. Mr. Selheimer married Eliza- 
beth Houltry, of Hagerstown, Md. ; they 
had issue : 

1. Absalom B. (IV). 

2. William. 

3. James went to the West in 183 1; 
he married in Wisconsin and had two 
daughters: Margaret Perry and Isabel. 

4. John married and had three sons: 
Absalom, George and James : 

5. Patterson died in the West. 

6. Elizabeth (died in 1873) married 
Dec, 1822, Thomas Kerr (died in 1854), 
and had issue: George, Elizabeth H. (mar- 
ried Joseph Mount), James D., Jean A., 
Nancy, Sarah M. (married Peter Hiestand), 
Mary C. (married T. L. Johnson), and 
Martha E. (married Rev. T. W. Martin). 

7. Catharine married William Kirk, 
and had a daughter. Belle, who married 
Robert H, McClintick. 

8. Mary married William Robinson. 

9. Sar.\h married John jMcKennan. 

10. Jane (born July 18, 1814 — died 
in 1898) married in 1836, and had six 
daughters : Mrs. T. B. Morgan, Mrs. Will- 
iam P. Moulton, Margaret, Belle, Sallie and 
]\Irs. A. Longmore. 

(Ill) GEORGE SEILHAMER (born 
in 1779 — died April 27, 1835), son of Nich- 
olas and Elizabeth (Powell) Selheimer, was 



a farmer in Southampton township. He 
married Margaret Newman, daughter of 
Peter Newman, of Elizabethtown, Lancas- 
ter county ; they had issue : 

1. Peter (born July 14, 1806 — died 
Aug. 10, 1888) married Martha Booz; 
they had issue : Margaret, George W., 
Jacob, Catharine, Nancy, Elizabeth, Martha 
and Emma. 

2. John (V). 

3. Elizabeth died unmarried. 

4. Jacob married Lydia Hoffman; 
they had issue : Joshua, Elizabeth, Ruth, 
John F., Jacob, Ellen, Lincoln, Jesse, Emma, 
and Lydia. 

5. William (died at IndianapoHs, 
Ind.), married May 15, 1834, Julian 
Carachner, and had issue. 

6. Lydia married Oct. 19, 1850, Dan- 
iel Trexler ; they had one son Thomas. 

7. ^Iargaret married April 25, 1848, 
Lemuel Kennedy, and had issue. 

8. George (born Feb. 15, 1824 — died 
March 28, 1904), was a soldier in the war 
for the Union. He married July 10, 1848, 
Catharine Rodes (born March 21, 1824 — 
(lied April 6, 1903), daughter of Benjamin 
Rodes ; they had issue : Benjamin, Annie E., 
William N., Charlotte. Margaret C, John 
J.. Ida M., George R., and Lydia Jane. 

9. Mary married Jan. i, 1850, James 
Cope, and had issue : Margaret. 

ID. D.wiD married (first) Rebecca 
Hoffman, and had issue : John, George and 
Margaret; he married (second) and had a 
daughter Elizabeth. 

II. Susan married Michael Trex- 
ler, a soldier of the Mexican War, and had 
issue: George, Anna, John and Sarah. 

(IV) ABSOLOM B. SELHEIMER 
(born Sept. 23, 1793 — died at Rochester, 
N. Y.. June 2, 1852). son of William and 
Elizabeth ( Houltn.-) Selheimer, learned the 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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whom he was engaged in the manufacture 
botli in Cliester and Juniata counties. He 
married (first) Sept. 25, 1821, Eleanor 
Beale (born Jan. 10. 1801 — died Dec. 2^,. 
1832). daughter of Judge William Beale. 
of Juniata county : they had issue : 

I. William Beale (born Oct. 29, 
1822 — died Jan. 9. 1892) was a printer, 
and the founder of the W. B. Selheimer 
Printing Co., of Philadelpliia. He married 
(first) Anna Jane Baird (born in 1824 — 
died May 16, 1850) and had issue: Elea- 
nor Jane (born Dec. 2, 1847), niarried Rob- 
ert Hunter, and they have a son, Robert 
Selheimer, born Dec. 12, 1880. J\Ir. Sel- 
heimer married (second), May 7, 1856, 
Elizabeth Countiss, and had issue : Robert 
Rowland (born July 23, 1857) is living in 
Philadelphia; and Lillie E. (born July 5, 
1859). married Frank Condel Baxter, and 
lias William Selheimer, born April 26, 1882. 
and Mary Holman. torn Dec. 5, 1885. 

2. Napoleox Boxaparte (born Se]it. 
2. 1824— died April 28. 1892) serxed in 
the cavalry in the Mexican War. 

3. John B. (VI). 

4. Absalom Brockev, born Aug. 25, 
1838, was living in 1904. 

Mr. Selheimer married (second) Alarch 
30, 1833, Louisa Ann Crawford (born July 
I, 1812). daughter of Dr. David and Mar- 
garet Crawford, of Juniata county: they 
had issue : 

1. Robert Stockton, born June i, 
1834. died June 8, 1834. 

2. David Crawford (born June 15, 
1836 — died Sept. 21. 1864) was in business 
in South Carolina at the outbreak of the 
Civil war, but came North immediately 
after the attack on Fort Sumter and enlisted 
in the 9th Regiment. X. Y. S. M. He was 
promoted to be second lieutenant of Com- 
pany A, 46th Regt.. P. \\. Sept. 27, 1861, 
and first lieutenant Nov. i. 1862. He served 



on the stafif of Gen. Joseph S. Knipe, in 
Sherman's March to the Sea, and was^ 
wounded at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 

1864. He died of his wound. 

3. Absalom Brockey (born March 
16, 1841) enlisted in Company C, ist Pa. 
Cav., Aug. 10. i86t, but was discharged on 
account of illness, June 1862. He re- 
cruited Company C, 78th Reg't., P. V., of 
which he was commissioned captain Feb. 20,. 

1865. and served till the close of the wnr. 

4. Jane Elizabeth Augusta (horn 
Aug. 5, 1843) married Sept. i, 1863, Elias 
W. Eisenbeis, and had issue: Harry Craw- 
ford (born June 30, 1864), married March 
4, 1890, Sophia Rogers Allen; John Percy 
(bom Feb. i, 1867), married Oct. 10, 1900, 
Charlotte Hallon Heckes; Louise Isabel 
(born May 2, 1870) married Oct. 30, 1900. 
Christopher Arthur Hibler; and Alida Moss 
(born Feb. i, 1873) married June 22, 1904, 
Capt. Frank Ernst Grifiith. Mr. Eisen- 
beis was first corporal of the "Logan- 
Guards." the first company of volunteers 
to reach \\'ashington after the outbreak of 
the Civil war. He was captain of Company 
A, 46th Regiment, P. V., 1861-63. 

5. Oliver Hazard Perry (born Oct. 
I, 1846 — died Dec. 22. 1903) was engaged 
in business in F'hiladelphia. He was a poet 
and a forceful prose writer. .-Mthough onlv 
fifteen years old he enlisted for the nine 
months service in the Civil war. He mar- 
ried Amelia James. 

(\') JOHN SEILHAMER (born 
near ^liddle .Spring, Sept. 12, 1S09 — died 
Dec. 5, 1898). son of George and Margaret 
(Newman) Seilhamer, was all his life a 
farmer. In 1847 he removed from Mac- 
lay's Mill, in .Southampton township, where 
he owned a farm, to Guilford township. 
He was afterward for many years a farmer 
on the Judge Nill farm, in Quincy township, 
but his last years were spent on a farm 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



which he bought near Clay Hill, in Antrim 
township. He was a Whig in early life, 
and later a Republican. As a young man 
he was a member of the Methodist Protest- 
ant Church, but after his removal to Clay 
Hill, owing to his environment, he united 
with the United Brethren in Christ. Mr. 
Seilhamer married Jan. 9, 1839, Elizabeth 
Oberkirsh (born April 16, 18 16— died 
Sept. 29, 1896), daughter of George and 
Eve (Hoffman) Oberkirsh; they had issue: 

1. GeorgeO. (VH). 

2. John (born Aug. 3, 1841) mar- 
ried Mary Agnes Clugston, daughter of 
Alexander Clugston ; they had issue : 
George, Annie, Frank, Jane, Catharine and 
Mary Zarger. 

3. WlLLI.\M (VIII). 

4. Mary Amanda married Thomas G. 
Zarger (Zarger Family). 

5. James Montgomery (born Oct. 
15, 1847), died in 1848. 

6. Aaron (born Nov. 30, 1849) died 
in 1850. 

7. James Nile (born Sept. 5, 1857), 
is a farmer in Iowa. He married Martha 
Grubb, daughter of Peter Grubb, of Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa; they had issue; Thomas 
Edward, Elizabeth, Nellie, John, William 
and George. 

8. Reuben E. (born July 3, 1861) 
married Annie Stoner, daughter of Henry 
Stoner; they had issue: Bertha, James 
Nill, Rhoda, William Earl, John, Harry 
and Elizabeth. 

(VI) JOHN BEALE SELHEIMER 
(born Aug. 18, 1826 — died Dec. 16, 1893), 
son of Absalom B. and Eleanor (Beale) 
Selheimer, was educated in the public 
schools in Juniata county, and learned the 
trade of tinsmith at Lewistown. In 1848 
he engaged in the hardware business in 
Lewistown, in which he continued until 
his deatlT. When the "Logan Guards" 



were organized in 1858, he was chosen cap- 
tain of the company. Capt. Selheimer's 
company was the first in Pennsyh'ania to 
respond to President Lincoln's call to arms 
in 1 86 1, and the first in the State to be 
musteretl into the service of the United 
States. With the "Logan Guards" and 
four other Pennsylvania companies, now 
known as the "First Defenders." Capt. 
Selheimer marched through Baltimore to 
Washington, April 18, 1861, the day before 
the attack on the 6th Massachusetts. In 
the three months' service the "Logan 
Guards" was the color company of the 25th 
Regiment. P. V., and Capt. Selheimer was 
made lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. 
Injustice was done to Col. Selheimer and 
the "Logan Guards" in the attempt to give 
priority to the National Light Infantry 
Company, of Pottsville. In politics Col. 
Selheimer was a Democrat. He served as 
a school director, town commissioner and 
burgess of Lewistown; as county treasurer 
of Mifflin county, for two terms; and as 
a State senator. 1885-88. Col. Selheimer 
married March 21, 1850, Eliza J. ■Matthews 
(Ixirn Oct. 16, 1832). daughter of Joseph 
and Rebecca (Brotherline) ^Matthews; they 
had issue: 

1. Joseph Matthews (born Jan. 31, 
1 851) succeeded his father in the hardware 
business at Lewistown. 

2. Eleanor Beale, bom Nov. 19, 
1852. 

3. William Leone (born July 28, 
1854) married April 3. 1900, Christine F. 
Bossinger. 

4. Elizabeth Brotherline (born 
Oct. 6. 1856) married Dee. 30, 1880, 
Dwight S. Beckwith, of Albion. N. Y. 

5. Henry C. 

6. Charles M. (\x>vn Sept. 16, i860) 
died Sept. 18. i860. 

7. Mary Law, born Nov. 5, 1861. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Ill 



( VII) GEORGE O B E R I< 1 R S 1 1 
SEILHAMER (torn Nov. u, 1839), 
son of John and Elizabeth (Oberkirsli) 
Seilhamer, was educated in the puljlic 
schools, at the Milnwood Academy. Shade 
Gap, and the Chanibersburg Academy. He 
began teaching in the public schools before 
he was sixteen years old, and taught three 
terms, 1855-58. He then studied law with 
Nill & Kennedy, in Chambersburg, and 
was admitted to the Franklin County Bar, 
Feb. I, 1 86 1. He practiced his profession 
at Chambersburg, and serxetl as deputy 
])rothonotary under Prothonotary Taylor, 
1S64-66. While serving in the prothono- 
tary's office he also acted as local editor of 
the Franklin Repository. In June. 1866. 
he removed to New York City to accept a 
position on the staff of the New York Tri- 
bune. During the next twenty years he 
was actively engaged in metropolitan 
journalism, except in 1869-70, when he was 
editor of the Providence Press and started 
the Providence Star. He was Albany 
correspondent of the New York World at 
the passage of the Tweed charter and be- 
came an editorial writer on the New York 
Standard with John Russell Young. He was 
a member of the New York Herald staff for 
ten years. 1 871 -81, serving as Havana and 
Washington correspondent, book reviewer, 
musical and dramatic editor, and editorial 
writer. In 1885 he went td London on a 
confidential mission inr the LInited Press 
Association, remaining nearly a year. Up- 
on his return to his native land he maile 
Philadelphia his home for ten years, serving 
with the Times, 1886-92. and with the 
Inquirer, 1892-96. His health becoming 
much impaired he returned to Chambers- 
burg in the autumn of 1896, where he has 
since lived free from the exacting demands 
of daily newspaper work. He takes an ac- 
tive part in the studies of the Kittochtinny 



liisiorical Society, to which he has contri- 
buted a number of papers on local history. 
Since coming back to Chamljersburg he has 
written the special historical chapters for 
the second Nolume of the "Memorial His- 
tory of I'hiladelphia," a "History of the 
Republican Party," ])ublished by subscrip- 
tion by the Judge Company, New York, 
and many of the genealogical articles in the 
"Biographical Annrds of Franklin County." 
He also published a "History of the .Ameri- 
can Theatre," in three \olumes, giving the 
history of the early stage in .\merica in 
detail. At the present time he gives his 
attention almost whollv to genealogical 
research. 

Mr. Seilhamer married, in i860, Mary 
Virginia Perr\', daughter of Samuel and 
Margaret (Geyer) Perry, of Chambers- 
burg: they had issue : 
. I. Bl.-\nciie died in infancy. 

2. Alvin Perry (born Feb. 6, 1863) 
is engaged in journalism in New York. He 
married, in 1888, Charlotte E. White, 
daughter of George W. and Charlotte (Nit- 
terhouse) A\'hite, of Chambersburg: they 
have two sons : Roberts Alger, bt>rn 
Alarch 30, 1889, and \\'illiam Ziegler. born 
Jan. 18, 1891. 

3. R.\XD.\LL Roberts, born June 14, 
1878, died April 3. 1888. 

(VIII) WILLIAM SEILHAMER 
(born near Maclay's Mill, in Southampton 
township, April 16, 1843), son of John and 
Elizabeth (Oberkirsh) Seilhamer, was edu- 
cated in the public schools, and has been all 
his life a farmer in Quincy township. Fie 
owns the Seilhamer homestead at Clay Hill, 
which contains 104 acres, and a half interest 
in the old Whitmore homestead in Quincy 
township, a farm of ninety-nine acres, on 
which he lives. His home is near the Quin- 
sonia station on the Western Maryland rail- 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



has never held or sought pubHc office. He 
is a member of the Reformed Church at 
Grindstone Hill, and has served as a deacon 
in his church. Mr. Seilhamer married Oct. 
20, 1865, Susanna VVhitmore, daughter of 
Peter and Rebecca (Frederick) Whitmore; 
they had issue : 

1. Peter Whitmore, a farmer, mar- 
ried Minerva Dayhoff, and they have a son, 
William Franklin. 

2. John W., living on the Clayhill 
farm, married Amanda Wingert, and they 
have a daughter: Clara. 

3. Jeffersox Nile, a farmer in Ouin- 
cy township, married Catharine Vanderau; 
they have issue: }ilargaret, IMilton Nill, 
Benedict and Horace. 

4. Rebecca is living at home. 

5. Eliza married Joseph Wingert. 

6. Ellen married Christian Hecknian. 

7. Walter Be.\ttv died in infancy. 

8. Jacob Milford is living at home. 

9. Harrv Lesley is living at home. 

RAMSEY FAMILY. JOHN RAM- 
SEY (died near Burnt Cabins, ]\Iarch 13, 
1812), the ancestor of the Ramsey family, 
of whom Dr. R. W. Ramsey, of Cham- 
Ijersburg, is the present representative, set- 
tled in Path Valley about 1750, but after- 
ward removed to .\ughwick, in Hunting- 
don county, across the mountain from 
Fannettsburg. where he became a wealthy 
man for that time. The inventory of his 
personal estate after his death auKninted 
to $16,074,56. The house in which he 
lived is still standing. He was appointed 
constable for Dublin township, now in 
Fulton county, at the time of its creation 
in 1767, and later he kept a tavern. His 
house is frequent!}- mentioned in the journ- 
als of travelers. It is probable that he had 
two brothers, William .md Rol)ert, as their 



names appear on ti:e tax list for. Dublin 
township, in 1773. The surname of his 
wife Jane, has not been ascertained. John 
and Jane Ramsey had issue : 

1. John. 

2. Robert (II). 

3. Benjamin. 

4. James. 

5. Rebecca married William Pym, a 
wealthy business man and land owner, who 
died at Burnt Cabins : they had issue : 
Lewis Cass (died 1840), and IMartha E. 
(born June 21, 1849 — died IMarch 9, 1850). 
After his wife's death Mr. Pym married 
Mrs. Elmira M. Trout, widow of Jacob 
Trout and daughter of Jacob Snider, both 
noted Chambersburg tonifaces. 

6. M.VKv married Rowland Harris 
(died in March. 1828), son of Rowland 
and Rebecca Harris, early settlers in the 
Gap above Fort Loudon ; they had issue : 
John, Rowland, Benjamin, Susannah, Char- 
lotte, Rebecca (married James Austin), 
Hannah (married John Stewart), Sarah 
(married John Xoble), Mary (married i\Ir. 
Shannon), Jane (married Joseph Brown), 
and Catharine Alargaret. 

7. M.\rgaret (Peggy) married Mr. 
Gallagher. 

8. Catharine (Kitty) married Oct. 
14, 1800, Mr. Findley. 

9. Elizabeth (Betsy) married Mr. 
Uncles, whose descendants went to Califor- 
nia. 

10. Sl"sann.-\h. 

(II) ROBERT RAMSEY (born in 
1784 — died Jan. 21. 1856), son of John and 
Jane Ramsey, was a saddler at Fannetts- 
burg. He was a Whig, and a member of 
the Lower Path A'alley Presbyterian 
Church. He married in 1808. Eleanor 
W'alker (born in 1786 — died Oct. 17. 
1862), daughter of Samuel and Mary 
(Xoble) Walker: the\- had i^sue: 





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1. I\Iarv Ann niarritd William W. 
Skinner (Skinner Family). 

2. William dietl in Nebraska, leaving 
issue : Erwin, William and James. 

3. Margaret married April 3, 1830, 
John Hart: they had a daughter, Ellie M., 
born March 13, 1849, died Dec. 18, 1874. 

4. John W. (III). 

5. Jane, born in 1816, died Jan. 5, 

1837. 

(III) JOHN WALKER RAMSEY 
(born June 7, 1828 — died Aug. 26, 1862), 
son of Robert and Eleanor (Walker) Ram- 
sey, was a farmer in Letterkenny township. 
He was a Republican in politics and a Pres- 
byterian in religion. He married, in 1849, 
Adeline Keasey (born May 2^, 1826 — died 
Jan. 24. 1887), daughter of Jacob and Jane 
(Bigler) Keasey; they had issue: 

1. Robert W. (IV). 

2. Etta Jane married Jacob B. Wine- 
man ( V ) . 

3. Ida Ellen married Jeremiah F. 
Zullinger, of Waynesboro. 

(IV) ROBERT WALKER RAM- 
SEY (born Aug. 6, 1850, s*n of John W'. 
and Adeline (Keasey) Ramsey, remained 
with his mother until he was twenty-two 
years old, when he entered Jefferson Medi- 
cal College, Philadelphia, where he was 
graduated AI. D. in 1874. After re- 
ceiving his degree he went to St. 
Thomas, where he entered into part- 
nership with Dr. John M. Van Tries, 
who practiced his profession in that 
village for forty years. Dr. Van Tries 
died Dec. 4, 1883, when Dr. Ramsey suc- 
ceeded to his practice, and for a number of 
years was the only practicing physician at 
St. Thomas. He removed to Chambersburg 
in April, 1891, where he has since prac- 
ticed his profession in partnership with Dr. 
David Maclay. He is widely known 
throughout the county, in which he is one 

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of the most prominent among the leading 
physicians. He is a member of the National, 
State and County Medical Societies. In 
January, 1886. he was a delegate to the 
convention of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation at St. Louis. In 1900 he was ap- 
pointed a member of the State Board of 
Aledical Examiners, and was re-appointed in 
1903. In politics he is a Republican and a 
leader of the party in the county. His iirst 
office, to which he was elected as a Repul>- 
lican, was that of coroner of Franklin 
county, 1879-82. For thirty years previ- 
ously the coroners elected by the people had 
refused to qualify, their duties being per- 
formed by the justices of the peace for the 
several townships. Dr. Ramsey took out his 
commission and soon demonstrated that the 
office was one of importance to the com- 
munity. For nearly a century murderers 
had gone unpunished, because of the absence 
of the investigation necessary to obtain 
e\idence to secure conviction. During Cor- 
oner Ramsey's term two murderers were 
brought to the gallows, mainly through his 
official efficiency. Since his retirement from 
the office, in 1882, every successive coroner 
has taken out his commission and performed 
his duties, and because of his example it is 
not likely that the office will again go Ix;^- 
ging. Dr. Ramsey has served as a delegate 
to Republican State conventions on a num- 
ber of occasions. He is a member of George 
Washington Lodge, No. 143, F. & A. M., of 
Chambersburg: he is also a Knight Templar, 
and a 32d degree Mason, Ijeing a member of 
the Harrisburg Consistory. He is a memljer 
of the I. O. O. F.. having joined the order 
at Upper Strasburg in 1872. He is also an 
active member of the Royal Arcanum, the 
Heptasophs, the Mystic Circle, the Red Men 
and the Elks. He is a director in the Cham- 
Ijersburg Trust Company, and the Cham- 
bersburg, Greencastlc and ^^^^ynesboro Elec- 



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trie Railway Co. Dr. Ramsey married, 
April 5, 1S77, Caroline M. Van Tries, 
daughter of Dr. John M. and Harriet 
(Madden) Van Tries; they have no issue. 
Dr. Van Tries (born Feb. 19, 1810), was a 
son of Abraham Van Tries, a successful mer- 
chant at Hollidaysburg. 

(V) ETTA JANE RAMSEY (died in 
1887), daughter of John W. and Adeline 
(Keasey) Ramsey, married, in 1877, Jacob 
B. WiNEMAN (lx)rn Sept. 10, 1844), son of 
Henry and Catharine (Hite) Wineman. 
His grandfather was George Wineman 
(born in Wurtemberg. Germany, in 1772 — 
died in Path Valley, in 1861), who emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania in 1817, with his 
family, and settled at Fannettsburg, but sul>- 
sequently removed farther up the valley. 
His wife was Christiana Waggoner; they 
had issue: Matthew, George, Jacob and 
Henry. Henry Wineman was brought to 
America by his parents when only six years 
.old, and spent the rest of liis life in Path 
Valley. He was a Democrat in politics, and 
a member of the Reformed Church. He 
married Catharine Hite; they had issue: 
George, Henry, David, Peter, Jacob B., 
Anna (married Andrew Umrell), Catharine 
Lilian (married Michael McNeal), and 
Margaret (married George Strike). Four 
other children died young. Jacob B. Wine- 
man, the fifth son, is a self-made man. Fie 
learned the trade of a carpenter at the age 
of twenty, and followed it until he was 
twenty-seven years old. He then began 
business as a merchant at Fannettsburg, in 
which he is still engaged. He started out in 
Hfe without money and with only a com- 
mon school education, but liy hartl work and 
pluck he acquired a competence, becoming 
the owner of four fine farms in Path Valley, 
as well as his store in Fannettsburg. In 
December, 1885, he was appointed post- 
master at Fannettsburg, by President Cleve- 



land. In politics he is a Democrat. Jacob B. 
and Etta J. Wineman had issue : 

1. Warren, who is in business at Fan- 
nettsburg, married Elsie Jones, daughter of 
Robert G. Jones, formerly sheriff of Frank- 
lin county; they have issue: Frederick and 
Louise. ' 

2. John Nelson lives in Franklin 
county. 

LEM ASTER FAMILY. The ancestor 
of the Lemaster family of Chambersburg 
was a native of Germany, and emigrated to 
Pennsylvania before the middle of the eight- 
eenth century. He was a blacksmith and 
lived and carried on his trade in Philadel- 
phia county, near the city. He died about 
the close of the Revolution. He had two 
sons, of whom Andrew was the younger. 

(II) ANDREW LEMASTER (born 
in Philadelphia county, February 26, 1750 — 
died Dec. 4, 18 18) was reared on a farm 
and learned the blacksmith's trade from his 
father. After his father died his elder 
brother took the farm and Andrew followed 
his trade. With his share of his father's es- 
tate he purchased a few acres of ground and 
built a dwelling-house and blacksmith shop 
near Philadelphia. Later he sold his prop- 
erty and removed to Cumberland (now 
Franklin) county, and took up land where 
the town of Marion is situated. He also 
owned the land on which the White Churc'a, 
near Marion, was built, and gave the ground 
for the church. He afterward bought a 
farm near Keefers, where he died. He was 
a soldier of the Revolution. Mr. Lemaster 
married. Barbara Heck (bom Dec. 28, 1755 
— died Aug. 11, 1824) ; they had issue: 

1. Jacob (III). 

2. John (born Sept. 25, 1778 — died 
March 20, 1825) married Miss Snively; 
they removed to Berkeley Springs, West 
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3. Catharine (born Nov. 18, 1780 — 
■died Feb. 22, 1857) married a Mr. Over. 

4. Mary, born Nov. 26, 1783, died un- 
married. 

5. Philip, bom Dec. 7, 1786, died 
joung. 

6. George, bom June 13, 1790. died 
unmarried Sept. 14, 1863. 

7. Daniel (born March 14, 1796 — 
•died Dec. 7. 1871 ) lived at Berkeley Springs, 
W. Va. ; he had issue : Jacob, John, David, 
Sarah and Elizabeth. 

8. Philip (IV). 

(III) JACOB LEM ASTER, (born 
July 8, 1775 — died June 25, 1861), son of 

Andrew and Barbara (Heck) Lemaster, 
lived on a farm where the village of Le- 
master is now situated. He married Eliza- 
beth Reidenewer; they had issue: 

1. John. 

2. Jacob (died Jan. 3, 1900) lived on 
•the site of the village of Lemaster, and at 
his death was the richest man in Peters 
township. He married Barbara Benedict; 
they had no issue. His widow erected a 
memorial window to his memory in the First 
U. B. Church, Chambersburg. 

3. Elizabeth. 

4. David (died March, 1876) married 
March 25, 1847, Nancy Meyers, daughter 
•of Jacob and Mary (Snively) Meyers; they 
had issue: Clara Anna (married J. Monroe 
Light), Fannie (married Samuel Hoover). 
Mary (married Daniel Glazer), Jacob and 
Samuel. 

(IV) PHILIP LEMASTER (born 
March 24, 1798 — died Sept. 30, 1883), son 
•of Andrew and Barbara (Heck) Lemaster, 
was reared on a farm near Bridgeport, 
Peters township, and followed farming all 
his life. He married Feb. 15, 1820, Sarah 
Hershey (born March 7. 1798 — died Jan. 
4, 1869), daughter of Andrew Hershey: 
they had issue: 



1. Elizabeth (born Nov. 19, 1820, 
died unmarried, Oct. 24, 1883.) 

2. Lena (born Aug. 25, 1822), mar- 
ried George Oyler. 

3. Sarah (born Dec. 7, 1824) died 
in infancy. 

4. John A. (V). 

5. Sarah (born Feb. 20, 1831) mar- 
ried Emanuel Hawbecker. 

6. Mary (born Jan. 31, 1833) mar- 
ried Jacob Spessard. 

7. Jacob Hershey (born April 6, 
1835) married Elizabeth Over; they have 
issue: Archibald, William. 

(V) JOHN ANDREW LEMASTER 
(born Nov. 27, 1826), son of Philip and 
Sarah (Hershey) Lemaster, was reared on 
a farm near Chambersburg and educated in 
the public schools. In 1855 he went to 
Williamsport, Md., where he was engaged 
in the coal and lumber business until 1862, 
when he was burnt out by the Confederates 
during the battle of Antietam. In the spring 
of 1863 he returned to Chambersburg and 
engaged in the grocery business and was 
again burnt out by the Confederates, July 
30, 1864. After the tire he resumed the 
business, which he has conducted ever since. 
Mr. Lemaster married Dec. 28, 1849, Sarah 
Huber (born Jan. 16, 1827 — died July 4, 
1903), daughter of Rev. Abraham and Eve 
( Hoover) Huber ; they had issue : 

1. Abraham Huber (born Dec. 22, 
1850) lives at Harrisburg. He married Eva 
McChntick ; they have one son living, Don. 

2. Leoma a. (born Feb. 26, 1853) 
married Joseph Fries, of Harrisburg; they 
liave two children : Elsie and Norah. 

3. Annie E. (born Dec. 12, 1854) 
married John Stager, of Philadelphia ; they 
ha\e issue: Sarah and Helen. 

4. George William (bom Nov. 16, 
1857), married Nettie Runk; they have two 
daughters: Ruth and Dorothy. 



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5. John R. (born Oct. 19, i860) lives 
in New York City ; he had five sons : An- 
drew, Joseph, WilHam, Theodore, and one 
deceased. 

6. Maurice D. (VI). 

(VI) MAURICE D. LEMASTER 
(born April 16, 1867), son of John A. and 
Sarah (Huber) Lemaster, was educated in 
the public schools of Chanibersburg, and at 
the age of seventeen became an apprentice 
to the trade of a machinist with the Taylor 
^Manufacturing C(Mnpany. He served an 
apprenticeship cif four years. After com- 
pleting his trade he went to Roanoke, Va., 
and worked in the machine shops of the 
Norfolk & Western Railroad Co. for one 
year. He then returned to Chanibersburg 
and was engaged with the Taylor Manu- 
facturing Company until its failure, after 
which he went to Wilmington, Del., where 
he remained a few months. Again return- 
ing to Chanibersburg he was a foreman in 
the shops of the Taylor Engine Co., until 
the final failure of that enterprise. He then 
formed a partnership with F. M. Duncan, 
and they conducted the Taylor Works for 
two and half years, \\lien the bond holders 
sold the plant of the Taylor Works to the 
Chambersburg Engineering Company, Mr. 
Lemasters remained with the new company 
for a few months as one of their foremen, 
and then became connected with the Wolf 
Company as foreman of their machine shops. 
In l-'ebruary, 1902, he was appointed super- 
intendent of the Wolf Co., and has since 
been general superintendent of the works. 
He has under his supervision over three 
hundred men. He is a director of the Me- 
chanics' Building and Loan Association of 
Chambersburg, and is a member of the 
B. P. O. E. Mr. Lemaster married Dec. 
22, 1887, Sarah L. Sierer, daughter of 
Adam Sierer of Chambersburg; they have 
one (laughter: Elsie. 



LANDIS FAMILY. The origin of the 
Landis family in America dates back to the 
year 1718, when three brothers, Rev. Benja- 
min, Felix and John Landis, all Swiss Men- 
nonites, came to this country from the vicin- 
ity of Mannheim, on the Rhine, whither 
they had been driven by religious persecu- 
tion, from Zurich, Switzerland. The Lan- 
dis family of Waynesboro are direct de- 
scendants of : 

(I) REV. BENJAMIN LANDIS, and 
Franklin F. and Abraham B. Landis are 
his great-great-great-grandsons. Rev. Ben- 
jamin Landis was accompanied to this coun- 
try by his only son, Benjamin, Jr., and took 
up a tract of 240 acres of land from the 
London Company, for which he received a 
patent. This land, situated in what is now 
East Lampeter township near Mellinger's- 
meeting-house, about four miles east from 
Lancaster City, at the intersection of the 
Horseshoe and old Philadelphia roads, was 
in the possession of the Conestogoe Indians,, 
from whom Rev. Landis obtained it by pur- 
chase. He was a Mennonite minister and, 
while fanning his land, labored zealously 
in behalf of his religion and his church. 

(II) BENJAMIN LANDIS, son of 
Benjamin the founder, was born in Switzer- 
land in 1700, and was in his eighteenth year 
when he emigrated with his father to Amer- 
ica. He followed farming in Lancaster 
county all his life, dying there in 1781, aged 
eighty-one years. He had four sons : 

1. Benjamin. 

2. Abraham. 

3. Jacob. 

4. Henry (III). 

(HI) HENRY LANDIS was born on 
the Landis farm in Lancaster county. Pa., 
ill April, 1744. and died March 4, 1825, 
aged eighty years and eleven months. He 
married Mary Brnbaker, who was born Feb. 
8, 1747, and died Sept. 18, 1828, aged 



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eighty-one years, seven niunlhs and ten 
days. The issue of this marriage was : 

I. Anna, born May 9, 1767, died in 

1852, aged eighty-five years and six months. 

,2. Benjamin, born May 11, 1770, 

died Oct. 24, 1828, aged fifty-eight years, 

five months and thirteen days. 

3. Maria, born Sept. 22, 1771, died 
in 1859, aged eighty-eight years. 

4. John, born Sept. 8, 1773, died in 
June, 185 1, aged seventy-eight. 

5. Henry, born May 15, 1775. died 
Dec. 24, 1845, aged seventy. 

6. Peter, born July 9, 1778, died in 
1856, aged seventy-eight years. 

7. Abraham (IV). 

8. Barbara, born March 14, 1782, 
died in February, 1802, aged nineteen years 
and eleven months. 

9. Elizabeth, born Sept. 10, 1785, 
died in February, 1802, aged sixteen years 
and five months. 

10. Susanna, born in June. 1790, died 
an infant. 

(IV) ABRAHAM LANDIS, son of 
Henry, and the grandfather of the Waynes- 
boro members of the family, was born x\pril 
II, 1780. and died April 21, 1861, aged 
€ighty-one years and ten days. He mar- 
ried Anna Nefif, who was born April 17, 
1781, and died Jan. 11, 1866. aged eighty- 
four years, eight months and twenty-five 
days. The issue of this marriage was as 
follows : 

1. Henry N.. born Jan. 20, 1804. died 
Aug. 28, 1889, aged eighty-five years, seven 
months, eight days. 

2. Simon, born Jan. 5, 1806, died 
Sept. 9, 1807. aged one year, eight months 
and four days. 

3. Abraham N.. born Nov. 22. 1807. 
died Sept. 16. 1890, aged eighty-two years, 
nine months and twenty-five days. 

4. Mary, born Jan. 10, 18 10, died 



Feb. 18, 1900, aged ninety years, one month 
and eight days. 

5. Jacob N., born Jan. 13, 1813, died 
March 17, 1857, aged forty-four years, two 
months and four days. 

6. Elizabeth, born Oct. 3, 1815, died 
June 9, 1816, aged eight months and six 
days. 

7. John N., born April 23, 1817, died 
July 8, 1854, aged thirty-seven years, two 
months and fifteen days. 

8. Ann N., bom March 2, 1820, re- 
sides in Waynesboro. 

9. Benjamin N. (V). 

(V) BENJAMIN N. LANDIS, father 
of Franklin F. and Abraham B. Landis, of 
Waynes Ixiro, was born Nov. 16, 1822, in 
Lancaster county, and died Nov. 11, 1855, 
aged thirty-one years, eleven months and 
twenty-five days. He located in Franklin 
county about 1847. He married Lydia P. 
Frick, daughter of Jacob Frick, who was a 
native of Lancaster county, and died Jan. 
30, 1897, aged ninety-six years. Jacob Frick 
was an uncle of George Frick, the pioneer 
manufacturer of Waynesboro. Mrs. Landis 
died in Waynesboro, Jan. 14, 1902. To 
the marriage of Benjamin N. Landis and 
Lydia P. Frick children were born as fol- 
lows : 

1. Franklin F., of Waynesboro. 

2. EzR.\ F., of Niagara Falls, New 
York. 

3. Mary A. married Jacob Kohr. of 
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 

4. Elizabeth married Eli Treichler, 
of Niagara county. New York. 

5. Salome married Jacob K. Miller, of 
near Waynesboro. 

6. Abraham B., of Waynesboro. 

7. Emma married Jacob Frick, of 
Waynesboro. 

When Benjamin N. Landis removed 
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he settled on a small farm to which was 
attached a saw and a grist mill, driven by 
the waters of Antietam creek, and situated 
alxjut three miles south from Waynesboro. 
He was a carpenter by trade and of an in- 
ventive turn of mind, and made a number 
of improvements in the mill, also adding a 
small sash and door factory to the property, 
the machinery of which was nearly all of 
his own make. His mechanical ability and 
ingenuity, aided by his industry and zeal, 
bid fair to ensure him a bright and success- 
ful career, but in the midst of his prospects 
he was stricken with typhoid fever, and 
passed away Nov. ii, 1855. By his un- 
timely death his widow and seven children, 
the youngest born after the father's death, 
Avere left in rather straitened circumstances, 
and the widow was obliged to go to her 
people in Lancaster county, taking some of 
her little ones with her, and finding com- 
fortable homes for the others. In after 
years, however, assisted by her older chil- 
dren, she was enabled to gather the scattered 
family together again and for years lived 
happily in their midst. She died at 
Waynesboro Jan. 14, 1902. 

I 
FRANKLIN FRICK LANDIS is one 
of the leading citizens of Waynesboro, Pa., 
and a son of Benjamin N. and Lydia P. 
(Frick) Landis, and was born Feb. 25, 
1845, "eai" Neffsville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
He was brought to Franklin county by his 
parents when in his second year. By the 
death of his father, which occurred when he 
was ten years old, he was placed in the 
care of his uncle, John Bowman, of Lan- 
caster county, and his educational ad- 
vantages were limited to the common 
schools. These he attended during the win- 
ter months, working on his uncle's farm 
during the summers, and thus the time 
passed until his seventeenth vear. He then 



succeeded in convincing those interested in 
him that he was fitted for a different life, 
and that his natural inclinations would lead 
him to the mechanical arts. 

In April, 1862, Mr. Landis was per- 
mitted to enter a small machine shop, then 
owned and operated by John A. Snyder in 
^It. Joy, Lancaster county, where he spent 
three years as an apprentice, and then went 
to Lancaster City and in a few days secured 
a position as tool-maker in the machine shop 
of the Norris Locomotive W'orks, and there 
he received a fair salary for the times. Mr. 
Landis remained with this company until 
their works were closed and this threw him 
out of employment. Becoming dissatisfied 
with his prospects and surroundings, he ser- 
iously contemplated going West, but was 
finally dissuaded by his mother, who pre- 
vailed on him to remain in the East. 

About this time Mr. Landis met an ap- 
preciative friend in Mr. Jacob Stauffer. a 
patent, solicitor of Lancaster City, who in- 
duced him to undertake the making of 
models for his clients, and accordingly after 
spending most of his earnings for tools and 
necessary appliances, he began the making 
of models (then required by the patent of- 
fice), repairing sewing machines, locks, in 
fact had a very liberal share of all kinds of 
light work then in demand, doing a good 
safe business for about two years. He sub- 
sequently took his brother Ezra F. into 
partnership, and they soon expanded the 
business, manufacturing steam engines and 
doing general machine work. They con- 
tinued until 1S72, when they sold the busi- 
ness to John Best, at that time a well know n 
and successful manufacturer of steam boil- 
ers in Lancaster, Pa. For the next four 
and a half years our .subject filled a salaried 
position with ^Ir. Best, and in 1876, with 
his brother Abraham B., he engaged in the 
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der the firm name of F. F. & A. B. Landis. 
The mechanical part of this business was a 
success, but lack of finances and the pre- 
vious failure of Linton & Lamott, Balti- 
more, Md., a business firm that had bought 
the bulk of their products that year, so 
crippled them that in the fall of 1878 they 
decided to make an assignment for the pur- 
pose of placing all their creditors on an 
equality. The works were closed for a 
short time, after which Francis Hershey, of 
Mt. Joy, Pa., a brother-in-law of our sub- 
ject, bought the tools, fixtures, finished and 
unfinished material, and afterward the prop- 
erty. Through his kind assistance the 
brothers were again enabled to start the 
works and ultimately to discharge all their 
indebtedness, which amounted to some ten 
thousand dollars. In the fall of 1879, by 
the request of the brothers, Mr. Hershey 
sold the entire engine business of F. F. & 
A. B. Landis to the Geiser Manufacturing 
Company, of Waynesboro, Pa., arid iMr. 
Landis entered the employ of this company 
under an arrangement whereby the com- 
pany obtained the right to manufacture the 
Landis engine, known in the trade as the 
"Peerless" portable engine, they to pay Mr. 
Landis a royalty on all engines they built 
with his improvements. In 1880 and 1881 
he designed and patented a very successful 
spring mounted traction engine, now well 
known as the "Peerless Traction Engine." 
This engine proved such a marked success 
as a general purpose agricultural engine that 
in 1884 and 1885 our subject took up plow- 
ing by steam power and designed and 
patented a plowing machine connected 
directly to the engine. This machine is pro- 
vided with a steam lift, by which at the will 
of the operator the plows are lifted out or 
lowered into the ground, either when in 
motion or not. 

In 1889 Mr. Landis took up the subject 



of grain threshing and developed a new ma- 
chine, now extensively known as tiie "Peer- 
less Thresher," which is one of the leadinsr 
products of the Geiser Manufacturing Co. 
Our subject gave his services exclusively ta 
this company until .A.pril, 1894. Just about 
this time began the demand for threshers 
of much greater capacity, which also de- 
manded a better method for disposing of 
the straw. He then turned his attention to 
the developing of pneumatic straw stackers, 
and on this subject up to this time there 
have been over twenty-five patents granted 
iiim. In the early part of 1895 the Frick 
Company of Waynestoro, Pa., desiring to 
go into the manufacture of threshing ma- 
chines, secured the ser\ices of Mr. Landis 
to design a machine for them. This ma- 
chine he improN'ed from year to year, dis- 
pensing with a number of devices found on 
all other machines of its class, which have 
been a source of trouble in this class of ma- 
chinery. This machine is now well known 
to the trade as the "Landis Eclipse 
Thresher" and is built exclusively by Frick 
Company on a royalty for the patents our 
subject holds. 

In all Mr. Landis holds upward of 100 
patents relating to different subjects, includ- 
ing traction engines, steam plow, threshing 
machine, pneumatic straw stacker and other 
improvements relating directly or indirectly 
to works in that line. 

In 1904 our subject turned his attention 
ih a practical way to developing the art of 
manufacturing the concrete product for 
building purposes, a subject which had often 
in a limited degree attracted his attention, 
during the last ten years, believing it to be 
the coming building material. As we have 
an age of steel so we will have an age of 
concrete or artificial stone. 

He has lately given some of his time to 
the developing of electrically actuated en- 



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gines or machines for operating all classes 
of clocks, from those placed upon a majitle 
to a large tower clock, the same engine be- 
ing equally applicable to the operating of 
program mechanisms for ringing signals ac- 
cording to pre-arranged intervals, from one 
minute to hours in length. These programs 
are used in schools, laboratories, and manu- 
facturing establishments. 

Mr. Landis was married in 1869 to 
Elizabeth Hershey, born in Lancaster 
county. Pa., daughter of Rev. Samuel 
Hershey, a most highly esteemed Reformed 
Mennonite minister. Rev. Samuel Hershey 
was born in 1804, in Lancaster county, and 
died Feb. 27. 1885, in his eighty-first year. 
His ancestors came originally from Swit- 
zerland, l)ut for several generations before 
his time they lived in America. A family of 
eight children was born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Landis. 

1. Id.a. M.w married T. B. Smith, of 
Waynesboro. 

2. Benj.\min F. died in his seventh 
year. 

3. M.\RV H. died in her eighth year. 

4. Eliz.\beth H. married Chauncey 
Hershey, of Franklin, Pennsylvania. 

5. Anna E. married Dr. A. B. Sollen- 
burger, of Waynestoro, Pennsylvania. 

6. Adria died in infancy. 

7. Frank H. died aged fifteen months. 

8. Mark H. is a student in Cornell 
University. 

Mr. and Mrs. Landis are members of 
the Reformed Mennonite Church. 

BOXBRAKE FAMILY. DANIEL 
BONBR.\KE (died in 1790), the ancestor 
of the Bonbrake family, was one of the early 
settlers in the Cerman settlement of (iuil- 
ford township. lie took up a large tract of 
land, as early as 1763, adjacent to the Grind- 
stone Hill Church. His name in his will 



was spelled Beinbreght. Both syllables of 
the name have been ^•ariously spelled, the 
first being frequently written Bone, Bon, 
Bohn, Bine, Bein, Bin, Boon and Bound, and 
the second brake, break, breake, brecht, 
breght, bright, brook and brick. The name 
of his wife was Anna Maria, but her surname 
has not been ascertained: they had issue: 

1. Daniel (II). 

2. Frederick (HI). 

3. Peter (IV). 

(II) DANIEL BONEBRAKE (2), 
son of Daniel and Anna Maria Bonbrake, 
disposed of his interest in his father's estate 
to his brother Frederick. His history is in- 
volved in much obscurity, but it is probable 
that he had a son : 

I. Conrad (V). 

(III) FREDERICK BONEBRAKE 
(died in 1817), son of Daniel and Anna 
Maria Bonbrake, lived on the old Bonbrake 
homestead adjacent to the Grindstone Hill 
Church in Guilford township. His wife was 
Christiana, but her surname has not been 
ascertained. After his death she married 
Baltzer Overcash. They had issue : 

1. Dew ALT (VI). 

2. Adam removed to Westmoreland 
county. He spelled his name Bonbright. 
One of his sons, Daniel (died near Greens- 
burg in 1842), married Mary and 

they had issue : Eliza, Catharine, Mary, 
John (a merchant at Des Moines, Iowa), 
William. George (a member of the hardware 
firm of Buehler, Bonbright & Co.), James 
(of the dry-goods firm of Hood, Bonbright 
& Co., Philadelphia), and Daniel (a pro- 
fessor in the Northwestern L^niversity at 
Evanston, Illinois). 

3. Henry removed to Stark county, 
Ohio, about 1813. 

4. Catharine married George Cross- 
land. 

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(IV) PETER BONBRAKE (died in 
1821), presumed to be a son of Daniel and 
Anna Maria Bonbrake. He owned ])art of the 
old Bonbrake liomesteafl adjacent to Grind- 
stone Hill Church in Guilford township. He 
obtained a warrant for the land on which 
Grindstone Hill Church stands, July i, 177.2. 
and deeded it to six trustees of the German 
Presbyterian congregation at Grindstone 
Hill, Oct. 27. 1798. It was a triangular 
piece of ground and contained 51 acres 144 
perches. The survey was made by Matthew 
Henderson. Dec. 7, 1784, and certified by 
Daniel Henderson, June 17, 1798. The 
Christian name of Peter Bonbrake's wife 
was Catharine. They had issue: 

1. Ad.\m (VII). 

2. A daughter married an Alter^ and 
had issue : Eliza and Lucy. 

3. A daughter married a Baker and had 
issue : John, Samuel, Jacob and Peter. 

4. Catharine. 

5. Magdalena. 

6. Margaret married John Rade- 
baugh, a prominent citizen of Chambersburg, 
and a noted innkeeper. He was the first 
landlord of the "Indian Queen Hotel." 
They had one son : Samuel. 

7. Elizabeth (born Dec. 25, 1777 — 
died Sept. 6, 1855) married John Myers 
(born Dec. 6, 1796 — died Sept. 20, 1848), 
and had issue: Samuel, a merchant; Cath- 
arine, who married John Radebaugh (whose 
first wife was her aunt Mayme), as his sec- 
ond wife: and Elizabeth, who married James 
Nill, an eminent member of the Chambers- 
burg Bar and President Judge of the i6th 
Judical District, 1861-64. 

8. Mary married Joseph Whitmore, 
and they had a son, Peter and a daughter. 

9. Susanna. 

fV) CONRAD BONBRAKE (born 
Feb. 24, 1768 — died Nov. 11, 1844), pre- 
sumed to be a son of Daniel Bonbrake (2), 



bought lands Nov. 10, 1800, and in 1816, 
on the Antietam creek, which still belong 
to his descendants. He married Mary 
Thomas (born Feb. 6, 1764 — died July 25, 
1835); they had issue: 

1. Jacob married Susan Hollinger, and 
they had issue: Polly, who married Jacob 
Ditch ; Anna, who married George W. 
Foltz (Foltz Family) ; Susan, who married 
Jacob Mentzer; Jacob, who married Maria 
Frick ; David H., who married Selina 
Stoner; Elizabeth, who married Jacob F. 
Oiler; John M., who married Alice Frantz; 
and Samuel, who died young. 

2. JoHN(Vin).' 

3. Henry (born July 19. 1798) mar- 
ried November, 1829, Anna Stewart (born 
in 1804 — died Ang., 1862), daughter of 
William Stewart, and they had issue : Ly- 
dia, who married Abraham Shockey ; Dan- 
iel, who married Barbara Singer ; Catharine, 
who married John M. Hess; Henry G., who 
married Cora Walter ; Jacob, who died un- 
married; Nancy, who married Rev. Joseph 
M. Hess; Susanna, who married Jonas 
Shockey; and Juliann (single). 

4. Daniel (IX). 

5. Nancy married John Miller; they 
had no issue. 

6. Susan married Jacob Shockey, they 
had one daughter, Nancy. [Line is extinct]. 

7. Catharine (born June 13, 1807) 
married March 31, 1831, Samuel Rinehart 
(born in Virginia, May 13, 1811), son of 
Lewis Rinehart. They had issue : John, 
Susan, Samuel B., Mary, Lewis, Henry, 
Daniel and Catharine. 

(VI) DEWALT BONEBRAKE (born 
Oct. I, 1755 — died Aug. 29, 1824), son of 
Frederick and Christiana Bonebrake, was a 
soldier of the Revolution and served in the 
campaign around Philadelphia in 1777. He 
was an educated man and taught his child- 
ren in the German tongue. He was not on- 



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ly a farmer and teacher but was skilled as 
a worker in metals. He frequently worked 
on his farm all day and at his trade of a 
blacksmith in the evening-. He removed to 
Ohio in 1800. Going down the Ohio in a 
flat boat to the mouth of the Hocking river, 
and up the Hocking, he landed at Athens, 
Athens county. He settled near a village 
now called Hibbardsville, where he remained 
about seven years, when he removed to 
Preble county, and settled near Eaton. He 
was brought up in the German Reformed 
Church, but shortly after his settlement in 
Preble county, he united with the United 
Brethren in Christ. Pie married Christiana 
Wolfe (born Aug. 31, 1764 — died July 9, 
185 1 ), a native of Berks county; they had 
issue : 

1. Adam (born July 18, 1783) re- 
moved to Fountain county, Indiana. 

2. Frederick (born Dec. 25. 1785) 
was a soldier in the war of 181 2; he was a 
minister of the U. B. Church. 

3. Fliz.\beth (born Feb. 20, 1788) 
married Peter Zearing. 

4. J.ACOB (born Feb. 28, 1789) was a 
soldier in the war of 181 2. 

5. John (twin brother of Jacob) was 
a soldier in the war of 181 2. 

6. CoNR.^D (born March 10, 1791) was 
a soldier in the war of 1812 : he was a min- 
ister of the U. B. Church. 

7. Peter (born Nov. 13, 1793) was a 
soldier in the war of 1812; he was a minis- 
ter of the U. B. Church. 

8. David, born March i, 1796. 

9. Daniel (born June 16, 1797) was a 
minister of the U. B. Church. 

10. George (born March 25, 1799) 
was a minister of the U. B. Church. 

11. Henry (born Oct. 8, 1801) was a 
minister of the U. B. Church. He was 
elected a Bishop, but after praying over his 
election over night, he reported to the con- 



y 



ference that he had neither the grace of 
heart nor the college training necessary. 

12. Catharine (torn March i, 1804) 
married a Sears. 

13. Joel, born Feb. 13, 1807, died Jan. 
19, 1810. 

Da\id Bonebrake, son of Dewalt, and 
three of his brothers went to Fountain 
Co., Ind., in 1828. Cornelius Bonebrake, 
son of David was only six weeks old when 
his parents removed to Indiana. Cornelius 
married in 1855. Phoebe Jane Bales, daugh- 
ter of Moses Bales ; they had issue : James 
O.; Grant; Elsada, who married Charles 
Isley; and a daughter that died young in 
1865. Lewis D. Bonebrake, Commissioner 
of Education of Ohio, is a great-grandson of 
Dewalt Bonebrake. 

(VII) ADAM BONBRAKE (bom 
Jan. 27, 1789 — died Nov. 23, 1866), son of 
Peter and Catharine Bonbrake, was a far- 
mer t)n the old Bonbrake homestead, ad- 
jacent to Grindstone Hill Church, in Guil- 
ford township. He married Catherine 

(born July i, 1792 — died Dec. 24, 

1853) : they had issue: 

1. Jacob (born March 28, 1817— died 

Feb. 14, 1866) married Elizabeth 

(born Jan. 27, 1818 — died Nov. 26, 1886), 
and had issue : George D. and Amanda. 

2. Samuel, born Nov. 28, 1821, died 
March 18. 1861. 

3. Daniel (born Feb. 3, 1825— died 
Oct. 22. 1892) married Rebecca Overcash 
(born July 17, 1821— died April 25, 1900), 
daughter of George and Eva (Hoffman) 
Overcash ; they had issue : , George and 
Adam O. 

4. John married Baltzley; 

they had issue : Jeremiah and Samuel, now 
of Illinois. 

(VIII) JOHN BONBRAKE (born 
in 1796 — died in 1866), son of Conrad and 
Mary (Thomas) Bonbrake, was a farmer. 




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surveyor and teaclier. He married Susanna 
Weyant (born in 1796 — died in 1835); 
they had issue : 

1. Julia Ann married James H. Gor- 
don, and died 1903. 

2. Maria married David B. Russell. 

3. Nicholas married Martha Miller, 
and they had issue : Jeremiah. Alice, Aaron, 
John H., Jacob M., Mary, Eliza and D. 
Emanuel. 

4. John W. removed to Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa, in 1865, where he is now living. He 
married Sarah Stamey ; they have issue : 
Susan, Wesley, Belle, Hermione, Abraham, 
Ivy, and others not now living. 

5. Emanuel J. (X). 

(IX) DANIEL BONBRAKE (died 
in 1849), son of Conrad and Mary (Thom- 
as) Bonbrake, was a farmer in Washing- 
ton township. He married Margaret 
Stoner (died in 1854) ; they had issue: 

1. David S., deceased, was in the 
United States Internal Revenue Service for 
many years. 

2. Lewis X., deceased, was a farmer. 
He married Elizabeth Stoner. 

3. Daniel W., deceased, was a physi- 
cian at Martinsburg, Pennsylvania. 

4. Anna Elizabeth married David 
Snively. 

5. Emma married Dr. John A. Royer. 

6. Henry X. (XI). 

7. Melchor, a physician and dentist at 
Taylorville, 111., married Laura French. 

8. Andrew Snively, a physician at 
Waynesboro. 

(X) EMANUEL JAMES BON- 
BR.'XKE, son of John and Susanna (Wey- 
ant) Bonbrake, received his early education 
in the public schools and became teacher of 
the Mt. Vernon school in Washington town- 
ship in 1849. With the money thus obtained 
he entered the preparatory department of 
A-Iarshall College in the spring of 1850. He 



graduated at Franklin and Marshall College 
in 1855. In the meantime he taught school 
several terms in the winter, and not only 
retained his class work in college, but was 
accorded the valedictory oration, which then 
went to the best writer and speaker, if of re- 
spectable rank in recitations. He won this- 
distinction by his display of oratorical pow- 
ers at the exhibitions of the Diagnothian Lit- 
erary Society. "As an orator," writes the 
Rev. Joseph H. Dubbs, D. D., Audenreid 
Professor of History and Archaeology in 
Mr. Bonbrake's Alma Mater, "he was re- 
garded as peculiarly gifted. He delivered an 
oration at the Diagnothian anniversary in 
1854 on 'The Wane of the Crescent' which 
attracted wide attention. He also spoke at 
the anniversary in 1855, and delivered the 
valedictory on the day of graduation." In 
regard to the latter Society oration the Rev. 
Walter E. Krebs, D. D., of Littlestown, Pa., 
writes : "One fact I most vividly remember 
is the stroke Mr. Bonbrake made at a So- 
ciety Exhibition. The Goetheans had held 
their anniversary, and it was good. The 
Diagnothian Society at that time was very 
low in number of members, so much so that 
it was feared that they would not have ma- 
terial enough to make up anything like a re- 
spectable program. But by selecting some 
performers from the lower classes they got 
one up, and Mr. Bonbrake had the closing 
oration. His subject was 'The Last Fall of 
the Curtain,' and it fairly took the house 
down. The speaker carried everything be- 
fore him. It was considered the finest ora- 
tion ever delivered at college. It 
won for him the ^■aledictory. The Diag- 
nothians were jubilant." And a final cita- 
tion is taken from a Yale College man's re- 
view of the Diagnothian exhibition of 1854, 
our subject being then in Junior class at col- 
lege : "The next oration was by E. J. Bon- 
brake. subject 'The Wane of the Crescent.' 



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\\'e had been taking notes of the previous 
performances, but tliis speaker so enchained 
the attention of the audience, as well as our- 
selves, that we forgot to take notes. The 
speech was well written and the delivery 
was charming. The clear melodious voice 
of the speaker yet rings in our ears. Such a 
speech on such an occasion, took all by sur- 
prise. We have been to the Junior exhibi- 
tions and college commencements of some of 
the best colleges in this country, and we can 
not recollect of ever having been so de- 
lighted. Mr. Bonbrake has oratorical power, 
and, with a little tact, will become a very 
popular speaker." * * * And, in 
speaking of the epilogarian who followed 
Mr. Bonbrake. "the gentleman deserved 
more praise than he received, for the fine 
tones of the preceding speaker were yet lin- 
gering in the ears of the audience." 

In his college course he was called before 
the public five times — much oftener than 
usual — twice as representative of his society's 
exhibitions, once as spokesman for all the 
students in the reception of Dr. Gerhart, the 
new president, then as Senior orator, and fi- 
nally as valedictorian. In all these appear- 
ances, if it could be fairly done, he was put 
down as the one to speak last. It may be im- 
agined that it was a brievous disappoint- 
ment to Mr. Bonbrake that soon after leaving 
college his health became so greatly impaired 
as practically to compel the disuse of the ora- 
torical gifts that had made such a deep im- 
pression on his fellow students. The malady 
(hemorrhages) fell like lightning from a 
clear sky, and, as he says, "It came with such 
sudden and overwhelming force that a hot 
and fevered perspiration broke over me. 
Avhich through sheer mortification and cha- 
grin soon became as cold and clammy as the 
sweat of death." 

After leaving college he taught an 
academy for boys at Camden, Del., 1855-56, 



and the academy at Mercersburg, previously 
the preparatory department of Marshall 
College, 1856-57. He studied law with 
Cessna & Shannon at Bedford, and was ad- 
mitted to the Bedford County Bar. in May, 
1858. He subsequently made a tour of the 
West, but came to Chambersburg in 1859, 
and was admitted to the Franklin County 
Bar, Aug. 8, 1859. Capt. George Eyster, 
then district attorney, afterward United 
States treasurer at Philadelphia, at once 
kindly invited Mr. Bonbrake to share his 
office, and in a short time the law firm of 
Eyster & Bonbrake was formed. By win- 
ning one of his early cases, against the opin- 
ion of some of the oldest and most astute 
members of the Bar, indeed almost the whole 
Bar, he sprang almost at a bound to high 
rank as a lawyer, but his health breaking 
down through close confinement and severe 
study he felt compelled to lay aside ambition 
and confine his practice to the Orphans' 
Court and as a general ofiice counselor. In 
these departments he has always been held in 
high esteem. He is a sound adviser and his 
business sagacity is generally acknowledged. 
In public spirit he has few equals, and no one 
has been more active in promoting improve- 
ments in the town and county. To him 
more than anyone else Chambersburg owes 
the location here of the Wolf works and the 
Taylor Works, now the plant of the Cham- 
bersburg Engineering Company. He has 
always taken unusual interest in agriculture, 
horticulture, arboriculture and stock raising. 
His versatility, taste and culture, as well as 
the survival of the habits of study and re- 
search acquired in early life, are best illus- 
trated, perhaps, by his collection of the 
woods of the Cumberland Valley. He has 
specimens of nearly every tree or shrub that 
grows in the valley, and on the adjacent 
mountains, one side of each specimen show- 
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other side being highly polished. What ren- 
ders this collection unique is the fact that for 
every species and almost every variety he has 
found in the broad domain of English and 
American verse a line, a couplet or a stanza 
descriptive of its beauties, qualities and char- 
acteristics. 

Mr. Bonbrake has been very successful 
in business, though often a heavy loser in 
assisting the needy and unfortunate. In 
1882 he formed a law partnership with W. J. 
Zacharias, Esq., which still continues. His 
son, Norman L. Bonbrake, is also a member 
of the firm. He has been a member of the 
Board of Regents of Mercersburg College 
for many years, and its treasurer for twenty- 
five years. He is a member of the Reformed 
Church. In politics he is a steadfast Re- 
publican, but has never sought office and has 
only filled such positions as burgess or school 
director, in which he considered it his duty 
as a citizen to serve. He is an extensive 
owner of real estate, his latest purchase being 
the famous old Hollywell paper mill, near 
Chambersburg. Mr. Bonbrake married E. 
Belle Oakes, daughter of John and Rebecca 
(Snively) Oakes; they had issue: 

1. Jessie married Dr. P. Brough Mont- 
gomery [Montgomery Family]. 

2. LiLLi.\N married James Ross 
Snively, of Pittsburgh. 

3. NoRM.vN Leroy (born September, 
1874) was educated at Mercersburg Col- 
lege, and was graduated at Cornell Uni- 
versity in 1896. He studied law with his 
father, and was admitted to the Franklin 
Coumty Bar in the same year that he received 
his University degree. He is a member of 
the law firm of Bonbrake & Zacharias, and 
has served as attorney for the borough of 
Chambersburg. 

(XI) HENRY X. BONBR.\KE (born 
in Washington township, March 31, 1843), 



son of Daniel and Margaret (Stoner) Bon- 
brake, was educated at Mercersburg College, 
and as a young man began the study of medi- 
cine with Dr. J. J. Oellig, of Waynesboro. 
He completed his studies with Dr. James 
Brotherton, also of Waynesboro, and grad- 
uated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
New York City, in 1865. He began the 
practice of his profession at Leitersburg, 
Washington Co., Md., but after a brief so- 
journ there he returned to Franklin county, 
and practiced at Mont Alto for many years. 
In 1868 he was appointed superin- 
tendent of the Mont Alto Iron Company's 
Forge, and served as manager of the store 
and forge departments until 1889. He held 
this position in connection with his profes- 
sional work. In 1889 he removed to Cham- 
liersburg and has since given his whole time 
to his profession. He is a self-made man and 
one of the leading physicians of the county. 
In politics he is an active Republican, and 
served as coroner of Franklin count v. 1890- 
94. He is a visiting physician of the Cham- 
bersburg Hospital, lecturer on Surgery in the 
Training School for Nurses connected with 
the hospital, County Superintendent of the- 
State Board of Health, and physician to the 
County Home by appointment of the Direc- 
tors of the Poor. He is a member of the 
County, State and National Medical Socie- 
ties, and takes an active part in the proceed- 
ings of these learned bodies. He is a member 
of George Washington Lodge, No. 143, F. 
& A. M., of Chambersburg; and of Chapter 
No. 176. of the same order. He is also a 
member of the B. P. O. E. His church affili- 
ations are with Zion's Reformed Church, 
Chambersburg. Dr. Bonbrake married in 
1863, Agnes Fouke. daughter of Dr. George- 
S. and Josephine (W^olf) Fouke, of West- 
minster, Md. : thev have issue : 

I. B. FoRDVCE (died at Birmingham,, 



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Ala., Dec. 5, 1904J married Annie Shank, 
of Greencastle, and had one son, Abram, who 
died June 3, 1904. 

2. George S., Hving at Painted Post, 
N. Y., has two sons, Charles and George. 

3. Irene married (first) George W. 
Shank, and had issue: Jessie S. ; (second), 
Jacob Rinick (died September, 1903), and 
had issue: Harry and Robert. 

4. Anna A. is hving in Chambersburg. 

5. M. Augusta married Arthur 
Hooper Blair, and lives at Parkersburg, 
West Virginia. 

JESSE RUPP OLLER, who passed 
away March 25, 1904, was superintendent 
of the Geiser Manufacturing Company of 
\\'aynesboro. and a very prominent man of 
that city. He was born near the White 
Mills, in Washington township, Franklin 
Co., Pa., May 20, i860, a son of the late 
Bishop J. F. Oiler, an extensive sketch of 
whom appears elsewhere. The year follow- 
ing his birth the family removed to Quincy 
township, where the father was engaged in 
mercantile pursuits, but located in Waynes- 
boro when our subject was seven years old. 
In this city the boy attended the public 
schools, and he spent the years of 1878 and 
1879 at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. 
During the summer he put in more or less 
time working in a gristmill, and then served 
an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, 
spending three summers in the foundry, and 
the same length of time in the wood de- 
partment. In 1880 he entered the shops as 
a machinist, and by 1890 was foreman of 
the machine department, in 1894 becoming 
master mechanic and assistant superin- 
tendent, continuing as such until 1900, 
when he was made general superintendent. 
He was at the time of his death discharging 
the duties of that responsible position. He 
was also a director in the Geiser Co. for three 



years, and was a stockholder and director 
in the Waynesboro Street Car Company, 
known as the Chambersburg, Greencastle 
and Waynesboro Street Railway Company. 
Mr. Oiler married Ida Royer, a native 
of Waynesboro, daughter of Dr. John A. 
Royer, of Franklin county. Three children 
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Oiler: 

1. Nellie Grace. 

2. Bernard F. 

3. Jacob F. 

Mr. Oiler was a member of the Presby- 
terian Church and very popular in that body, 
with which his widow also unites. He was 
a Republican in politics, and served as audi- 
tor of the borough for three years. Fra- 
ternally he was a member of Acacia Lodge, 
No. 586, A. F. & A. M., in which he was 
very active. Enterprising, hard-working, a 
good, substantial man, in whom the most 
implicit trust could be placed, he was one 
who enjoyed the confidence of the company 
with which he was connected, as well as of 
his neighbors and friends. 

Mrs. Oiler also belongs to a respected 
old family of Franklin county, and her 
mother, whose maiden name was Bonbrake, 
is still living in Waynesboro. Besides Mrs. 
Oiler, the eldest. Dr. and Mrs. Royer had 
children as follows : Walter S., of Washing- 
ton, D. C. ; Miss Grace, of Waynesboro, a 
clerk in the postoffice; and Carl L., book- 
keeper in the Citizens Bank of Waynesboro. 

RANKIN FAMILY. JAMES RAN- 
KIN, the ancestor of one of the old Rankin 
families of Franklin county, was a taxable 
in Peters township in 1751. The name of 
his wife was Jean, surname not ascertained. 
They had issue: 

I. William was enrolled in Capt. 
William Huston's company, of Col. Samuel 
Culbertson's battalion, Cumberland County 
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Smith in 1780. He married Feb. 28, 1774, 
Mary Stewart. 

2. Jeremiah (II). 

3. J.-^MES was enrolled in Capt. William 
Huston's company, Cumberland County 
Associators, and served under Capt. William 
Smith in 1780. 

4. David was enrolled in Capt. William 
Huston's company, Cumberland Count}' 
Associators, and served under Capt. William 
Smith in 1780. 

5. Ruth married John Tool. 

6. A daughter that married Samuel 
Smith. 

(II) JEREMIAH RANKIN, son of 
James and Jean Rankin, was ensign of Capt. 
William Huston's company, of Col. Samuel 
Culbertson's battalion, Cumberland County 
Associators, and served as lieutenant of 
Capt. William Smith's company in 1780. 
He inherited a part of the paternal home- 
stead on which he erected the fine stone man- 
sion, still standing and occupied by his de- 
scendants. He married, but the name of his 
wife has not been ascertained. They had 
issue : 

1. Jeremiah (HI). 

2. David was county auditor of Frank- 
lin county, 1809-12, and county commis- 
sioner, 18 1 3-1 5. He married Mary Wat- 
son, and they had issue : David Huston, 
Archibald, Adam, John and Frances. 

3. James. 

4. William married and had issue, 
three daughters. 

(III) JEREMIAH RANKIN (died 
in 1805), son of Jeremiah Rankin, married 
Mary Clark (died July i, 1836), daughter 
of James and Nancy (Reed) Clark. They 
had issue : 

1 . Nancy married John Imbrie, and re- 
moved to Beaver county ; they had ten chil- 
dren. 

2. Maria married Samuel Johnston, 



of Mercersburg, son of Thomas and Annie 
(Houston) Johnston. 

3. Esther married Alexander M. 
Johnston, of Mercersburg, son of Thomas 
and Annie (Houston) Johnston. 

4. James Clark (IV). 

(IV) JAMES CLARK RANKIN 
( born in Montgomery township, Franklin 
county. Pa., June 16, 1800 — died June, 
1866), son of Jeremiah and Mary (Clark) 
Rankin, was thoroughly educated, and 
studied civil engineering in which he was 
an expert. He married, Alarch 27, 1828, 
Elizabeth Watson (born in Greencastle, 
Pennsylvania, died April 13, 1874), daugh- 
ter of David and Rebecca (Vance) Watson. 
They had issue : 

1. Mary Jane born June 9, 1830, mar- 
ried Gen. John C. McNary, of Canonsburg, 
Washington Co., Pennsylvania. 

2. Rebecca Vance bom Oct. 31, 
1831, died Feb. 18, 1865. 

3. Samuel Johnston (born June 5, 
1833 — died Dec. 21, 1891), was a farmer 
and owned the part of the old Rankin home- 
stead that the stone mansion was erected 
on. He married March 17, 1868, Elizabeth 
H. Kno.x, daughter of Samuel and Margaret 
(Witherow) Knox, of Adams Co., Pa. 
Mrs. Rankin was educated at Sunnyside 
Seminary and the Peimsylvania State 
Normal School at Millersville. After she 
was graduated she taught school until her 
marriage. They had issue : 

(a) Elizabeth Watson, who received 
her" preparatory education at Mercersburg 
College, Mercersburg, and finished at 
Bordentown Female Seminary, New Jersey, 
now owns the part of the Rankin homestead 
on which is the old stone mansion. 

(b) Margaret Johnston died in infancy. 

4. John Watson, (V). 

5. Esther, born March 7, 1838, died 
Jan. 9, 1839. 



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(>. Jeremiah Clark (born June 16, 
1845; niarried, March 25, 1873, Anna 
Louise Huber. of Gettysburg, daughter of 
Dr. H. Huber. He died Nov. 2, 1895. 
Tlieir issue was : Harry Huber died in in- 
fancy ; Man,- Jane niarried John W'ardHch, 
a postal clerk on the C. & R. railroad and 
has Louise North and Henry Rankin; and 
Maria Louise. 

(V) JOHN WATSON RANKIN 
(born in Montgomery township, Franklin 
county, May 30. 1835. died February, 
1872), son of James Clark and Elizabeth 
(Watson) Rankin, was a farmer. He served 
in the Civil war in Company C, 126th P. V. 
I, Gen. E. B. Tyler's brigade. Gen. Hum- 
phrey's Corps, and was in following en- 
gagements : Reconnoissance at Shepherds- 
town, Oct. 16 and 17, 1862; Battle of Fred- 
ericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862: five days battle 
at Chancellorsville. commencing May i, 
1863. He was honoral)ly discharged on May 
20, 1863. He married Mary Dil worth, of 
Beaver county, Pa., daughter of Hugh Dil- 
worth, a farmer and owner of coal mines 
and a sheep ranch. Mrs. Rankin was edu- 
cated at seminaries in Pittsburgh. Pa., and 
in Ohio. She had three brothers, John, Al- 
ijert and Ambrose, and two sisters, Rebecca, 
deceased, and Mrs. Jane Snyder, deceased. 
Rev. Albert Dilwortli is a Presbyterian min- 
ister in California. John W. and Alary 
(Dil worth) Rankin, besides two daughters 
who died in infancy, had issue: 

I. James Clark (^boni June 12. 
1868), received his preparatory education 
at Mercersburg College, Mercersburg, and 
attended Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 
until 1888. He began the study of the law 
under the Hon. Francis M. Kimmell, of 
Chambersburg, and completing his studies 
under Hon. W. Rush Gillan, was admitted 
to the Franklin County Bar, in 1891. After 
practicing his profession at Chambersburg 



for two years, he went to Mercersburg in 
1895. where he has since been in active prac- 
tice. He is attorney for the borough of 
Mercersburg and superintendent of the Mer- 
cersburg Water Company. In politics he 
is a Democrat, and he was a Democratic can- 
didate for the Legislature in 1896, and was 
editor of Mercersburg Jonnuil from 1900 
until 1903. Mr. Rankin married in October, 
1897, Jennette Forster, daughter of J. Mont- 
gomery Forster, of Harrisburg, for twenty 
years Insurance Commissioner of Pennsyl- 
vania ; they have one daughter, Margaret 
E., born Nov. 10, 1898. 

CULBERTSON FAMILY. JOSEPH 
CULBERTSON (born in "Culbertson's 
Row," at Ballygan, County Antrim, Ire- 
land — died in "Culbertson's Row," Decem- 
ber, 1784), was one of three Irish brothers, 
who settled in the Cumberland Valley in 
what is now Franklin county, at a very 
early period, certainly before 1743. The 
others were Alexander, who formed a com- 
pany for the defense of the frontier against 
the French and Indians after Braddock's de- 
feat in 1755, and was killed in the action at 
Sideling Hill, April 6, 1756; and Samuel, 
who served with the Pennsylvania regiment, 
in the French and Indian war, and was ser- 
geant-major in Col. Hugh Mercer's battal- 
ion in 1758. All of these brothers had a 
numerous and distinguished posterity. Joseph 
Culbertson married Mary Breckinridge, a 
sister of James Breckinridge, who settled in 
"Culbertson's Row." adjoining lands of the 
Culbertsons, where the Row Mill now 
stands; of Alexander Breckinridge, who 
went to Virginia, and w as the ancestor of the 
P.reckinridge family of Virginia and Ken- 
tucky; and of William Breckinridge, who 
settled on the farm on which the Rocky 
Spring Church was built. At the outbreak 
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built by Joseph Culbertson on his farm as a 
place of refuge for his neighbors, it is said 
that it stood in front of his liouse, near 
where the spring house now stands. Joespli 
and Mary (Breckinridge) Culbertson had 
issue : 

1. Samuel^ described in the early tax 
lists as "on the creek," was a colonel in the 
war of the Re\olution. 

2. Joseph (died in 1818) was a colonel 
in the Revolution. His wife Margaret, died 
July II, 1838. They had issue: Joseph, 
Hugh, John, Margaret, Mary, Ivlartha, 
Elizabeth and Sarah. 

3. Robert (II). 

4. Margaret married a Duncan. 

5. Martha died young. 

6. Elizabeth married Nov. 16, 1795, 
James Breckinridge, son of James Breckin- 
ridge, the pioneer. They had, a daughter, 
Mary, who married John Qrr. 

7. Mary married Samuel Breckinridge, 
son of James Breckinridge, the pioneer, who 
removed to Columbus, Ohio. They had 
issue : Mary, Robert, Nancy, Martha and 
Elizabeth, and perhaps others. 

(II) ROBERT CULBERTSON (born 
in "Culbertson's Row." July 23, 1755 — died 
in August. 1801), son of Joseph and Mary 
(Breckinridge) Culbertson, was a captain in 
Col. Joseph Armstrong's Battalion (the 5th) 
of Associators, September, 1776; lieutenant- 
colonel 1st Battalion, Cumberland County 
Associators, July 31. 1777: lieutenant-colo- 
nel 1st Battalion of ]Militia, May 14, 1778: 
after the reorganization, he was commis- 
sioned major 6th Battalion of Militia May 
10, 1780. He succeeded Matthew Gregg as 
assistant wagon master for Cumberland 
county, Aug. 14, 1780. He lived on a farm 
in "Culbertson's Row," adjoining that of his 
father. Col. Culbertson married in 1778, 
Ann Duncan (died in West Hanover town- 
ship, Dauphin county. June, 1827), daugh- 



ter of William and Jane Duncan, of Middle 
spring; they had issue: 

1. Joseph (III). 

2. William, born Sept. 15, 1780, died 
ni 1785. 

3. Robert, born July 16, 1782, died 
after i860. 

4. Alex.\nder, born in 1784, died 
April, 1809. 

5. Samuel Duncan (IV). 

6. William, born Dec. 12, 1787, died 
July, 1824. 

7. Stephen (born July 15, 1790 — 
died July, 1824) married Jan. 9, 1810, Mary 
Hays, daughter of David and Martha (Wil- 
son) Hays. They had issue: Robert, Will- 
iam Trimble, John Carren, Joseph Trimble, 
Martha, Jane Elizabeth and Mary. 

8. John Craighead (bom Sept. 19, 
1791 — died in i860), was an officer in the 
United States Army. He married Sept. 9, 
1835, Jane Moodey, daughter of Rev. John 
and Elizabeth (Crawford) Moodey. 

9. AIarv (born April 9, 1793 — died in 
1852) married Dec. 18, 1810, Wilson Hays 
(born in 1779 — died Nov. 11, 1832), son of 
David and Martha (Wilson) Hays. They 
had issue: David, Robert Culbertson, Will- 
iam Hamilton, Martha Ann, Mary Jane and 
Elizabeth Wilson. 

10. Daniel, born .\pril 15, 1795, died 
in 1808. 

11. Ann (born April 18, 1797) mar- 
ried May 17, 1 82 1,. Alexander McCreight. 

12. James, born Oct. 12, 1799, died in 

1873- " . 

(Ill) JOSEPH CULBERTSON (born 
Feb. 2-j, 1779 — died July 26, 1858), son of 
Col. Robert and Ann (Duncan) Culbertson, 
became a merchant in Chambersburg, and 
afterward became proprietor of the "Frank- 
lin Hotel" on the public square where the 
Central Presbyterian Church now stands. He 
married (first), April 12, 1804, Mary Finley 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



(born in 1780 — died April 2, 181 7). 
daughter of Capt. James Fiiiley. They had 
issue: 

1. James Finley (bom in 1803 — died 

May 28, 1 85 1) married Biddy 

(born in 181 1 — died Oct. 17. 1852). 

2. Robert (born in 1805 — died in 
1882) married Nov. 8, 1832, Mary 
Peebles. 

3. Alexander. 

4. Cyrus Duncan (bom in 1812 — 
died in 1870) removed to Pittsburgh, and 
was agent for the United States and Pilot 
Mail Stage Lines. He married Feb. 16, 
1836, Nancy Eleanor Alaclay (born June 
25, 1812), daughter of William and ]\[ar- 
garet (Culbertson) Maclay. 

5. William (born in 1814 — died in 
1857) was a physician at Logansport, Ind. 
He married April 11, 1837, Nancy C. Mc- 
Culloh, daughter of Thomas G. and Mar- 
garet (Purviance) McCulloh. They liad 
issue: Joseph, Margaretta and Ellen Bell. 

6. Mary died in 181 7. 

Mr. Culbertson married (second) 
Frances Stewart (bom near Harrisburg, 
Feb. 12. 1785 — died Nov. 27, 1867). They 
had issue : 

1. Michael Simpson (born Jan. 18, 
1819 — died at Shanghai, China, Aug. 16, 
1862) was graduated at the Military Acad- 
emy at West I\>int in 1839. and served until 
April 15. 185 1, when he resigned to become 
a missionary in China. He translated the 
Bible into the Chinese language, in 1855, 
and also published "Darkness in the Flowery 
Land." He married Mary Dunlap, of New 
York State; they had one daughter: Laura. 

2. Joseph Stewart^ born Feb. 14, 
1 82 1, died Sept. 11. 1830. 

3. Thaddeus Ainsworth, bom May 
18, 1823, died Aug. 28. 1850. 

4. Anna Mary, born April 27, 1827. 
died Feb. 8. 1858. 



(IV) SAMUEL DUNCAN CUL- 
BERTSON (bom in "Culbertson's Row," 
Franklin county, Feb. 21, 1786 — died in 
Chambersburg. Aug. 25, 1865), son of Col. 
Robert and Ann (Duncan) Culbertson, re- 
ceived a classical education at Jefferson Col- 
lege, Canonsburg. He studied medicine with 
Dr. Thomas ^Valmsley. at Chambersburg, 
going with his preceptor to Hagerstovvn. 
After Dr. Walmsley's death he completed his 
studies at Hagerstown with Dr. Young, at- 
tending a course of lectures in the Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. He began to practice in Chambers- 
burg in 1810. He became an eminent physi- 
cian, and had the degree of M. D. conferred 
upon him by the University. During the 
war with England in 1812, true to his an- 
cestry, he shared in the struggle. With a band 
of volunteers, he left Chambersburg, Sept. 
5, 1 81 2 and marched to Buffalo, where they 
stayed until January, 181 3. He held the po- 
sition of First Lieutenant until they reached 
Meadville, when they were incorporated with 
the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment, and he was 
made surgeon, in which capacity lie serv-ed 
until they were mustered out. In 1814. when 
the British threatened Baltimore, a company 
being rapidly raised, he was chosen captain, 
and marched hurriedly, with some eighteen 
hundred men of Franklin county, to the en- 
dangered city. Tliere he was once more ele- 
vated to the surgeoncy of the brigade. In 
181 5 he relinquished his practice tempor- 
arily to engage in business in Philadelphia, 
but he soon returned and resumed his prac- 
tice and kept a drug store in partnership with 
Dr. Jacob Snyder. After Dr. Snyder re- 
moved from Chambersburg he associated Dr. 
Bain with him in his practice, and the firm 
subsequently became Culbertson. Bain & 
Lane. He relinquished his practice to his 
partners, in 1831. to engage in the manu- 
facture of straw IxDards at the famous "Mam- 




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anoth" paper mill in Chambersburg. In 
1843 he admitted his son Edmund into part- 
nership, and several years later relinquished 
the business entirely to his sons, Edmund 
and John P. Culbertson. He was connected 
with the Franklin Railroad during its con- 
struction, and was president from 1839-41. 
He was also president of the Bank of Cham- 
bersburg for several years. 

It was Dr. Culbertson's professional ca- 
reer that made him eminent. In surgery he 
was very expert and daring: as an obstetri- 
cian he especially excelled. He was not un- 
known as a medical writer, and a communi- 
cation of his opinion upon a vexed question 
of Physiolog}- attracted the attention and 
hearty commendation of the celebrated Pro- 
fessor Chapman. The style of his composi- 
tions was admirable, strong, chaste, and 
easy. In his intercourse with his medical 
brethren, he was respectful and courteous, 
observing professional ethics with strict 
fidelity, and deporting himself with a delicacy 
that became proverbial. Dr. Culbertson mar- 
ried March 19, 1809. Nancy Purviance 
(born in 1786 — died Jan. i, 1850), daughter 
of Samuel and Nancy Purviance. The Pur- 
viance family was of French Huguenot 
origin. Mr. Purviance was an earl}' paper 
manufacturer at Chambersburg. Dr. Sam- 
uel D. and Nancy Culbertson had issue : 

1. Edmund (V). 

2. Elizabeth married Elihu Din- 
widdie Reid (VI). 

3. Albert (died at Monongahela City. 
July 16. 1878) married Emma Brown, and 
they had issue: Mary, Nancy, Samuel Dun- 
can, Emma and James. 

4. Augustus H.. born in 1822, died 
Jan. 27,, 1839. 

5. Ferdinand (born April 30. 1823 — 
died at Peoria, 111., May 7, 1863) married 
May 5, 1852, Lavinia Culbertson; they had 
two children : Herbert and Nancy Purviance. 



6, John Purviance (bom Aug. 26, 
1827 — died Oct. 23, 1900) married (first), 
April \, 1 85 1, Mary Belle Watson, daugh- 
ter of James Watson; (second) Bird Stur- 
geon, of Shippensburg; and (third), Julia 
Wunderlich, daughter of Daniel K. Wun- 
derlich. By his last marriage there was 
issue : John Purviance, Charles A. and Will- 
iam Augustus. 

(V) EDMUND CULBERTSON (born 
at Chambersburg, Jan. 12, 1812 — died 
March 4, 1883), son of Dr. Samuel D. and 
Nancy (Purviance) Culbertson, was edu- 
cated at the Chambersburg Academy, and 
was graduated at Washington College, now 
Washington and Jefferson, Washington. 
Pa. He studied medicine with his father, 
and was graduated M. D. at Jefferson Medi- 
cal College, Philadelphia, in 1836. After re- 
ceiving his degree he practiced at Jackson, 
Miss., one year, and two years at Springfield, 
111. He then returned to Chambersburg, and 
in 1843 entered into partnership with his 
father in the manufacture of straw boards. 
He continued with his father's firm until 
1856. He afterward engaged in the grain 
and commission business with Col. D. O. 
Gehr and William L. Chambers, but when 
the partnership expired he retired. He was 
president of the Bank of Chambersburg, 
1873-83; president of the Franklin County 
Agricultural Society ; a director of the Tay- 
lor Manufacturing Company; and a trustee 
of the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church. 
In politics he was a Republican. He was a 
member of the I. O. O. F., and filled all the 
chairs. Dr. Culbertson married May 14, 
1844, Ellen H. Kennedy (born Aug. 11, 
1822), daughter of James J. and Margaret 
(Cowell) Kennedy. They had issue : 

1. Lucy A. died young. 

2. Emma S. married Chauncey Ives 
[Ives Family]. 

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4. Nancy Purviance married Daniel 
H. Wingerd (died Jan. 10. 1902), son of 
Adam and Margaret (Zellar) Wingerd, of 
Greencastle. He was graduated at Franklin 
and Marshall College in 1869, after wliich 
he studied in the Universities of Berlin and 
Vienna for two years. He studied law with 
Kennedy & Stewart, Chamhersburg. and 
practiced his profession at Reading. They 
had issue: Margaret Kennedy, who died 
young: and I'.dmund Culbertson. 

5. James Kennedy (died in Chicago, 
in 1896) was a farmer in Kansas. He mar- 
ried Annie P. Armstrong, of Hamilton, On- 
tario, and they had issue: Sheldon Maxwell 
and .Archibald Wingerd. 

(VI) ELIZABETH CULBERTSON 
(born Jan. 9, 1814 — died .\pril 6, 1891), 
daughter of Dr. Samuel D. and Nancy ( Pur- 
viance) Culbertson, married Dec. 2, 1834, 
Elihu Dinwiddle Reid (born Jan. 9, 1807 — 
died Jan. 9, 1880). son of James and Isa- 
bella (Dinwiddle) Reid. grandson of Hugh 
and Jean (Crawford) Dinvviddie, or Dun- 
woody, and a descendant of the Dinwoodie 
and Reid families of Adams county. Hugh 
Dinwiddie was a resident of Pennsylvania 
from 1741, and was captain of a company in 
the Associated Companies of York county in 
1756: major of 2d Battalion York .\ssocia- 
tiirs July 28. 1775, and lieutenant-colonel 3d 
Battalion, York Associators. July 28, 1775; 
and lieutenant colonel 3d Battalion. York 
Associators, Dec. 31. 1776. The Din- 
widdies were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, 
and in politics were Whigs, as dis- 
tinguished from Tories. Jean Crawford. 
wife of Hugh Dunwiddie, displayed great 
courage during the Indian troubles. It is 
said of her that on April 13, 1758. seeing the 
smoke from the burning houses of her neigh- 
bors, and realizing the flames must have been 
kindled by Indians, she .saddled her horse, 
and with her four little children stowed awav 



in saddle bags, thrown across him, fled some 
three or four miles away to the fort where 
her husband was on duty. Elihu Dinwiddie 
Reid served in the war of the Rebellion as 
lieutenant of Company K, 13th Pennsyl- 
vania Reserves, and afterward as quarter- 
master and commissary of the Brigade, serv- 
ing in all three years, and participating in the 
battles of Drainesville, Fredericksburg, An- 
tietam and Gettysburg. Early in life Mr. 
Reid engaged in the dry goods business at 
Shippensburg, but came to Chambersburg in 
1830, and formed the dry goods firm of 
Maclay & Reid. The partnership lasted only 
two years, after which he conducted the busi- 
ness alone for many years. Later he went to. 
California, and lived at Sacramento for 
three years. Capt. Dinwiddie and Elizabeth 
Reid had issue : 

1. Samuel D. C, born in 1838, died in 
1867. 

2. Edmund, born in 1840, died in 1861. 

3. Helen married in Decemljer, 1863, 
William S. Stenger (born I'eb. 13, 1840), 
son of Peter and Christina (Shearer) Sten- 
ger, of Fort Loudon. He was graduated at 
Franklin and Marshall College in 1858, and 
was a member of Congress, 1879-83, and 
Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1883-87. 
They had issue : Walter Reid, born in Feb- 
ruary, 1865, married Emma Williams, of 
Philadelphia: Harriet married Minot Jones; 
Bessie; Helen Yundt married l->ank Stuart 
Smith of Pittsburgh, Pa.; William; Ed- 
mund : and Alexander is deceased. 

4. Annie married Dr. Benjamin Bow- 
man ( \TI). 

(VII) ANNIE REID, daughter of 
Elihu D. and Elizabeth (Culbertson) Reid, 
married in 1871, Dr. Benjamin Bowman' 
(born in Cumberland county, in 1837), son 
of Benjamin and Annie (McOuade) Bow- 
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man, Sr. (born in 1810 — died in 1888), was 
a son of Jacob Bowman, also a farmer. Ur. 
Bowman had three brothers — John and 
Samuel, died in infancy, and Jacob, died 
aged twenty-two years — and two sisters 
Mary, who married John Morgan ; and 
Sarah, who married W. H. Brenneman. He 
was educated in the public schools of his na- 
tive county, at the Whitehill Academy, and 
at the Cumberland County Normal School. 
He then taught school for six years in Cum- 
berland county. His last engagement as a 
teacher was with the High School of Me- 
-chanicsburg. While he was teaching, he 
read medicine with Dr. Michael Freese. In 
1863, he entered the New York Homeo- 
pathic Medical College and was graduated, 
Feb. 25. 1865. He then returned to Me- 
■chanicsburg and practiced in partnership with 
Dr. Freese until July, 1866, when he came to 
Chambersburg. where he has been in active 
practice ever since. Dr. Bowman is a senior 
member of the American Institute of Hom- 
eopathy, becoming a member in June, 1869. 
He belongs to the F. & A. M. He is a Pres- 
byterian and a member of the Falling Spring 
Presbyterian Church. Dr. Bowman was 
twice married. He married (first) in i860, 
Margaret J. Nelson (died in 1862). daugh- 
ter of Josiah Nelson, of Cumberland county : 
they had one daughter, Margaret, who died 
aged sixteen years. By his second marriage 
be had issue : 

1. Enz.\BETH CuLBERTSON married 
June II, 1903, Mervyn Paul Randolph, of 
'Seattle, State of Washington. 

2. Harriet Reid, living at home. 

OUICKEL AND RICE FAMILIES. 
John Michael Ouickel (born July, 1721 — 
died Dec. 1787) was the ancestor of the 
Ouickel family of York county and the Rice 
family of Chambersburg. At an early date 
lie emigrated from the northern palatinate 



of Germany, and in 1769 took up 418 acres 
of land near Ouickers Church, in Conewago 
township. York county. He donated the 
land on which Quickel's Church, on the 
Conewago, now stands, by deed executed 
March 17, 1770. He also contributed the 
timber for the church, and supplied most 
f)f the labor in its construction. The edifice 
was occupied by the Reformed and 
Lutheran congregations. One of the stipu- 
lations of the Ouickel deed was that Bar- 
bara Ouickel, his wife, should have a pew 
in the church for life. The family tradition 
is that he was a captain in the Revolutionary 
army. The parentage of his wife has not 
been ascertained. He had three sons, whose 
names are unknown with the exception of 
John, who settled on the old homestead. 

(II) JOHN QUICKEL (born in 
York county, June 9, 1762), son of John 
Michael Ouickel, was a farmer in York 
county. He married Elizabeth Brenneman; 
they had issue, six sons and five daughters, 
namely : 

1. John. 

2. Elizabeth (born 1788 — died Aug. 
6, 1890) married Mr. Kuehn. 

3. Susan died unmarried. 

4. Barbara died unmarried. 

5. Michael (III). 

6. Christian. 

7. Anna married \\'illiam Bentz. 

8. Henry. 

9. Catharine. 

10. George. 

11. Jacob died in infancy. 

(III) MICHAEL QUICKEL (born in 
York county, Aug. 25, 1794 — died Feb. 28, 
1846), son of John and Elizabeth (Brenne- 
man) Quickel, was a farmer. He married 
Catharine Krone (born Feb. 21, 1807 — died 
Sept. 28, 1897), daughter of George and 
Catharine (Lininger) Krone; they had 
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1. Gideon. 

2. George. 

3. Anna married David Meisenhelder. 

4. Tobias. 

5. Leah J. (IV) married Andrew 11. 
Rice. 

(IV) LEAH J. QUICKEL, daughter 
of Michael and Catharine (Krone) Ouickel, 
was married Jan. 11, 1870, to Andrew H. 
Rice, son of 

PETER P. RICE (born in 1818— died 
in 1887), who was a farmer in Adams 
county, until 1846, when he settled near 
Chambersburg. Peter P. Rice was a son 
of John Rice, a farmer in Adams county, 
who had five children; Peter P., Hannah 
(married Mr. Fisher), Daniel, Anna P. and 
Barbara (married Crist Wingerd). Peter 
P. Rice had three sons : 

1. Andrew H. 

2. Amos H. 

3. John A. 

Andrew H. Rice is a merchant in Cham- 
bersburg. Andrew H. and Leah (Ouickel) 
Rice have issue : 

1. John 1)., a member of the Franklin 
County Bar. 

2. Naomi E. 

3. D. Edgar (V). 

(V) D. EDGAR RICE (born at 
Chambersburg. Oct. 13, 1875), son of .-\n- 
drew H. and Leah J. (Quickel) Rice, was 
educated in the public schools of his na- 
tive town and was graduated at the high 
school in 1891, at the Chambersburg 
Academy in 1893, and at Pennsylvania Col- 
lege, Gettysburg, in 1896. He taught in 
the Harrisburg High School, 1896-98, and 
was principal of the Chambersburg High 
School, 1898- 1900. He studied law with 
Hon. W. Rush Gillan and was admitted to 
the Franklin County Bar in April, 1901. 
He was an assistant teacher in the Cham- 
bersburg Academy, 1901-02, and became 



principal of the academy .\ug. i, 1902. He 
is a successful teacher and is making his- 
mark as head master of the old Academy. 
He is a member of the First United Brethren 
Church. 

1 

ELDER FAMILY. The early history 
of the Elder family of St. Thomas and 
Peters townships is involved in some ob- 
scurity. James Elder came to the neigh- 
borhood about the middle of the eighteentli 
century with John Di.xon and John Camp- 
bell. He was enrolled as a private in Capt. 
Joseph Armstrong's Company in 1755. 
This was the first company formed in the 
Province for the defense of the frontier 
against the French and Indians. It is not 
known whether this James Elder is identi- 
cal with James Elder (born in Scotland, or 
Ireland, in 1712 — died in Fannett township,. 
Sept. 13, 1818), an early settler in Path 
Valley with his wife Elizabeth (born in 
Ireland in 1714 — died in Path Valley, July 
17, 1816), where he obtained a warrant for 
a tract of land, April 16, 1763. The Path 
Valley centenarian was a son of Robert El- 
der, who settled in Paxtang township, near 
Harrisburg, about 1730, and a brother of 
the Rev. John Elder, pastor of the Paxtang 
and Derry Churches. We have no record. 
of the family either of James Elder, of St. 
Thomas, or James Elder, of Fannett. There 
are a number of Elder marriages in the 
Rev. Dr. John King's record, among them 
Samuel Elder to Martha Pyatt, Oct. 5, 1773. 
It is likely that from this Samuel came 
James Elder, who is the earliest known an- 
cestor of the St. Thomas family. 

(II) JAMES ELDER (died in Peters 
township November, 1833) owned a tract 
of land near Bridgeport, how Markes. He 
was a farmer and a member of the Upper 
W'est Conococheague Presbyterian Church, 
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near Lemasters. He married June i, 1815, 
Rachel McAfee : they had issue : 

1. Mark, born in 1816. 

2. Alexander, bom in 1818. 

3. Benjamin, born in 1820. 

4. James Gettys (HI). 

5. Jane Elizabeth, born in 1828. 

6. David. 

7. Rebecca. 

(Ill) JAMES GETTYS ELDER 
(born Feb. 22, 1822 — died Dec. 16, 1882), 
son of James and Rachel (McAfee) Elder, 
was brought up on his father's farm, edu- 
cated in the public schools, and learned the 
trade of a whipmaker. He engaged in the 
business of whipmaking in the village of 
St. Thomas and conducted it for several 
years, when he embarked in mercantile pur- 
suits in partnership with Col. William D. 
Dixon, in the same village. The partner- 
ship of Elder & Dixon lasted until after the 
outbreak of the Civil war. Young Elder 
was noted for his military spirit and be- 
came first lieutenant of the Franklin Artil- 
lery, under Capt. McAllister. This organi- 
zation at St. Thomas was the rival of the 
Irwin Artillery, commanded by Capt. 
Charles T. Campbell. Lieut. Elder suc- 
ceeded to the command of the Franklin 
Artillerists, and commanded the battery at 
a military encampment held at Chambers- 
burg, in 1850. At the beginning of the 
Rebellion Capt. Elder offered his company 
to the government immediately upon Presi- 
dent Lincoln's first call for troops, and it 
was mustered as Company C, 2d P. V., 
April 20, 1 86 1. The regiment participated 
in Gen. Patterson's advance into Virginia 
in June, 1861, and was mustered out of 
service July 26, 1861. In the summer of 
1862 Capt. Elder recruited the 126th Regi- 
ment, P. v., of which he was appointed 
colonel Aug. 13, 1862. After its organiza- 
tion the regiment was attached to the ist 



Brigade, 3d Division, 5th Corps. The regi" 
nient participated in the march toward An- 
tietam, but arrived too late for the battle. 
It was afterward moved to Warrenton and 
subsequently to the neighborhood of Fal' 
mouth, Va., and on the morning of Dec. 
lith it marched frum camp for its initial 
battle. For two days it was held in sus- 
pense to the music of Burnside's booming 
cannon, but on the 13th the brigade crossed 
the Rappahannock by the upper bridge, and, 
passing through the town of Fredericksburg, 
was led at half past three out along the Tele- 
graph Road to a low meadow on the right, 
where it was exposed to a heavy fire of 
artillery. After some delay it was ordered 
to the left of the road, under co\"er of a 
hill. "'J'hat crest must be carried to-night," 
Burnside had said, speaking of Maryes Hill. 
Three fruitless attempts had been made to 
carry the frowning heights, when Hum- 
phreys' division was ordered up for a final 
charge. Forming his brigade in two lines, 
the 126th on the right of the second line, 
with orders to the men not to fire, but to 
rely solely on the bayonet, Tyler sounded 
the charge. Ascending the hill in well 
ordered lines, the brigade went forward 
past the brick house on Maryes Hill, over 
the prostrate lines of the last charging 
column, to the stone wall where the enemy 
lay. In a moment that fatal wall was a 
sheet of flame, and. worse even, the troops 
in the rear opened. Bewildered, and for a 
moment irresolute, the brigade began firing. 
This was fatal. The uKjmentum of the 
charge was lost. Staggering back to the 
C(ner of the house, and descending the de- 
clivity, it reformed at the foot of the hill. 
At the head of his men, heroically urging 
them on. at the farthest point in the charge 
Col. Elder fell, severely wounded in the hip. 
His wound was so serious and recovery was 
so slow that he was unable to be present at 



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the muster out of the regiment, May 20, 
1863. After his discharge Col. Elder re- 
turned to liis native county, making his home 
in Chambersburg. He was county treasurer 
one term, 1864-66. He then engaged in the 
banking business, and was one of the or- 
ganizers and a stockholder of the Franklin 
County Bank, .\fter retiring from the bank 
lie gave his attention to his farm, just out- 
side of the borough limits, until his death. 
Col. Elder married Feb. 17, 1845, ^lary E. 
Brindle (born Feb. 18, 1827 — died Aug. 4, 
1903), daughter of John and Catherine 
(Palmer) Brindle. James G. and Mary E. 
Elder had issue : 

1. ]\I.\RG.\RET C, born Feb. i. 1846, 
died unmarried, June 12, 1874. 

2. John W. (IV). 

3. Ameli.\ J. married Charles Gehr 
(Gehr Family). 

4. Carrie Belle, born Oct. 9. T854, 
died unmarried, April 17, 1872. 

5. Fanny married J. Wilson Hum- 
bird. 

6. James. 

7. Bruce, living in Chambersburg. 

8. WiLLL\M Dixon married Anna 
Carlisle Grove (born Aug. 14, 1870 — died 
Jan. 24, 1901), daughter of N. Pearse and 
Margaret W. (Seibert) Gmve; they liad 
issue : Margaret and James. 

(IV) JOHN W. ELDER (burn in St. 
Thomas, June 10, 1848 — died Nov. 12, 
1903), son of James Gettys and Mary E. 
(Brindle) Elder, was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Chambersburg. When he 
was twenty years old he accepted a position 
in the postoflfice at Philadelpliia, but after 
a few months he resigned to become agent 
for the Adams Express Company in Cham- 
bersburg. He held this position for seven 
years. In 1875 '^^ embarked in the grocery 
business, in which he was engaged until his 
death. .After 1880 he was extensively in- 



terested in the purchase and shipment of 
hay from various sections of the country. 
He was also in active business in other 
lines. He bought and sold as much as one 
hundred thousand pounds of wool per year, 
and was an extensive purchaser of produce, 
especially potatoes, in the West, shipping 
them to Chambersburg by the carload and 
disposing of them in the home market. Mr. 
Elder married, in 1870, Clara Huber, 
daughter of John and Mary (Rhodes) 
Hulier : they had issue : 

1. Gertrude married George D. 
Woodrow, auditor of the West Virginia 
Central Railroad. 

2. James^ a merchant at Elkins, W. 
Va., married Mary Brown. 

3. John W., married Elizabeth 
Kramer, and they have one son, John K. 
Elder. 

4. William. 

5. Belle. 

6. Wilson H. 

7. George W. 

8. C. Price. 

DICKSON and DIXSON FAMILY. 
John Dixson, or Dickson (born in Scotland 
in 1690, of the Clan Argyle), the ancestor of 
the Dickson and Dixon families of Franklin 
county, came to the Conococheague Valley 
with Charles Campbell in 1735. and in 1737 
settled on the fanu in St. Thomas township 
where his descendants still live. The name 
of his wife has not been ascertained; they 
had eight sons and one daughter. 

1. John was killed by the Indians near 
the confluence of the two branches of the 
Conococheague. 

2. Robert served as a private in Capt. 
Joseph .Armstrong's company for the defense 
of the frontier against the French and In- 
dians in 1755. and was a soldier of the Rev- 
olution. He had a son, William, who died 



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in 1784, leaving two daughters: Katharine 
and Rachel. 

3. William (II). 

S.\MUEL. 

Joseph. 

David. 

George. 

James. 

A daughter married Matthew Gie- 
land and mo\ed to Western Pennsylvania, 
near the Ohio Hue ; tliey had a large family. 
(II) WILLIAM DIXON (born in 
1732 — died November, 1812), son of John 
Dixson, the emigrant, was brought to St. 
Thomas township by his parents in his in- 
fancy. When only nine years old he was 
stolen by the Indians and concealed in a 
cave near his home, but was brought to his 
parents by a friendly squaw. He joined the 
company under Capt. Joseph Armstrong, 
Aug. 5, 1755, the first organization formed 
in the Conococheague valley after Brad- 
dock's defeat. He served until the close of 
the French and Indian war, being a sergeant 
in Captain Armstrong's company, of the 
Second battalion of the Pennsylvania regi- 
ment. He was with Major Dunwoody in an 
action near Knobsville. in what is now Ful- 
ton county, in which Dunwoody and his en- 
tire command were massacred, only Sergeant 
Dixon and two others escaping with their 
lives. He was an ensign in active service in 
the Revolution. Mr. Dixon married Aug. i, 
1767, Agnes Dimlop; they had issue: ' 

1. Samuel^ born Aug. 19, 1768. 

2. John, born June 24. 1770. 

3. Margaret (born Sept. 26, 1772) 
married May 25, 181 5, John Falls. 

4. William born Oct. 14, 1774. 

5. Agnes (born Feb. i, 1777) died un- 
married. 

6. Mary (born Feb. g, 1779) married 
March 31, 1803, Robert Bratten. 

7. James (HI). 



8. David (IV). 

(III) JAMES DICKSON (born near 
St. Thomas, Nov. 28, 1781 — died in Kno.x; 
county, 111., in 1848), son of William and 
Agnes (Dunlop) Dixon, was a Franklin 
county farmer until 1839, when he removed 
to the neighborhood of Knoxville, 111., and 
was a stock dealer in the western country 
before the era of railroads. He was a Pres- 
byterian. Mr. Dickson married June 15, 
1814, Jane Bratten (died in 1840) ; they had 
issue : 

1. William (born June 5, 181 5— 
died in Chicago, 1835) ; he was a printer. 

2. Mary (born Nov. 2, 1817 — died at 
Stockton, Cal., 1870) was tAvice married. 

3. John (V). 

4. Hiram, born Sept. 2, 1825, died at 
St. Helena, Cal, 1869. 

5. Jane Ann (born Jan. 22, 1828) 
married Joel Smull, and is now a widow liv- 
ing in Chicago. She has one son, John 
Smull. 

6. Margaret (born Nov. 29, 1830 — 
died at Springfield, 111.) married Madison 
Archer. 

7. Charles Campbell, born Dec. 26, 
1832, died at Wilmington, III, in 1854. 

8. Elizabeth (born Nov. 18. 1836 — 
died in California) married Mr. Winter- 
inger. 

(IV) DAVID DIXON (bom in St. 
Thomas township, Nov. 22, 1786 — died Jan. 
20, 1849), son of William and Agnes (Dun- 
lop) Dixon, was a farmer on the old Dixon 
homestead. He was a member of the Pres- 
byterian ' Church. Mr. Dixon married in 
May, 1833, Catharine (Jeffrey) Ager (born 
in 1 79 1 — died Jan. 18, 1871), widow of 
Thomas Ager and daughter of Benjamin 
and Annie (Swan) Jeffrey. She was a 
granddaughter of John and Rachel (Cham- 
bers) Jeffrey, Rachel Chambers being a sis- 
ter of Col. Benjamin Chambers, the founder 



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of Chambersburg. Benjamin Jeffrey, Mrs. 
•Dixon's father, served in the Revolution 
and was wovnided in the shoulder at the battle 
of Brandywine by a British light horseman. 
Her brother, John Jeffrey, marched to Erie 
in 1 814 as a member of Capt. Samuel Gor- 
don's company and died in the service. 
David and Catharine Dixon had issue ; 

I. William Dunlop (VI). 

(V) JOHN DICKSON (bom near St. 
Thomas, June 15, 1820), son of James and 
Jane (Bratten) Dickson, was reared on a 
farm and received his education in the com- 
mon schools. In 1840 he entered the Gales- 
burg (111.) Academy, but after a short stay 
there a severe attack of fever and ague com- 
pelled him to abandon his studies. He then 
returned to his native county and became a 
teacher in the public schools. Although 
brought up a Presbyterian he embraced the 
tenets of the United Brethren in Christ, in 
1843, 3nd was licensed to exhort in January, 
J 844, and to preach Aug. 9, 1845. His first 
circuit was in Perry county. He continued 
in the itinerancy during the first six years of 
his ministry. He was ordained Jan. 26. 
1850. His first station was Chambersburg, 
1851-54. The first church building was in a 
very dilapidated condition when he began his 
work in Chambersl)urg, but he succeeded in 
building a new church. In 1862 he was ap- 
pointed to Chambersburg for the second 
time, and he at once went to work to secure a 
j)arsonage for the congregation, in which he 
succeeded. In the meantime he had been 
f<5r four years a presiding elder. He also 
built a church for the Mechanicsburg con- 
gregation before returning to Chambers- 
burg. Altogether he served twenty-three 
years before he was elected bishop, in 1869. 
He was re-elected annually for twenty-four 
years. He is now living in retirement after 
sixty years in the ministry. Dr. Dickson 
married Nov. 14, 1848, Mary Jane .Adair, 



daughter of William and Agnes Adair, of 
Big Spring, Cumberland county ; they had 
issue : 

1. William Adair (born Aug. 19, 
1849) received a business education at a 
commercial school in Philadelphia, but was 
afterward graduated at Union Biblical Sem- 
inary, Dayton, Ohio, and entered the min- 
istry of the United Brethren in Christ. He 
was at one time bookkeeper in the U. B. 
Publishing House at Dayton. He was en- 
gaged in mercantile pursuits at Chambers- 
burg for a number of years but later re- 
turned to the active ministry. He is now 
pastor of the Dillsburg charge, 1903. Mr. 
Dickson married Emma Kuhn, daughter of 
John and Elizabeth (Skelly) Kuhn. of 
Chambersburg; they have issue: Mae (mar- 
ried Wilber Byer, and has two sons, William 
Dickson and John Robert) ; John, Clarence 
and Emma. 

2. John Dunlop (born Dec. 19, 
1852) is a carpenter in Chicago. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Cowan, of Columbus, Ohio ; 
they have issue: William, Elmer, John, 
Ralph Cowan, Harry and Charles. 

3. Charles Hoke (born Oct. 31, 
1855) lives at Los Angeles. 

4. Clarence B. (born April 24, 1858) 
married Miss Rosecrans, of Westerville, 
Ohio. He graduated at Otterbein, Ohio, and 
is a physician in Los Angeles, California. 

5. Margaret (Madge) (born April i. 
i860) was graduated at Otterbein Univer- 
sity. She was graduated M. D., at Cleve- 
land, and spent a year at the University of 
Berlin, being the first woman to enter the 
Medical Department. She married Rev. R. 
M. Mateer, a Presbyterian missionary in 
China, and accompanied him, in 1890, as a 
medical missionary. 

6. M.\RY Alice (born Oct. 24. 1863) 
was graduated at Otterbein University, and 
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Erie Conference Seminary. Slie married 
Prof. Loos, of Western College, Iowa, in 
whicli she was Professor of Greek and Ger- 
man; they have issue: Carl, Alice, Helen, 
Chester and Belle. 

7. Jennie May (born June 11, 1867) 
married J. C. Oyler, of Chambersburg, Pa. ; 
they have two children, John D. and William 
Adair. 

(VI) WILLIAM DUNLOP DIXON 
(born in St. Thomas township, Dec. 11, 
1833), son of David and Catharine (Jeffrey) 
Dixon, was educated in the public schools and 
at Milnwood Academy at Shade Gap. He 
followed farming until he was twenty-two 
years old and was afterward engaged in mer- 
cantile business at St. Thomas for fourteen 
years. He has since lived on his farm north 
of St. Thomas. At the beginning of the Civil 
war he organized a company for the three 
months' service, but owing to the great num- 
ber of volunteers it was not mustered. The 
company was immediately reorganized for 
the three years' service and was mustered in 
April 24, 1 86 1, with Mr. Dixon as captain. 
Upon the organization of the Pennsylvania 
Reserves it was designated as Company D, 
6th Regiment, 35th P. V. The regiment was 
sent to the front to assist in the defense of 
Washington in June, 1861, and was assigned 
to the 3d Brigade of Gen. McCall's Division. 
It first went into action at Dranesville, Va., 
Dec. 20, 1 86 1. The regiment participated 
with the Reserves in the seven days' battle in 
front of Richmond and left the peninsula in 
August, 1862, to see war in its sternest as- 
pect at the second battle of Bull Run. Then 
by a' forced march the command was hur- 
ried to Antietam, on Sept. 14th, reaching 
South Mountain, where the regiment lost 
heavily, being on the extreme right that 
turned the enemy's left flank. They re- 
mained there that night, and the next morn- 
ing, with the brigade, marched to Keedys- 



ville and camped for the night near a mill 
on Antietam creek. On the morning of the 
1 6th a general forward movement was made,. 
the 6th moving with the brigade across the 
creek where the enemy's line was posted, 
and on the afternoon of that day, together 
with the famous "Bucktail" Regiment, they 
opened the battle of Antietam. On that and' 
the following day the regiment assisted in- 
the stubborn contests in the cornfield, where 
the enemy was driven back, meeting with an 
aggregate loss of 132, and they were not re- 
lieved until 10 A. M. on the 17th. Fighting, 
under Franklin on the left at Fredericks- 
burg, the 6th Reserves lost one-third of its 
entire number. Capt. Dixon was promoted 
in December, 1862, to be acting major, and 
served in that capacity until May 23, 1863, 
when he was promoted to be lieutenant-Col- 
onel. Arriving at Gettysburg at 2 v. u., July 

2, 1863, the regiment charged from Little- 
Round Top after Gen. Sykes" Regulars were 
repulsed, when the 3d Corps under Sickles 
was defeated with heavy loss. Lieut. -Col. 
Dixon was wounded in the charge on the 
eve of the 3d of July. He was breveted July 

3, 1863, for gallant and meritorious service at 
Gettysburg. Gen. Dixon was wounded in 
his left knee at Dranesville, Va., Dec. 20, 
1 86 1 : he was wounded in the head and right 
shoulder near Harrison's Landing, Va., July 
2, 1862; on July 3, 1863, he received a flesh 
wound in the face at Gettysburg, Pa. ; and 
at Bethesda, Va., June 10, 1864 he was 
struck in the left breast by a spent ball. He 
received the brevet rank of brigadier-gen- 
eral, March 11, 1865, for gallant and meri- 
torious conduct in the battles of Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, North Anna River and 
Bethesda Church. On the last day of the 
regiment's term of service, when only 1 3© 
veterans remained, it captureil 102 prison- 
ers, fortune permitting a glorious ending 
to its career and that of its com- 



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mandiiig- officer. No Franklin coun- 
ty officer, when the regiment was mus- 
tered out. June II, 1863. had a war 
record more brilliant than Col. Di.xon. After 
the Civil war Gen. Dixon resumed the mer- 
cantile business at St. Thomas, in which he 
continued until 1872. In politics he is an in- 
dependent Republican. In religion he is a 
I'resbyterian. Socially he belongs to the 
Loyal Legion and the Masonic fraternity, 
having been a member of George Washing- 
ton Lodge. No 143. F. & A. M.. for the past 
thirty-six years. 

William D. Dixon married June 14. 
1855, Martha Gillan (born in 1833 — died 
Nov. 23, 1902), daughter of William and 
Sarah (Dyarman) Gillan: they had issue: 

1. D.wiD Jeffrey, a veterinary sur- 
geon at Hoboken, N. J., married Isabelle 
MacMurray, of Westfield, N. J., in 1903. 
He was graduated from Mercersburg Col- 
lege in 1878. and received his professional 
training at the American Veterinary College 
of New York City, from which he was grad- 
uated in 1 88 1. 

2. Margaret died during the battle of 
Antietam. 

3. Sarah C.-vtherine married Edgar 
B. Diehl [see Diehl Family]. She acquired 
her education at Wilson College, Chambers- 
burg, and St. Joseph's Academy, Emmits- 
l)urg, Md.. from which .she was graduated 
in 1889. 

McLANAHAX F.V^HLY. JAMES 
McLANAHAN (born in Ireland — died in 
Antrim township, in 1777), the ancestor of 
the McLanahan family of Franklin county, 
was one of the early settlers in the Cono- 
cocheague valley. He came to Antrim 
township about 1734. and obtained a war- 
rant for tracts of land, comprising 900 acres, 
J"'y 5. '74-- It is probable that he first ob- 
tained a Maryland grant, believing that tlie 



Conococlieague country was in the Prov- 
ince belonging to Lord Baltimore. Mr. 
McLanahan's will was made June 6, 1764, 
and probated May 27, 1777. In the mean- 
time one of the subscribing witnesses, Sam- 
uel Bigger, had either died or removed from 
the Conococheague settlement ; another, John 
Moorhead w'as dead, and his hand-writing 
was proved by his son, James; and Mary 
Breakinaudy (Brackinridge) had married, 
becoming Mary Walker. After providing 
for his wife, Mary, who was made executrix, 
he divided his land between his two sons. He 
also disposed of his four slaves, Dick, Sam, 
Doll and Milley. If the women were sold, 
the will declared that "Doll and Milley is to 
be learned to Reed the Bible by their mas- 
ters." James and Mary McLanahan had 
issue: 

1. James (II). 

2. John (III). 

(II) JAMES McLANAHAN (born in 
Antrim township, in 1735 — died April 17, 
1823), son of James and Mary McLana- 
han, was a farmer. He married Isabella 
Craig (born in 1743 — died Sept. 16, 18 19), 
of the Eastern Shore, of Maryland : they had 
issue : 

1. John (IV). 

2. James (born in 1767 — died in Bal- 
timore) married Elizabeth Boggs (born 
January, 1775). daughter of John and Eliza- 
beth (Johnston) Boggs. 

3. Robert removed to Centre county. 
Fie married Rebecca Dunlop, daughter of 
Col. James and Jane (Boggs) Dunlop; they 
are known to have had two children : James 
and Jane, .\fter his death his widow mar- 
ried Robert Steele. 

4. William (V). 

5. Margaret married Thomas Brown 
(died in 1819) : they had issue: CTCorge, 
James, Isal>ella, Nancy, Susan, Rebecca and 
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6. Samuel (VI). 

7. Joseph died suddenly in 1820, while 
doing- business in the office of Hon. James 
Riddle. 

8. M.^RY married William Allison 
(VII). 

9. Sarah (died June 10, 1842) mar- 
ried Rev. Joseph McElroy, for many years 
pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, 
New York City. 

10. Isabella married Capt. Johnston. 
of Hancock, Missouri. 

11. Rebecca married John McLana- 
han (III-i). 

(III) JOHN McLANAHAN (born in 
1737 — died Oct. 4, 1797), son of John and 
Mary McLanahan, was a farmer in Antrim 
township. He married Rebecca Agnew 
(born May 3, 1749), daughter of James and 
Rebecca (Scott) Agnew: they had issue: 

1. John (died October, 1836) mar- 
ried March 25, 1806. his cousin Rebecca 
McLanahan, daughter of James and Isabella 
(Craig) McLanahan; they had issue: John, 
James, William, Rebecca, Sarah, Isabella 
and Mary. 

2. James, born March 29, 1781, died 
June 19, 1795. 

3. Mary married Nathan McDowell 
[McDowell Family]. 

(IV) JOHN McLANAHAN (born in 
1765 — died Feb. 15, 1848), son of James 
and Isabella (Craig) McLanahan, lived at 
Prospect Hall Farm, adjacent to Green- 
castle. He died at the home of his daughter, 
Mrs. Isabella E. J. Brown, in Baltimore. 
Mr. McLanahan married Feb. 17, 1789, 
Elizabeth Johnston (born Jan. 17, 1771 — 
died March 26, 1849), daughter of Col. 
Thomas and Martha (Beatty) Johnston. 
Col. Johnston was one of the four Johnston 
brothers of Antrim township, the others be- 
ing. Col. James, Major John and Dr. Robert 
Johnston, all soldiers of the Revolution. 



They were sons of James and Elizabeth 
(Brown-Findlay) Johnston. Their mother 
was a daughter of Adjutant Brown, one of 
the defenders of Londonderry, and she was 
the widow of Samuel Findlay, an early set- 
tler on the West Conococheague. Col. 
Thomas Johnston (born in 1744 — died at 
Mooredale, Carlisle, the home of his daugh- 
ter Nancy, December, 1819) was adjutant of 
Col. Abraham Smith's battalion, C. C. A., 
1777-79, 'i''"^ ^ captain in Lieut. -Col. James 
Johnston's battalion, in 1780. Captain 
Johnston was in active service and served 
under Wayne at Paoli, in 1777. In his will 
he left his sword and rifle to his son James. 
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace of 
.\ntrim township, April 18, 1782, and Lieut. 
Colonel of the 2nd Battalion, Pennsylvania 
Militia, May i, 1786. He was a State Sen- 
ator, 1 794- 1 803. His wife Martha Beatty 
died in August, 181 1. They had chil- 
dren : James ; Thomas ; Nancy, who married 
James Moore ; Elizabeth, who married John 
McLanahan : and Martha, who married 
Stephen O. Brown. John and Elizabeth Mc- 
Lanahan had issue ; 

I. John B. (VIII). 

2 James Johnston (born Nov. 15, 
1 79 1, died at Warner Hall, on the Northern 
Shore of Virginia, in 1829) married Sept. 
8, 1818, Eliza Tenant (born Nov. 14, 1799), 
daughter of Col. James Tenant, of Balti- 
more ; they had issue : Mary Elizabeth, born 
.\pril 22, 1820, died 1828: Isabella, born 
Sept. 16, 1821 ; Tenant, born August 18, 
1823, killed in action at San Jose, Cal. ; 
Shepherd, born Sept. 19, 1825, died at Ha- 
vana, Cuba, of yellow fever, Sept. 7, 1858; 
John, born July 21, 1827. died at Baltimore, 
Emily, born Oct. 11. 1828, married Joseph 
Price, of Baltimore, Md., and has three chil- 
dren, two daughters and one son ; Martha 
died aged three years. 

3. JOHNSTOX, born Jan. 17, 1794, died' 



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at the house of his brother, John B. McLana- 
han in Chambersburg, May 5, 1855. 

4. Martha, born May 3, 1790, died 
Feb. 12, 1791. 

5. Isabella Eliza Johnston married 
in 1819, George Brown, of Baltimore; they 
had issue: EHzabeth, born May 15, 1821, 
(lied unmarried; Alexander, born May 21, 
1823, married Miss Colgate Nesbit, of Balti- 
more; Grace Ann, born Jan. 7, 1825, married 
Edward Greenway, of Baltimore; Isabella, 
born Oct. 18, 1827, married William Gra- 
ham ; George Stewart married Harriet Eaton 
and their son Alexander, is the present head 
of the firm of Alex. Brown & Sons. 

(V) WILLIAM McLANAHAN (born 
in 1772, died Dec. 27, 1833) was a farmer in 
Antrim township. He married Mary Gregg 
(born Nov. 2, 1788, died Jan. 9, 1826), 
daughter of Andrew and Martha (Potter) 
'Gregg. Mr. Gregg was United States Sen- 
ator from Pennsylvania, 1807-13, and Mrs. 
Gregg was a daughter of Gen. James Potter. 
They were the grandparents of Gov. Andrew 
G. Curtin. William and Mary McLanahan 
had issue : 

1. Andrew Gregg (born Aug. 12, 
1807) was a farmer on the old McLanahan 
homestead, west of Greencastle. He mar- 
ried, in 1837, A. Elizabeth Doyle (died 
March 28, 1880), daughter of George 
Doyle; they had issue: E. Ormond, Dick, 
Andrew G., Celia, Jessie, and Alice. 

2. James Xavier (born in 1809, died 
in New York, Dec. 16, 1861), was a lawyer 
in Chambersburg, a State Senator, 1842-45, 
and a Representative in Congress, 1849-53. 

He married in 1843, McBride, 

daugliiter of James McBride, a merchant in 
New York : they had one son, George. 

3. Isabella married Dr. Joseph P. 
Hiester (Hiester family). 

4. Mary married Dr. John Custis 
Richards (born in Baltimore, June i, 181 2, 



died June 11, 1874), a prominent physician 
of Chambersburg; they had issue: Mary, 
who married Marston Niles, of New York ; 
Sarah, and Daisy, who married Rolands 
Thomas, of New York. 

(VI) SAMUEL McLANAHAN (born 
Sept. II, 1775, died Nov. 20, 1847), son of 
James and Isabella (Craig) McLanahan, 
was a farmer in Antrim township. He mar- 
ried Dec. 30, 1806, Margaret Allison (born 
April 24, 1775, died Nov. 17, 1856), daugh- 
ter of Col. John and Elizabeth (Wilkin) 
Allison. John Allison was a son of Will- 
iam and Catharine (Craig) Allison, the first 
settlers where the town of Greencastle is 
now situated. He commanded a regiment 
in the "Flying Camp," in 1776, and was a 
member of the Pennsylvania Convention that 
ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788. 
Samuel and Margaret McLanahan had 
issue : 

1. John Allison (born Aug. 28, 1807, 
died Jan. 16, 1837) married Dec. 23, 1836, 
Mary A. E. Davidson (died March 8, 1895), 
daughter of John M. and Mary ( McLaugh- 
lin) Davidson; they had one son, John 
Davidson, born June 5, 1837, died Dec. 30, 

1837- 

2. Robert, born Sept. 19, 1809, died 

Oct. 30, 1857. 

3. Margaret A., married John M. Mc- 
Dowell (McDowell Family). 

4. James Craig (born Sept. 12, 18 16, 
died in 1893) rnarried April 9, 1850, Sarah 
Kennedy (born Feb. 11, 1832, died Aug. 
25, 1853), daughter of Dr. Stewart and Ann 
(Ferguson) Kennedy; they had issue: 
Stewart Kenned}', who died young, and 
Samuel, born Feb. 12, 1853, a minister of 
the Presbyterian Church, and a former mis- 
sionary at Shantung, China. 

(VII) MARY McLANAHAN {born in 
1771 — died Dec. 7, 1848), daughter of James 
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William Allison (born Nov. 15. 1749. died 
Sept. 4, 1825), son of William and Cath- 
arine (Craig) Allison, the pioneer settlers 
of Greencastle. He was County Commis- 
sioner of Franklin county, 1788-90, and 
1797-99. They had issue: 

1. WiLLi.\M, a lawyer, died at Wash- 
ington, Kentucky. 

2. John. 

3. James (born June 5, 1798. died 
Jan. 25, 1861) lived near Greencastle. He 
married Susan M. Brown (born Dec. 10, 
1795, died Jan. 29, 1861) ; they had issue: 
William, who married Susan Reid, and 
had William, Herbert, James, Maud and 
Isabella; Thomas, born in 1828, and died 
Feb. 8, 1858: James, who married Susan 
E. Campbell, and had James, Edward and 
Hugh Craig; Louisa; and Mary. 

4. Robert left home and was not 
traced. 

5. Samuel married Sarah Gurley, and 
they had issue: John R., Mary, and Louisa. 

6. Joseph. 

7. Isabella Craig (born June 14, 
1794, died May 15, 1850) married March 
25, 1819, Dr. John Boggs (born Aug. 17, 
1787, died July 12, 1847), son of John 
and Jane (Irwin) Boggs, a physician. He 
practiced his profession in Greencastle. In 
1 81 4 he served in Capt. Andrew Robison's 
company for the defense of Baltimore, and 
was appointed assistant surgeon to Dr. John 
McClellan, surgeon of Col. Findlay's regi- 
ment. They had issue : Francis Johnston, 
born Nov. 18, 1825, married Nannie Ir- 
vine Pattison, and had James B., Francis 
J., Percy R., Fanny J., S. Virginia, Isa- 
bella Allison, Mary L., and Edith W. ; 
William Allison, born Oct. 20, 1828, was a 
lawyer and married Susan Weeks, of Gales- 
burg, 111. ; Charles Henry Beatty, born Dec. 
27, 1830, married Octavia Campbell, and 
had Charles, John, William G.. Isabell and 



Eliza; Mary McLanahan, born Jan. 31, 
1820, died July 10, 1886, married Jan. 18, 
1842. Charles Wharton, and had Charles 
R., John B., Henry R., William Bromley, 
Isaljell Allison. Ann H., Mary B., Eliza- 
beth J. and Edith ; Elizabeth Johnston, born 
March 29, 1833, died May 17, 1861 ; and 
Isabell Allison, born Feb. 26, 1838, married 
Oct. 18, 1868, Edmund de Schweinitz, and 
had Isabell. 

8. Mary (born in 18 19, died Dec. 17, 
1846) married Rev. Hamilton Vandyke, a 
minister of the Dutch Reformed Church ; 
they had issue : Catharine and Martha. 

(VIII) JOHN B. McLANAHAN 
(born March i, 1796, died Oct. 24, 1877), 
son of John and Elizabeth (Johnston) Mc- 
Lanahan, was a resident of Chambersburg, 
and a much esteemed citizen. He married 
Dec. 21, 1840, Sidney E. McClellan (Ijorn 
Feb. 12, 1812, died May 15, 1886), daughter 
of Dr. John and Eleanor Bell (McCulloh) 
McClellan. Dr. McClellan (born Aug. 12, 
1762, died June 11, 1846), son of John and 
Sidney (Roddy) McClellan, began the 
practice of his profession at Greencastle in 
1788, and became one of the most eminent 
surgeons of his time. Some of his opera- 
tions are part of the history of American 
surgery. In 1803 he successfully performed 
the hazardous operation of the removal of 
the parotid gland, the first case on record. 
His son, Rol^ert M. McClellan, was Sec- 
retary of the Interior under President 
Pierce. John B. and Sidney E. McLana- 
han had issue : 

1. Ellen Bell, born Sept. 17, 1841, 
died May 2, 1894. 

2. Elizabeth Johnston (born April 
4. 1843) married Dec. 24, 1867, Jefferson 
Nill, son of John and Mary (Patterson) 
Nill ; they had issue : Mary, born Sept. 28, 
1868: and Sidney, born Sept. i, 1871. 

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4. Maria, born Aug. 5, 1846, died 
May 5, 1848. 

5. Isabella B., Ixirn July 13. 1848, 
died Aug. 10. 1886. 

6 and 7. Twins, l)orn and died July 
13, 1850. 

8. Sidney S., born Jan. 14, 185 1, lives 
on his farm in Allegheny county. 

9. (iRACE G. lives in Greencastle. 
(IX) THOMAS JOHNSTON Mc- 

LANAHAN (born at Prospect Hall, on the 
farm west of Greencastle, Sept. 21. 1844). 
son of John B. and Sidney E. (McClellan) 
McLanahan. was educated at the Chambers- 
burg Academy. He studied medicine with 
Dr. John Custis Richards, of Chanibersburg. 
and was graduated M. D. at Jefferson Medi- 
cal College, Philadephia, in 1863. After 
recei\ing his degree be was .\cting Assistant 
Surgeon in the United States Army until 
the close of the war. He returned to Chani- 
bersburg in 1865. and has since practiced 
his i)r(:)fcssion in bis native town. Dr. Mc- 
Lanahan married, Oct. 27. 1870, Rebekah 
A. Austin (born .\ugust, 1846), daughter 
of James C. and Elizabeth (Fletcher) Aus- 
tin ; they have issue : 

1. Austin (born Oct. 31, 1871) was 
educated at the High School of Chambers- 
burg, and the Cbamliersinirg Academy, and 
was graduated at Princeton University in 
1892. He is a banker in Baltimore, a mem- 
ber of the firm of .Mexander Brown & Sons. 
He married Nov. 6. 1902. Romaine Lem- 
oyne, of Baltimore. 

2. Bess (born July 2t,. 1873) was 
graduated at Wilson College, Chambers- 
burg. She married Nov. 26. 1902, Donald 
Pa.xton McPberson. State Senator, son of 
Edward and .\nnie D. I Crawford) Mc- 
Pberson ; they have one child : Edward 
Johnston, born Nov. 10, 1903. 

3. Scott (born June 14. 1877) was 
educated at the High School of Chambers- 



burg, and the Chanibersburg Academy, and 
was graduated at Princeton University in 
1896. He is a lawyer in New York City. 

MACLAY. The Maclay family is one 
of great antiquity in Ireland. MacLiag — 
anglicised McLigli — was King Brian Boru's 
poet. At the Norman Conquest Gilla Mac- 
Liag — latinized Gelasius — was archbishop 
of Armagh. Macliagh (mac: Irish, bright- 
liagh: a physician) was the .son of Olchon, 
and is No. 98 on the O'Dwyer, of Leinster, 
pedigree. It has been anglicised MacLea 
and even Lee. The surname means the son 
of a physician, and is found in the counties 
Down, Tyrone and Derry, where it has been 
modernized as McClay, McLea, McCleay, 
McLeigh and McAlea. McLea is believed 
by some genealogists to be a modern form 
of McLear and McAlear. These varied 
spellings are not surprising when it is re- 
membered that the name of the Maclays of 
Lurgan is as often spelled in the public rec- 
ords McClay. and even McGlea, as Maclay. 

There is a tradition in the Maclay fam- 
ily that their ancestor, John Maclay, had 
three half brothers, Owen, Charles and 
Henry, sons of his father, Charles Maclay, 
liy his first wife whose name is unknown. 
According to the tradition these young men 
were all ofiicers in the army of King James 
11, in Ireland. Owen returning to France 
with the royal exile, Charles being killed in 
a duel with a French officer in Dublin, and 
Henry falling a victim of the battle of the 
Boyne. If this story is half true, as is apt 
to be the case with family traditions, it 
points to the Moclare family of counties 
Tipperary, Clare and Carlow as that from 
which the American Alaclays sprang. John 
Mauclerk was one of the prominent men of 
County Tipperary who were associated in 
authority with John Everard, Sheriff in 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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over Tipperary in the time of Queen Eliz- 
abeth. Three Moclares were officers in the 
army of King James II. Edward Moclare 
had the rank of Major in Col. Simon Lut- 
trell's Regiment of Dragoons, and John 
Moclare was a Captain and James Moclare 
an ensign in Col. Dudley Bagnall's Infan- 
try. The names of these officers come near- 
est to that of Maclay in King James' Army 
List. It was sometimes spelled "Mockler" 
in Ireland and "Mocklier"' in France. The 
latter name is also mentioned among the 
principal families in Ireland at the close 
of the seventeenth century. 

Another Maclay tradition is that Owen 
Maclay (Edward Moclare), returning from 
France, desired to take his nephew Charles, 
son of his half-brother, John, to that coun- 
try to have the youth educated. His father, 
however, would not consent without a 
guarantee that the boy should be brought up 
in the Protestant faith. To this the uncle 
would not assent, and going back to France 
left his money to strangers at his death. 
There is nothing incompatible in the family 
divergences in religion in Ireland at that 
time in this tradition, nor even with the 
identity of John Maclay, the father of 
Charles, with Capt. John Moclare. of Bag- 
nall's Infantry. James Moclare, Knight, of 
Dublin, was attainted in 1691, but if John 
Maclay's mother was a Hamilton, as is as- 
serted, it would have been easy for him to 
ha\-e powerful friends at the court of King 
William III. Although there were Hamil- 
tons on both sides in the war for the Eng- 
lish throne, they were almost without ex- 
ception Protestants. Charles Maclay's mar- 
riage with a Protestant would have made 
him one, and naturally his son would have 
been one so strenuous as to insist upon the 
Protestant education of the Maclay-Hamil- 
ton branch of the familv. 

John Maclay, the strenuous Protestant, 
10 



was the father of two sons, Cliarle-, and 
John, who emigrated to Pennsylvania to- 
gether, and became the ancestors of the Mac- 
lays of the L'nited States. 

CHARLES MACLAY DESCEND- 
ANTS. (I) CHARLES MACLAY 
(born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 
1703, died Sept., 1753) sailed from Ireland 
for Pennsylvania, May 30, 1734. with his 
wife and new-born l)abe, and his brother 
John. Soon after his arrival he settled in 
New Garden township, Chester county, but 
remained there only a few years. About 
1742 he came to what is now Lurgan town- 
ship, Franklin count}'. He took up a tract 
of land on the north side of the Conedo- 
guinet at the bend of the creek, where Ma- 
clay's Mill stands. This land has always 
remained in the possession of his descen- 
dants. Charles J^Iaclay lived onl\' eleven 
}-ears after his settlement on the Conedo- 
guinet, but he left behind him a family 
eminent in the affairs of State and nation, 

Mr. Maclay married in Ireland, in 1733, 
Eleanor Query (born in County .\ntrim, in 
1707, died at Maclay's Mill, July 27, 1789) 
daughter of William Query. He was prob- 
ably a scion of the Query family. French 
refugees, who settled in Ireland f luring the 
reign of Louis XIV. Mr. Query came to 
Pennsylvania about 1740. The tradition 
is that he settled in Path Valley, but subse- 
quently removed to North Carolina. Charles 
and Eleanor (Query) Maclay had issue: 

1. John (II). 

2. William (III). 

3. Charles (born in Chester county, 
Aug. 8, 1739, died Oct. 30, 1834) was dur- 
ing his long and peaceful life a farmer in 
Lurgan township. He was in acti\-e serv- 
ice in Capt. Joseph Brady's marching com- 
pany, under Col. Frederick Watts, in March 
1778. He is frequently mentioned, when 
an old man, in the diary of his nephew. 



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David Maclay. He married Aug. 2(). \~()2. 
Mary Templeton (born 1742, died Dec. 12, 
1812), but left 11(5 issue. 

4. S.VML'EL (IV). 

5. Eleanor married J"bn Maclay. 
(See descendants of John Maclay). 

(II). JOHN MACLAY (born in Ire- 
land, May 10, 1734. died at Maclays Mill, 
Oct. 17, 1804), was brought up on the 
homestead of his father in what is now Lur- 
gan township, to which he succeeded. He 
built the first mill on the Conedoguinet, 
\vithin the limits nf the county, and subse- 
quently a .saw-mill and distillery. He also 
built a substantial log dwelling-house, that 
was a great improvement upon the early 
cabin of the jjioneer. It was of hewn logs 
dovetailed together, while doors and win- 
dows were made safe against Indian at- 
tacks by heavy bolts. Mr. Maclay was a 
leading man in the community in which he 
lived. He was appointed a Justice of the 
Peace for Cumberland county, April 6, 1771, 
and for Franklin county, Nov. 2, 1785. He 
was an earnest patriot in the Revolution, 
and was one of the delegates from Cumber- 
land county to the Provincial Conference 
that met at Carpenters" Hall. June iS. 1776, 
and declared the existing government in 
Pennsylvania incompetent, calling a con- 
vention to meet in Philadelphia, July 15, 
1776, to frame a new Constitution. Mr. 
Maclay showed the unselfishness of his pat- 
riotism by accepting the humbler station in 
tiie darkest hour of the Continential cause, 
and marching as a private soldier in Capt. 
Joseph Brady's comjwny, in the emergencx' 
service in 1778. After the organization of 
the county of Franklin he not only served 
as one of the Justices of the county courts 
until the adoption of the Constitution of 
1790, but he twice represented the county 
in the Pennsylvania Legislature — the first 
time in 1791-2, and again in 1793-4. Since 



then three successive generations of his de- 
scendants have each had its representative 
in the Legislature. For many years Mr. 
Maclay was a ruling elder in the Middle 
Spring Presbyterian Church, and he is one 
of the subscribers to the old stone church, 
built in 1 78 1. 

Mr. Maclay married Dec. 17, 1755, 
Jane Dickson (boru in Ireland, Dec. 20, 
1734, died at Maclay's Mill, April 3, 1812), 
daughter of David and Catharine (Green- 
lee) Dickson, early settlers in Lurgan. 
David Dick.son (born in Ireland, Dec. 15, 
1705, died Oct. 18, 1784), married Ketrain 
(Catharine) Greenlee (born Jan. 1, 171 1, 
died Dec. 28, 1798)' and came to Pennsyl- 
vania with his wife and daughter Jane, 
about 1 74 1. John and Jane (Dickson) 
Maclay had issue : 

1. N.\NCY, born 1756, died 1761. 

2. Charles (born May 23, 1757, clied 
Jan. 4, 181 5) removed to Urbana, O., in 
1790, where he died; he married June 18, 
1788, Susanna Linn, daughter of William 
and Jane (McCormick) Linn, and they had 
issue: Charles, born 1789; John, born 
1791 : Elijah, born 1794; James Linn Dick- 
son, born 1797, died 1816; and Jane. 

3. Catharine (born July 28, 1760, 
died Aug. 20, 1837) married Dec. 28, 1783, 
William Irwin, with whom she removed to 
Kentucky, in 1784; they had issue: John 
and Stei)henson. 

4. D.^viD (V). 

5. \\'lLLIAM (VI). 

6. Samuel (born Nov. 16, 1767, died 
Feb. 5, 1843) was a farmer in Lurgan. He 
married Margaret Snodgrass (died Aug. 1, 
1871), and they had issue: Mary Jane, 
married April 4, 1844, George Evving; John 
F., born 1815, died July 5, 1892; Charles 
W. : Elizabeth, died unmarried ; Robert 
Snodgrass, married Mary Willis; Samuel 
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O.. born May 30, 1875, died Jan. 28, 1878; 
Thomas; and Ellen, married George Smith. 

7. Eleanor (born Feb. 5, 1769, died, 
1826), married David McKnight, son of 
John and Mary (McAHister) McKnight, of 
Cumberland county, with whom she went to 
Ohio in 1812. They had, issue: Jolm. 
David, EHsha, Ebenezer McGinley, Charles 
Maclay and Eleanor. 

8. Jane, born Sept. 7. 1774, died un- 
married, July 9, 1799. 

9. John (VII). 

(Ill) WILLIAM MACLAY (born 
in New Garden township, Chester county, 
July 20, 1737, died at Harrisburg, April 16. 
1804), spent his boyhood on his father's 
farm on the Conedoguinet, now Lurgan 
township, and studied under the Rev. John 
Blair, pastor of Middle Spring Church. 
Early in the French and Indian War, Mr. 
Blair gave him a recommendation as a 
"judicious young man and a scholar," which 
•served to procure him an appointment as 
ensign in the Pennsylvania regiment, and his 
speedy promotion. May, 7, 1758, to be lieu- 
tenant of Capt. John Montgomery's com- 
pany, in Col. Hugh Mercer's battalion. 
This was a Chester county company, for 
Avhich Lieutenant Maclay enlisted twenty- 
one recruits whose names have been preserv- 
ed. Young Maclay had followed his pastor 
and tutor to Fagg's Manor. He served in 
the expedition under General Forbes, and 
distinguished himself in the fight at the 
Loyalhanna. In the interval of peace that 
followed this expedition he studied law and 
was admitted to the York County Bar. 
April 28, 1760. When Pontiac's war broke 
out he again went into active service, and 
served with Bouquet's expedition as lieu- 
tenant commanding Lieut.-Col. Asher Clay- 
ton's company, of the Second Battalion. For 
his services he shared in the Provincial grant 
■of land on the west Branch of the Susque- 



hanna, and he assisted in surveying many of 
the allotments. There is reason to believe 
that Mr. Maclay began the practice of his 
profession in Cumberland County, but after 
the close of the Indian troubles the demand 
for his skill as a surveyor was such as to 
divert him from the law. He visited Eng- 
land and had an interview with Thomas 
Penn in regard to the surveys in the middle 
northern parts of the province, and as assist- 
ant to John Lukens, the surveyor-general, he 
was active in surveying the frontiers. In 
1772, he laid out the town of Sunbury, and 
he was the first prothonotary and clerk of 
the courts of Northumberland county. He 
also acted as the agent of the Penns in the 
Susquehanna country, and was active 
against the Connecticut intruders in the Pen- 
namite War. "If hell is justly considered as 
the rendezvous of rascals," he wrote to the 
Secretary of the Province, in 1773. "we 
cannot entertain a doubt of Wyoming being 
the place." During the Revolution Mr. 
Maclay was assistant commissary of pur- 
chases. He was very acti\e in equipping 
and forwarding troops to Washington's 
little army; was a member of the North- 
umberland County Committee of Observa- 
tion, and served with the militia in the winter 
campaign on the Delaware. 1776-7. Mr. 
Maclay's political career began in 1781, 
when he was chosen a member of the .As- 
sembly. He afterward became a member of 
the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsyl- 
vania, and in January, 1789, he was elected 
to the LTnited States Senate. His colleague 
was Robert Morris. He drew the short 
term, and so served only two years, 1789-91. 
As the first Senator from Pennsylvania, 
Mr. Maclay earned for himself a distinc- 
tion that is unique in American political 
history. He was the first Democrat in the 
Congress of the United States. While he 
was in the Senate he kept a "Journal," two 



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editions of which iiave been published, that 
throws more light on the inside history of 
the first Congress than any contemporary 
source of information. After his retire- 
ment fnini the Senate Mr. Maclay lived 
permancntlv on his farm adjoining Harris- 
burg, where he built the fine stone mansion 
for many years occupied by the Harrisburg 
Academy. In 1795, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Penns}-l\-ania House of Represen- 
tatives and he was again elected in 1803. 
He was a presidential elector in 1796, and 
an Associate Judge of Dauphin county. 
1801-03. Mr. George W. Harris, who ed- 
ited the first edition of his journal, says : 
"He was a man of strict integrity, of posi- 
tive opinions: having implicit confidence in 
his own honesty and judgment, he was in- 
clined to be suspicious of the integrity of 
others whose sentiments or action in matters 
of importance difYered from his own, and the 
Journal, to which reference has been made, 
is evidence of the strength of his intellect." 
In personal appearance, ^Ir. Maclay is said 
to have been six feet, three inches in height, 
and stout and muscular: his complexion 
was light and his h;ur in middle age appears 
to have been lirown, and was worn tied be- 
hind or clubbed. 

Mr. Maclay married April ii, 1769, 
Mary ]\IcClure Harris ( born at Harris' 
Ferry, April 13, 1750, died April 20, 1809), 
daughter of John and Elizabeth (McClure) 
Harris: Mr. Harris was the founder of 
Harrisburg. William and ^lary ]\I. ]\Iaclay 
had issue : 

1. John Hakris, born I'eb. 5, 1770: 
died s. p. 

2. Elizabeth, liorn Feb. 16, 1772: 
died mnnarried, April 19, 1794. 

3. Ele.xxor (born 1774, died Jan. 2. 
1823), married in 1806, William W'allace 
(born Oct. 1768, died May 25. 1816), son of 
Benjamin and Elizabeth (Culbertson) Wn]- 



lace, a prominent lawyer at Erie. They hacF 
issue: Mary Elizabeth, born May 7. 1807,. 
married March 15, 1825, Rev. Dr. \\'illiam 
R. DeWitt; William born Aug. 15, 1808, 
died unmarried. June 26, 1877, a physician;. 
Benjamin John, born June 10, 1810, married 
Nov. 5, 1832, Sarah Cochran; and Irwin 
Maclay. born Oct. 10, 1813, married Eliza- 
beth Reed. 

4. Mary (born ^lar. 19, 1776 — died 
Aug. 13. 1823) married April 27, 1795, 
Samuel Awl (born 'Sla.r. 5, 1773 — died July 
I, 1842), and had issue: William Maclay, 
Mary Harris, Charles Maclay, Eleanor 
Maclay, Charles Samuel, George Washing- 
ton, Sarah Irwin. Esther Hall, Elizabeth 
Jane and Robert Harris. 

5. Esther Harris (bom Sept. 19. 
1778 — died Sept. 6, 1819), married April 
26, 1800, Dr. Henry Hall (born Oct. 18, 
1775 — died May 25, 1808), a physician at 
Harrisburg. They had issue : W' illiam 
Maclay, born Feb. 16, 1801, married Ellen 
Campbell Williams ; Mary Elizabeth, born 
April 21, 1802. died 1804, married George 
W. Harris ; and Catharine Julia, born Aug. 
14, 1804, died July 17, 1832, married June 
30, 1830, Garrick Mallery, jurist and states- 
man, and had issue. Garrick. 

(•>. Sarah (born Jan. 5. 1781) married 
Mar. 10. 1804, Maj. John Irwin, and had 
issue: Mary Alaclay, Henrietta, Jane, 
George, W'illiam Maclay, Ellen and Ann. 

7. Jean (born March 19, 1783 — died 
April 30, 1809), married April 28, 1808, 
Jiilin Lyon, and had issue, William Maclay. 

S. William born 1784; died 1785. 

9. \\'iLLiAM (2d), born May 5, 1787; 
died March 22, 1813. 

(IV) SAMUEL MACLAY (born in 
Lurgan township, June 17, 1741 — died in 
Bufifalo Valley, Oct. 5, 181 1), was educated 
at the classical school of Rev. Dr. Francis 
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He became assistant to his brother W'ilHam 
in surveying the officers' tracts in Buffalo 
Valley, and subsequently took up a large 
quantity of land and settled there. During 
the Revolution he served as Lieutenant- 
Colonel of a marching regiment of the 
Northumberland county militia. He was an 
Associate Judge of Northumberland county, 
1792-5, and a member of Congress, 1795-/. 
He was a State Senator, 1797-1803, and 
Speaker of the Senate, 1802-3. While serv- 
ing as Speaker he was elected to the L'nited 
States Senate, and signed his own certificate. 
He presided at the impeachment trial of 
Judge Addison, in January, 1803, and con- 
tinued to act as Speaker until March 16, 
much to the dissatisfaction of the opposition, 
"because his term in the Senate began on the 
3d. He resigned his seat in the United 
States Senate, Jan. 4, 1809, ostensibly be- 
cause of ill health, but in reality at the dic- 
tation of the Democratic "boss" of that 
time, Michael Leib, who became his succes- 
sor. He was a man of popular manners, a 
good scholar, an effective writer and an 
able statesman. 

Mr. Maclay married in 1773, Elizabeth 
Plunket (born in 1755 — died in 1823) 
daughter of Dr. William Plunket, whose 
-wife was a daughter of John and Esther 
Harris, the first settlers at Harris' Eerry. 
Dr. Plunket was the first presiding justice 
of Northumberland company, and was 
noted for the part he took in the Pennamite 
War. According to Irish genealogists the 
Plunkets are descended from Brian Boru. 
Dr. Plunket was allied to the noble families 
of Louth. Fingal and Dunsany. Samuel and 
Eizabeth Maclay had issue : 

I. William Plunket (born Aug. 21,. 
1774 — died Sept. 2, 1842) was a member of 
Congress, 1816-21, and a member of the 
Pennsylvania Constitutional Con\ention of 
1837-8. He married (first) December. 



1802, Sallie Brown (born 1783 — died Jan. 
2, 18 10) daughter of Judge William Brown, 
of Mifflin county. They had issue : Dr. 
Samuel, born Oct. 5, 1805, died March 29, 
1853 '• and Charles John, born Jan. 10, 1807, 
died unmarried in December. 1828. He 
married (second) Jane Holmes, of Carlisle. 
They had issue: Holmes, born 1818, a 
member of Pennsylvania Legislature in 
1864; David, born 18 19, State Senator, 
1872-75; Robert Plunket, born 1821 — died 
April 20, 1 881; Joseph Henderson, born 
1824, member of Pennsylvania Legislature, 
1878-82, married his cousin, Mary Maclay, 
daughter of Robert P, Maclay. 

2. Eleanor married David Maclay, 
(V). 

3. Charles, born 1779, died unmar- 
ried, 1807, in Wayne county, N. Y., while 
on a visit. He was John Binn's second in 
his duel with Samuel Stewart. 

4. Esther, born 1782, died unmarried, 
in Wayne county, N. Y., where she had gone 
with her brother. 

5. Jane E. (born 1786 — died January, 
1748) married Dr. Joseph Henderson, 
(born at Shippensburg, 1791 — died at Lew- 
istown, Dec. 25, 1863), who accepted a com- 
mission as lieutenant in the army while 
studying medicine at the University of 
Pennsylvania, in the winter of 1812-13. He 
participated in the battles of Chippewa and 
Lundy's Lane, and was wounded by an ex- 
plosion at Fort Niagara. He was promoted 
to be captain and brevetted major for gallant 
and meritorious conduct. After the war he 
completed his medical studies and practiced 
his profession in Ki.shacoquillas Valley. He 
was a Representative in Congress, 1833-7. 
There was no issue by this marriage. 

6. John (born 1789 — died June 25, 
1855) was register, recorder and prothon- 
otary of Union county, but removed to Van- 
dalia. 111. He married Feb. 11, 1812, Annie 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Dale, and had issue: Samuel, Charles, Will- 
iam P., Elizabeth and Anne. 

7. Samuel (born 1792 — died Feb. 17. 
1836) married (first) Margaret Johnston, 
daughter of Rev. James Johnston, and had 
issue: Dr. Samuel, born 1814, died 1851 ; 
James Johnston, born 1815. died 1848; and 
William John died young. He married 
(second) Elizabeth Johnston, sister of bis 
first wife, and they had issue : Robert 
Plunket, born 1818. graduated at West 
Point in 1840, resigned Dec. 31, i860: 
Charles, married May 7, 1846, Mary Cox, of 
Middle Spring: and David. John, Margaret. 
Elizabeth and Jane. 

8. David (born 1797 — died s. p. 
1818) married Isabella Patterson, daughter 
of Galbraith and Catharine (Thompson) 
Patterson. Her father, a distinguished 
lawyer, was a son of Capt. William Patter- 
son, of the Juniata Valley, and her mother 
was a daughter of Gen. William Thompson, 
who commanded the Pennsylvania Battalion 
of Riflemen in 1775. Mr. Maclay's young 
widow married Alexander L. Hayes, for 
many years an Associate Law Judge of the 
District Court of the counties of York and 
Lancaster, and of the Court of Common 
Pleas of Lancaster County. 

9. Robert Plunket (born April 19, 
1799 — died Aug. 16, 1884) was a member 
of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1834: 
prothonotary of Union county, 1836-39; a 
State Senator, 1839-43: and an associate 
judge of Clarion county. He went to Mis- 
souri in 1854, and helped to build the Iron 
Mountain Railroad. His last years were 
spent in Kisliacociuillas Valley. He mar- 
ried May 6, 1825, Margaret C. Lashells, 
(laughter of Raljib Lashells, of Gettysburg, 
who was one of the owners of the first stage 
line from Chambersburg to Baltimore: they 
had issue : Samuel B., Charles, George, Will- 
iam Plunket and Mary. 



(V) DAVID MACLAY (born in Lur- 
gan township, Nov. 30, 1762 — died Feb. 9,. 
1839) son of John and Jane (Dickson) 
Maclay, was brought up on the old Maclay 
homestead and succeeded to the mill con- 
ducted by his father, and still known as 
"Maclay's Mill," where he lived all his life. 
He was a splendid type of a distinguished 
family — well educated, with a fine library 
and fond of reading. He was a generous 
neighbor, an enterprising business man and 
a public-spirited citizen. It was mainly 
through his exertions that the first bridge 
over the Conedoguinet at Maclay's Mill was 
built in 1823, and after its collapse because 
of bad workmanship, he was untiring in his 
exertions until it was replaced by the present 
fine structure, in 1828. In politics he was a 
Republican of the Jefferson school, but 
manifested a disinclination to accept office. 
Notwithstanding this reluctance he served' 
two terms in the Pennsylvania Legislature, 
1812-14. LTpon his return to Maclay's Mill, 
March 26, 1814, he wrote in his diary : "Safe 
home to my family; I hope I shall never 
go there again, or engage in the business of 
legislation. I am heartily tired of that 
work." But be was sent back again, 18 15- 
16. In the election for Governor in 181 7, 
he was an ardent friend of William Find- 
lay. In his diary are these entries touching" 
that event: "Oct. 14, — Election day: cloudy, 
rainy morning, but 1 hope it will clear up 
and that Findlay will have a handsome ma- 
jority." "Oct. 22. — My hopes have been' 
realized." When Findlay was beaten for re- 
election by Joseph Hiester three years later,, 
his diary contained this laconic entry, — 
"Bad business — old Joe." 

Mr. Maclay married (first) Sept. 8, 
1785, Eleanor Maclay (born Oct. 4, 1777 — 
died April 4. 1802). daughter of Samuel 
and Elizabeth ( Plunket) Maclay. She was 
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able type of Hibernian beauty. David and 
Eleanor Maclay had issue : 

1. Samuel died young. 

2. Jane died young. 

3. Betty died young. 

Mr. Maclay married (second), Oct. 2, 
1806, Eleanor Herron (born June i, 1784 
— died Feb. 2t,, 1825), daughter of John and 
Mary (Jack ) Herron, a prominent citizen 
of Southampton township, at the mouth of 
Herron's Branch. She was a sister of the 
Rev. Dr. Francis Herron, of Pittsburgh. 
David and Eleanor (Herron) Maclay had 
issue : 

1. John Herron (VIII). 

2. David (born 1808 — died unmar- 
ried Aug. I, 1901) spent his youth and the 
first half of his life at Maclay's Mill. He 
was elected a member of the Pennsylvania 
Legislature in 1851. and again in 1852. He 
made no effort to secure either nomination, 
and on both occasions refrained from vot- 
ing at the elections because he was a candi- 
date. He was a noted singer in his day, and 
-M'as a member of the choir of Middle Spring 
Church from his youth until his removal to 
Academia, in 1859. He remained at .\cad- 
emia for many years engaged in business 
with his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph Pom- 
eroy. His old age was spent in retirement 
at the home of his nephew. Dr. David 
Maclay, Chambersburg. 

3. Jean Eliza (born 1810 — died Nov. 
17, 1866) married (first) April 5, 1831, 
John McGinley, of Adams county, nephew 
of the Rev. Dr. A. A. McGinley, of Path 
Valley, who died Feb. 21,. 1833, without 
issue; (second) Joseph Pomeroy [See 
Pomeroy Family]. 

4. Charles Templeton (IX). 

5. Francis Herron removed to Rolla, 
Mo. He married Oct. 31, 1839, Sarah I. 
Cox. They had issue: Martha Ellen, Emma 
Jane and John Cox. 



6. J.v.mes Hekko.v, born 1817, died un- 
married, 1845. 

7. Mary Ellen (born 1822 — died 
July 14, 1854) married Veh. 12, 1840, Sam- 
uel Elder McCune (born Oct. 2, 1819 — died 
Sept. 17, i860), son of Samuel and Elea- 
nor ( Sharpe ) McCune, with whom she 
went to the West. They had issue : David 
Maclay, born 1842, married Miss Spegman, 
and had a .son, Albert : John Theodore, born 
1844, married Bath.sheba Mehal^y, and had 
a daughter, Lillie M.; and James Albert, 
born 1850. 

(VI) WILLIAM MACLAY (born at 
Maclay's Mill, March 22, 1765 — died at 
Fannettsburg, Jan. 4, 1825), son of John 
and Jane ( Dickson ) Maclay, was a leading 
citizen of Path Valley for many years, mak- 
ing his home at h'annettshurg, where at one 
time he kept a tannery. He was very active 
in politics and became prominent, holding 
important offices. He was County Commis- 
sioner, 1805-7: a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Legislature, 1807-9; ^" Associate 
Judge of Franklin county, 1809-15; and a 
Representative in Congress 181 5-19. He 
was a ruling elder of the Lower Path Valley 
Presbyterian Church. He was a large man, 
standing six feet, two inches in height, and 
verv muscular. In manner he was very 
affable and agreeable. Mr. Maclay married 
Dec. 22, 1789, Margaret (Peggy) Culbert- 
son (born 1773 — died May 4, 1834), daugh- 
ter of .\le.xander Culbertson, a tanner at 
L'pper Strasburg. They had issue: 

1. Mary Sh.\rpe married John King 
(X). 

2. John (XI), born 1792 — died 1854. 

3. Jane married Gen. Samuel Dunn 
(XH). 

4. Eliza Culbert.son (born Oct. 16, 
1796 — died Feb. 20, 1856) married (first) 
.April 12, 1821, John Holliday Dunn (born 
1794 — died Sept. 14, 1823), son of Thomas 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



and FJizabetli (Holliday) Dunn. They had 
a daugliter, Margaret, born 1822, died Sept. 
16, 1823. She married (second) Nov. 23. 
1837. John Graham. 

5. C.\Tii.\RiNE Irwix (born I'"eb. 2. 
1799 — died Dec. 22, 1873), married April 

27, 1825. Dr. John P. Geddes (born Oct. 10, 
1799 — died Dec. 8, 1837), son of Dr. John 
and Elizabeth (Peebles) Geddes. He stud- 
ied medicine and practiced with his father at 
Newville. They had issue : William IMaclay, 
Charles King and Williamson Nevin. 

6. Alexander (born Nov. 12, 1801 — 
died in 1877) married Mary McXaughton. 

7. William (born in 1803 — died at 
Pittsburgh, Jan. 20. 1849) married in Oc- 
tober, 1828. Mary Palmer. 

8. Margaretta (born March 31, 1805 
— died Aug. 24, 1844) married James ^\^ 
Burbridge. 

9. James Ros.s, born June 4. 1807. 
died unmarried, April 2-j, 1840. 

10. Charles Samuel, born ;May 30, 
1809, died unmarried. May 28, 1828. 

11. Nancy Eleanor, born June 25, 
1 81 2, married in 1836, Cyrus D. Culbertson, 
(born 1812 — died April 25, 1869); 

12. David Irwin, born Sept. 26, 1814, 
died unmarried, December, 1839. 

(VII) JOHN M ACL AY (born at 
Maclay"s Mill. Nov. 9, 1776 — died at Wash- 
ington. Pa., Dec. 22, 18,^2). son of John and 
Jane (Dickson) Maclay. li\-ed for many 
years at the old IMaclay homestead, but 
afterward removed to Shippensburg. He 
was a member of the Legislature from 
Cumberland county. He died while on a 
visit to his son-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Brown- 
son. Mr. Maclav married April 13, 1809. 
Hannah Reynolds (l)orn 1788 — died Now 

28, 1848), daughter of John Reynolds, 
Esq.. of Shippensburg^ and had issue: 

I. Hannah Jane married William 
Marvell Ne\in (died Feb. ti. 1892), son of 



John and Martha (McCraken) Xevin, and 
a brother of Rev. Dr. John \\'. Nevin. He 
was professor of ancient languages and 
belles lettres in Marshall College, 1840-53, 
and in I'ranklin and Marshall College. 1853- 
•J2. He was afterward alumni professor of 
Engli.sh literature and belles lettres, 1872- 
87, and professor emeritus. 1887-92. 

2. Sarah Ellex married May 14, 
1843, J^nies Irwin Brownson (born March 

14, 1817 — died ), son of John and 

Sarah (Smith) Brownson, pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Washington, Pa., 
and president of \\'ashington and Jefferson 
College, 1869-70. They had issue: John 
Maclay: Elliott C. : Sarah Smith, married 
Henry R. \\-hitehill : Ellen Maclay: and 
Mary R., deceased. 

3. Abigail Catharine married Ben- 
jamin Sterrett, of Ohio. 

4. Levinia Eliza married March 13, 
1862, John Alexander Plumer, of West- 
moreland county, his fourth wife. No issue. 

5. Margaret Reynolds. 

6. Charles Benjamin (born April 
23, 1824 — died at Peoria. 111.. Nov. 3. 1890) 
was ,graduated at Marshall College, Mercers- 
burg, in 1843. '"^'ic' studied theology at the 
Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, 
Pa. He was licensed by the Presbytery of 
Carlisle in 1846, and was pastor of the Pres- 
byterian Churches at Petersburg, Pa., 1847- 
9, and at Gallipolis, Ohio, 1849-52. While 
pastor at Gallipolis he studied medicine and 
was .graduated M. D. at the Cincinnati Col- 
lege of Medicine, in 1852. He was principal 
of the Beaver Academy and Beaver Female 
Seminary, 1852-4, and taught in Pittsburgh 
in 1854. He subsecjuently removed to Cin- 
cinnati, and was appointed Professor of 
Medical Jurisprudence in the Cincinnati Col- 
le,ge of Medicine, in 1859. In 1885 he went 
to Peoria. 111., where he practiced medicine. 
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Irwin, daughter of Archibald and Emily Al- 
libone (Jones) Irwin, and had issue: John, 
born Sept. 13, 1849, -^ physician at Minne- 
apolis: Archibald Irwin, born Dec. 14, 1851, 
a physician at Delavan, 111. : Charles Benja- 
min, born i860, died 1879; Sidney, married 
Charles L. Booth : Harriet married J. E. 
Fisher: Hannah Reynolds, born 1856, died 
1888; and Louisa Irwin, born 1858. 

(VIII) JOHN HERRON MACLAY 
(born July 14, 1807 — died Jan. i, 1871), 
son of David and Eleanor ( Herron) 
Maclay, was a farmer and miller at Alaclay's 
Mill. He married March 12, 1836, Mar- 
garet Hemphill (born 1804 — died 1894), 
daughter of James and Cynthia (Jack) 
Hemphill. They had issue : 

1. J.-\NE Ellen (born 1837 — died 
April 23, 1882) married Thomas Sharpe 
(born May 29, 1827), a farmer in Cumber- 
land county. 

2. James Hemphill (born 1839), a 
farmer and miller at Maclay's Mill. He mar- 
ried Sept. 19, 1867, Annie Fickes, and had 
issue: Ralph Fickes, Margaret Hemphill, 
Elizabeth Damarel, Jane Ellen, Clara Irene, 
John Herron, Mary Ann, David Jack, 
Charles Francis and James Hem]iliill I luirn 
1887— died Feb. 21, 1888). 

(IX) CHARLES TEMPLETON 
MACLAY' (born Sept. 13, 181 2— died 
Aug. 7, 1888) son of David and Eleanor 
(Herron) Maclay, was educated at Maclay's 
schoolhou.se in Lurgan township, in sub- 
scription schools promoted by his father, by 
whom the best schoolmasters obtainable were 
secured. During his life time he kept a 
diary, in which he wrote earnest tributes to 
some of his early teachers. No published 
work afifords such vivid pictures of Liu'gan 
manners and customs, in the first half of the 
nineteenth century, as this diary. It is espec- 
ially valuable for its references to the sing- 
ing schools of his time and their frequenters. 



He was an enthusiastic lover of music, 
especially singing, and in his youth assisted 
at the singing schools for miles around 
JNIaclay's Mill. Fie studied medicine with 
Dr. Rankin in Shippensburg, and began the 
practice of his profession at Greenvillage in 
1840, acquiring a large and lucrative prac- 
tice, to which he devoted himself for nearly 
half a century. He was popular in his 
manners and a leader of men. In politics he 
was ail active Republican worker. Endowed 
with fine conversational powers he was an 
entertaining companion. Tie was a man of 
wide reading, and his knowledge of the early 
history, traditions and legends of the county 
was extensive. He preserved much valu- 
able material relating to the IMiddle Spring 
and Rocky Spring churches that otherwise 
would have been lost, and was a frequent 
contributor of historical articles to the news- 
papers. Mr. Maclay married (first) March 
II, 1840, Mary Ann Frazer (born Aug. 2j, 
1821 — died Feb. 23, 1857). daughter of 
Andrew and Annie (Wilson) Frazer. They 
had issue: 

1. Tane Elizabeth (born 1848 — died 
1863. 

2. Emma Catharine married Thomas 
H. Wallace. 

3. David (XIII). 

4. Lydia. 

5. Anna M. married May 15, 1877, 
Rev. J. Y. Shannon, who died in 1892. She 
died in 1896. 

6. John Andrew, born 1846 — died 
1869. 

Dr. Maclay married (second) Harriet 
Mahon, daughter of Robert and Jane (Wal- 
lace) Mahon, who is still living. 

(X) MARY SHARPE MACLAY 
(born Nov. 26. 1790 — died Sept. 11, 1850), 
daughter of W^illiam and Margaret (Cul- 
bertson) Maclay, married April 14, 1814, 
John King, (born near Morgantown, Va., in 



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1776 — died at Chambersburg- July 8, 1835), 
who began his business life as a clerk for 
an iron works at Antietam, Md.. and later 
was manager of Mt. Pleasant Furnace, at the 
foot of Path Valley. He became a member 
of the firm of Dunn & King, the senior part- 
ner being his brother-in-law. Gen. Samuel 
Dunn. He afterward came to Chambers- 
burg, where he engaged in business as a 
merchant, and was for many years president 
of the Bank of Chambersburg. He was 
closely identified with the business, literary, 
religious and charitable interests of the 
town, and enjoyed the confidence of the 
business community and the respect and es- 
teem of his neighbors. He was a ruling 
elder of the Falling Spring Presbyterian 
Church. John and Mary S. (Maclay) King 
had issue : 

1. Sarah .\. married J. Ellis Bonham 
(born in New Jersey, March 31, 1816 — died 
at Carlisle, March 19, 1855), a leading 
member of the Cumberland County Bar. 

2. Mary Eleanor tlied unmarried 
July 12. 1895. 

3. Louisa M., born 1823, died at Pitts- 
burgh, Oct. 26, 1841. 

4. Emma L. married John McDowell 
Sharpe [See Sharpe Family]. 

(XI) JOHN MACLAY (born Decem- 
ber, 1792 — died at St. Louis, .\pril 22. 
1854), son of William and Margaret (Cul- 
bertson) Maclay, was at one time a mer- 
chant at Chambersburg. He married (first) 
May 6, 1819, Jane Findlay (born 1790 — 
died April 2~. 1827), daughter of Col. John 
and Nancy (Brownson) Findlay. They had 
issue : 

I. William Irwin (born March 2"]. 
1820 — died June 30, 1855) married at 
Pitt.sburgh, Nov. 16, 1841, Sarah Stack- 
house, and had issue : Jane .'Vnne, born Aug. 
16, 1842, married John S. Tittle, of Johns- 
town, and had Elizabetli Findlav and Will- 



iam Maclay; Emma S., born Nov. 11, 1845, 
married William H. Byron, of Tipton, Mo. ; 
Ellen, born Oct. 18, 1847, married (first) 
Dec. 20, 1870, George Fritz (died Aug. 5, 
1873), (second), Dec. 8, 1880, Robert 
Murphy; William Stackhouse, born Dec. 13, 
1849, '^I'^d Sept. 30, 1853; Elizabeth Find- 
lay, born Feb. 17, 1852, died Aug. 31, 1853; 
and Mary Torrence born Dec. 15, 1854, 
died May 25, i860. 

2. John Findlay, born Feb. 18, 1822, 
died Dec. 13, 1822. 

3. A son, born Sept. 24, 1823, died 
Sept. 30, 1823. 

4. Nancy Jane, born March 12, 1825; 
died May 27, 1827. 

Mr. Maclay married (second) Sept. 18, 
1832, Anna Maria Gleim (died Oct. 18, 
1868) daughter of Christian Gleim. of 
Pittsburgh. They had issue: 

1. Anna Maria, born Jan. i, 1834, 
married Fisk Gore. 

2. John King, born June 29, 1835, 
died Sept. 14, 1836. 

3. Martha Gleim, born Dec. 18, 
1836. died May 21, 1854. 

4. James Brown, born Nov. 7, 1838, 
— died 1872. 

5. John Gleim, bom July 10, 1840. 

6. Cyrus Culbertson, born Sept. 7, 
1842, married Laura Miller. 

7. Edgar Gleim, born Aug. 26, 1844, 
married Blanche Murphy. 

8. Charles Gleim, born Sept. 2, 1846, 
died May, 1847. 

9. Ellen Brown, bom July 11, 1849, 
died Aug. 28, 1849. 

y (XII) JANE MACLAY (born Oct. 31, 
1794 — died in Georgia, in 1822), married 
May, 1817, Samuel Dunn, son of Thomas L. 
and Elizabeth ( Holliday) Dunn, succeeded 
his father in the management of Mt. Pleas- 
ant I'urnace. at the foot of Path Valley. As 
a young man he had strong military tastes. 





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At the beginning- of the War of 1812 he was 
in command of a Path Valley company of 
riflemen in the 64th Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Militia. When the tlraft was ordered early 
in 1 8 14. Captain Dunn's entire company of 
forty men volunteered and marched with the 
companies of Captains Stake and Gordon to 
Erie, where they were put in the 3th Regi- 
ment. United States Infantry, under Col. 
James Fenton. and served with distinction 
in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's 
Lane. After the war Captain Dunn became 
brigadier general of Pennsylvania militia. He 
was a member of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives, 1820-21. One of his note- 
worthy achievements was the discover)' of 
the tooth of a mammoth in Path \^alley in 
1829. It was fourteen inches in circumfer- 
ence at the root and seven feet in length. 
Samuel and Jane (Maclay) Dunn had 
issue : 

1. Elizabeth married June 20, 1837, 
James H. Bard, son of William and Martha 
(Dierman ) Bard. They had issue : William, 
Wesley and Thomas D. 

2. Margaretta M. married Aug. 5, 
1 85 1, James P. T. Carter, of Union Furnace. 

(XIII) DAVID MACLAY (born at 
Greenvillage, Jan. 18. 1852), son of Dr. 
Charles T. and Mary Ann (Frazer) Maclay, 
was educated in the public schools, at the 
Chambersburg Academy, and at the Tus- 
carora Academy, at Academia. In 1871 he 
began the study of medicine with his father, 
and was graduated ^I. D., at the Medical De- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, 
in 1875. Immediately upon receiving his de- 
gree he began the practice of his profession 
at Greenvillage, where he remained until 
1 89 1, when he removed to Chambersburg. 
Upon his removal he formed a partnership 
with Dr. Robert ^\^ Ramsey, which is still 
maintained. Dr. Maclay is among the lead- 



ing pbysicians of the county, and a member 
of the Franklin County Medical Society and 
also the State and National Societies. In pol- 
itics he has always been an active Republican 
worker. He was County Treasurer of 
Franklin county, 1897-1900, and was chair- 
man of the Franklin County Republican 
Committee. 1899- 1902. He was chosen one 
of the Representatives of the county in the 
Pennsylvania Legislature in 1902. being the 
third David Maclay in descent from John 
Maclay to fill that important office. He 
served in 1903 and 1904, and in 1903 he 
secured the passage of the bill appropriating 
$4,000 for the erection of a monument in the 
Middle Spring graveyard in Cumberland 
county, in honor of the soldiers of the 
French and Indian War, the War of the 
Revolution, the war of 181 2, and the Mexi- 
can war, that were buried therein. He was 
elected a delegate from the iSth Congres- 
sional District, to the Republican National' 
Convention, held at Chicago in 1904. On 
Feb. 10. 1905, he was appointed postmaster 
at Chambersburg by President Roosevelt. 
He is a member of the Falling Spring Pres- 
byterian Church. He inherits his father's 
tastes for the preservation of local history, 
and is the custodian of the valuable material 
accumulated by Dr. Charles T. Maclay. Dr. 
Maclay married Feb. 14, 1878, Mary Pom- 
eroy, daughter of Judge Joseph and Ann B. 
(Crawford) Pomeroy. of Academia. Juniata 
county. They have issue : 

1. Charles Templeton, born Dec. 
26, 1878. was graduated in pharmacy at the 
Medico Chirurgical College in Philadelphia, 
in 1902. 

2. Joseph Pomeroy, born Aug. i, 
1883, is a student at Lafayette College. 

3. David Crawford, born Aug. 26, 
1889, is a student at Chambersburg- 
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MAHON. The Mahon family of 
Franklin county comes from one of the old- 
est families in the Cumherland Valley. It is 
■of Anglo-Irish origin, and is descended from 
David and Martha Mahon, of the parish of 
Ray, in the barony of Raphoe, County Don- 
egal, Ireland. The parish is situated on 
Lough Swilly. David Mahon does not ap- 
pear to have emigrated to America, but five 
of his sons were settled in the old township 
of Lurgan at the time of the creation of 
Cumberland County, in 1750; they were as 
follows : 

1. Archibald (II). 

2. Henry (HI). 

3. James was a schoolmaster, and died 
immarried in November, 1772. 

4. Robert (IV). 
5- John (V). 

(II) ARCHIBALD MAHON (born in 
Ireland — died in Deceml^er or Januar\ , 
1777-78), son of David and Martha Mahon, 
settled in the Cumberland Valley, and was a 
taxable in Lurgan township, in 1751. The 
Christian name of his wife was Jean, but her 
surname has not been ascertained. They had 
issue : 

1. Archibald, who died in 1801, was 
a farmer in Southampton township. He 
served in Capt. Charles Maclay's marching 
company, in 1778. The name of his wife 
was Jean, surname not ascertained. They 
had issue : Jean ; Mary ; and Jolm married 
and had a daughter, Margaret. 

2. William served in Capt. Noah 
Abraham's marching Company, in 1777. 

3. Alexander served in Capt. George 
BelTs marching company, in 1778. 

4. Jean. 

5. Sarah. 

6. David (VI). 

7. James Carnahan. 

(III) HENRY MAHON, son of David 
and Martlia Mahon, was an earlv settler in 



the Cumberland \'alley, and a taxable in 
Lurgan township, in 1751. He married and 
had issue : 

1. Archibald married Sarah Breck- 
inridge, daughter of John Breckinridge. 
They had issue : John. David, Sally and Jean. 

2. Robert. 

3. Henry. 

4. Ann married Samuel Clarke. 

5. David married Agnes Mahon, 
daughter of John and Mary Mahon ; but had 
no issue. He died in 1800. 

(IV) ROBERT MAHON, (born in 
Ireland — died June, 1770), son of David and 
Martha Mahon, was a taxable in Lurgan 
township in 1751. He married Mary Clark, 
and had issue : 

I. Robert (VII). 

(V) JOHN MAHON (born in Ireland 
in 1730 — died Aug. 2, 1805), son of David 
and ALartha Mahon, settled in the Cumber- 
land Valley, and was a farmer and member 
of Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church. The 
name of his wife was Mary (born in 1738 — 
(lied Aug. 2, 1803). They had issue: 

1. John served in Capt. James McCon- 
nell's Company, "Flying Camp," 1776-77; 
in Capt. Noah Abraham's marching com- 
pany, under call of July 28, 1777, and again 
in 1778. 

2. Agnes married David ?kIahon. 

3. Elizabeth, born in 1750, died Sept. 
24, 1804. 

4. James. 

5. William. 

6. Archibald. 

7. Jean married Robert Mahon. 

8. Ellen married a Foreham. 

9. Rachel married a Wright. 

10. ■Mary married a Kelly. 

(VI) DAVID MAHON (born in 1744 
— died Oct. 5, 1813), son of Archibald and 
Jean Mahon. was a prominent merchant and 
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Sarah (born in 1746 — died Dec. 23, 1S34), 
surname not ascertained. The)- had issue : 

1. Samuel married, June 2, 1792, 
Anne Duncan, and they had issue, Mary, 
John and David. 

2. Archibald married and had issue : 
Jean, Rebecca Heap, Mary McConaughy 
and Samuel. 

3. Sarah married Oliver Ormsby. 

4. Jean luarried Samuel Creigh (born 
Oct. 2, 1771 — died Aug. 21, 1836), son of 
John and Jane (Huston) Creigh. 

5. Hannah married Dec. 8, 1807, 
Robert McPherson. They had issue : 
Thomas and Sarah JMahon. 

6. MarYj married May 25, 1802, David 
McConaughy (born Sept. 29, 1775 — died 
Jan. 29, 1852), pastor of the Gettysburg- 
Presbyterian Church, 1800-32, and president 
of Washington College, Washington, Pa., 
1832-49. They had no issue. 

7. Alexander. 

8. WiLLLVM. 

9. Elizabeth. 

10. David married and had issue: 
Nancy, who married Joseph Culbertson ; and 
Joseph, Mary, Emily, ^Martha, David and 
James. 

(VII) ROBERT MAHON (died May 
9, 1845), son of Robert and Mary (Clark) 
Mahon, was a prominent farmer in Culbert- 
son's Row, owning a tine farm of 360 acres. 
He married (first) Jean Mahon, daughter 
of John and Mary ^lahon. They had issue : 

1. Michael. 

2. Julian married a Sollenberger. 
Mr. Mahon married (second), Sarah 

Stumbaugh. They had issue : 

1. Robert (VIII). 

2. Elizabeth married a Potts. 

3. David married Matilda , 

and had issue: Charles B., Sarah Ann and 
Martha Jane. 



4. John was killed in an explosion in a 
powder mill. 

5. Archibald. 

6. Samuel. 

7. Henry. 

8. Catharine married a Greenewalt. 

(VIII) ROBERT MAHON (bom in 
1812 — died in 1884), son of Robert and 
Sarah Mahon, was a blacksmith at the vil- 
lages of Greenvillage and Scotland, and 
served for thirty years as justice of the 
peace. In politics he w-as a Democrat until 
1844, when he supported Henry Clay for the 
l)residency, and was afterward an old line 
Whig until the organization of the Republi- 
can party, which he joined. He was a mem- 
Ijer of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
a w'orthy and highly respected citizen. j\lr. 
Mahon married Jane Wallace, of Scotch de- 
scent. They had issue : 

1. Harriet married Dr. Charles T. 
Maclay. 

2. Margaret married David Rank and 
they went to Ohio, where he died. They 
had issue : Ira, Otis, Orani, Levitt and 
Erma. 

3. Nathaniel K. (IX). 

4. Tn.^DDEUs M. (X). 

5. John W., deceased, was a black- 
smith. He married Kate Heckman, who 
died in 1881, leaving- the following children: 
Clarence, Lillian, Pearl and Arthur. 
He married (second), Ann Heckman, who 
died 1901, leaving two children, Kate and 
Jane. 

6. Mary married Jacob Youst and died 
in August, 1904, leaving one son, Robert M. 

7. Zachary Taylor died at Steele, 
Missouri. 

8. CoR.\ died when forty-five years old. 

(IX) NATHANIEL KINZER MA- 
HON (born Feb. 11, 1839). son of Robert 
and Jane (Wallace) Mahon, was educated 



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ill the public schools of Greene township, 
and at the Chanibersburg Academy. He 
learned the trade of a blacksmith under his 
father, with whom he worked until he at- 
tained his majorit}'. He followed his trade 
continuously tmtil 1872. going to Fayette- 
ville in 1865, after the close of the Civil 
war, and there he opened a shop and has 
since resided. He was in the United States 
Internal Revenue service, 1884-92, and was 
appointed postmaster at Fayetteville in 1897, 
a position that he still holds. In politics he 
has always been a Republican, casting his 
first vote for Abraham Lincoln in i860. He 
has, served as a school director of Greene 
township, and is a life long earnest and ac- 
tive Republican worker. He is a member 
of the K. of P. and K. of G. Mr. Mahon 
married in April, 1861, Priscilla Kitzmiller, 
daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Kitzmiller, 
of Shippensburg. They have issue. 

1. Charles Theodore died in infancy. 

2. Charles T., a blacksmith at Fayette- 
ville, married Julia M. Alridge, of that place. 
They had issue : Flora Abbie, clerk in the 
post-office with her grandfather: Goldie, 
Flossie May, Eliza B., Charles, Ora Tiding, 
Beula, Lucy and Rebecca Jane. 

(X) THADDEUS MACLAY MA- 
HON (born at Green village. May 21, 
1840), son of Robert and Jane (Wallace) 
Mahon, was educated at the public schools 
at the village of Scotland. He afterward 
worked in the blacksmith shop of his father. 
and later became a student at the Chambers- 
burg Academy. Early in his teens, while at 
home, the young man took a lively interest 
in politics and the organization of the Re- 
publican [)arty. and helped to rally the yeo- 
manry for the '"Pathfinder" in 1856. In 
i860 he became a law student in the office of 
Kimmel & McLellan, but his studies were 
interrupted by his enlistment in 1862, in 
Company A. 126th P. V. I., nine months 



men. He ne.xt enlisted in the 21st Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry, in which he served until 
the close of the war, being severely wounded 
at Hatchers Run. Va. In 1866 Mr. Mahon 
received the Republican nomination for the 
office of Clerk of the Courts, and was elected. 
During his three years" incumbency of his 
office he resumed the study of law, and, after 
passing a creditable examination was ad- 
mitted to the Bar, Jan. 25, 1870. The same 
year he became the Republican nominee for 
the Assembly, but was defeated at the elec- 
tion by a small majority. The adoption of 
the 15th .\mendment had lost to the Repub- 
lican party its customary majority, and the 
election of a member in 1869. His ener- 
getic campaign and the fighting qualities he 
displayed for the rights of the colored man. 
indicated him for the Legislative race in 
1 87 1, and he again was made the standard 
bearer, when he was elected by a flattering 
majority over the late Major North, of 
Mercersburg. Mr. Mahon again became the 
nominee in 1872, when the Democrats pitted 
against him \V. S. Stenger, who had just 
completed his third term as District Attor- 
ney. The campaign which followed was one 
of unusual vigor. Mr. Stenger, who was 
editor of the Spirit, a writer of force, and 
an able disputant, was ably met on the issues 
of the day by his Republican opponent, who 
demonstrated as well rare abilities as a 
stump speaker, and he was elected by a ma- 
jority of 512. Mr. Mahon became the Re- 
publican nominee for Congress in the old 
1 8th district in 1876, but was defeated by 
Mr. Stenger, his famous antagonist for leg- 
islative honors, by a majority of 25 as against 
Mr. Stenger's majority against General Wis- 
ter, in 1874, of i.ioo. Mr. Mahon now gave 
his entire attention to his profession, but 
continued to share the work incident to im- 
portant campaigns, wdiether as a meinber of 
State or County conventions, or on the 





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stump. In 1888 he was a candidate for nom- 
ination to the Judgeship, Init after a spirited 
contest was defeated by Hon. John Stewart. 
In 1892 Mr. Alahon was again induced to 
l)ecome a candidate for Congress. Receiv- 
ing the endorsement of liis home county, he 
liecame the District candidate after a spir- 
ited contest in Conference. He is now serv- 
ing his se\-enth term, having been elected to 
the 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58tli and 
59th Congresses. The Repubhcan county 
convention (1904) gave him a unanimous 
endorsement for the seventh term. The 
Congress district under the apportionment 
of 1901, is now known as the i/tii. Witli 
the addition of Perry, the district is com- 
posed of eight counties. His nomination by 
the District Conference for the seventli term 
was made in May, by reason of approved 
faithful service and prompt and conscien- 
tious discharge of duty. His standing and 
industry have given him a prominence and 
influence which comes only to those of ex- 
perience, and to those who are continued in 
the halls of legislation and merit recogni- 
tion. 

From the start, as in the Legislature, 
mi -re than thirty years ago, Mr. Mahon lias 
lield a commanding position, being made 
chairman of General Judiciary committee, 
the most important committee of the legis- 
lature. A man of generous impulses, acces- 
sible to all, he is thoroughly devoted to the 
ititerests of his constituents. The recog- 
nized friend and advocate of the veteran, 
no one has labored more effectually in the 
interest of his comrades of the Civil war, or 
of the soldiersof the Spanish-American war. 
His famous speech on Pensions gave him 
prominence in Grand Army circles every- 
where. It was one of twelve, and the only 
one on pensions that was selected by the 
Republican Congressional Committee for 
general circulation by the National Commit- 



tee in the Presidential campaign of 1896. 
In his own Congressional district he has had 
over 1,800 claims of pensioners called up 
and advanced. L'pon all legislations Mr. 
Mahon's record of championship and sup- 
port is courageous, patriotic, and in the in- 
terest of the people. When others wavered 
he stood by McKinley and his war measures. 
He voted for all tariff legislation, and to 
rej)eal the war ta.xes ; for legislation in the 
interest of labor, the farmer, the manufact- 
urer and workingman, and in debate in their 
behalf forcible and eloquently contended for 
all measures promotive of their advance- 
ment. His service on important committees 
and continuously as chairman of War 
Claims, gave him a salutary influence in the 
shaping of wise legislation. Marked charac- 
teristics of his career, from the anvil to the 
halls of Congress, have been a will and pur- 
pose to go straight at things, thus promi)tly 
accomplishing that which baffled other men. 
As was said of him by a Washington corre- 
spondent, "Mr. Mahon is a fair fighter, as 
his record in many a skirmish in the House 
shows, but his blows are not little love taps 
by any means. Talbert, of South Carolina, 
the objector to pension legislation, has dis- 
covered how hard Mahon can hit." Under 
no previous Congressman has more been 
done for the extension of the mail facilities 
to the people of this district. Through his 
influence the Chambersburg rural free de- 
livery system was established, and he has 
put into operation sixty-two routes in his 
district. It is pronounced the model service, 
and as such is among others conspicuously 
illustrated in the 1902 annual report of the 
first assistant postmaster general. At the 
present session he introduced a bill for the 
erection of a Government building in Cham- 
bersburg. Mr. Mahon is prominent and in- 
fluential as a member of the G. A. R. and 
Loyal Legion. He has held the position of 



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Judge Advocate, Department of Pennsylva- 
nia, G. A. R., and was liberally supported on 
two occasions for Department Commander. 
He had much to do with the formulation and 
passage of the bill in the Legislature of 
1893, creating the Soldiers" Industrial 
School. As a member of the State 
Commission, on the ])art of the (i. 
A. R., he has had much to do with 
the successful management of that in- 
stitution in recent years. In politics a 
stalwart, he nevertheless courteously accords 
to others the convictions he maintains for 
himself, standing upon the broad platform 
of a recognition of the rights of all, party 
unity and success. 

In the promotion of local industries ]\Ir. 
Alahon has always taken an active part. He 
has done much to advance the business and 
material interests of his town, county and 
district. He has remodeled and built many 
houses in Chambersburg, and has paid out 
large sums of money to mechanics and labor- 
ing men. It has been a rule of his life to pay 
men employed by him the wages they asked. 
He was a prime mover in the extension of 
the Western Maryland railroad to Shippens- 
burg. From its origin he has been an officer 
and director of the Baltimore and Cumber- 
land Valley Railroad company, and is now 
its president. He also helped to establish 
the St. Thomas bank, and is its president. 
As with other men in public life, Mr. Mahon 
has had a fair share of enemies and detrac- 
tors, but there is the answering fact to all 
of duty well and faithfully performed. His 
nonunations for Congress have come to him 
\\itli unaniiuit}-, and his election in every in- 
stance by unequaled majorities. His public 
and private life are irreproachable, and he 
has been faithful to every trust confided to 
him. 

In 1867 Mr. Mahon married IMartha 'M. 
Robinson, daughter of William and Marv 



Robinson: she died Jan. 30, iSgj. There 
was no issue of this marriage. 

In 1893 he married Lucy Shuman, 
ilaughter of John and EInora Shuman. Of 
this marriage two children were born : 

1. Robert Macl.w. 

2. Le.\h. 

HEYSER .^ND WOLFF FA:\IILIES. 
W ILLIAM HEYSER, the ancestor of the 
Heyser family of Hagerstown and Cham- 
bersburg, emigrated from the Netherlands 
to .America and settled in Maryland about 
1760. It is said that he was a physician, 
and that he practiced his profession at 
Hagerstown. He was a very active member 
of the Reformed Church, and when the first 
church building was erected at Hagerstown 
in 1774, he was chosen by the congregation 
to be the master builder. He was an active 
patriot in the Revolution. Wlien the Ger- 
man regiment, which originated from a reso- 
lution of Congress, June Jj, 1776, was or- 
ganizing, he recruited one of the four com- 
panies allotted to Maryland, of which he 
was commissioned captain, Sept. 25, 1776, 
and with which he served until May 21, 
1778. The regiment was attached to De- 
borre"s Brigade, Sullivan's Division, and 
was in the battles of Trenton and Prince- 
ton. In one of these actions Capt. Heyser 
was severely wounded, and was taken to a 
hospital in Philadelphia. When his wife 
recei\-ed word of his condition, she rode from 
Hagerstown to Philadelphia on horseback 
to nurse him, and when he was sufficiently 
recovered to be able to travel she took him 
home on an extra horse that she had taken 
with her for the purpose. Captain Heyser 
and his wife both died at Hagerstown, and 
were buried there. They had issue : 

1. WiLLi.\M is president of the Hagers- 
town Bank. 

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3. Eliza married J. Reynolds, of 
Waynesboro, Sonth Carolina. 

4. Ann Judith married Thomas 
Ouantrel. 

5. Another daughter married Mr. Len- 
her, of Pittsburgh. 

(II) JACOB HEYSER (Iwrn in 1769 
— died April 8, 1842), son of Capt. William 
Heyser, learned the trade of a tinsmith and 
coppersmith. He came to Chambersburg 
as a young man alx)ut 1790, and for many 
years he conducted the tinning and copper- 
smithing business in the rear of a large 
brick house that he owned on the east side 
of South Main street, above the first alley 
from the Diamond. It was the second house 
from the alley. He was one of the founders 
of the Bank of Chambersburg, and a com- 
missioner to receive subscriptions to its capi- 
tal stock, in 1809. He was also one of the 
founders of the Franklin County Agricul- 
tural Society, and its treasurer. He was an 
earnest disciple of Thomas Jefferson, antl a 
leader of the Democratic Republican party 
of Franklin county. He was prominent in 
the affairs of the borough of Chambersburg 
and held a number of county offices, being a 
county commissioner, 1805-07: count}' 
treasurer, 1817-20: and county auditor. 
1832-35. He represented the county in the 
Pennsylvania Legislature, 1807-09, and 
again, 1814-15. He was one of the early 
members of Zion"s Reformed Church. Mr. 
Heyser married, in 1793, Catharine Ott, of 
Clearspring, Md. (born Feb. 10, 1772 — 
died April i, 1835). They had issue: 

1. William (III). 

2. Jacob died young. 

3. Eliza married Samuel Fahnestock 
(born Nov. 4, 1797 — died May 13, 1869), 
son of Samuel and Hannah (Studebaker) 
Fahnestock. They had issue: Catharine, 
Warren, Jacob Heyser, Marion Matilda, 
Amanda. Emma and Albert. 

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4- Judith Ann married Barnard 
Wolff (IV). 

5. .\iMELiA married John Smith (V), 

6. Matilda (born March, 181 1 — died 
Sept. 23, 1894), married Edward Faber, of 
Pittsburgh : they had issue : Marion, Su- 
sanna and Edward. 

7. Catharine (born in 1814 — died 
Jan. 17, 1870), married Michael Whitmore 
(born in 1804 — died July 13, 1880). 

(HI) WILLIAM 'heyser (born 
Oct. 6, 1796 — died Nov. 6, 1863), son of 
Jacob and Catharine (Ott) Heyser, suc- 
ceeded his father in the tinning and copijer- 
smithing business in Chambersburg. He 
subsequently engaged in other enterprises, 
and was one of the owners of the Hollywell 
Paper Mill for many years, his original 



partners being his brothers-in- 



Barnard 



Wolff and John Smith. He also succeeded 
his father as county treasurer, 1820-^, and 
was treasurer for the directors of the Poor, 
1821-23. He was a county commissioner, 
1826-29, and a member of the Chambers- 
burg town council in 1828. In 181 4 he 
marched with Capt. Daniel D. Culbertson's 
company to the defense of Baltimore. He 
was a public-spirited citizen and was inter- 
ested in all the enterprises uf town and 
county as stockholder and director. He was 
president of the National Bank of Cham- 
bersburg at the time of his death. He was 
zealous and active for the advancement of ' 
the Reformed Church and its institutions. 
He was a trustee of the Reformed Church 
Theological Seminary, 1831-63, and presi- 
dent of the board, 1837-38, and from 1846 
until his death; and was a trustee of Mar- 
shall College, 1836-53, and of Franklin and 
Marshall College, 1853-60. He was for 
thirty years treasurer of the Synod of the 
Reformed Church, and he was superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-School of Zion's Re- 
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1&30, until his death. Mr. Heyser married 
June 26. 1 82 1. Ehzabeth Bentz (born Nov. 
I, 1796 — died Jan. 11, 1882), daughter of 
George and EHzabeth (Gomber) Bentz, of 
Frederick, Md. They had issue : 

1. Jacob {VI). 

2. George Bentz, born Sept. 14. 
1829, died Sept. 26, 1832, of cholera. 

3. Elizabeth married Sept. 7. 1848. 
J. Allison Eyster (died Dec. 2, 1900), son 
of George S. and Eleanor (Allison) Eyster. 
a prominent merchant and manufacturer of 
straw boards. They had issue : George S., 
who married Anna Ambler, and has Eleanor 
Allison and George S. ; Betty, who married 
Frank McCown, and has Allison Eyster, 
Frank, and Elizabeth Eyster; Eleanor, de- 
ceased ; William Heyser, deceased ; Harriet 
Heyser, who married Frank Harrison, and 
has Elizabeth Eyster, Helen and Margaret: 
J. Allison, who was married Feb. 10, 1904, 
to Annie McCloud ; and Grace, deceased. 

4. Ann Amelia died June 15, 1840. 

5. William (torn in Chambersburg 
Jan. 17, 1832) was educated at the Cham- 
bersburg Academy. He afterward studied 
pharmacy and was graduated at the Phila- 
delphia College of Pharmacy in 1852. He 
engaged in the drug business in Chambers- 
burg in 1854, in which he continued until 
the burning of the town in 1864. Later he 
was the owner of the Hollywell Paper Mill, 
which he conducted until 1898, when he re- 
tired. He is an elder of Zion's Reformed 
Church, and has toen secretary of the Con- 
sistory since 1874. He was a trustee of the 
Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church 
from its organization to 1877, member of 
the board of Regents of Mercersburg Col- 
lege from to 1877; has been trustee of 

the Chambersburg Academy since 1868, also 
its Secretary; and was treasurer of Franklin 
County Agricultural Fair Company from 
1870 to its close in 1886. 



6. Harriet Bentz died Feb. 11, 1858. 

7. Margaret Prudence (torn Sept. 
21, 1837), lives in Chambersburg. 

(IV) JUDITH ANN HEYSER (torn 
Nov. 2;^. 1794 — died July 28, i860), daugh- 
ter of Jacob and Catharine (Ott) Heyser, 
married, April 6, 1814, Barnard Wolff 
(born Feb. 6, 1790 — died Dec. 15, 1871), 
son of Christian and Anna Maria ( Krause) 
W^olff, early settlers in Chambersburg. 
Christian Wolff (born Dec. 6, 1762 — died 
Feb. 9, 1841) was a son of Johann Earn- 
hardt Wolff, who came to America with his 
parents, George Michael and Juliana Wolff, 
from Oberhochstadt in the Palatinate, in the 
ship "Friendship." arri\ing in the Delaware, 
Aug. 31, 1739, when he was only seven years 
old. John Earnhardt Wolff' (born Jan. i, 
1732 — died Aug. 30, 1792), married Oct. 
2, 1755, Anna Charlotte Bier (born in the 
Duchy of Deux Ponts, in Cassel, Oct. 17, 
1734 — died April 17, 1825). daughter of 
John Peter Bier, of Lancaster, who emi- 
grated on the ship "Two Brothers," landing 
in Philadelphia, Sept. 15. 1748. They had 
issue: Anna Charlotte, Susanna Barbara, 
Anna Charlotte, Christian, Eva Catharine, 
Elizabeth, John George, Anna Maria, Anna 
Maria and Jacob. Christian Wolff, the fourth 
child and first son. was the ancestor of the 
\\'olff family of Chambersburg. At the age 
of fourteen he helped to guard the Hessian 
and other prisoners captured at Trenton and 
Princeton, and sent to Lancaster. About 
1786 he came to Chamtorsburg. where he 
followed his trade as a saddler and harness 
maker. He was one of the trustees named 
in the charter of the Chambersburg Acad- 
emy. He married May 10. 1789, Anna 
Maria Krause (born March 25, 1763 — died 
Oct. 31, 1854), daughter of Jacob and 
Christian Krause. of Lancaster county. 
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2. John George, born Sept. 11, 1791. 
-died May 31, 1797. 

3. Charlotte (bom Aug. 9, 1793 — 
•died Dec. 3, i86g) married Feb. 20, 1821, 
Rev. Bernard C. Wolff (born Dec. 11, 
1794 — died Nov. i, 1870), son of John 
George and Elizabeth (Krause) Wolff, of 
Martinsburg, W. Va. He was an eminent 
teacher in the Theological Seminary of the 
Reformed Church. They had issue : 
■George Dering, Alary Catharine, Elizabeth 
Mary, Susan Burton and Christian Beecher. 

4. Jacob, born June 28, 1795, died 
Oct. 7, 1796. 

5. Catharine, born Feb. 25, 1797, 
•died Oct. 4, 1799. 

6. Christian Dering (born March 
II, 1799 — died Sept. 2, 1837) married, 
April 21, 1825. Elizabeth Coggin Likens 
(born Aug. 4, 1803 — died March 10, 1867), 

of Charlestown, W, Va. They had issue : 
Charles Christian, Mary Elizabeth, Ann 
Doyne, Susan Jane, Ellen Douglas and 
Bernard Likens. 

7. Elizabeth (born March 28, 1801 
— died March 9, 1836) married, April 16, 
1822, John Whitmore (born Nov. 4, 1798 — 
died Sept. 25, 1862), for many years a mer- 
chant in Chambersburg. They had issue: 
Anna Mary, Jacob Dering, Charlotte and 
John Christian Wolff. 

8. Anna Mari.\ (born April 30, 
1803 — died March 22, 1890) married. April 
9, 1822, Benjamin A. Fahnestock (born 
July 8, 1799 — died July 11, 1862), son of 
George and Mary (Aughinbaugh) Fahne- 
stock, and they had issue : George Wolft', 
'Christian Dering, Helen Mary, and Mary 
Elizabeth. 

9. Susanna Barbar.\ (born Jan. 13, 
1807 — died June 19. 1886) married, Sept. 
9, 1830, John Shea (born Feb. 7. 1800 — died 
March 29. 1864). Thej^ had issue: Edward 
AVolff. Marv Elizabeth. Christian Barnard. 



Sarah Margaretta, Benjamin A. F., Susan 
-Alice and John Wilber. 

As a young man Barnard Wolff engaged 
in business as a bridle-bit maker in Cham- 
bersburg, in partnership with James Wilson. 
Later he kept a hardware store at the south- 
east corner of Main and Queen streets, in 
partnership with his brother-in-law, Michael 
Whitmore. He also conducted a saddlery 
business in another room in the same build- 
ing. In the war of 18 12 he served with 
Capt. Jeremiah Snider's company on the 
Canada frontier, and in 18 14 he marched 
to the defense of Baltimore in the company 
of Capt. Samuel D. Culbertson. He was 
free from political ambition, and the only 
offices he ever consented to fill were those of 
town councilman, 1820 and 1822, and school 
director, 1840. But in the Reformed Church 
he was full of good works and held im- 
portant positions. He was a trustee of the 
Theological Seminary-, 1836-52, and again, 
1855-71, and president of the board, 1843- 
44, and a trustee of Marshall College, 1836- 
53, and of Franklin and Marshall, 1853-54. 
Barnard and Judith A. (Heyser) Wolff 
had issue : 

1. Christi.\n Heyser (born April 6, 
1 81 5 — died Feb. 28. 1887), was for many 
years a member of the firm of Wolff. Lane 
& Co., of Pittsburgh. He was noted for his 
love of art. 

2. Jacob Heyser, born Sept. 30, 1816, 
died July 10, 1817. 

3. John George (born June 6, 1818 — 
died July 16. 1891) was for many years 
engaged in business in Chambersburg, but 
removed to Pittsburgh in 1866. On Oct. 
15, 1844. he married Theresa Rebecca May 
(born April 12, 1823 — died March 6, 
1896). daughter of Daniel May, of York, 
and they had issue : Bernard May, born Nov. 
6, 1845, died Sept. 15. 1863; Christian Ed- 
ward, born Jan. i, 1849, married Sept. 27, 



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1877, Delia Eichbaum; Phelps, born July 
4, 1853, is living- in Pittsburgh, and has one 
son. Christian Edward : William Heyser, 
born April 11, 1858, died Oct. 16, 1863; 
and Clarence ]May, born March 21, 1865, 
married, April 22. 1890, Margaret Ross 
Jane Kurtz (born April i, 1865). and had 
Dorothy. Katherine and Margaret. 

4. C.\THARINE Eliz.vbetii married 
John V. Lindsay ( \'II ). 

5. Ann.\ M.'VRV (born Sept. 18. 1822) 
married, May 2, 1848, Jacob Dutrow 
Thomas (born Jan. 19. 1827 — died Xov. 
22, 1894), and had issue: Adelaide, born 
Sept. 19, 185 1, died March 15, 1895. mar- 
ried, Dec. 17, 1872. John Fenton Thomas, 
and had Mary Bertha, Ada Elizabeth, Mar- 
garet May (deceased), Bernard Wolff, 
Christian Herbert, Gertrude Irene, Kath- 
arine Grace, and John Fenton ; Mary Cath- 
arine, born I"eb. 10, 1854, married Oct. 24, 
1874, Thomas Lily Thomas (born March 
21, 1848, died Jan. 14, 1897), and had John 
Edgar. Mary Francis, Jacob Laurence, Jo- 
seph Gaffeny, Catharine Elizabeth, Louis 
Arthur, Robert Le\in and Xannie Adelaide; 
Margaret Ellen, born April 16, 1856, mar- 
ried Nov. 27, 1883. John Padgett, and had 
Mary Elizabeth and Xellie Welles; and Flora 
May, born March 10. 1858. married X^ov. 
15, 1 881, Richard R. Day, and had Flora 
Celeste, Ada Thomas, Richard Lindsay, 
James Irving, Ida Isadore, Anna Mary, 
Harvey Renshaw (deceased). Jacob .\rthur 
and Thomas Dutrow. 

6. Charlotte Judith, born Sept ir, 
1825, died Aug. 4, 1845. 

7. Bernard (born March 26, 1828 — 
died .\pril 23. 1901) married Feb. 27. 1866, 
Anna Eliza Withers, daughter of Michael 
Withers, of Lancaster, Pa., and they had 
issue: Paul Christian, Mary Bertha and 
Bernard Withers, the latter now deceased. 

8. Wii.UA'T Heyser (born .\ug. 15, 



1830 — died Aug. 2;^, 1866) married, Sept.. 
'9- 1855, Mary Bunting (born March 27, 
1835), and had issue: Kate Nininger, Will- 
iam Bernard and Bernard Bunting, the two 
last named deceased. 

9. Henry L. Rice, born Oct. 25, 1834, 
died Dec. 17, 1834. 

(V) AMELIA HEYSER (born July 
26, 1806 — died July 31, 1852), daughter of 
Jacob and Catharine (Ott) Heyser, married,. 
Feb. 15, 1827, John Smith (born July 10, 
1804 — died March 18, 1851), son of Daniel. 
and Mary Smith. He was a merchant in. 
Chambersburg, his store being on the east 
side of Main street, adjoining the Heyser 
properties. He died suddenly in his store 
room. At the time of his death he was 
manager of the Hollywell Paper Mill, in 
the ownership of which he was associated 
with his brothers-in-law, Barnard Wolff and 
William Heyser. He was an earnest sup- 
porter of the Reformed Church and its in- 
stitutions. He was a trustee of the Reformed. 
Theological Seminary, 1836-51, and treas- 
urer for the board, 1837-51 ; he was also a 
trustee of Marshall College, 1837-50; John 
and Amelia (Heyser) Smith had issue: 

1. Marion died young. 

2. Jacob Heyser died young. 

3. Mary Lautzenheiser, born in 
1833, died June 11, 1836. 

4. Ameli.v (born in 1840 — died Jan. 
8. 1873) married, in i86g, William H. 
Tritle (born in 1833). son of Jacob Tritle, 
a merchant in Fulton county. They had is- 
sue: FJarnard S., who died in infancy. 

5. Alice lives in Chambersburg. 

(VI) JACOB HEYSER (born May 20, 
1822, died Jan. 17. 1904), son of William 
and Elizabeth ( Bentz) Heyser, was grad- 
uated at Marshall College in 1840, s])eaking 
the English oration. He afterward studied 
law and was admitted to the Franklin County 
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for many >ears a inanutacturcr of straw- 
board at the old paper mill where the Wolf 
shops are now situated. For a number of 
years he held a position in the department 
of Public Instruction at Ilarrisljurg, which 
he only relinquished in 1902 because of 
failing health. He always took an active 
interest in the work of the Reformed Church 
and its institutions, was a member of its 
Sunday-school from its organization in 1830 
until his death, and superintendent of same 
for thirty-two years. He was an active elder 
of Zion's Reformed Church for thirty-eight 
years. He succeeded his father as a trustee 
of Franklin and Marshall College, a position 
that he held for twelve years, 1860-72. 
and was president of the Alumni Associa- 
tion of the college, 1849-50. and vice-presi- 
dent, 1864-65. Mr. Heyser married Amelia 
Smith (died May 2, 1898), daughter of 
Frederick and Catharine (Smith) Smith. 
They had issue : 

1. Catharine Elizabeth lives in 
Chambersburg. 

2. Amelia Smith lives in Chambers- 
burg. 

3. William L., married Harriet King, 
daughter of John and Margaret (Scott) 
King, and they have had issue : Thomas A. 
Scott (died in infancy). Margaret Scott 
King and Alice Bentz. 

4. Jacob died in infancy. 

5. Ellen Graham married Oliver C. 
Bowers (Bowers Family). 

6. Julia died in infancy. 

7. Anna died in infancy. 

8. Alice married James P. Harter, of 
Hagerstovvn. and they have issue : Mary 
Amelia, James P. and Alice Heyser. 

(VII) CATHARINE ELIZABETH 
WOLFF (born Sept. 18, 1820), daughter 
of Barnard and Judith A. (Heyser) Wolff, 
married Feb. 25, 1841, John Vance Lind- 
say (born March 15, 1814 — died June 4, 



1853), son of John and Frances W. (Craw- 
ford) Lindsay. The Lindsays are an old 
Franklin county family : John Lindsay, 
who died in 1799, came to Guilford town- 
ship before the organization of Cumberland 
county, and in 1746 was tax collector for 
Antrim township, Lancaster county, which 
then embraced the whole of what is now 
Franklin county. F"rom John Lindsay, the 
pioneer, the line of descent is as follows: 
Fulton Lindsay married Jane Fulton, and 
had among other children, James Lindsay 
(born Aug., 1743 — died Oct. 12, 1804), 
who, with his wife Martha (born in 1751 — 
died Sept. 7. 1838), was the father, among 
other children, of John Lindsay (born in 
Guilford township in 1770 — died Sept. 6, 
1825). This John Lindsay married Fran- 
ces W. Crawford (born in 1780 — died April 
II, 1868), daughter of Edward Crawford 
and they had issue : James, who died in 
Missouri; John Vance; Edward Crawford, 
born 1823, who died Feb. 22, 1844 : Martha, 
who married James Thompson ; Elizabeth, 
who married Samuel Bigham ; Sarah, who 
married J. Smith Grier; Jane, who married 
Frederick Byers ; Mary, who married John 
D. Grier: and Rebecca, who married Will- 
iam G. Reed. John Vance Lindsay was a 
merchant in Chambersburg in partnership 
with his cousin, James L. Black. He died 
in the prime of life. Mrs. Lindsay sur- 
\"i\'ed her husband more than half a century 
and died in Chambersburg, Feb. 13, 1904. 
John V. and Catharine E. (Wolff) Lind- 
say had issue : 

1. John Barnard (born Jan. 24, 
1843) lives in Chambersburg. 

2. Thomas Cr.\wford (born Jan. 22, 
1845) lives in Pittsburgh. He married, Dec. 
18, 1873, Maria Ward Verner, daughter of 
James D. and Maria N. Verner, and they 
have issue : Frank Verner, born May 9, 
1875: Joseph Home, born Jan. 12, 1878; 



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and John Arthur, Ixjrn April i6, 1887. 

3. William Wolff, born Feb. 1 1 , 
1847, <Jicd Nov. 6, 1898. 

4. Mary Elizabeth (born Dec. 31, 
1848 — died Nov. 26, 1894) married Feb. 
26, 1880, James G. Gordon (died Feb. 3, 
1890), of Philadelphia. They had no issue. 

5. Frank (born Jan. 28, 1851) lives 
•in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 

A. D. MORGANTHALL, vice-presi- 
dent of the Geiser Mfg. Co., and for many 
years a very prominent resident of Waynes- 
boro, was born Sept. 6, 1844, i" that city, 
and is descended from two of the first fam- 
ilies of the place. 

(I) JOHN MORGANTHALL, his pa- 
ternal grandfather, was a native of Ger- 
many, and married Nancy Frederick. 

(II) CAPT. GEORGE MORGAN- 
THALL, father of A. D., was born in Way- 
nesboro in 1814, and died in 1890. He was 
a captain in the Pennsylvania militia before 
the war with Mexico. He married Susan 
Price, also a native of Waynesboro, who was 
born in 182 1 and died in 1895. Her father 
was George Price, the first barber of Way- 
nesboro, who also conducted a shoe shop, 
he being a shoemaker as well. He married 
Lydia Hoover. 

(III) A. D. MORGANTHALL was 
reared in Waynesboro, and attended the free 
school until he was fourteen years of age. 
On Oct. 16, 1862, he enlisted, becoming a 
private in Company E, 158th Pennsylvania 
Regiment, which company was formetl at 
Chambersburg. He served nearly ten 
months, ha\ing volunteered for nine months" 
service, and was one of the gallant boys 
who helped to drive General Lee out of 
Pennsylvania. On Aug. 12, 1863, he was 
honorably discharged. l)\it his work for the 
Union was not yet finished, for he later 
raised si.xty-eight men for Company G, 17th 



Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was 
again mustered in, Sept. 3, 1864, and dis- 
charged the second time June 16, 1865. Had 
he made application, and tendered the serv- 
ices of the men he had raised, he would have 
been appointed by the governor captain of 
a company to be formed. Mr. Morganthall 
served with Sheridan in his raid, and was 
with him at the time of the famous ride, 
Oct. 19, 1864, from Winchester, Va., to the 
front. He was a prisoner of war with Lee 
when he surrendered at Appomattox, Va., 
April 9, 1865. His brother Emory F., also 
in Company G, was captured by Mosby near 
Alt. Jackson, Va., and was confined in Sal- 
isbury (N. C.) prison, where he was stars^ed 
to death. Upon the day he was captured, 
Oct. I St, the boy was only eighteen, and he 
lived in misery vmtil Jan. 13, 1865. Lewis 
H., another brother, served in Company B. 
1st Maryland Cavalry, until the close of the 
war, after which he returned home; he died 
in 1887. 

After returning from the war A. D.. 
Morganthall worked as a painter for some 
time in Chambersburg, but in January, 1866, 
he entered upon a commercial course in a 
business college in Iron City, Pa., from 
which he was graduated May ist of the 
same year. The day thereafter he was 
stricken down with typhoid fever. Recover- 
ing from his illness, he resumed painting 
with his father in Waynesboro, and in the 
fall of 1867 took a position with the Geiser 
Mfg. Co., for thirteen years being book- 
keeper for the company. After this he trav- 
eled as salesman for a year, following which 
he was made assistant secretary for a year. 
His abilities by this time were so univers- 
ally recognized and appreciated that he was- 
made secretary ami continued in that office 
for thirteen years. However, at that time 
he again went upon the road, and is now 
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president of the company, to which office he 
was elected in 1899, a year after he resumed 
the duties of salesman. He is now located 
in St. Louis as general manager of the com- 
pany's branch house in that city, and has 
been a director of the company since 1870, 
with the exception of 1896. He is very 
well and favorably known in Waynesboro 
and Franklin county. 

Mr. Morganthall has also been promin- 
ent in public affairs. He was elected bur- 
gess of Waynesboro in 1872 for one year, 
and was appointed jxistmaster of Waynes- 
boro May 6, 1894, filling that office for a 
full term of four years. Fraternally he is 
a member of the I. O. O. F., G. A. R. (Wal- 
ker Post, No. 187), Improved Order of 
Redmen, Knights of Malta, Royal Arcanum, 
Mystic Circle, Independent Order of Hepta- 
sophs and Shield of Honor. 

On Feb. 7, 1871, A. D. Morganthall 
was married to Miss M. L. Boggs, of Con- 
cord, Franklin Co., Pa., and seven children 
have come to this marriage, all very bright 
young people, born and reared in Waynes- 
boro : 

1. Harvey S. 

2. Charles E. 

3. NORAH E. 

4. Clar.\ B. 

5. Lulu M. 

6. Alvin A. 

7. Paul C. 

....... ^ 

WILLIAM TELL OMWAKE, a lead- 
ing lawyer of Franklin county and connected 
in some capacity with most of the important 
business interests of Waynesboro, is one of 
the prominent and influential citizens of that 
place. Mr. Omwake was born in Antrim 
township, Franklin Co., Pa., second son of 
Henry and Eveline (Beaver) Omwake, both 
natives of Franklin county. The original 
name in German was "Amweg," by which 



some members of the family in Lancastef 
are still known. Lenhardt Amweg emi^ 
grated from the Palatinate in 1729. 

{I) JACOB OMWAKE, a descendant 
of Lenhardt, was born in Berks county, Pa./ 
and was the first of the name to locate in 
Franklin county. He settled near Salem 
Church, in Washington township, and in 
1808 moved to a tract of land which he 
bought from Samuel Sell. He died Nov. 
17, 1814, at the age of forty-one years. He 
married Catharine Hassler, and they had 
six children, two sons [one of whom was 
John (H)], and four daughters. His widow 
married Daniel Mowen. 

(II) JOHN OMWAKE, son of Jacob, 
was also a native of Berks county, being 
eight years old when the family came to 
Franklin county. He married Elizabeth 
Ledy, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth 
(Miller) Ledy. From his marriage in 1821, 
to his death in 1865, he resided at the old 
homestead, and there his widow lived to an 
extreme old age. Their children were as 
follows : 

1. Catharine, wife of Wesley Koons. 

2. Samuel, who married Elizabeth 
Keckler. 

3. John, who married, and is living in 
Ohio. 

4. Jeremiah, who was man-ied in 
Ohio to Ann Sheets. 

5. Henry (III). 

6. Susan, wife of Christian Lesher. 

7. Elizabeth, wife of William S. 
Koons. 

8. Mary Ann, who died unmarried. 

9. Rebecca, who died unmarried. 

(III) HENRY OMWAKE was born 
Dec. 6, 1830, on the old homestead near Sa- 
lem Church. He was reared on the farm 
and attended the public schools, but prepared 
himself for teaching, mainly b)- his own 
efforts at home. At the age of nineteen 



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years he began teaching in tlie Salem dis- 
trict, and followed that profession dnring 
the winters for sixteen years, removing in 
the meantime, in 1854. to Antrim township. 
In 1867 he bought the Peter W'itmer home- 
stead near Greencastle. where he resided un- 
til the fall of 1898. and lias since then lived 
retired in Greencastle. In 1881 he was 
elected county commissioner, and ser\-ed as 
such three years. On March 14, 1854, he 
married E\'eline Bea\er, daughter of John 
Beaver, and they have the following chil- 
dren : 

1. John, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is presi- 
dent of the United States Plaving Card 
Company, the United States Printing Com- 
pany, and the Rusnell Morgan Lithograph- 
ing Company, of that city, and is also a di- 
rector in several financial institutions. 

2. W'li.i.i.AM Tell (IV). 

3. M.\RV K. is unmarried, and lives 
with her parents in Greencastle, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

4. Augustus B., of Washington, D. 
C, is a member of the real estate firm of 
Tait, Omwake & Co. 

5. James E.. resides at Greencastle, and 
is engaged in the grain and coal business. 

6. Jeremi.-xh S., a graduate of Ship- 
pensburg Normal School and the Dickinson 
Law School, is practicing law at Shippens- 
burg. 

7. Cn.\LMERS P. is engaged in the 
grain and coal business at Greencastle. 

8. George L., a graduate of Ursinus 
College and Yale Divinity School, is now 
<lean of Ursinus College at Collegeville. 

9. How.VRD R., a graduate of Prince- 
ton University, spent three years after his 
graduation in teaching in the Protestant 
College at Beirut, Syria, and is now pro- 
fessor of Latin at Mercersburg Academy. 

(IV) WILLIAM T. OMWAKE was 
horn in .\ntrim township, Franklin county. 



Pa., May 2t,, 1856, and was reared on the 
farm. He attended the common schools and 
also a private school in Greencastle, and then 
entered Ursinus College, Montgomery Co., 
Pa. .\fter leaving college he followed 
teaching for a few years, and then read law 
in the office of ex-Judge F. M. Kinimell, of 
Chanibersburg. He was adniitteil to the 
Bar in December, 1881, and the following 
year began practicing in Waynesboro. He 
was admitted to practice in the Siapreme 
Courts in 1886, and is a member of the State 
Bar Association. 

Politically Mr. Omwake is a Democrat, 
and is prominent and popular not only- in 
his own party, but with those of other po- 
litical tenets. .Vside from his profession, in 
which he ranks among the first lawyers in 
the county, IMr. Omwake is prominent in 
business circles, being identified w ith most of 
the leading industrial institutions in Waynes- 
boro. He is vice-president and a direc- 
tor of the People's National Bank ; president 
of the Waynesboro Water Co. ; a director 
in the Chanibersburg Lumber Company; 
Landis Tool Company, and Landis Machine 
Company; and is president of the board of 
managers of the Green Hill Cemeter)- ^\sso- 
ciation. He is a member of the Reformed 
Church, and of the Masonic and Elk fra- 
ternities. 

Mr. Omwake was married to Mary L. 
Snively, daughter of Benjamin and Ma- 
tilda (Mitchell) Snively, deceased, of An- 
trim township, and this union was blessed 
w ith one child : 

I. M.\TiLD.\ Mitchell. 

LUDWIG FAMILY. GEORGE LUD- 
WIG. the ancestor of the Ludwig family of 
Chanibersburg, was born in Lichtenburg 
Castle. Hesse-Darmstadt. Germany, and 
served for thirteen years under Napoleon ; 
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turned in safety, but two of his brothers 
perished in that chsastrous campaign. After 
his return to civil life he was court warden 
under the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. 
He was hurt in athletic exercise and died in 
consequence. He had among other chiklren 
two sons who emigrated to the United 
States : 

1. George (II). 

2. Philip (born in 1812 — died Oct. 16, 
1879) settled at Chambersburg. 

(II) GEORGE LUDWIG (bom in 
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Jan. 10, 181 1 
— died at Chambersburg, March 6, 1887) 
came to America when only twenty years 
old to escape military service. He landed 
at Baltimore, and then went to New Jersey, 
where he found employment in a brewery 
at Jersey City. He came to the Cumberland 
Valley when the work of constructing the 
Cumberland Valley railroad was beginning 
and helped to build the first three miles of 
the road. In 1836 he found employment in 
the old Washabaugh brewery, in King street, 
Chambersburg, and as he was a skillful 
brewer and maltster he was soon made fore- 
man of the old establishment. After work- 
ing for three years in Washabaugh's brew- 
ery he started in business on his own ac- 
count, renting the Hershberger property in 
South Main streets, above Queen. As Mr. 
Ludwig was a chemist, as well as a brewer 
and maltster, he succeeded in producing high- 
grade ales, and his enterprise proved suc- 
cessful from the outset. After a few years 
■of prosperity he purchased the property at 
the alley on the west side of the street and 
erected a brewery there, in which he was 
very prosperous. In time he became the 
owner of the old Washabaugh breweries as 
well, and amassed a large fortune for that 
time. He suffered in the burning of Cham- 
bersburg by the Confederates in 1864, his 
loss on the buildings destroyed being esti- 



mated at $19,000, of which the brewery in 
Queen street, adjacent to the nld Lemnos 
Edge Tool Works, was valued at $8,000. 
He was a member of the firm of Huber & 
Co., which owned and conducted the Lemnos 
Works, and he was one of the organizers 
and a member of the Chambersburg Woolen 
Company, his original investment being 
$10,000. He was a public-spirited citizen 
and one of the leading men of the borough. 
During the Civil was he was a war Demo- 
crat. He was a member of George Wash- 
ington Lodge, No. 143, F. & A. M., and 
of the Second Lutheran Church, Cham- 
bersburg, of which he was one of the 
founders. 

Mr. Ludwig married, in 1834, Mary 
Shane (born at Rohrbach, a village in the 
Palatinate, Feb. 2. 181 3 — died Dec. 6, 
1882). who came; to America in 1832, with 
her mother, Mrs. Christian Shane (born 
Oct. 14, 1779 — died at Chambersburg. July 
17, 1 831). The Shanes were of French ex- 
traction. George and Mary Ludwig had 
issue : 

I. John S. (born in 1835 — died June 
3, 1864) was a tinsmith; he married Sophia 
Fennel, daughter of Frederick and Catha- 
rine (Ripper) Fennel. They had issue: 
George Washington (born April 29, 1856 — 
died June 24, 1902), a physician, who mar- 
ried Anna Brengle, and had Mildred (de- 
ceased). Carlton (deceased), and Ethel B. ; 
Catharine (born July 2, 1858 — deceased) ;• 
Stephen Arnold Douglas (bom April 3, 
i860 — deceased) ; William H. (born Feb. 
10, 1862), a jeweler and member of the 
Chambersburg town council, who married 
July 19, 1883, Elizabeth Dessem (born April 
6, 1864), daughter of Adam and Annie C. 
( Falter) Dessem, and has issue Walter B. 
(l)orn Aug. 2. 1884) and G. Russell (born 
Feb. 22, 1887) ; and Andrew Jackson (born 
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2. Martin (born Aug. i8, 1836 — died 
Feb. 29, 1876) married Louisa Lenher, 
daughter of George Lenher, and had issue: 
Emma L. (burn in October, 1858). whu 
married to Barclay Earhart; and Henry 
Stoner (born Aug. 14, 1867). 

3. Mary (born Aug. 27, 1838) mar- 
ried John Fisher, son of Adam and Rebecca 
(Wallace) Fisher, and had issue: Harry, 
deceased; Emma, deceased, who married 
Horace Bender; Mary R., married to Mr. 
Bloom, living in West Virginia ; and Nellie, 
deceased. 

4. George, born June 6, 1841. died 
Jan. 5, 1875. 

5. Samuel, born May 3, 1843, ^^^^ "^ 
infancy. 

6. Margaret died in infancy. 

7. Henry (born Feb. 19, 1845) "i'"'" 
ried Oct. 8, 1871, Mrs. Sophia (Scheuer- 
man) Hug, daughter of George Martin and 
Margaretta (Rosenbar) Scheuerman, antl 
widow of Casper Hug. They had issue : 
Emma Minnie, btjm July 20, 1872, who died 
Jan. 3, 1895; Franklin Edward, born July 
27. 1875; and Gtorge Henry, born Dec. 6. 
1S77, who died Feb. 18. 1897. 

8. Charles married Emma Wagner. 
They had issue : Charles Wallace, Charlotte 
M,, George Bitner. Frederick W. (married 
Matilda Bingham and their children are Wal- 
lace and Catharine), Bert, and Mary (who 
mirried Rush Stepler). 

9. Jacob D. (III). 

10. Casimer B. (born Feb. 21, 1851), 
a Presbyterian minister at Indianapolis, 
Ind., married Dec. 23, 1873, Margaret L. 
Keller, daughter of George Keller, of Gar- 
rett county, Maryland. 

11. Christina Anna (born Sept. 10, 
1853 — died April 10. 1883) married in 
November, 1875, Homer Shirey (born Nov. 
23, 1853), proprietor of the "Indian Queen 
Hotel," and had issue : Orville Ludwig 



(born Dec. 25, 1876). a druggist of Cum- 
berland, Maryland. 

12. Edward, born in August, 1855, 
died in August, 1895. 

13. Emma Elizabeth, born Oct. 25, 
1857, is living in Philadelphia. 

14. Anna Amelia, born April 8, 1861, 
died Feb. 29, 1862. 

(Ill) JACOB D. LUDWIG (born 
Feb. 19, 1849), son of George and Mary 
(Shane) Ludwig, was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Chambersburg, and after being 
graduated at the high school pursued an 
academic course in mathematics and the clas- 
sics under Re\'. Dr. James F. Kennedy, at 
the Chambersburg Academy. His studies 
were often interrupted by the turbulent and 
exciting scenes incident to the Civil war, 
and the destruction of the academy by the 
Confederates in 1864. He subsequently en- 
tered Eastman's National Commercial Col- 
lege, at Poughkeepsie, from which he was 
graduated in 1871. He also took a private 
course in the English classics and elocution. 
He then entered into an engagement with 
the American Literary Bureau, Cooper In- 
stitute, New York, and for a brief period 
devoted himself to the lecture platform as an 
elocutionist with marked success. Fearing 
that his choice of a vocation would lead to 
his adoption of the stage as a profession, his 
father opposed the calling to which his tastes 
led him, and he was induced to return to 
Chambersburg, where he began the study of 
law under Hon. J. McDowell Sharpe. Be- 
fore completing his studies he entered the 
law office of his kinsman, Hon. William 
Walsh, at Cumberland, Md., and was ad- 
mitted to the Allegany (Md.) Bar April 19, 
1873. He remained with Mr. Walsh until 
the following December, and then, in con- 
sequence of the broken health of his father, 
he was prevailed upon to return to his native 
town. He was admitted to the Franklin 




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County Bar Jan. 19, 1874, and has since 
practiced his profession at Chambersburg. 
As a lawyer he soon gained higli repute for 
his knowledge of the law and fidelity to his 
clients. He has represented many diversi- 
fied interests in the courts, and proved him- 
self a leader at a Bar noted for its able coun- 
selors and eloquent advocates. He has 
lilled manv public positions in the line of his 
profession, being attorney for the county 
commissioners, 1879-81 ; attorney for Sher- 
iff Gerbig, 1 890-93 ; and attorney for the 
borough of Chambersburg. 1876-77, and 
again in 1889-93. While he was attorney 
fur the borough the second time he gained 
marked distinction by securing from the 
Legislature of Pennsylvania authority for 
boroughs and incorporated towns to engage 
in the manufacture of electricity for com- 
mercial purposes as well as for street light- 
ing. This was pioneer legislation. At the 
request of the town council he drafted a bill 
to be submitted to the State Legislature at 
the session of 1891, the object of which was 
to give the inhabitants of the boroughs in 
this Commonwealth tlie right to manufac- 
ture and supply electricity as the 1)oroughs 
then had the right to supply water and man- 
ufacture and supply gas. This bill met 
wilh determined (opposition from some of the 
leading citizens and taxpayers of Chambers- 
burg, who opposed it in both branches of the 
Legislature and before the Governor after 
its passage, and subsequently contested its 
constitutionality in the county court of Com- 
mon Pleas, sitting in equity, and before the 
Supreme court of Pennsylvania. It was 
contended on behalf of the plaintiffs that the 
act was unconstitutional, the manufacture 
of electricity for commercial purposes liy a 
municipality and its sale to the citizens of 
the municipality for lighting their homes 
and places of business not being a public 
service, use or business, but a private busi- 



ness enterprise. This point was argued at 
great length and with much zeal by opposing, 
counsel, but Mr. Ludwig won in every stage 
of the case in the examiner's report, in the 
ruling of Judge Stewart, and in the opinion 
of the Supreme court. Thus he gained a 
great triumph, establishing the legality of a 
proposition the fundamental idea of which 
was that the manufacture and sale of elec- 
tricity by a municipality is a public conveni- 
ence and comfort, and a public business af- 
fecting the community as a whole. He 
argued this constitutional question with great 
ability and learning, and is entitled to the 
credit of securing authority for and estab- 
lishing the legality of the manufacture of 
electricity by the boroughs in Pennsylvania 
for the use of the people in their homes and 
places of business. Apart from this distin- 
guished service in behalf of the municipality, 
Mr. Ludwig's advice as an attorney for the 
county commissioners had excellent results 
in the financial affairs of the county. 
Through his exertions a large sum of money 
was refunded to the taxpayers of the county 
that had been collected as State tax after 
the repeal of the Act authorizing its collec- 
tion. As a real-estate lawyer there has never 
been his superior in the comity. He was a 
charter member and director and the attor- 
ney for the People's Building & Loan Asso- 
ciation, and the Franklin Building & Loan 
Association, and the Mechanics' Building & 
Loan Association of Chambersburg, char- 
tered in 1890, with a capital stock of 
$1,000,000, under a perpetual charter 
granted under the laws of Pennsylvania. 
He made a specialty of the work undertaken 
by these associations and is the author of 
two pamphlets, one detailing the system 
under the old method, and the other under 
the new method. In 1895 he visited the city 
of Dayton, Ohio, to study tlie new system 
known as the Dayton plan, and upon his'. 



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return called a pulilic meeting in the court- 
house in Chaml)ersburg and organized the 
Mutual Loan & Savings Association of 
Chambersburg, Pa., under the Dayton plan, 
wliich has been in successful operation ever 
since. Air. Liidwig is solicitor and attorney 
for the Mechanics Building & Loan, and 
general manager and attorney of the Mutual 
Loan & Savings Association of Chambers- 
burg. Pa. These associations have been 
conducted with marked success and are 
among the most prosperous and progressive 
in the State, and aided largely in the exten- 
sion of the limits of the borough and the 
growth and improvement of the town. For 
many years Mr. Ludwig was active in the 
politics of the county. He has frequently 
been a delegate to Democratic State conven- 
tions since 1878, and for twenty years he 
was a member or officer of the Democratic 
County Committee, of which he served as 
chairman for a number of years. In 1889 he 
was the Democratic candidate for the State 
Senate, and during President Cleveland's 
second term all questions of appointments 
to office in Franklin county were referred 
to him by the administration. Although he 
was beaten for the State Senate a proof of 
his personal and political popularity is found 
in the fact that he received 850 votes in ex- 
cess of the vote received by Mr. Cleveland 
in the district. In addition to his gifts as 
an orator and advocate, Mr. Ludwig is a 
fluent writer. He became one of the pur- 
chasers of the Herald, the first daily news- 
paper published in Chambersburg, and was 
its political editor. The name of the weekly 
edition of this paper while he was in editorial 
control was changed to franklin County 
Democrat. Had he chosen to be an editor 
instead of a lawyer he would have attained 
as enviable a position as he has achieved at 
the r>ar. He is a sound lawxer. a wise coun- 



selor, an urbane gentleman and a publii;r 
spirited citizen. 

Mr. Ludwig married, Feb. 10, 1879, 
Lucy Belle Britton Zollinger, daughter 
of George Kurtz and Mary Jane (Britton) 
Zollinger, of Upper Strasburg; they had one 
son : 

I. George Mavxard, born July 8, 
1880, died May 3, 1881. 

ZOLLINGER FAMILY. From tradi- 
tions and information verbally transmitted 
from generation to generation it is quite 
well established that the Zollingers are of 
German extraction, coming originally from 
Wittenberg, or W'urtemberg, Germany. By 
some it is maintained that they had their ori- 
gin in Zurich, Switzerland. But one member 
of the family who has made diligent research 
Ijelieves they may have been found down 
there on account of the wars, like so many 
others, and that it was not their home. There 
was a Christian Zollinger who catne from 
Wiesbaden, Germany, on the Rhine, in 
i8ti. Alavence, or Mainz, an old fortified 
town on the Rhine, is only three or four 
miles from this place, and it was while visit- 
ing here in company with a lot of young com- 
])anions that Lafayette first heard of the 
struggle of .Americans for independence, 
while dining with the Duke of York, brother 
to the King of England. The Duke made 
his brags that England would soon crush 
America. Lafayette armed a vessel and in 
less than forty days was fighting on the 
Brandywine. There is a large hill or moun- 
tain in the Hartz mountains called Sollin- 
ger. north or northeast of Wiesbaden. 

Nil connection can be learned 1)etween 
the ancestor of the Zollingers under present 
consideration and the one who came with 
LaFayette and who is said to have fought 
with him with a thousand of his soldiers. 



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The family of whom we write is supposed 
to have descended from tliree brothers who 
came to tliis country in 1754. Their fatlier 
wanted to get them away from the wars and 
troublesome times of Europe, giving them 
money and sending them to this country. 
It is said they first located in Philadelphia, 
and after the Revolution John Nicholas Zol- 
linger bought land and settled near Harris- 
burg, Pa. It is said he also came over in 
the same vessel with LaFayette and fought 
under him. He married Barbara Miller, of 
Lancaster, Pa. The other two brothers 
moved west. One of them, Peter Zollinger, 
located in Adams county. Pa. The third 
brother was a Tory and owned rope walks 
in Philadelphia, and during the Revolution- 
ary war entertainetl and drove out with 
British officers. Nothing is known of him 
or his descendants. The second brother, 
Peter, who located at Fairfield, Adams Co., 
Pa., afterward removed to Sabillasville, 
Frederick Co., Md., which was named for 
his family, and he was buried there with mil- 
itary honors. 

He had a daughter. Mary, who became 
Mrs. Herbert, and another daughter, Eliza- 
beth, who became Mrs. Craijbe, and who 
was the grandmother of Mrs. Virginia ^Til- 
ler, who was born at Fairfield or Millers- 
Inirg, near Gettysburg, and is now a resi- 
dent of Charlestown, W. Va. She has a 
Bible which was printed at Erfvu't, Germany, 
in 1732, and the name written in German on 
the tly-leaf. In the Bible is the marriage of 
Peter Zollinger to Barbara McC. Olden, 
Dec. II, 1730. She also has a blue Delft 
cup and saucer brought from Germany (al- 
though a relative says Switzerland), and a 
silver teaspoon with "P. an .\." Peter 
Peter Zollinger's daughter, Mrs. Mary 
FIerl.)ert, told her that the Zollingers 
abroad were immensely wealthy : that 
thev owned immense cutlerv works, that 



those that had seen Baron Zollinger said he 
w-ore buttons with pea fowls on ; that Baro- 
ness Zollinger dressed so elegantly that on 
one occasion the Empress requested her not 
to wear a certain dress as it was much hand- 
somer than her own ; and that the Emperor 
dined with him. The tradition is that the 
Zollingers were descendants from the nobil- 
ity and this account of the representatives 
in Germany seems to substantiate the claim. 
There are immense cutlery works at Solin- 
gen, Germany, supplying all Europe with 
arms, and it is believed by some that the 
Zollingers came from that place. This 
brings us back to Peter Zollinger. He may 
have lived in Adams county, Pa., previous 
to the Revolution and then gone back to in- 
duce others to come, and also to secure arms, 
returning in the \'essel with LaFayette. 

There is a wonderful resemblance be- 
tween all the Zollingers, especially noticeable 
as it has been found to be very strong in 
widely separated branches of the family. It 
is said that a vast fortune awaits the heirs 
of a Catherine Zollinger in Germany, but 
the claims have never been established. An- 
other tradition common to all branches of 
the family is that one member went west to 
Ohio and settled, and this is strengthened 
by the belief that John Nicholas Zollinger 
had a nephew, Jacob, who went to Piqua, 
Ohio. However, other members of the fam- 
ily believe that the Piqua Zollingers are a 
branch of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) family, 
and their version is that the Zollinger who 
moved to Ohio and was never heard from 
again was a brother to Andrew Zollinger, 
grandfather of Mrs. Florence Zollinger 
Hopwood, of Vinton, Iowa, who has made 
considerable research into the family his- 
tory. It is said his name was Joe or Adam. 
Andrew Zollinger took his family and started 
from Pennsylvania and drove to Ohio to 
find him, and was told he had gone to Ken- 



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tucky or Tennessee. He lived a while at 
Perrysville. Clark county, then Richmond, 
Wayne Co., Ind., and in a year drove back 
and settled in Frederick county. Md., after- 
ward moving to Pennsylvania, and then to 
Illinois, where he died, and is buried at Polo, 
Ogle county. Jeremiah Zollinger, one of 
the sons of Andrew, was a captain in the 
war of the Rel)ellion. His daughter, 
Gulielma Zollinger, is quite a writer: her 
late books are "Dan Drummond" and "Mrs. 

' O'Callaghan's Boys." 

Mrs. Mary Herbert, daughter of Peter, 
also had a brother disappear, but from Ohio. 
He went to Tennessee and married a Sevier, 
of the family after which Sevier county. 
Tenn., is named. John Sevier was the first 

•governor of Tennessee. Samuel Zollinger, 
of Spring Hill, Kans. (evidently a grandson 
of Peter), says when he was a boy he re- 
members (while living in Ohio) his father 
receiving a letter from his brother or half 
brother, wanting them to come to Tennessee, 
it was such a good country. 

Of the Zollingers in and around Frank- 
lin county. Pa., all within a radius of one 
hundred miles are known to be related. The 
Mrs. Virginia Miller previously mentioned 
believes the Zollingers lived in New Jersey 
or Delaware before coming to Franklin 
county. This seems to be substantiated by 
an incident related by one of the family. 
Josiah Zollinger (son of Andrew) and his 
wife were visiting in Pennsylvania, and 

• somewhere at a railway center he acci- 
dentally became engaged in conversation 
with a German official who said he was 
looking for Zollinger heirs to a fortune of 
seventy-five or eighty millions of dollars. 
Just then there were a lot of trains coming 
and going, and his attention was distracted, 
and when he looked around the official was 
gone. He also said that the land where Wil- 
mington, Del., now stands was leased for 



ninety-nine years, and belonged to the Zol- 
lingers, to whom it had been given as pay for 
sen-ices rendered in the American wars. 
Josiah Zollinger knew that his grandfather 
married in this country after the war was 
over, (lied and left four children ; that his 
father was only eight or twelve years old at 
the time and was raised by Stephen Puter- 
bach, of Welsh Run. Franklin Co.. Pa.; that 
he would have inherited vast wealth from his 
father's estate in Germany, as a large city 
had grown up on this land, but that he would 
prefer to be without wealth than to deprive 
people of their homes and cause so much 
trouble. Mr. Puterbach tried to urge the 
heirs to action in the matter of the vast 
estate, but they neglected to do anything 
immediately, and he died within two weeks, 
aged about eighty years. 

We find Judge J. Zollinger in Boones- 
ville. Mo., who is a son of George Zollinger 
and grandson of Peter Zollinger, who fought 
under Washington. 

GEORGE KURTZ ZOLLINGER, 
father of Mrs. Jacob D. Ludwig. was born 
in Upper Strasburg, Franklin Co.. Pa., July 
II, 1828, and was the seventh son of 
I-"rederick and Margaretta Zollinger. Fred- 
erick Zollinger (son of John Nicholas) was 
born in Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 15, 1789, and 
died Aug. 20, 1863. His wife Margaretta 
Magdalene Shay, born April 3, 1793, died 
March 19, 1858. Nine children were born 
to them, all residents of Upper Strasburg: 

1. Nicholas, of Harrisburg. Pennsyl- 
vania. 

2. John, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

3. D.wiD, of Waynesboro, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

4. Elias, of Pleasant Hall, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

5. Jeremiah. 

6. Frederick. 

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8. Margaret, wife of P. M. Shoe- 
maker. 

9. One son died in infancy. 

George Kurtz Zollinger was married 
Jan. I, 1852, to Alary Jane Britton, eldest 
daughter of William and Catharine (Over) 
Britton, of U^pper Strasburg, Pa., born Dec. 
13. 1827. Three children were born to 
them : 

1. William Warren Zollinger, of 
Cullom, Illinois. 

2. Lucy Belle Britton Zollinger, 
wife of J. D. Ludwig, Esq., of Chambers- 
burg, Pennsylvania. 

3. Mrs. Margaret Littitia Bol- 
linger, of Green Village, Pennsylvania. 

There are three grandchildren living: 
George W. Zollinger and Warren Lee Zol- 
linger, of Cullom, 111., and George Jacob 
Russell Bollinger, of Chambersburg, Pa. 
Mrs. Mary Jane (Britton) Zollinger entered 
into rest Dec. 7, 1904. She united with the 
Reformed Church at Upper Strasburg by the 
rite of confirmation on May i, 1847, ^'^fl \^"^s 
a member of that church until her death. 
After retiring from farming, about thirteen 
3'ears ago, she, with her husband, moved to 
Green Village. Mrs. Zollinger was a woman 
of very loving and cheerful disposition, kind 
to the poor, charitable and unselfish to a re- 
markable degree, a woman of strong mental 
power and with a heart overflowing with the 
milk of human kindness. She was loved 
and esteemed by all her friends and neigh- 
bors and was the incarnation of affection to 
her aged husband and children. 

WILLIAM BRITTON, the father of 
Mrs. George K. Zollinger, was born in Ire- 
land, in the parish of Rossenvor, County 
Leitrim, and townland of Parke, on June 3, 
1795; he died Sunday morning, Feb. 18, 
1877, in the eighty-second year of his age. 
Finding existing conditions in Ireland op- 



pressive, Mr. Britton, accompanied by his 
aged mother, a brother and three sisters, and 
their families, came to America in 1818, 
landing at St. John, New Brunswick, after 
a stormy voyage of eleven weeks. Yellow 
fever had broken out among the passengers, 
and the vessel was obliged to lie in quaran- 
tine. Among the victims were Mr. Britton's 
brother, a brother-in-law and a nephew. 
The Brittons were originally Welsh, and 
were a seafaring people. Some of them 
emigrated from Wales to Ireland and fought 
under King William III at the battle of the 
Boyne. In Ireland they were related by 
blood or marriage with the Hewits, War- 
rens, Creightons and Crawfords, and by the 
marriage of Sir Peter Warren with Susan, 
a daughter of Stephen De Lancy, with the 
De Lancys of New York. Sir Peter Warren 
was the distinguished British naval officer 
who assistcfl in the capture of Louisburg in 
1745. His brother. Oliver Warren, was also 
a captain in the Royal Navy, and his sister, 
Anne, married Christopher Johnson, by 
whom she had three sons. John, Warren and 
William. William Johnson was the cele- 
brated Sir William Johnson, baronet, agent 
and superintendent of the Six Nations and 
other Northern Indians during the French 
and Indian war, 1755-64. He received his 
baronetcy for his victory over Baron Dieskau 
at Lake George, in September, 1755, as com- 
mander-in-chief of the New York Provincial 
forces in the expedition against Crown Point. 
For his services he received from the king 
a grant of one hundred thousand acres of 
land north of the Mohawk, on which he 
built Johnson Hall in 1764. Sir William 
lived in the style of an English baron, exer- 
cising the most unbounded hospitalitv. He 
died July ii, 1774, in consequence of dver 
exertion in addressing an Indian council on 
a very warm day. 

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William Brittcni. the emigrant, married his 
cousin, a daughter of Thomas Hewitt, and 
their son, James Britton. married Letitia 
Hewitt, a daughter of William Hewitt. The 
children of James and Letitia (Hewitt) 
Britton, besides William, were : Edward, 
who was an adjutant in the British army, 
and served in India : John, who came o\er 
on the same vessel with liis brother William 
and died at St. John, New Brunswick ; 
James, who died in Ireland; a daughter who 
married James Peacock, and with her fam- 
ily and two sisters, Letitia and Abigail Brit- 
ton, settled at St. John, X. B. After buying 
a lot and building a house for the family. 
William Britton came to Baltimore, on his 
way to Pennsylvania, in search of some re- 
lations who had settled in Northumberland 
county. In Baltimore he met John F'lick- 
inger, a wagoner from Path Valley, whom 
he engaged to carry bis chest to the Flick- 
inger home, while he made his way on foot 
to Northumberland county, only to find that 
his relations, of the Hewitts, bad removed to 
Lake county, Ohio. This led him to settle 
in Path Valley, where be learned the trade 
of a tanner with James Walker, the father 
of the late Cajjt. Jnhn II. Walker, of Fan- 
nettsburg. After completing bis apprentice- 
ship he worked at his trade with the Gil- 
mores at L'pper Strasbtu'g until iSjf'i, and 
then went iiUci business for himself. He 
was a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, but after his second marriage he 
ga\e support to the (jcrman Reformed 
Cluu-cb at Upper Strasburg. He was a 
typical son of Erin, quick and impulsi\e, 
ever ready to resent an insult, but generous 
and forgiving. He always cherished his 
native land, and was proud of bis Irish race 
and the beauties of Ireland. He was noted 
for his taste for poetry and was well versed 
in Irish folklore. Mr. Britton married 
(first), in 1826, Catharine Over, daughter 



of David and Barbara (Zollinger) Over, 
and after her death be married (second), in 
18J51, Maria Widner, who died in 1870. 

LINN FAMILY. JOHN LINN, the 
ancestor of the Linn family of Perry county, 
whose descendants include the Linns of 
Cbambersburg. Williamsport and Philadel- 
phia, Pa., and Springfield, Ohio, was one of 
the pioneers of the Marsh Creek settlement 
in what is now Adams county, where he 
settled in April. 1740; he was one of the 
squatters on the famous Manor of Masque. 
He was a member of the Low^er Marsh 
Creek Presbyterian Church. It is probable 
that Robert Linn, who died in 1772. and 
was buried in the Lower Marsh Creek Pres- 
byterian graveyard was bis son. The only 
one of his children of whom we have any 
knowledge was his son, John (H). 

(II) JOHX LIXN (born in Adams 
county, in 1749 — died in Sherman's Valley, 
Perry county. Aug. 30. 1820), son of the 
pioneer, was prepared for college at the 
school of the Rew Robert Smith, of Pequea, 
and was graduated at Princeton in 1773. He 
studied theology under the Rev. Dr. Robert 
Cooper, of Middle Spring, and was licensed 
by the Presbytery of Donegal, Dec. 4. 1776. 
Soon afterward he was called to the congre- 
gations of Sherman's \'alley — L'pper, Center 
and Limestone Ridge — and was ordained and 
installed, June 17, 1778. He served these 
congregations continuously until his death. 
As a man he was of large and muscular 
frame, strong constitution and great physical 
endurance. He possessed more than ordi- 
nary intellectual endowments, was a 
good preacher, and faithful in the 
discharge of his ministerial duties. It 
was his custom to write out his dis- 
courses, but he preached without the use 
of bis manuscript. As his salary was in- 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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was under the necessity of giving his per- 
sonal attention to the management of his 
farm, and at times he assisted in the farm 
work. ^Ir. Linn married Mary Gettys, 
daughter of James and Mary Gettys, of 
Adams county. Mrs. Linn's father was a 
man of great force of character, and un- 
usual business activity and energy. He was 
a son of Samuel Gettys, one of the pioneers 
of the Marsh Creek settlement, who died 
March 15, 1809. He owned a farm where 
Gettysburg- now stands, and built the first 
house in the town that bears his name, which 
lie kept as a tavern for many years. Mr. 
Gettys built his hotel and residence as early 
as 1783, and it is possible that the plans for 
laying out the town were made as early as 
1780. This was in anticipation of the pro- 
jected town becoming the county seat of the 
new county, then in contemplation. As was 
customary at that time the lots were dis- 
posed of by lottery. The original numbers 
are retained to this day, but the Gettys name 
has disappeared from the town that James 
Gettys founded. Mary Gettys went as a 
bride to Sherman's Valley. John and Mary 
(Gettys) Linn had issue: 

1. John. 

2. Samuel. 

3. James (HI). 

4. William. 

5. Anna married John Diven. 

6. Mary married Samuel Anderson. 

7. Andrew (IV). 

(Ill) JAMES LINN (born in Sher- 
man's Valley, Sept. 4, 1783 — died at Belle- 
fonte, Feb. 23, 1868), son of Rev. John and 
Mary (Gettys) Linn, was graduated at 
Dickinson College in 1805. He studied 
theology with the Rev. Joshua Williams at 
Newville, and was licensed by the Presbytery 
of Carlisle, Sept. 27, 1808. In 1809, he 
visited the congregations of Spruce Creek 
and Sinking Valley, and soon afterward re- 
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ceived a call to Belle fonte and Lick Run, 
being ordained and installed, April 17, 1810, 
in the Courthouse at Bellefonte, then used 
as a place of worship. In 1839 he was re- 
leased from the Lick Run charge, the Belle- 
fonte Church securing his undivided labors. 
From 1 861 until his death he had the as- 
sistance of a co-pastor. Dr. Linn married 
(first), Feb. 28, 181 1, Jane Harris, who 
(lied Aug. 14, 1822, leaving issue: 

1. Claudius B., of Philadelphia. 

2. James Harris (bom 181 5 — -died 
April 5, 1876) was an ironmaster at Miles- 
burg. Centre county. His wife was a daugh- 
ter of R. T. Stewart, Esq., but they had 
no issue. 

3. Samuel died at Williamsport, Pa., 
Oct. 14, 1890. 

4. Ann (died March 25, 1847) "'i^'''' 
ried John Irvin, Jr. 

' 5. Jane married Mr. Welch. 

Dr. Linn married (second), April 15, 
1829, Isabella Henderson, and had issue one 
daughter : 

I. M. H. married William P. Wilson, 
Esq. 

(IV) ANDREW LINN (born in 
Sherman's Valley, in 1794 — died in i860), 
son of Rev. John and Mary (Gettys) Linn, 
was a farmer in Perry county. Mr. Linn 
married April i, 1819, Mary Ann McCord, 
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Blaine) Mc- 
Cord. Samuel McCord (born Oct. 16, 1770 
— died Sept. 20. 1825) was a son 
of William and Mary (McKinney) 
McCord. Mrs. Linn's mother, Mary 
(or Polly as she was generally called) 
Blaine (born Sept. 30, 1773 — died Jan. 4, 
1837), was a daughter of Capt. William 
Blaine, a brother of Colonel Ephraim 
Blaine, tlie great-grandfather of James 
Gillespie Blaine. Andrew and Mary Ann 
(]\IcCord) Linn had issue: 

I. John (V). 



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2. Samuel McCord (VI). 

3. William Blaine was a farmer; he 
married Mary Jane Turbett, and liad issue: 
Andrew Gettys, James Turljett, Mary Agnes, 
William, Fanny. John A. and Annie E. 

4. Anna Eliza married, in 1861, An- 
drew Loy (born in Sherman's Valley, April 
9, 1816), son of Nicholas and Mary (Kuhn) 
Loy. Mr. Loy was a farmer and was com- 
missioned a captain in the Pennsylvania 
militia in 1835. .\nna Eliza Linn was his 
second wife ; they had issue : Andrew Linn ; 
William Gettys; James Ramsey; Mary, 
who married James Wilson ; and Edwin. 

5. Jane Mary. ' 

(V) JOHN LINN (born in Perry 
county, Aug. 12, 1820 — died at Chambers- 
burg, Aug. 14, 1889), son of Andrew and 
Mary Ann (McCord) Linn, was a farmer 
in Perry county until i860, when he re- 
moved to Franklin county, and engaged in 
farming near Chambersburg. He was a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Linn married in June, 1845, Margaret A. 
McClure (born Oct. 31, 1823 — died Mar. 
31. 1889), daughter of .Alexander and Isa- 
bella (Anderson) McClure. She was a 
sister of Col. Alexander K. McClure, editor 
of the Franklin Repository and the Philadel- 
phia Times. The McClures were an old 
Cumberland Valley family, Robert McClure 
and Margaret Douglas his wife, being early 
settlers of West Pennsboro township, Cum- 
berland county. Their son William I\Ic- 
Clure, who married Nancy McKeehan. was 
the grandfather of IVIrs. Linn. She was 
prominent in church w-ork and one of the 
original members of the W. C. T. U. John 
and Margaret A. (McClure) Linn had 
issue : 

1. Alexander McClure (VII). 

2. Mary married Enos B. Engle : they 
had issue: Alexander S., living; and 
Harry, Margaret and Etta, deceased. 



3. William A., born Dec. 25, 1850, 
died Nov. 14, 1861. 

4. James McCord died in Texas, in 
1877. 

5. Samuel, born in 1857, died March 
I, 1870. 

6. Edwin lives in Texas. 

7. Belle Anderson, born June 17, 
1862, died July i, 1862. 

(VI) SAMUEL McCORD LINN, 
(born in Perry county, Nov. 18, 1822), son 
of Andrew and Mary Ann (McCord) Linn, 
was educated in the public schools, but at 
the age of fifteen became a clerk in a store 
at Landisburg, and afterward at Carlisle 
and Harrisburg. He was engaged as a mer- 
chant at Landisburg, 1845-49, and then went 
to Philadelphia as a salesman. He came t" 
Franklin county in 185 1, and was engaged in 
merchandising at St. Thomas, 1852-63. In 
the latter year he came to Chambersburg and 
engaged in the forwarding and commission 
business with David Oaks, the firm being 
Oaks & Linn. He bought Mr. Oaks* interest 
in 1866, and in 1868, he received R. E. 
Coyle as a partner in the business. Th-s 
partnership lasted until 1890. Their busi- 
ness as dealers in grain became very ex- 
tensive, and they had branch warehouses at 
Marion, Lemaster, Richmond and Fayette- 
\ille. At that time they were among the 
largest dealers in the valley. He retired from 
the business in 1890. In 1889 he was elected 
president of the National Bank of Chambers- 
burg, of which he became a director in 1858 
and with which he has been identified until 
the present time. He has been president of 
the Chambersburg Gas Company, and has 
also been president of the Franklin Fire In- 
surance Company, since 1879. He has been 
one of the leading business men of the county 
for more than half a century, and is a self 
made man, attributing his success to close 
attention to business. In politics as a yaung 




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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



jiian he was a W'liig, and upon the organiza- 
.tion of the RepubHcan party he joined its 
ranks, voting for John C. Fremont in 1856. 
He has always been an advocate of the tem- 
jierance cause, and has been a candidate for 
the Legislature on the Prohibition ticket. 
He is a member and trustee of Falling 
Spring Presbyterian Church. Mr. Linn 
married Jan. 10, 1849, Martha Jane Brown, 
daughter of Stephen O. and Margaret 
(Brewster) Brown, and granddaughter of 
Allen Brown, a pioneer settler of Lower 
Path Valley. Samuel M. and Martha Jane 
JLinn had issue. 

1. Margaret Brewster, born in 
1 85 1, died April 8, 1879. 

2. Mary Ann McCord, bom in 1857, 
•died Jan. 23. 1893. 

(VII) ALEXANDER McCLURE 
LINN (born in Perry county, March 19, 
1846), son of John and Margaret A. 
(McCIure) Linn, was educated in the pub- 
lic schools, and at the Chambersburg 
Academy. In September, 1864, he enlisted 
as a private in an Independent Battery of 
Light Artillery, recruited at Lancaster, and 
•served until the close of the war. After the 
war he returned to Chambersburg, where 
he worked on his father's farm for a short 
time, and then went to Washington and 
Oregon in the employ of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad, where he remained four 
years. After a brief visit to his home, he 
went to Anniston, Ala., where he engaged 
with the Woodstock Iron Company for two 
years. He then entered the employ of the 
Cumberland \^alley Railroad, in the service 
of which he still remains. He has filled 
numerous positions on the road, and is now 
conductor of a passenger express train. He 
is a man of more than usual culture, and 
gives much attention to the study of local 
liistory and genealogy. He is a member of 
the National Scotch-Irish Societv of Amer- 



ica. Mr. Linn married in 1887, Clara A. 
Scott, daughter of James D. Scott, a 
brother of the late Thomas A. Scott, Presi- 
dent of the Pennsylvania Railtoad. There 
was no issue. He married (second), in 
1894, Clara H. Conley; they have issue: 

I. Samuel McCord^ born Dec. 29, 
1895. 

.3. Jacob Humbird, born Sept. 30, 
1897. 

3. Robert McDonald^ born Aug. 13, 
1899. 

t 
GEORGE G. SHIVELY, M. D. (de- 
ceased), one of the highly respected resi- 
dents of Waynesboro who has now passed 
away, was born March 20, 1854, in Fair- 
field, Adams Co., Pa., a son of Peter and 
Elizabeth (Gelbach) Shively. The Shively 
family originated either in Germany or 
Switzerland, but its representatives have 
long resided in Pennsylvania. 

( I ) PETER SHIVELY, father of Dr. 
Shively, was a hotel man at Gettysburg, 
Pa., for the greater portion of his life. His 
family was as follows : 

1. Laura married Joseph Sulivan, of 
Dayton, Ohio. 

2. Mary married Upton Neely, of Fair- 
field, Pennsylvania. 

3. George G. (II). 

4. One died in infancy. 

5. One died in infancy. 

(II) GEORGE G. shively was 
reared in Fairfield until he was ten years of 
age, when he entered the Chambersburg 
Academy (later Mercersburg College), and 
then went to Franklin and Marshall Col- 
lege, Lancaster, where he was graduated in 
the full classical course. When he had com- 
pleted his education from a literary stand- 
point he entered Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, from which after a three 
years' course, he was graduated with the de- 



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gree of M. D. in 1877. He located tor prac- 
tice at Carlisle, and was in the enjoyment 
of a lucrati\e and grow ing practice when he 
found its duties too onerous. Accordingly, 
in the fall of 1880, he came to Waynesboro, 
and established himself in the drug business 
at the Eyler comer, Centre square. In 1882 
he took S. E. Dubbel into partnership, the 
lirm lasting until 1885, after which Dr. 
Shively was sole owner of the Inisiness un- 
til his death, in 1884 the Doctor erected a 
charming residence at the corner of Church 
and Third avenue, hut for business reasons 
he later sold this place and purchased the 
Stoner place at the northwest corner of the 
public square, fitting up this property for his 
drug business and place of residence. A 
second store room was fitted up in the same 
block, and Dr. Shively continued to improve 
his place with such good judgment and taste 
that the disastrous fire of Aug. 18, 1893, 
which destroyed his stabling and ruined his 
grounds and shrubbery, was particularly re- 
gretted. The shock of this fire, and an- 
other in the immediate neighborhood, nearly 
prostrated him, and he took to his bed on the 
9th of September, passing away Sept. 19, 
1893. Thus, in the prime of life, was called 
away one of the most useful members of the 
community. That he was also one of the 
most popular is shown by the prominent 
place he held in public life, his influence be- 
ing unusualh' strong for one of his age. In 
fact, he left a record of public service which 
will keep his name fresli in the minds of his 
fellow citizens for many years. 

In 1883 Dr. Shively was a member of 
the town council, and he was one of the lead- 
ing spirits in the progressive movements 
w'hich began about that period. Many of 
those movements were highly unpopular at 
the time of their inception, but the Doctor, 
with other farsighted citizens, saw the ap- 
proaching needs of the community and 



braved a storm of public opposition to stand 
up for what he considered right — a course 
in which he was amply justified by the de- 
\elc)pments of time. Many of the conven- 
iences of which the city boasts to-day owe 
much to his encouragement and timely sup- 
port. He gave another illustration of his 
spirit in his g(X)d work on the school board, 
of which he was a member in 1889-91 and 
served for a time as president. During thiS' 
period was erected the beautiful and well- 
equipped school building at the corner of 
North and Grant, which stands as a substan- 
tial testimony to the wisdom and judgment 
of that board, of which Dr. Shively was a 
most zealous member. We quote the fol- 
lowing paragraphs from an article published 
in a local paper at the time of his death : 

"In his public relations, as we have seen, 
he was a leader, a typical representative of 
that awakened spirit of progress and enter- 
prise to which we owe all our high develop- 
ment and rank in the sisterhood of muni- 
cipalities. 

"Socially, in his walk and conversation 
with men, he was the perfection of all that 
goes to make up the true gentleman. Kind, 
considerate, generous, affable, true and 
warm-hearted, association with him was as 
a sweet fragrance that ever left kindliest and 
brightest memories in its passage. His 
friendships were many and always sincere. 
His heart seemed to take in all humanity. 
Upon his untimely grave will fall many a 
tear. 

"His death is peculiarly lamentable, not 
onlv because of the many fond ties sundered 
and avenues of usefulness closed, but because 
of the bright promise which the future 
seemed to hold out for him. Prominent and 
active in the councils of the Democratic 
l)arty, he was about to reap the reward of 
many years of valuable service in the ap- 
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he had every reason to believe was virtually 
assured, and his friends were looking for- 
ward to the time when this leading- ambition 
of his life should be realized. He seemed 
indeed to have so much in hand and in pros- 
pect to live for, so much good yet to be ac- 
complished, that his death is in the highest 
■degree lamentable and deplorable." 

On April 13, 1884, Dr. Shively was con- 
firmed in Zion Lutheran Church, of which 
he remained an active member until his 
death. His church relationship was charac- 
terized by the same effective zeal which 
marked all his connections. He was prom- 
inent in the counsels of the church, and 
ser\ed a number of years as trustee, holding" 
that othce at the time of his death, and he 
gave his hearty co-operation to the move- 
ments which resulted in giving his church 
one of the handsomest and best finished 
churches in the Valley. 

Dr. Shively was largely instrumental in 
the organization of Company G, Pennsyl- 
vania National Guard (named the Gobin 
Guards, after Col. Gobin), and held the rank 
of first lieutenant. He was a director of the 
Waynesboro Building and Loan Association 
and held fraternal connection with the Ma- 
sons, Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, ^lys- 
tic Circle and Shield of Honor. He was a 
charter member of Acacia Lodge, A. F. & 
A. M., in which he was serving as senior 
vice-warden at the time of his death, and his 
funeral services were conducted by that 
lodge. He was buried at Burns Hill. 

Dr. Shively's home and home life were 
typical of the character of the man, and ideal 
in every respect. On June 8, 1880, he Vv-as 
united in marriage with Miss Jeanne ^Ic- 
Clung Shaeffer, of Lancaster, Pa., daughter 
of Bartram and Martha (Strickler) Shaef- 
fer. The following family was torn to Dr. 
and Mrs. Shively : 

I. Lillian Sh.veffer. 



2. George Bartram. 

3. Elizabeth Jane. 

4. Richard McGrann. 

5. John Charles. 

6. Mary. 

Airs. Shively and her children are all 
living in Waynesboro, where they are highly 
respected. 

Mr. Shaeffer was one of the most prom- 
inent members of the Lancaster Bar. He 
and his wife had children as follows: 

1. Elizabeth Shelley married 
Charles E. Gast. 

2. Jeanne McC, (Mrs. Shively). 

3. John C, of Lancaster, married 
Mary Parker. 

4. Mattie S. married William R. 
Gregg, of Denver, Colorado. 

EDWARD W. CURRIDEN, who 
passed away at his home near Chambers- 
burg, March 25, 1893, had through- 
out the quarter of a century of his 
residence in that place become so thor- 
oughly identified with its interests that 
his sudden demise brought wide-spread 
sorrow to the community. He was a 
man of sterling and attractive qualities, win- 
ning friends as well as substantial success in 
his busy career, and was unusually well ac- 
quainted over his section of the State. He 
was of old American stock, Jenkins Davis, 
the earliest of wlioiu we have record, and 
an ancestor in a maternal line, being of 
record as a Welsh settler as early as 17 19. 
His daughter. Racliael Dax'is. married a Mc- 
Clure. and their son, David McClure, was the 
father of Nancy McClure, who married Ed- 
ward Curriden, grandfather of Edward W. 
Curriden. 

(I) EDWARD CURRIDEN. grand- 
father of Edward W., was living in Lancas- 
ter, Pa., at the time of the trouble with Great 
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Some of Ill's relatives are still living in Xew 
Jersey, whence he came to Lancaster. Re- 
garding the origin of the name and family 
Mr. S. W. Curriden (brother of Edward 
W. Curriden) has the following to say : 

"As to what kind of name Curriden is 1 
have never been able to frame a reply. To 
New Jersey, from whence my great-grand- 
father came to Lancaster, came people from 
every part of Europe — greater in variety 
then than in Pennsylvania, when Penn and 
his charter raised many restrictions — or to 
England when religion and family connec- 
tions counted for much — or to Virginia 
when was set up a court-life, even if it were 
in Virginia forests and streams (as to the 
ride up the James and over to Richmond) — 
or to New England when an almost theo- 
cratic government was attempted. So of the 
venturesome strangers who came to one of 
the 'New Jersey plantations' my great-grand- 
father was one. Whether he picked up his 
bag and left Wales, or perhaps it was Scot- 
land, North of England — no one can tell, 
but come he did, and it took nerve to come, 
for when he came a six weeks' sail in small 
ship called for heroism of a high order; and 
so whether from Wales or Scotland or North 
of England — in the three countries — all who 
bear that man's name must help vindicate the 
wisdom of his venture." 

Edward Curriden married Nancy Mc- 
Clure, and they had one child, W'illiam Ly- 
brand (11), born Aug. i, 1807. in Earl town- 
ship, Lancaster Co. Pa. When this son was 
a very small boy Edward Curriden, ac- 
cording to an account given by the gentle- 
man above quoted, "impulsively joined one 
of the (juickly organized political bands then 
quite in \-ogue to make a raid upon Canada 
— this in the endea\'or to provoke sutificient 
trouble then to ultimately bring about its 
annexation to the States, just as was done 



with Texas in the forties." It is believed he- 
was killed in Canada. At any rate, he was- 
never heard from, and his widow then, 
moved to Chambersburg, Pa., where she 
lived until her death, which occurred in 1814 
(it is believed), when her only child was in 
his seventh year. Her grave, in the grounds 
of the Reformed Church, is marked by an 
attractive stone erected by her grandson, Ed- 
ward W. Curriden. 

(II) WTLLIAM LYBRAND CURRI- 
DEN for a number of years was a resident 
of Shippensburg, where his death occurred 
in 1887, and where he is buried. On July 
22, 1830, he married Elizabeth Deal who was 
born June 20, 1812, in Adams county, Pa., 
daughter of David and Nancy (Graef ) Deal. 
Of her Mr. Curriden (previously quoted) 
writes as follows : "As to grandmother Cur- 
riden — her father was David Deal ; and her 
mother was Nancy Grafif or Grove Deal — ■ 
the Graf? connection is without beginning- 
and without end." 

(III) EDWARD WTNFIELD CUR- 
RIDEN was born at Chambersburg May 6,. 
1834, and spent his boyhood and young man- 
hood at Shippensburg, whither his father 
had moved. There, his school days over, he 
learned the printer's trade, and not long after 
the completion of his apprenticeship bought 
and edited the Nczvs, then the only paper 
printed in the town. It was quite a venture 
for so young a man, and was characteristic 
of him. Early in the period of the Civil 
war he sold this paper, and in partnership 
with Hon. John ]\IcCurdy purchased the 
Herald ami Torch of Hagerstown, Md. The 
strong Union principles of the proprietors, 
however, incurred the disfavor of many of 
the residents of the place, and the office was 
seriously threatened with mob violence, but 
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managed by the famous Daniel Dechert — had 
won the friendship of so man)? Democrats 
that nothing ever came of tlie threats. Mr. 
Curriden in time became sole owner of the 
Herald and Torch, which he sold in 1866, 
and his next experience was in Lock Haven, 
Pa., as part owner of the Clinton Repub- 
lican. He then went to Erie, Pennsylvania, 
and in company with Henry Butter- 
field (former senator) bought the Republi- 
can, which was afterward merged into the 
Dispatch, a daily edition being started at 
this time. However, Mr. Curriden did not 
long remain in this connection, and dispos- 
ing of his interest moved in 1868 to Cham- 
bersburg, where he ever afterward main- 
tained his home. 

On coming to Chambersburg Mr. Curri- 
den engaged in a book and periodical busi- 
ness, purchasing the well-known Shryock 
book store, which he carried on successfully 
for nearly six years. He then sold and 
bought one of the best farms near the town, 
he and his family removing to that place, 
where they had a delightful country home, 
and Mr. Curriden frequently asserted that 
some of the happiest days of his life were 
spent at that homestead. However, his at- 
tention was by no means confined to farm- 
ing. As an ardent Republican he was deeply 
interested in the success of his part}', and 
as a public-spirited citizen he was concerned 
about the efficient administration of local 
civil affairs, and thus he was more or less 
in public life for many years. During the 
XLVIIth Congress, when Hon. H. G. 
Fisher, of this district, was chairman of the 
House committee on Coinage, Weights and 
Measures, Mr. Curriden served as clerk of 
the committee, and as such came in contact 
with many of the most noted men in Con- 
gress. On the death of Col. D. O. Gehr 
Mr. Curriden was appointed to succeed him 



as postmaster of Chambersburg, during the 
latter part of Arthur's administration, serv- 
ing in that position from November, 1884, 
to November, 1886, when he was replaced 
by a Democrat. During his comparatively 
brief incumbency he introduced many im- 
provements which materially bettered the 
service, and were, in fact, the beginnings of 
the improvements which led up to the estab- 
lishment of the excellent letter carrier serv- 
ice soon afterward introduced. 

As a business man Mr. Curriden had high 
standing, and he was very successful as the 
special agent in Chambersburg of the Penn 
Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Phila- 
delphia. For a year or so before his death 
he was one of the directors of the Chambers- 
burg Land & Improvement Compan}', and 
as such did much toward promoting the suc- 
cess of the concern, the work being of a kind 
for which he had special genius. For the 
last few years of his life he also had im- 
portant business interests in Washington, 
which necessitated his presence in that city 
a considerable part of the time, but he al- 
ways retained his home in Chambersburg 
and never allowed outside interests to inter- 
fere with his concern for all that affected the 
welfare of his home place. 

Mr. Curriden ne\'er lost his affection for 
journalism and the newspaper business, and 
to the end of his days was a frequent con- 
tributor to both the news and editorial 
columns of many papers, especially local 
journals. \\'hile in Washington he was 
identified with various papers of that and 
other cities as special correspondent, and 
retained many of these connections, his ex- 
perience and acquaintance with public men 
and affairs being insaluable in such work. 
The local papers were always glad to receive 
articles from his pen. and his contributions 
were sadly missed in Chambersburg and 



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vicinity. As a man of high intellect and 
wide experience his words carried unusual 
weight, and he wrote forcefully and well, 
having opinions of a high order and the 
ability to express them well. He was held 
in the highest respect among all classes of 
people, his high character and manly life 
winning esteem wherever he went, while his 
business aliility, energy and intelligence com- 
manded admiration in the' highest circles, 
whether among business or social associates. 
In short, he was a citizen of the best type, 
and his sudden death, on Saturday morning, 
March 25, 1893, was a blow from which the 
community did not soon recover. He was 
only at the height of his usefulness, in the 
midst of a busy and successful career, sur- 
rounded by a devoted family, and apparently 
had the prospect of many happy years. 

Mr. Curriden"s genial disposition and 
fine character were never better exemplified 
than in the domestic circle. He was married, 
June 8, 1865. to ^liss Ivatherine Altick, 
daughter of John and Alargaret Altick, of 
Shippensburg, Pa., and was survived by his 
wife and three children, Evelyn, Grace and 
Dr. George A., who still occupy the old 
home in Chambersburg. He was a devoted 
and thoughtful husband, and a kind and wise 
father, and the sympathy of the entire com- 
munity went nut to the family in their be- 
reavement. Mr. Curriden was a member of 
the Presbyterian Church, and his funeral 
sermon was preached by his old friend and 
former pastor. Rev. Dr. J. A. Crawford. 
The services were conducted by Rev. Mr. 
Schenck, pastor of the Falling Spring 
Presbyterian Church, assisted by Rev. Dr. 
Kennedy and Rev. Dr. Lane, and were most 
impressive. Many high tributes were paid 
to the life and character of their departed 
friend. He was laid to rest in the ceiuetery 
of the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church. 



JOHN P. KEEPER. Few men of 
Franklin county have been more actively 
identified with the mercantile interests of 
Chambersburg than ^Ir. John P. Keefer, a 
leading dry goods merchant of this city, 
born in Guilford township, Sept. 7, 1833, 
a son of John (II) and Hannah (Price) 
Keefer, deceased, and grandson of Jacob 
Keefer (I). 

(I) JACOB KEEFER (who was 
among the very early settlers of Franklin 
county, was of German ancestry, and had 
the following family : 

1 . J.\COB. 

2. Christian, 

3. Daniel. 

4. John (II). 

5. Catherine married John Snively. 

6. Nancy married John Staufifer. 
The old Keefer family was brought up 

in the faith of the German Baptist Brethren 
Church. 

(II) JOHN KEEFER. father of John 
P. Keefer, was born in Guilford township, 
in 1800, and spent his life farming in his 
nati\e township. In 1827, he married Han- 
nah Price, who was born, reared and edu- 
cated at Waynesboro, and they becaiue the 
parents of four children : 

1. Elizabeth, deceased, married 
Franklin Reed. 

2. Henry married Elizabeth Strickler, 
and both are deceased. 

3. John P. (III). 

4. Daniel, deceased. 

dll) JOHN P. KEEFER was reared 
on his father's homestead and attended the 
public schools until he was fifteen years of 
age, when he came to Chambersburg and 
entered the academy of this city, remaining 
one year. Tie then became clerk in a gen- 
eral merchandise store, owned by H. H. 
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one years of age. He was then made a part- 
ner, and the firm continued until after tlie 
war, when Mr. Keefer embarked in busi- 
ness for himself, since which time he lias 
steadily grown in public favor, until he 
ranks among the leading merchantr of 
Chambersburg. He enjoys the distinction 
of having been in business for forty-eight 
years, the longest term of any merchant 
here. 

Mr. Keefer married Miss Rebecca 
Seibert of Chambersburg, daughter of 
Samuel and Agnes (Grove) Seibert, old 
settlers of Franklin county. Mr. and Mrs. 
Keefer became the parents of the following 
children : 

1. George G., of York, Pa., married 
Bertha Mumper, of York county, and they 
liave three children : John^ Samuel and 
Paul. 

2. Alice married Dr. H. B. Creitz- 
man, of Welsh Run, Pa., and they have one 
daughter : Mildred. 

3. Charles W. is assistant manager of 
liis father's dry goods business at Chambers- 
burg. 

4. Maurice W., of Steelton, Pa., 
married Rose Stewart, and has one son : 
Stewart. 

5. Annie is at home. 

6. Florence is at home. 

In politics, Mr. Keefer is a sound Repub- 
lican, and always supports the platform and 
candidates of his party, but has been too 
much occupied with his business affairs, to 
seek public office, although he is so popular 
in the city, that there is no doubt but that 
he could obtain almost anv office within the 
gift of his fellow townsmen. In religious 
affiliations he is an earnest member of the 
Lutheran Church of Chambersburg. of which 
lie has been deacon and trustee for many 
years. His fraternal associations have been 
■of the most pleasant, he being an honored 



member of the I. O. O. I-"., and one of the 
most active supporters of that lodge. 

Beginning many years ago, when com- 
mercial conditions were so essentially dif- 
ferent from those of today, Mr. Keefer built 
up a business of which any man might well 
be proud; established a credit for his house 
that could not be shaken, and has gradually 
changed his policy to meet changed circum- 
stances. Upon his books can be found 
names which were written there at the start, 
for once he gains a customer, it is seldom 
he loses him. Although he is somewhat 
advanced in years, Mr. Keefer is as ener- 
getic as ever, and superintends every detail 
of his large business, and ensures the same 
honorable treatment of all, which has been 
one of the leading characteristics of the 
hijuse since its inception. 

FROMMEYER FAMILY. WILLIAM 
HENRY FROMMEYER (born in 179^- 
died Oct. 2, 1880), the ancestor of the From- 
meyer family of Franklin county, was a na- 
tive of Germany. He emigrated to Amer- 
ica with his family from Osnabruck, on the 
.ship "Helena," landing at Baltimore in the 
winter of 1840, and settled near Gettysburg, 
Adams county. His parents died when he 
was about three years of age, and he and his 
two brothers made their home with an aunt. 
His brothers served in the army of Napo- 
leon, and not having been heard from after 
the siege of Moscow, it is supposed that 
they perished in that disastrous campaign. 
At an early age he learned the trade of a 
cooper, to which he devoted all his time be- 
fore coming to this country. After his 
arri\al in Pennsylvania he purchased a farm 
in Menallen township, Adams county, which 
he cultivated in connection with the business 
of coopering. About 1770, he removed to a 
farm adjacent to Gettysburg, and after a 
few vears retired from active business. Mr. 



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Frommeyer married (first) Theresa Covers. 
They had issue : 

1. Henry Ger.'^rd (II). 

2. Alex.\nder (III). 

3. Theres.\ Agnes (born at Osna- 
bruck. Germany, Sept. 23, 1834), came to 
America with lier father. She married John 
Brink, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and they have 
had issue: Mary, Hermann (deceased), 
Kate, Rose, Ida and John. 

Mr. Frommeyer married (second), The- 
resa Baeker, of Osnabruck, Germany. They 
had issue : 

1. Bennett Andrew (IV). 

2. Clement Augustus (V). 

3. Elizabeth married Francis Orner 
(VI). 

4. Mary (born Dec. 19, 1842) hves 
at Harford Inirnace, Maryland. 

5. John (VII). 

6. Fr.\nk N. (VIII). 

7. Catharine married John B. Duch- 
scher (IX). 

8. Isaiah Benjamin (born May 23, 
1850 — died June 15, 1903) married Feb. 
^5' 1879, Mary Wassem, of Gettysburg. 
They had no issue. 

9. David Abraham ( born May 23, 
1850) is a photographer at Hanover, Pa., 
and is a director of tlie People's Bank of 
Hanover. He married Aug. 11, 1879, Mary 
McDonald (born June 12, 1852), daughter 
of .\rthur and Mary Ann McDonald, of 
"^'ork, and they have one daughter, Kathr}-n 
Cecelia, born Dec. i, 1879. 

10. Cecelia, born May i, 1852 — died 
. (II) HENRY GERARD FROM- 
MEYER (born at Osnabruck, Germany. 
Dec. 5, 1824 — died in Cincinnati. Ohio. 
April 24, 1886), son of William H. 
and Theresa (Covers), come to Amer- 
ica with his parents to escape enter- 
ing the military service. In 1845. '^^ 
went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where lie married 



Oct. I, 1848, Mary Engal Melchor (born 
June 16, 1822 — died June 2, 1890), daugh- 
ter of F"rederick and Elizabeth Melchor. 
They had issue : 

1. Mary Engal Elizabeth (born July 
10, 1849 — fli^d Nov. 13, 1893) married- 
John Albert Kunnen (born Jan. 12, 1846). 
They had issue, John Stephen and Mary 
Elizabeth, deceased. 

2. Francis (born Aug. 10, 1851), a 
prominent business man of St. Louis, Mo., 
married April 30, 1878, ]Mary Ann Cregan 
(bom Sept. 1857), and they have had issue: 
Maria Estelle (deceased), Frank M.. Louis, 
Esther and Ruth (deceased). 

3. Mary Dine (born Jan. 31, 1854 — 
died March 10, 1877) married Augustus 
Wesselmann (born Dec. 29, 1845 — died 
Feb. I, 1899). They had issue: Henry 
George and John Albert (deceased). 

4. Mary Catharine, born March 14, 
1856, died Nov. 13, i860. 

5. Maria Agnes, born Nov. 19, 1858,. 
lives at Covington, Kentucky. 

6. Maria Lisata, born Aug. 12, 1862, 
died July 30, 1863. 

7. Henry, born Oct. 22, 1864. died 
Nov. 27, 1865. 

8. M.\ria Philomena (born July 13, 
i8C)7) married Feb. 9, 1887, Henr>' H. 
Volker (born Oct. 29, 1865), of Covington, 
Ky. They have issue : Frank, Hermann 
and Lorena Mary. 

(Ill) ALEXANDER FROMMEYER 
(born at Osnabruck, Germany, May 15, 
1831), son of William H. and Theresa 
(Covers) Frommeyer, came to America with 
his parents and lived near Gettysburg. At 
the outbreak of the Mexican War, he en- 
listetl and was in encampment at Chambers- 
burg, when tliscovered by his father and. 
taken l)ack home. A year later he went to- 
Cincinnati, where he remained until April, 
1864, when he went to Brunswick, Mo., and. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



engaged in the saloon business, so contin- 
uing for eighteen years. He served in the 
army (hiring the Civil war, but did not take 
part in any active engagements. He is now 
living in retirement in Brunswick, Mo. He 
married Sept. 6, 1855, Agnes Campbell 
(torn Nov. 29, 1838), and they have 
issue : 

1. Henry (born in 1857) lives at Dal- 
ton, Missouri. 

2. William (born in 1861) is a travel- 
ing salesman. He married Oct. 10, 1882, 
Emily Temme (born Dec. 26, 1859), of St. 
Louis, and they have one daughter. 

(IV) BENNETT ANDREW FROM- 
MEYER (born at Osnabruck, Germany, 
Dec. I, 1837 — died at (jcttysburg, Oct., 
1879), son of William H. and Theresa 
(Backer) Frommeyer, came to America 
with his father, and was a cooper and farm- 
er. He married March 25, i860, Caroline 
Brady (born April 9, 1846), daughter of 
John and Susan (Wills) Brady, and they 
liad issue : 

1. Mary married Jacob Clancy, of 
York. 

2. George (born March 28, 1866) 
lives in Clarksburg, West Virginia. 

3. Sarah Jane (born June 20, 1867) 
lives at York. 

4. Jacob Fr.\ncis, born Jan. 6, 1869, 
died unmarried July, 1898. 

5. Harry lives in Walla Walla, Wash- 
ington. 

6. Eugene lives in California. 

7. Rose married, July, 1903, William 
A. Noel, of York. 

8. David lives at Baltimore. 

(V) CLEMENT AUGUSTUS 
FROMMEYER (born at Osnabruck, Ger- 
many, April 20, 1839), son of William H. 
and Theresa (Backer) Frommeyer, emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania in 1840, and settled 
at Mummasburg, Adams county. He was 



educated in the public schools of Adams 
county, and at an early age he learned the 
trade of a cooper, working with his father 
during the summer and attending school in 
the winter months. At the age of twenty 
he engaged in farming until 18G5, when he 
went to Oil City and was employed in haul- 
ing oil. In March, 1866, he removed to- 
Franklin county, resumed fanning and en- 
gaged in the burning of lime and lumber 
business, in partnership with J. and George 
Cole, under the firm name of Frommeyer, 
Cole & Co. They did an extensive business, 
die average number of bushels being about 
80,000 a year. In 1876, A. C. Frommeyer 
purchased the interest of John and George 
Cole, they withdrawing from the firm, and 
he has conducted the business alone ever 
since. In 1893, when the postoffice of 
Stonehenge was established, he was appoint- 
ed mail-carrier from Chambersburg to Stone- 
henge, a distance of two miles, and served 
on that route until the Rural Free Delivery 
was started in 1902. He is an ardent Demo- 
crat and served as school director, i879-82„ 
In religion he is a Catholic, and is zealous 
and active for the advancement of the Church 
and its institutions. He is an upright and 
honest citizen of a charitable and generous 
disposition, and a useful man in the com- 
munity in which he lives. He owes his 
success in business to energy and hard work, 
and now lives in retirement at his home 
"Kilnlnirn." ]\lr. Frommeyer married, .\ug. 
15, 1863. Anastasia Cole (born April 9, 
1847), daughter of John and Sarah (Stras- 
baugh ) Cole. They had issue : 

I. John Henry (born Feb. 11, 1865) 
was educated in the public schools of Guil- 
ford township. In 1890, he went to Phila- 
delpliia where he became an apprentice to the 
brick-laying trade, at which he has worked 
ever since. He is an active member of the 
I. B. P. A., and has been a trustee of that 



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institution 1897-1904, and is now president 
of the board of directors. He married Nov. 
II. 1903, Annie Teresa Kelly (born Nov. 
II, 1875), daughter of John and Agnes 
(Costella) Kelly, of Philadelphia. They 
■have one son. Clement Augustus. 

2. George Edward (born Dec. 17, 
J 866) was educated in the public schools of 
his native county, engaged in farming until 
1897, when he engaged in merchandising, 
and conducts a store near Chambersburg. 

"He married April 20, 1892, Mary Alice 
Sherk (born June 18, 1869), daughter of 
Jacob and Rachel (Frehn) Sherk, of Abi- 
lene, Kans. They have issue: Joseph Os- 
wald, Augustus Sherk and ^Iar_v Frances. 

3. Albert Ignatius (born July 2, 
1869) was educated in the public schools. At 
the outbreak of the Spanish- American War 
he enlisted, April 9, 1897, in Company C, 8th 
Regiment, 3d Brigade, Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers, but did not take part in active serv- 
ice, and was mustered out in 1898. He is 
now an employe of the Chambersburg En- 
gineering Company. Fie married Oct. 20, 
1900, Fannie Speck (born in 1875), daugh- 
ter of Joshua Speck, of Hustontown, Pa., 
and they have. Thomas Aquinas and Paul 
Ignatius. 

4. Mary Lorett.\ was educated in the 
public school and convent school at Cham- 
hersburg. On Sept. 6, 1899, she entered the 
convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, at 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and received 
the habit of that order April 28. 1900, and 
is now teaching" at St. Peter's School, Pied- 
mont, West Virginia. Her name in religion 
is Sister Mary Cordata. 

3. Ci-ARA \^iRGiNiA was educated in 
the public scIkkiIs and at the Corpus Christi 
Catholic school, Chambersburg, and was 
graduated from the musical department of 
that institution, June 26, 1895. 

(). Emma Blanche was educated at 



the public schools and at the Corpus Christi 
Catholic School, Chambersburg. 

7. Sarah Teresa was educated at the 
public schools and was graduated from Cor- 
pus Christi Catholic School, Chambersburg, 
June 18, 1896. 

8. Maky Alice was graduated from 
the Corpus Christi Catholic School, June 21, 
1899, took a course at Cumberland Valley 
State Normal in 1900, and was graduated 
from the Chambersburg Business College 
May 31, 1901. Was appointed a Notary 
Public April 13, 1903. 

9. Gr.\ce Anastasia was educated at 
the Corpus Christi Catholic School, Cham- 
bersburg, and was graduated, June 18, 1901. 

10. Elizabeth August.v. 

11. ]Mary Vekonica. 

(VI) ELIZABETH FROMMEYER 
(born Dec. 18, 1840), daughter of William 
H. and Theresa (Backer) F^rommeyer, mar- 
ried, Aug. 19, 1861, Francis W. Orner 
(born Feb. 19, 1828), son of Henry Orner, 
of Arendtsville, Pa. He was a teacher in 
the public schools of Adams county, for 
eleven years, after which he engaged in 
farming- and is now living in retirement. In 
politics he is a Democrat and was a dele- 
gate to the State Convention at Altoona in 
1898. Francis W. and Elizabeth (From- 
nieyer) Orner had issue: 

1. Virgilia, bom May 23, 1862, died 
May 27, 1862. 

2. Mary Axice, born June 10, 1863, 
died Aug. 29, 1863. 

3. Theresa Ann (born Sept. 25, 
1864), lives at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

4. George Henry-, born July 13, 1866, 
die.l April 16, 1885. 

5. Emory' Fr.\ncis (born Nov. 13, 
1868) is a carpenter at East Berlin. He 
married, April 25, 1899, Kate J. Bulli, and 
had one child, Verta May, born Jan. 17, 
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6. Augustus (born April lO, 1870J 
is a farmer on the Orner homestead near 
Arendtsville, Pa. He married, Nov. 22, 
1895, Mary B. Bittinger, and they have 
Olive E. E., William E. E., and Theresa A. 

7. Pius Syl\ester (^born Nov. 12, 
1872) was educated in the public schools of 
Adams county and was graduated from the 
State Normal at Millersville. He was a 
teacher in the public schools for ten years, 
during which time he studied civil engineer- 
ing, and he is now one of the leading survey- 
ors of Adams county. He was elected Jus- 
tice of the Peace in 1901, which office he 
still holds. He married, Sept. 22, 1898, S. 
Olive Heckenluber, and had one son Gil- 
bert Leroy, deceased. 

(VH) JOHN FROMMEYER (born 
Dec. 24, 1844), son of William H. and 
Theresa (Backer) Frommeyer, is a farmer 
at Bonneauville, Pa. He married Feb. 14, 
1 87 1, Joana Berger (born Feb. 5, 1850), 
daughter of Lawrence and Lydia (Martin) 
Berger, of Chambersburg. They have issue : 

1. Sarah Ann, born Dec. 24, 1871. 

2. William Lawrence (born Feb. 
24, 1873), lives at Westminster. 

3. Anna Mary, born Aug. 24, 1874. 

4. Edward Alexander, born Oct. 8, 
1876, died March 4, 1883. 

5. Ellen j\L\ry, born April 17, 1878. 

6. Charles Augustus (born April 27, 
1880), lives at New York. 

7. Lawrence Joseph, born Aug. 12, 
1881. 

8. Leo Benjamin, born Aug. 25, 
1883. 

9. ]\L\RY Theresa, born Sept. 18. 
1885. 

10. Catharine Eliz.\beth, born 
March 6, 1888. 

11. John Henry*, born Aug. 3, 1891. 
(Vni) FRANK NICHOLAS FROM- 
MEYER (born ]\Iarch 4, 1846), son of 



William II. and Theresa (Backer) From- 
meyer, is a farmer on the old Frommeyer 
homestead near Gettysburg. He married- 
Oct. 8, 1873, Sarah Allen Kine (born Aug. 
17, 1851 ), daughter of Jacob Kine, and they 
have issue : 

1. John Worthington (born Sept. 3, 
1874) is a merchant at East Berlin. He 
married Jan. 18, 1899, Lula Bushey, daugh- 
ter of Edward A. and Hannah Bushey, and 
they have one daughter, Fannie Marguerite,. 
born June 23, 1903. 

2. AIart Etta (^born Aug. 16, 1876) 
entered the community of the Sisters of 
Charity at Emmitsburg, Md., April 14, 
1903, and is now at St. Paul's Sanitarium, 
Dallas, Texas. Her name in religion is 
Sister Appoline. 

3. Jacob Kime, born March 6, 1879. 

4. Eliz.\ Anna, born Jan. 24, 1881, 
died Nov. 7, 1881. 

5. Cecelia Dorothy, born Nov. 13,. 
1882. 

6. Simon A., born March 2, 1885. 

7. Emma, born Nov. 9, 1888. 

8. Estelle L., born Nov. 9, 1890. 

9. Ellen Marguerite, born May 11,. 
1893. 

(IX) CATHARINE FROMMEYER 
(born April 7, 1847), daughter of William. 
H. and Theresa (Backer) Frommeyer, mar- 
ried Feb. 9, 1869, John Baptist Duchscher 
(born Oct. 8, 1848), son of John and Made- 
line Duchscher, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He en- 
listed Oct. 6, 1864, in Company C, 183d. 
O. V. I., and took part in the battles of 
Franklin and Nashville, and was at John- 
ston's surrender at Raleigh, N. C. He was 
mustered out, Aug. i, 1865. John W. and 
Catharine (Frommeyer) Duchscher have is- 
sue: 

1. Angelia, born Aug. 2, 1871. 

2. Lillian (born Aug. 10, 1873), 



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married Now 4, 1897, Augustus P. Hoper- 
kamp. 

3. Alice (born July 5, 1875) married 
Oct. 17, 1900, William Placke, and they 
have one son. William. 

4. John Nicholas, bom June 11, 
1877, died Oct. 17, 1897. 

5. Edward James, born Aug. 31, 
1879. 

6. LuIa Valentine, born Feb. 14, 
1882. 

7. Carrie Eliner Claire, born Sept. 
21, 1884. 

8. Robert, born Aug. 24, 1887. 

9. Catherine, born Sept. i, 1890. 

WILLIAM MANN IRVINE, Ph. D., 
President of the Mercersburg Academy, was 
born in Bedford, Pa., Oct. 13, 1865, being 
the son of Henry F. and Emma E. Irvine. 
He lived in his father's native town until he 
was' fifteen years of age, attending the pul:)- 
lic schools of Bedford, and between the years 
of 1878 and 1 88 1 clerking in the store of 
John C. Wright & Brother. In the fall of 
1881 he entered the Phillips Academy, at 
Exeter, N. H. At Exeter he made an en- 
viable record in scholarship and athletics, 
rowing in his class crew, playing on the 
Academy foot-ball team, serving one term 
as president of the Academy Y. M. C. A., 
and standing in scholarship fourth in a class 
of seventy-five boys. 

In September, 1874, Dr. Irvine entered 
Princeton University as a member of the 
class of 1888. During his college course, 
by faithful and persistent energy, Dr. Ir- 
vine kept his name on the honor roll of his 
class, and received many honors. He ac- 
complished more work outside of the regular 
curriculum than any other man in his class. 
The following is a list of part of his honors : 
President of class in Freshman year; win- 
ner of medal for Freshman oratory in Whig 



Hall ; editor of the Princctunian for three 
years (being editor-in-chief in his Senior 
year) ; on editorial stafif of the Bric-a-bnic, 
Princeton's annual; Princeton's correspond- 
ent to Philadelphia Times for two years , 
Princeton's correspondent to the New York 
Tribmie for three years; Junior orator in 

Whig Hall; Honorary orator at time of 
graduation; winner of Junior Essay prize 
in Whig Hall ; catcher on Freshman Class 
Nine ; member of Varsity Eleven for five 
years (only one other Princeton man ever 
played so long on "Varsity team) ; winner of 

South East Club Fellowship in Social 
Science, thereby making possible a post- 
graduate year of study. Dr. Irvine received 
his degree. Doctor of Philosophy, fn)m 
Princeton in course, in June, 1901. His 
essay was written on "Immigration." In 
receiving the degree he also passed examin- 
ations as follows : Maximum Subject : "Is 
there a Science of History?" Subsidiary 
subjects : "The Age of Queen Anne in Lit- 
erature." including Addison, Steele, Swift 
and Defoe: also "The English Empirical 
School of Philosophy," including Locke, 
Berkeley and Hume. During a period of 
six summers Dr. Irvine was first assistant 
to the Rev. Willard Parsons, manager of 
the New York Tribune Fresh Air Fund. 
Dr. Irvine wrote all stories in that depart- 
ment, also received an invitation to accept 
a permanent place on the staff of the Tri- 
bune. 

In September, 1889, Dr. Irvine took up 
his theological studies at the Theological 
Seminary at Lancaster, Pa. During his 
fell(iwship year at Princeton he had refused 
twelve different positions as teacher, all of 
them being in schools for boys. All who 
have known Dr. Irvine intimately have said 
that he was born to teach lx>ys. At that 
time, however, he preferred to finish his 
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\vitli tliat idea in mind when he entered 
Exeter at the age of fifteen. At Lancaster, 
Dr. Irvine, by reason of his discipline at 
Princeton, was able to help arrange in a 
number of ways the undergraduate activi- 
ties, especially those that related to the ath- 
letic, literary and musical life of the stu- 
dents. At the time of his graduation, in 
the summer of 1892, Dr. Irvine was about 
to accept a call to become pastor of a small 
ciiurch in the State of Delaware. His 
many friends in the Lancaster institutions 
prevailed upon him to accept a position in 
the Faculty of the Franklin and Marshall 
College, saying that it was often more diffi- 
cult to find teachers for the college than it 
is to get pastors for the Church. Dr. Irvine 
remained at Franklin and Marshall College 
one year, teaching in the departments of 
English, Political Science, Logic and Gym- 
nastics. In April, 1893, the Potomac Synod 
of the Reformed Church invited Dr. Irvine 
to become president of Mercersburg College, 
at Mercersburg, Pa., to succeed the Rev. 
George W. Aughinbaugh, who had just re- 
signed the presidency on account of ad- 
vanced years. After mature deliberation 
Dr. Irvine resigned his position at Lancaster, 
and accepted the position at Mercersburg, 
thereby entering upon the greatest work of 
his life. 

Ever since the year 1835, there has been 
an educational institution at Mercersburg. 
Marshall College, which did splendid work, 
left Mercersburg in 1853. The Theologi- 
cal Seminary remained, and in 1865 Mer- 
cersburg College was organized under the 
leadership of Rev. T. G. Apple, D. D. Later 
the celebrated educator. Rev. E. E. Higbee, 
D. D., became its president and did excellent 
work. Unfortunately the College had no 
endowment, and in 1880 closed its doors on 
account of debt. On coming to the Presi- 



dency in 1893, Dr. Irvine changed the policy 
of the institution, making it a preparatory 
school for boys after the type of the great 
New England Academies. The wisdom of 
the policy was seen very soon ; seventy-eight 
boys were enrolled during the first year, and 
the school closed its books for the year with 
a few hundred dollars to its credit above 
running expenses. There were four teach- 
ers in the Faculty, and all the work of the 
school was done in one building, Main Hall. 
The total receipts that year from all sources 
were less than $10,000; in 1904 the receipts 
were $125,000. The growth of the school 
speaks for itself; it is really Dr. Irvine's 
monument. 

In the year 1903-04 369 boys from 
twenty-one States were enrolled ; there were 
twenty-one men in the Faculty; eight build- 
ings were in use ; improvements to the extent 
of $130,000 had been added, including one 
of the most beautiful dining-halls in Amer- 
ica ; boys had been prepared for fifty- four 
diiYerent colleges and professional schods ; 
the Board of Regents had been increased in 
number from nine to fifteen; no acres of 
land had been added to original purchases; 
several thousands of dollars had been added 
to endowment funds; the internal life, or- 
ganizations and work of the school had 
broadened in every way. The outlook for 
the future of the Mercersburg Academy is 
truly bright and promising. Dr. Irvine has 
refused many oiifers to leave Mercersburg. 
feeling that the building up of this school is 
his life's work. 

On June 26, 1894, Dr. Irvine married 
Miss Camille Hart, daughter of Major C. S. 
Hart, of Winchester, Va. Mrs. Irvine is^ 
the center of the social life of the school. 
By her untiring energy, tact, and devotion, 
she has added greatly to the growth and 
efliciency of the Academy. 



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GILLAN FAMILY. JAMES GIL- 
LAN (born in Ireland in 1767 — died Jan. 
26, 1854), the ancestor of the numerous 
Gillan families of Frankhn county, emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania in the closing years 
of the eighteenth century and settled near 
St. Thomas. He married (first) Jane Rush, 
who died in 1809, and was buried in the 
Roman Catholic graveyard in Chambers- 
burg. They had issue : 

1. Mary, born in 1798, died unmarried 
March 20, 1886. 

2. William (II)- 

3. James (died in 1868) went South, 
not returning until early in the Civil war. 
He married Miss Sturgis; they had two 
children: James Sturgis, controller of San 
Francisco, and Amelia, who married I\Ir. 
Taylor. 

4. John (III). 

5. Elizabeth married June 16, 1829. 
Jacob Mish. 

Mr. Gillan married (second) June 18, 
1814, Margaret Reed (l)orn Oct. u, 1788 — 
died Dec. 6, 1854); they had issue: 

1. Thomas (IV). 

2. Charles (V). 

3. Matthew (VI). 

4. D.wiD (VII). 

5. Sarah. 

6. Rebecca married William E. ^Ic- 
Dowell. [McDowell I'amily]. 

7. Margaret. 

(II) WILLIAM GILLAN (born in 
1797 — died in February, 1867), son of 
James and Jane (Rush) Gillan, w^as a farmer 
in Letterkenny township. He married Sarah 
Dyarman (born in 1796 — died in 1868) : 
they had issue: 

1. William (died in April, 1884) mar- 
ried Martha Fetter ; they had issue : one son. 
Ira. 

2. John (VHI). 

3. Jane, born in 1824, died in 1826. 



4. Samuel Holmes (IX). 

5. Sarah Ann (died Nov. 30, 1869) 
married March 12, 1846, John Walker 
(born April 18, 1824), a farmer near Eden- 
ville; they had issue: Samuel G.. John E., 
Sarah J., Mary E.. IMartha, George and 
Margaret. 

6. ]Martha married Col. William D. 
Dixon. [Dixon Family]. 

7. Elizabeth, born in 1828, died un- 
married in 1866. 

8. Mary is unmarried. 

9. James, born in 1836, died in 1839. 
(Ill) JOHN GILLAN (born July 22, 

1807 — died Feb. 18, 1873), son of James 
and Jane (Rush) Gillan, was a farmer in 
St. Thomas township. He married Jan. 10, 
1833. Margaret ^^'alter (born May 9, 1813 
— died March 26, i860), daughter of John 
and Margaret (Harbaugh) Walter. On the 
maternal side Mrs. Gillan was descended 
from Yost Harbaugh, the ancestor of Rev. 
Dr. Henry Harbaugh. John and Margaret 
Gillan had issue: 

1. James B. (born Dec. 20, 1833 — ^'^"^ 
}ilarch 30, 1883) was a merchant. He 
served as a member of the town council, and 
also as school director in Chambersburg. He 
married ]\Iartha L. Carr; they had issue: 
Walter, who died young; Howard E. : Jen- 
nie, who married Charles Watts; Leila A., 
unmarried and li\-ing in Chambersburg; 
and Nellie, who married Charles Aughin- 
baugh. 

2. Margaret (born April 22, 1835) 
married Joseph Keller ; they had issue : 
Bertha married Daniel Stotler ; and IMargaret 
married Christian Etter. 

3. Mary Jane (bom Nov. 16, 1836) 
married Jacob C. Holler, now of Topeka, 
Kans. ; they had issue : Henry, John, 
Charles, Edw-ard, Evers, Margaret (married 
a Moore), Ella (married David Kriner), 
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4. SusANj born July 28, 1838, died un- 
married Nov. 10, 1903. 

5. John Walter (born Aug. 22, 
1840) keeps tlie toll-gate on the Gettysburg 
turnpike, near Chanibersburg ; he is an active 
Prohibitionist. He served as a private in 
Company H, 126th P. V. I., during the Civil 
war. and was engaged in the battles of 
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville — the 
only two battles in which that regiment took 
part. He married Maria Reamer, daughter 
of William F. and Sarah Ann (Kinneard) 
Reamer; they had issue: Charles, William 
F.. John, Laura, Sarah (married William 
Rosenberry) and Benlah. 

6. Sarah E. (born June 16. 1842) 
married Daniel D. Detrich, living at Junc- 
tion City, Kans. ; they had issue : John Gil- 
Ian, Walter P., Bertha (married James Cal- 
vin) and Florence (married Fred Arkell). 

7. Julia Ann, born May 11, 1844 — 
died April 30, 1862. 

8. Harriet R. (born Sept. 24, 1846) 
married Henry R. Clippinger; they had 
issue: Walter Gillan, Smith E., Arthur R., 
Charles F., and Florence D. 

9. Martha, born Aug. 16, 1S48, died 
March 26, 1850. 

10. William Rush (X). 

11. Arabella (born April 14, 1852 — 
died Sept. 6, 1903) married William Hafer; 
no issue. 

12. Melinda C. was born March 18, 
1854. 

(IV) THOMAS GILLAN (born Nov. 
13, 1815 — died Nov. 24. 1874), son of 
James and Margaret (Reed) Gillan, was a 
farmer in St. Thomas township. He married 
Sept. 15, 1846, Annabella Johnston McDow- 
ell (born March 25, 1818 — died Sept. 27, 
1871), daughter of William S. and Mary 
(Erwin) McDowell; they had issue: 

I. WiLLL\M Erwin (born Nov. 6, 
1847) li^'ed at South Auburn, Neb. He 

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married Sophia Keefer (burn April 26, 
1849), daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Shed- 
ron) Keefer; they had issue: Annabelle, 
Jessie N., Thomas H., Mary Holmes, Ulala 
Elizabeth, Lulu Comfort and Sarah Keefer. 

2. James Rush (born Nov. 3, 1849 — 
died Dec. 26, 1903), an agricultural imple- 
ment dealer at Chambersburg, married Maria 
Lucretia McGarvey, daughter of Patrick and 
Anna Maria (Allsep) McGarvey. 

3. John Alexander (born May 6,- 
1852) lives at Plattsburg, ]\Io. He married 
Mary Jane Patton (born Jan. i, 1852— died 
June 24, 1880), daughter of James and 
Mary (McCoy) Patton. 

4. Mary Jane, born Nov. 3, 1854, died 
Aug. 29, 1856. 

5. Thomas Holmes (born April 9, 
1858) lives at South Auburn, Nebraska. 

6. George Elmer (born in 1861) lives 
in Oklahoma. 

(V) CHARLES GILLAN (born Feb. 
8, 1819— died March 24, 1878), son of 
James and Margaret (Reed) Gillan, was a 
farmer all his life and kept the Washington 
Hotel, near St. Thomas, for many years. He 
owned 320 acres of land and was said to be 
the best farmer in the county. He was an 
extensive stock raiser and owned forty head 
of horses at the time of his death. He was 
postmaster at Mt. Parnell, 1866-78. He 
married Jane Smith McDowell (born Sept. 
4. 1817— died July 24, 1887), daughter of 
James and Mary Poe (Dunlap) McDowell; 
they had issue : 

1. Mary E. married James E. Mc- 
Dowell. [McDowell Family]. 

2. James D. (XI). 

3. William M. (born Dec. 25, 1849) 
was county auditor. 1876-78, and prothono- 
tary. He married Feb. 22. 1872, Sarah J. 
Gillan, daughter of John and Elizabeth ]. 
(White) Gillan; they had issue: Elizabeth 
J., Charles McDowell, James Dunlap, Lucy 



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Leona. Rose While, Mary Belle, and Julia 
Pomeroy ( deceased ) . 

4. Sarah J. 

5. Margaret C. married Benjamin F. 
Huber. [ihiber I'amily]. 

6. Robert McDowell married I^-mny 
Sellers. 

(VI) MATTHEW GILLAN (born 
July C, i8ji — died Sept. 29, 1862), son of 
James and Margaret (Reed) Gillan, was a 
saddler at Chambersburg; he was a director 
of the poor, 1857-59, ^"<i 'i member of the 
Chambersburg town council in i860. He 
married Catharine Comfort Stouffer (born 
March 6, 1835 — died Feb. 20, 1874) ; they 
had issue : 

I. Emma married G. W. Patton, son 
of James ; they went to Dakota. 

(VII) DAVIU GILLAN (born Sept. 
28, 1823 — died Ai)ril 14, igoo), son of 
James and Margaret (Reed) Gillan, was all 
his life a farmer in Peters township. He was 
a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. 
He was a successful business man. Start- 
ing with nothing, he accumulated a large 
fortune and owned four large tracts of land. 
He married Feb. 14, 1856, Sarah Belle Wise 
(died Dec. 19, 1903), daughter of John 
Wise ; they had issue : 

1. John Wise (XII). 

2. Margaret died in infancy. 

3. Rebecca Jane married Robert S. 
McDowell. [McDowell Family]. 

(VHI) JOHN GILLAN. son of Wil- 
liam and Sarah (Dyarman) (Jillan, was a 
farmer. He married Elizabeth J. White, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Pomeroy) 
WHiite ; they had issue : 

1. Sarah Jane married William M. 
• Gillan (V). 

2. Mary married Jacob W. Mish. 

3. John T. is living at Hagerstown. 

4. Elizabeth married Sellers Coble. 



5. Belle married Dr. Houch, dentist, 
at Shippensburg. 

6. Marinda Pomeroy married an 
Elliott, of Harrisburg. 

(IX) SAMUEL HOLMES GILLAN 
(born .\pril 2t,, 1831 — died Oct. 14, 1883), 
son of William and Sarah (Dyarman) Gil- 
lan, married Feb. 13. i860, Susan Catharine 
Sherman (born Jan. 24, 1841), daughter of 
Salisburg and Rebecca (Grove) Sherman; 
they had issue : 

1. William Sherman (born Jan. 26, 
1861) married Dec. 4, 1890, Sarah Brindle. 

2. Emma Jane was born Sept. 8, 1862. 

3. Ida Blanche (born Oct. 5, 1864) 
married Jan. 13, 1886, Calvin Hicks. 

4. Charles Dixon (born July 5, 
1866) married Jan. 29, 1896, Annie Gerbig, 
daughter of John C. and Elizabeth ( Yeager) 
Gerbig. (Gerbig Family). 

5. Samuel Holmes was born June 18, 
1868. 

6. Sarah Rebecca was born March 
14, 1870. 

7. Dawson Carey (born Aug. 14, 
1 871) married Sept. 12, 1899, Olivia Gil- 
bert. 

8. Warren Granville, born April 18, 
1876, died Feb. 18. 1877. 

(X) WILLIAM RUSH GILLAN 
(born in Hamilton township, April 3, 1850), 
.son of John and Margaret (Walter) Gillan, 
was educated in the public schools and 
worked on the farm until he was seventeen 
years old. In 1868 the family removed to 
Letterkenny township, where he attended 
an advanced school for three months. He 
afterward taught school in various places, 
including the graded school in St. Thomas, 
for two winters. In the autumn of 1871 
he entered Mercersburg College for the ses- 
sion of 1871-72, and in ^August, 1872, he 
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tlie grocery trade until 1875. ^^ ^^'^^ clerk 
of the courts of Franklin county. 1875-79, 
being elected as a Democrat. He had pre- 
viously served as school director and was 
■clerk of the Chambersburg town council in 
1879-80. He was attorney to the board of 
•county commissioners, 1882-85, and at the 
same time school director of the Third ward 
of Chambersburg. He was a member of 
the Pennsylvania Legislature 1891-92, and 
he was again nominated by his party in 1900, 
in the hope tliat his popularity would give 
the county a Democratic member of the 
House of Representatives at Harrisburg. 
While he was clerk of the courts he studied 
law in the office of Stenger & McKniglit, and 
was admitted to the Franklin County Bar 
Sept. r, 1879. He has since been con- 
tinuously in the practice of his profession, 
and is a successful and prosperous lawyer. 
In politics he is a Democrat and an active 
party worker. He is a member of Zion's 
Reformed Church of Chambersburg, and 
takes an active part in promoting the in- 
terest of his denomination. He is president 
of the Board of Regents of Mercersburg Col- 
lege, and he is also president of the Re- 
formed Church Publication Board. He is 
one of the most active among the business 
men of the county and is a self-made man. 
He is president of the Chambersburg, Green- 
•castle & Waynesboro Electric Railway Com- 
pany ; president of the Mutual Loan & Sav- 
ings Association, of Chambersburg, and \'ice- 
president of the National Bank of Chambers- 
burg. He is a member of George Washing- 
ton Lodge. No. 143, F. & A. M., of Cham- 
bersburg, and a 32d degree Mason, being 
a member of the Harrisburg Consistory. He 
is also a member of the Royal Arcanum and 
the Elks. Mr. Gillan married in February. 
1874, Lucy M. Winger, daughter of Joseph 
and Esther (Buckwalter) Winger, of Clay- 
lick, Montgomery township : they have issue : 



1. Arthur W. (born Dec. 24, 1874) 
was educated in the public schools and at the 
Chambersburg Academy. He was gradu- 
ated at Franklin and Marshall College in 
1896. After leaving college he studied law 
with his father, and was admitted to the 
Franklin County Bar Dec. 5, 1898. He is 
practicing his profession in Chambersburg 
as a member of the firm of Gillan & Gillan. 
He is a member of George Washington 
Lodge, F. & A. M., of the Knights of 
Pythias and the Royal Arcanum. He is 
secretary of the Greencastle, Mercersburg 
& W^aynesboro Turnpike Road Company. 
In politics he is a Democrat, and Chairman 
of the Democratic County Committee. 

2. Mabel married Seward Baldwin, of 
Waverly, N. Y. ; they have one daughter, 
Ruth. 

3. Ruth. 

4. Abigail. 

(XI) JAMES DUNLAP GILLAN 
(born at Mt. Parnell, in October, 1847), 
son of Charles and Jane S. ( McDowell) Gil- 
lan, was educated in the public schools, and 
worked on his father's farm until he was 
twenty years old. He then became store- 
keeper and ganger in the L'nited States In- 
ternal Revenue service, in which he served 
eight years. He clerked in the store of his 
brother, William M., at St. Thomas, for 
three years; in 1882 he purchased his broth- 
er's store and has been in the mercantile busi- 
ness ever since. He was appointed post- 
master at St. Thomas by President Mc- 
Kinley. He is a member of the Knights of 
the Golden Eagle. He married in May, 
1879, Charlotte Johnston (died July 8, 
1885), daughter of Robert and Margaret 
(Stoops) Johnston; they had issue: 

1. Robert Johnston. 

2. Charles Franklin. 

3. William McDowell. 

4. Mabel Catharine. ' "1 



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5. James. 

6. Garnet Garfield. 

(XII) JOHN WISE GILLAN (bom 
in Peters township, Jan. 9, 1859), son of 
David and Sarah B. (Wise) Gillan. was 
educated in the pubHc schools of Peters 
townshi]) and at the Mercersbnrg College 
imder the presidency of Dr. Highbee. After 
leaving college he retnrned to the farm and 
has since been a farmer on the Gillan home- 
stead in Peters township. He is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. He married Feb. 
21, 1884, Carrie C. Cromer, daughter of 
George and Rebecca (Smith) Cromer; they 
had issue: 

1. Daisy R. 

2. Carrie B. 

WILLIAM L. MINICK. The Bar of 
Franklin county, Pa., is well represented, 
not only among its old attorneys, but also 
among those who bring to their practice the 
enthusiasm of youth and the methods in- 
culcated in the law schools of today. Among 
those who come within this class is William 
L. Minick, born Jan. 31, 1865, at Orrstown, 
Pa., a son of David and Catharine (Golden) 
Minick. 

(I) JOHN MINICK, the paternal 
great-grandfather, was a resident of Cum- 
berland county, having come from Lancas- 
ter county. 

(II) PETER MINICK, the grand- 
father, was born in Cumberland county, 
but later came to Franklin county. His 
family was as follows : 

1. Samuel was a minister, and moved 
to Indiana. 

2. Barbara married John Jones. 

3. John, who was a tanner, moved to 
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. 

4. M.\ry married John Fishrow, and 
mo\ed to Indiana. 

Peter Minick married again and had: 



1. Peter. 

2. Ephraim, twin to Peter. 

3. Jacob. 

4. David {UI) 

5. Ad.\m. 

6. Susanna married William Keefer.- 

7. Elizabeth married Nicholas Nye. 

8. Julia married Samuel Tarner. 

(III) DAVID MINICK enlisted in 
Company F, 207th Regiment, P. \'. I., un- 
der Capt. Hale, and served bravely through- 
out his term of enlistment. By trade he 
was a coachmaker. He married Catharine 
J. Golden, and they had issue : 

1. Annie married John A. \\'ashinger, 
and they had Albert, Roy C, Annie, Bertha,- 
Paul, Newton and John. 

2. Daniel P. married (first) Martha 
Gephart, and (second) Katie L. Goforth^ 
and was the father of Pearl. 

3. \ViLLiAM L., the subject of this 
sketch CIV). 

4. David N. married Bessie F. Bol- 
linger. 

5. Mary C. married John A. Simmons,, 
and had David. 

6. Bertha J. is unmarried. 

The maternal grandfather, John Golden, 
was a native of Cumberland county, of 
English extraction, and he had children as 
follows : 

1. John. 

2. William. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Catharine J. 

(IV) WILLIAM L. :\nNICK. the 
subject proper of this sketch, attended the 
puljlic schools until he was seventeen years 
I lid, when he began to teach, and for seven 
consecutive winters he was thus enga,ged, 
when he was appointed by A. B. Stoler, 
deputv register of wills and recorder, and 
served for five months during the summer 
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months, until Dec. 31st of the same year. 
Once more he was appointed to the same 
position, this time by Robert S. Smiley, and 
assumed his duties Jan. i. 1891. serving 
until January. 1894. At that time he was 
appointed deputy register and recorder by 
Joseph H. Ledy, and began his duties Jan. 
I. 1894. serving until Aug. i, 1894. At 
that time he entered into the wholesale fruit 
and produce business with his brother David 
N. and Robert S. Smiley, under the firm 
name of W. L. JMinick & Co., and thus con- 
tinued until June 22, 1896. On March 10, 
1896, he was nominated for the ofiice of clerk 
•of the county courts by the Repu1)lican party, 
and was elected by a majority of 2,319. In 
June, 1899, he was renominated and elected 
by a majority of 1,579, ^'""^1 served until 
Jan. 5, 1903. On Dec. 6, 1902, he was ad- 
mitted to the Bar, having- been studying the 
law for some time. Mr. Minick was one of 
the promoters and directors of the Cumber- 
land Valley Telephone & Telegraph Com- 
pany, and continued one of its directors until 
it was merged into the United Telephone 
Company. He was also one of the promoters 
■of the Chambersburg. Greencastle & 
Waynesboro Street Railway Company, and 
was manager of said street railway company 
<luring its construction, and is still one of its 
directors. He is now president of the 
\V'aynesboro Electric Light & Power Com- 
pany, and president of the \^'aynesburg, 
Greencastle and Mercersburg Turnpike Road 
Company, and a director of the Chambers- 
burg Trust Company. 

On Sept. I, 1885. Mr. Minick married 
Jennie S. Blair, daughter of William H. 
Blair, of Orrstown. Three children have been 
born to them : 

1. Erna Virgini.a. 

2. William Leox. 

3. Blair. 



Mr. ]\Iinick is a member of the Royal 
Arcanum, the Knights of Malta and the 
F. & A. M. Both he and his wife are con- 
sistent members of the Lutheran Church, 
and are highly esteemed in that body. The 
future before Air. Minick is a bright one, 
and his constituents are proud of his work 
and the infiuence he exerts in the party. 

PLATT FAMILY. Nearly all the 
Platts of the L-nited States are descended 
from Richard Piatt, who came with Mary, 
his wife, from Hertfordshire, England, and 
landed at New Haven, Conn., in 1638. He 
acquired eighty-four acres of land in what 
is now the best part of the "Elm City." 
It was on the south side of Chapel street, 
near College street, in what was then called 
the "Hertfordshire quarter." He remained 
in New Haven only a short time, being one 
of sixty-six members of a church organiza- 
tion formed for the township of Mil ford, 
Aug. 22, 1639. His name is on the list 
of free planters in ^lilford in 1646, and 
he was chosen a deacon of Milford church 
in 1669. Deacon Piatt died in 1684, and his 
wife, Mar)-, in January, 1676. Richard and 
Mary Piatt had five sons, John, Isaac, 
Epenetus, Josiah and Joseph, and three 
daughters, Mary, Sarah and Hannah. 
United States Senator Orville H. Piatt, of 
Connecticut, traced his ancestry to Isaac, 
but it is not so easy to trace the ancestry of 
U. S. Senator Thomas C. Piatt, of New 
York, back to the Milford stock. Judge 
Zephemiah Piatt, the founder of Plattsburg, 
N. Y., came from Epenetus, and Dr. George 
F. Piatt, of Chambersburg, Pa., is descended 
from Josiah. 

(II) JOSIAH PLATT (born at Mil- 
ford, Nov., 1645). son of (I) Josiah. mar- 
ried Dec. 2. 1669, Sarah, daughter of 
Thomas Canfield. They had four sons. 



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Josiah, John, Richard and Josepli, and four 
daughters, Sarah, Mary, Hannah and 
Abigail. 

(III) RICHARD PLATT (born 
1682). son of (II) Josiah. married Nov. 
7, 1706, Esther, daughter of Samuel Buck- 
ingham. They had two sons, Richard and 
Samuel, and three daughters, Esther, Ann 
and Mary. 

(IV) RICHARD PLATT (born Feb., 
1715 — died May 3. 1756). son of (III) 
Richard, married March i, 1737, Mehetable, 
daughter of Ebenezer Fisk. They had one 
son, Richard, and one daughter, Mehetable. 

(V) RICHARD PLATT (born 
March 30, 1742), son of (IV) Richard, 
married Sarah, daughter of Caleb Camp. 
They had two sons, Richard and Fisk. 

(VI) FISK PLATT (born in 1768— 
died in 1847), son of (V) Richard, was a 
farmer. He married Aug. 8, 1792, Sarah, 
daughter of Jonah and Phebe Newton. 
Sarah Newton was descended from Rev. 
Thomas Hooker, the founder of the Hart- 
ford (Conn.) Colony, who is credited by 
John Fiske with being the author of the 
first written constitution that created a gov- 
ernment, and marks the beginning of the 
Republican system in America. Fisk and 
Sarah (Newton) Piatt had three sons, New- 
ton, Richard and Jonah, and four daughters, 
Sarah, Catharine, Susan and Phebe Maria. 

(VII) NEWTON PLATT (born in 
1792 — died 1863), son of Fisk and Sarah 
(Newton) Piatt, was a farmer. He was a 
member of the Congregational Church at 
IMilford. He married Oct. 18, 1821. .\nna. 
daughter of Abraham and Mehetal)le ( Peck ) 
Clark. They had issue : 

1. Sarah N., married Enoch Clark. 

2. Adelia C, married John L. 
Merwin. 

3. Charlotte A. married David N. 
Clark. 



4. Susan W. married William B» 
Smith. 

5. Henry N. 

6. Jonah C. 

7. George F. (VIII). 

8. Abraham Clark. 

9. Leangr-a. S. married David N. 
Clark. 

(VIII) GEORGE FISK PLATT 
(born at Milford, Conn., April 10, 1835), 
son of Newton and Anna (Clark) Piatt, 
was educated in the schools at Milford, his 
native town, and studied dentistry at New 
Haven. His professional education was 
obtained in the Medical Department of Yale 
College, and at the Pennsylvania College of 
Dental Surgery, Philadelphia, in which Dr. 
Jacob L. Suesserott, of Chambersburg, was 
Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics.- 
He was graduated at the latter institution 
in i860, at the head of his class. Upon re- 
ceiving his degree he was induced to come- 
to Chambersburg to take charge of Dr. 
Suesserott's dental practice. He continued 
in the practice of his profession without in- 
terruption for two years, but in the second' 
year of the Civil war he responded to the 
urgent call of his country for soldiers to 
repel an active and confident enemy. He 
enlisted in Company D, Capt. John H. Reed's- 
126th Regiment, P. V., Aug. 9. 1862. He 
was made orderly sergeant of his company, 
and was with his regiment in the terrible 
battle of Fredericksburg. Dec. 13, 1862. 
He was promoted to be first lieutenant. Feb. 
24, 1863, and reniained with his company 
until it was mustered out, on the 20th of 
May, participating in the severe fighting at 
Chancellorsville that marked the beginning 
of the month in which his tern-i of enlist- 
nient expired. In the battle of Chancellors- 
ville he served as adjutant of his regiment. 
After being mustered out of service Lieut.. 
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sumed the practice of liis profession, in 
wliicli lie lias since continued, always witli 
marl<ed success. His skill is unquestioned, 
but he attributes his prosperity as much to 
close application and honesty and fairness 
in all his dealings. 

As a young man Dr. Piatt was a mem- 
ber of the First Congregational Church at 
Mil ford, but after coming to Chambersburg 
he united with the Falling Spring Presby- 
terian Cliurch, of which he has been a ruling 
elder since 1861, and was superintendent of 
the Sunday-school for twenty-eight years, 
1868-96. He is a member of the Children's 
Aid Society of Franklin County, and a di- 
rector and vice-president. He has not sought 
political preferment, but was for four terms 
a member of the Chambersburg school 
board. For many years he has been a 
trustee of the Chambersburg Academy, and 
is now president of the Board. For fi\e 
years he was director of the National Bank 
of Chambersburg, and he is the president of 
the Mechanics' Building and Loan Associa- 
tion. He is a member of Housum Post, No. 
309, G. A. R., and was chosen commander 
of the post in 1887. In politics he has been 
a lifelong Republican. 

Dr. Piatt married, in 1863, Mary M. 
Montague, daughter of Obed and Alary 
(Newell) Montague, of South Hadley, 
Mass., and they had issue : 

1. Edwin Montague was educated at 
the Chambersburg .Academy. After leaving 
school he was clerk in the Cressler drug 
store ; he was graduated at the College of 
Pharmacy, Philadelphia, and has a drug 
store in West Philadelphia. He married 
Annie Getz, of York, Pennsylvania. 

2. George Fisk was educated at the 
Chambersburg Academy. He was a clerk- 
in the drug store of W. E. Finney ; was 
graduated at the College of Pharmacy, 
Philadelphia ; and is now engaged in a drug 



store in New York City. He married Grace 
Ritter, of New Haven, Conn., Oct. 15, 1896, 
and they have issue : Eleanore, George New^- 
ton and Wallace Ritter. 

3. Cl.\rence Newton was educated at 
the Chambersburg Academy; he has been 
employed with the Harrisburg Patriot and in- 
the Harrisburg National Bank, and is now 
with the Central Iron and Steel Co., of 
Harrisburg. 

4. AIary Newell, who is li\ing at 
home, was educated in the public schools of 
Chambersburg and Wilson College. In 
politics our subject is a lifelong Republican, 

MICHAEL FAMILY. (I) JOHN 
MICHAEL, founder of the family in Amer- 
ica, was born Nov. 14, 1766, and came from 
Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, to Amer- 
ica when a young man. After locating in 
the New Land he settled at Hanover, 
Dauphin Co., Pa., where he engaged in a 
dry goods business. He married Miss 
Catherine Beltz, of Baltimore, born April 
I, 1769. They made their home in Hanover, 
Pa., he becoming one of the solid men of 
the place, and there he died June 29, 18 14, 
while his wife died Oct. 12, 1829. They 
were members of the Reformed Church. 
The children born to them were : 

1. Elizabeth, born Sept. 24, 1792. 

2. John, bom July 3, 1798. 

3. Jacob, born March 7, 1800. 

4. Anna Maria, born Jan. 28, 1802. 

5. William, born Jan. 21, 1804. 

6. Susanna, born Jan. 10, 1806. 

7. Henriett.\, born July 2^,, 1807. 

8. Charles (II), born Jan. i, 1811. 
(II) CHARLES AIICHAEL was one 

of the best known members of the medical 
profession in Franklin county at the time of 
his death, Feb. 14, 1871. Dr. Michael was 
reared in Hanover, Dauphin Co., Pa., where 
he received a common school education, and 



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WAS graduated from the Washington Medi- 
cal College of Baltimore in 1832. He then 
came to Greencastle where he located. In 
addition to his other advantages he had the 
privilege of reading medicine with Dr. 
James Henry Miller, professor of the col- 
lege where he took his degree. L^pon set- 
tling in Greencastle he commenced his prac- 
tice which lasted for a period of thirty-nine 
years, and brought him much honor, many 
friends and success in a financial way. Be- 
ing a man of liberal mind, devoted to his 
profession and a close student, he became 
very skillful, and was a recognized authority 
•throughout the county. Not only were Dr. 
Michael's patients to be found among the 
rich and powerful, as his services were just 
as willingly extended to those who had noth- 
ing to give in return. In political matters 
he was a strong Democrat, but was not a 
man to seek office, the cares of his life work 
absorbing his time and energ}-. 

Dr. ^lichael married Miss Sidney M. 
Wilhelm, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth 
{Carpenter) Wilhelm, born in Greencastle, 
Feb. 14, 1814, and she died Xov. 14, 1902. 
For seventy-two years she was a member of 
the Lutheran Church of Greencastle, and 
a constant attendant upon its services. The 
children born to Dr. and Mrs. ^^lichael were : 

1. Anx Eliz.\betii married Col. G. 
W. Collier, deceased, of the L'nited States 
Marine Corps, who was in the service for 
thirty years, but was retired in November, 
1889, at the age of fifty-nine years. He was 
a native of Ellicott City, Md., and the son 
of John and Margaretta (Michael) Collier. 
Fraternally he was a member of the 
]\Iasonic order. They had issue : Emily S. 
and Helen M. 

2. Helex Josephine married Snively 
Strickler [see Strickler family] and they 
had issue: Lillian Mae, Joseph Snively and 
Charles Michael. 



HEGE FAMILY. HANS HEGE 
I born in Schauffhausen, near Zwei-Brucken, 
Switzerland — died in Lancaster county) 
emigrated to Pennsylvania from Rotterdam 
on the ship "Jamgs Goodwill," David 
Crocket, ^Master, landing at Philadelphia, 
Sept. 27. 1727. Among the passengers on 
the same shij) was his brother-in-law, Hans 
Lehman. He settled near Manheim, form- 
erly called Sticklestown, "in Rapho town- 
ship, Lancaster county, where he purchased 
a farm. He was buried on his farm. He 
left a number of daughters and a son named 
John (II). 

( II) JOHN HEGE (born in Switzer- 
land — died in Peters township), son of Hans 
Hege, tlie emigrant, came to Pennsylvania 
with his parents, and removed from Lancas- 
ter to Franklin county, settling near Bridge- 
port, now known as ]\Iarkes. He married 
Elizabeth Pealman, and they had issue : 

1. Anna married George Snively, of 
Lebanon county. 

2. John (III). 

3. Christi.\n (IV). 

4. J.\COB (V). 

5. Peter (born in 1759 — died Oct. i, 
1847) removed to Lawrence county. He 
married Elizabeth Rupe. and they had issue : 
Nancy, who married Frederick Myers ; John, 
who married Elizabeth Russle; Mary, who 
married John Fox ; Elizabeth, who married 
Lewis Hoopengardner : Susan, who married 
.\braham Fox; Peter, who married Maria 
Shofe : Jacob, who married "Jane Hoser ; 
Christopher, who married ]\Iartha Law : and 
Catharine, who married Abel Dean. 

6. Henry married ]\Iary Nissley, and 
lived in Dauphin county. 

7. Eliz.\beth married Christian Culp, 
of Lancaster county. 

(Ill ) JOHN HEGE. son of John and 
Elizabeth (Pealman) Hege, married Mary 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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1. Elizabeth married Mr. Easton. 

2. Maria married Solomon Slnick. and 
they had issue: John. Mary, Jacob and 
Catharine. 

3. Anna married Peter Snider and they 
had issue : Mary, who married Samuel 
George: Elizabeth, who married John 
Swartz ; George, wlio married Nancy Tan- 
ner ; Henry, who married Catharine Bohn : 
Nancy, who married John E. Wingerd : and 
Christiana, who married Jacob Keller. 

4. Esther. 

5. John. 

6. Peter. 

(IV) CHRISTIAN HEGE (born in 
Rapho township, Lancaster county, in 1751 
—died May 13. 1815), son of John and EHz- 
abeth (Peahnan) Hege, settled near Marion, 
. in Guilford township, and was a prosperous 
farmer and distiller. He married (first) 
Maria Stouffer (died June, 1784), and had 
issue : 

1. Anna marrierl John Snively [Snive- 
ly Family]. 

2. John (VI). 

3. Jacob (VII). 

4. Christian (VIII). 

Mr. Hege married, (second) Maria 
Shank (died Aug. 12, 1818), and they had 
isjue: 

^ r. Henry (born ]\Iay 23, 1790 — died 
July 16, 1820) iTiarried Sarah Zent, and 
they had issue: Mary (born May 8. 1816) 
married John Netzley; Susanna (born No- 
vember 2, 181 7 — died March 20, 1840) 
married John Ott; and Nancy (born Jan. 
23, 1820, died Sept. 30, 1843) married 
Charles Davine. 

2. Elizabeth (born June 23, 1792) 
married Samuel Zent, and went to Massil- 
lon, Ohio. They had issue: John, bom 
June 13, 1813, married Jemima Master; 
Susan, born March 9, 181 5, married Jere- 
miah Krider: Jacob, born Feb. 25, 1817, 



married Lucinda H. Boreland ; Mary, born 
Dec. 2, 1818, died July 20. 1819; Samuel. 
H., born April 29, 1820, married Charlotte 
Sherar; Nancy, born April 4, 1822, married 
John R. Bash; Eliza, born Sept. 30, 1824, 
marrietl Williaiu M. Sheaver : Peter W., 
born May 22. 1827, married (first) Belinda 
F. Ritter, and (second) Catharine H. Gal- 
latin : Martha, born April 8, 1830, married 
Theodore V. Horton ; Catharine, born Oct. 
6, 1832; Solomon, born March 10, 1834, 
died Nov. 15, 1834; and Jeremiah, born 
July 10, 1836, married Feb. 8, 1859, Mary 
C. Armstrong. 

3. Barbara, born Aug. 25, 1794, died 
in infancy. 

4. Catharine (bom Sept. 4. 1796 — 
died July 29, 1820) married John Feigh- 
ner, and they had issue: Henry and John. 

5. Martha (born April 30, 1798) 
married Philip Tritle, Waynesboro, and 
they had issue : Jacob married Sarah Ment- 
zer ; Susanna married Frederick Bell : Mary 
married Robert Mcllvany; Maria married 
Thomas Bovey; Elizabeth married John F. 
Walter; Rebecca married Valentine B. Gil- 
bert ; Anna Malinda married George Myers ; 
and John H. married Anna Walter. 

6. Peter (born Sept. 10, 1801) lived 
in Fairfield county, Ohio. He married Mary 
Updegraff, and they had issue: Samuel, 
bom Jan. 12, 1825, married Cynthia Hill; 
Louisa, born Jan. 13. 1827, married Wash- 
ington Burgett; Catharine, born Nov. 25, 
1828, married John Middles worth ; Mary, 
born April 10, 183 1. married Jedediah Al- 
len; Belinda Elizabeth, IxDrn Aug. 29, 1833, 
married James M. McBride ; Levi, born Feb. 
28, 1836; Enos, born March 6, 1838; Chris- 
tian, bom Feb. 2, 1841 ; William, born Sept. 
25, 1843; David, born Aug. 16, 1846, died 
Aug. 19, 1846; and Martha Jane, bom Oct. 

4. 1847- 

7. AIary (Polly) (born Feb. 25, 1805 



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■ — died March 7, 1856) married Daniel 
Tritle, of Waynesboro, and they had issue: 
Maria married Samuel B. Snively; and 
Franklin C. married Caroline Falkner. 

(V) JACOB HEGE, son of John and 
Elizabeth (Pealman) Hege. lived in Leb- 
anon county. He married (first) Elizabeth 
Rife, and they had issue : 

1. Henry. 

2. Elizabeth married Abraham Hun- 
secker (IX). 

Mr. Hege married (second) Barbara 
Kauffman, and they had issue: 

1. John married (first) Maria Grabill, 
and (second) a Gruber. 

2. Molly married Jacob Gontz. 

3. Jacob married Nancy Grabill. 

4. Barbara married Isaac Hofferd, a 
Mennonite bishop in Indiana. 

5. Catharine married Jacob Gontz. 

6. Nancy married Jacob Yotty. 

7. Mary married Mr. Foltz. 

(VI) JOHN HEGE (born Feb. 14, 
1778 — died Dec. 5, 1857). son of Christian 
and Maria (Stouffer) Hege, lived in Peters 
township, and was a farmer. He married 
Feb. 14, 1809, Maria Lesher (born April 
I?- ^nZ — cli^d J"lv 14, 1835), daughter of 
Jacob and Fanny (Gingerich) Lesher. They 
had issue : 

1. Henry L. (X). 

2. Jacob (XI). 

3. Christian, born Jan. 22, 1814, died 
July 21, 1843. 

4. Mary married John Hawk (XII) 

5. Elizabeth married Rev. Benjamin 
Lesher [Lesher Families]. 

(VII) JACOB HEGE (born March i, 
1780), son of Christian and Maria (Stouf- 
fer) Hege, was a farmer near Marion. He 
was installed a minister of the Mennonite 
Church, March 17. 1832. He married 
March 26, 1805. Martha Lesher (l)orn Dec. 
22, 1778 — died June 19, 1851), daughter 



of Jacob and Fanny (Gingerich) Lesher, 
and they had issue : 

1. Mary (born March 23, 1806) mar- 
ried Jan. 27, 1825, Christian Lesher; nO' 
issue. 

2. Jacob (born Feb. 2"], 1808 — died 
Sept. 4. 1869) married March 20, 1834, 
Mary Swartz (bom Dec. 16, 181 6 — died 
June 24, 1897), and had issue: Elizabeth^ 
born April 19, 1835, married Sept. 20, 1855, 
Israel Reif and had Rebecca (born Jan. 16, 
1857) and Jacob (born Oct. 21, 1858); 
Mary, bom June 5, 1837, married Aug. 21, 
1856, IMichael H. Martin and had Mary 
(born July 27, 1857) and Elizabeth (born 
Feb. 5. 1859) ; Martha, born Alarch 26, 
1839. married Oct. 14, 1858, Peter Eshle- 
man; Anna, born May 25, 1842; Benjamin, 
born Jan. 29, 1844: Sarah, born Oct. 30, 
1845: Rebecca, born April 11, 1848; and 
Henry, born Dec. 19, 1851. 

3. Christian, born Oct. 4, 1809, died 
Jan. 24, 1830. 

4. Henry (XHI). 

5. Martha (bom Dec. 15, 1812) mar- 
ried, Feb. 2. 1832, John Over (born Dec. 14, 
1801), and had issue: Jacob, born July 7, 
1834, died April 13, 1836. 

6. Fanny (torn March 12, 1816) mar- 
ried. Nov. 19, 1833, David Gsell (born May 
2-], 1810). and had issue: Martha, borm 
Sejit. 19. 1834, married Daniel Foreman; 
Jacob, Ijorn March 25, 1836, married Miss 
Foreman; David H., bom Dec. i, 1837 r 
Mary, born May 10, 1839. married Chris- 
tian Bear; Michael H., born March 2},. 1840, 
married (first) Hannah LowTy, and had' 
George and David, and married (second) 
Mrs. Susan Benedict, and had Creston ; 
Susan, horn June 15. 1843; Andrew, born- 
May 19, 1845; 'i"fl ^^'illiam, born Nov. 23, 

1847- 

7. Jon.v, horn April 29. 1818, died Nov- 

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8. Peter, born Jan. 27, 1820, died Nov. 

-22, 1 82 1. 

9. Michael (born July 23, 1823 — died 
July 2, 1896) married Nov. 20, 1845, ^^' 
becca Weaver (born Jan. 19, 1825), daugh- 
ter of Jacob and Mary (Diller) Weaver. 
They had issue: Jacob W., born Aug. i, 
1847, f^i^d Oct. 5, 1849: Maria, torn May 
4, 185 1, and Martha, bom Oct. 19, 1858. 

(VIII) CHRISTIAN HEGE (born 
Feb. 24, 1784), son of Christian and Maria 
(Stouffer) Hege, lived in Fulton county, 
and was a farmer and distiller: he also 
owned a number of fine teams that were very 
profitable before the era of railroads. He 
married Elizabeth Bohn, and they had 



issue : 



1. Elizabeth married (first) Henry 
Washabaugh: (second) David Butterbaugh. 

2. Christian (died in 1865) was a 
farmer in Fulton county. He married Eliz- 
abeth McGlaughlin, and they had issue: 
Mary married Samuel Washabaugh ; Sarah 
Ann married Nicholas Straley; Louisiana 
married David Straley ; Nancy married Sam- 
uel Soard; Henry W. (born 1833), who 
served in Company E, 49th P. V. I., 1864- 
65. married Elizabeth Cooper, and had Ru- 
anna (who died young), David, John, 
George W. (who died in 1888) and Annie 
Amelia : Daniel : Joseph married Elizabeth 
Miller; John (died unmarried) : and Chris- 
tian married Kate Hastey. 

3. V.^lentine married Elizabeth Lit- 
ten. 

4. Mary (Polly) married Joshua Ste- 
vens. 

5. Nancy married Jacob Bittner. 

6. Peter married Rachel Litten. 

7. Catharine married Abraham Car- 
baugh. 

8. Martha married John Stenger. 

9. John married Elizalieth Glen. 
<IX) ELIZABETH HEGE, daughter 



of Jacob and Elizabeth (Rife) Hege. mar- 
ried Abraham Hunsecker (died 1843), ^ 
farmer of Letterkenny township; they had 
issue : 

1. John (born Aug. 28, 1810— died 
July 2, 1892) was a bishop of the Mennon- 
ite Church. He married Lydia Sherk (born 
in 181 2 — died March, 1883), and had issue: 
Catharine; Abraham, who died in 1903; 
Elizabeth ; Jacob ; Lydia ; John, who died in 
1897; Samuel, deceased; Mary; Solomon; 
Aaron ; Adaline, Daniel and Leah. 

2. Jacob died unmarried in January, 
1879. 

3. Abraham went to Ohio. He mar- 
ried Susanna Brenner, and had issue: Jacob- 
and John. 

^ (X) HENRY LESHER HEGE( born 
July 12, 1810 — died Jan. 4. 1870), son of 
John and Maria ( Lesher) Hege, was a suc- 
cessful farmer and owned a number of val- 
uable farms. He was a Mennonite. He 
married Dec. 11, 1839, Elizabeth Gsell (born 
Jan. 23, 1817), daughter of John Gsell, of 
Lancaster county. They had issue: 

1. John G., (born Nov. 26, 1840) mar- 
ried Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Joseph 
M. and Elizabeth (Roland) Smith, of Wash- 
ington county, Maryland. 

2. Maria Ttorn Feb. 16, 1844) mar- 
ried Samuel Heckman, of St. Thomas town- 
ship. 

3. Samuel G. .(XIV). 

4. Daniel (XV). 

5. Henry G. (XVI). 

(XI) JACOB HEGE (born Aug. 28. 
1811 — died April 15, 1880), son of John 
and Maria (Lesher) Hege, was a farmer on 
the old Hege homestead. He married Dec. 
17, 1844, Elizabeth Weaver (horn March 
22, 1820). daughter of Jacob and Mary 
(Diller) Weaver. They had issue: 

1. Jacob W^, (XVII). 

2. George (XVIII). 



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(XII) MARY HEGE (born March 
17. 1817 — died April, 1877), daughter of 
John and Maria (Lasher) Hege, married 
Jan. 17, 1843. Joh'i Hawk (born near 
Myerstown. Yeh. 6, 181 1 — died Sept. 20, 
1903), son of Jacob and EHzabeth (Wal- 
bom) Hawk, by whom he was brought to 
Eranklin county when only four years old. 
Jacob Hawk (died Dec. 3, 1876) and Eliza- 
beth Walborn (died in 1857), his wife, were 
both natives of Lebanon county. He was a 
farmer and removed to Franklin county in 
181 5. They had seven children: Mary, who 
died unmarried ; John ; Catharine, who mar- 
ried John Miller; Elizabeth, who married 
Samuel Sellers; William, who married Eliz- 
abeth Miller; Jacob, who was killed in New 
Orleans in 1861 ; and Margaret, who died 
unmarried. John, the eldest son, was a 
farmer in Peters township, owning 460 
acres of land, and he led an active life and 
was a highly respected citizen. In politics 
lie was a Republican, and although never 
seeking political preferment he was a school 
director of Peters township for a number of 
teiTHS, and he also served as township audi- 
tor. He was a member of the Reformed 
Church. John and Mary (Hege) Hawk 
bad issue: 

1. Eliz.\beth, born Oct. 21, 1843, ^lied 
Oct. 19, 1852. 

2. S.\R.\H, born June 24, 1846, died 
Nov. 18, 1852. 

3. John Hege (born Sept. 23. 1848), 
a farmer, has served as a school director, and 
as an elder of the' Reformed Church. He 
married Oct. 17, 1876, Ida Belle Brewer, 
■daughter of Daniel Brewer, and they had two 
-daughters : Bessie Viola and Minnie Belle. 

4. .\ daughter, born July 28, 1850. died 
in infancy. 

5. A.ARON (XIX). 

6. Anna M.^ri.-\, born April 14, 1856, 
<bed Oct. 13. 1856. 



7. Fannie married David Coble, of St. 
Thomas township. 

'^(XIII) HENRY HEGE (born Jan. 
17. 181 1 — died in 1881), son of Jacob and 
Martha (Lesher) Hege, was a farmer in 
Guilford township. He married Dec. 29, 
1831. Margaret Bitner (born Jan. 10,1813). 
They had issue : 

1. Henrv B. (born Nov. 23, 1833) 
married j\lay 22, 1856, Susan Wildeson 
(born Feb. 25, 1838), and had issue: Jacob 
\\'.. born March 4, 1857 — died Sept. 30, 
1857; and William, born ^larch 4, 1859. 

2. Mary, born Aug. 5, 1835, died June 

3- 1844- 

3. Jacob B. (born Aug. 4, 1837 — died 
May 7, 1900) was struck by a train on the 
Western Marvland Railroad. He had two 
sons ; Harry C. and Frank V. 

4. Martha (born July 13, 1839) mar- 
ried Nov. 18, 1858, Andrew A. Hess, born 
Feb. 7, 1836. 

5. Christian B., (XX). 

6. Elizabeth (born Dec. 26, 1842) 
married Daniel Deardorfif. 

7. Susan (born Oct. 25, 1844) married 
John G. Miller. 

8. John B. (XXI). 

9. Frederick, born June 5, 1849. 

10. Marg.^ret. born May 15, 1853, 
died in 1859. 

11. Samuel (born Aug. 7, 1855) is 
I)assenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio 
railroad, Washington, D. C. 

(XIV) SAMUEL G. HEGE (born in 
Peters township, near Williamson, Nov. 9, 
1845). SO" of Henry L. and Elizabeth 
(Gsell) Hege, was educated in the public 
schools of Peters township and at the Lititz 
Academy, Lancaster county. After leaving 
.school he engaged in farming, at which he 
continued until 1899. He is a director in 
the Centennial Fire Insurance Company, 
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five years. He was the census enumerator 
for Peters township in 1891, and is now a 
school director for the borougli of Mercers- 
burg, being elected as a Republican in 1903. 
He has been active and influential in party 
work, and is regarded as a safe and conserva- 
tive counselor. \\'ith his wife he is a mem- 
ber of the Back Creek congregation of the 
German Baptist Church. Mr. Hege mar- 
ried Oct. 26, 1 87 1, Sarah Kinsey Geib (born 
April 4, 1854), daughter of Jacob and Fan- 
nie (Kinsey) Geib. They had one child, 
born March 19, 1875, who died in infancy; 
and they have an adopted daughter. Vera 
F., whom they took when she was only 
eleven months old. and who is now an ac- 
complished young lady. 

■ (XV) " DANIEL HEGE (born in 
Peters township, near Williamson, Nov. 5, 
1847). son of Henry L. and Elizabeth 
(Gsell) Hege, was educated in the public 
schools in Peters township, at the Lititz 
Academy in Lancaster county, and at the 
Chambersburg Academy. .After leaving 
school he returned to the farm in Peters 
township, on which he was reared, and he 
has since been engaged in farming with the 
exception of a few years. In 1885 he rented 
the "Antrim Hotel" in Greencastle from Mr. 
Gaff, and conducted it for two years. He 
then bought the property, one square north 
of the hotel, where the Lutheran parsonage 
now is, where he lived eight years. He fin- 
ally removed to the farm on which he now 
resides, near Rockdale, in St. Thomas town- 
ship. This farm, which contains forty-three 
acres, was known for more than a century as 
the old Stouffer homestead. Before going 
to Greencastle he served three terms as a 
.school director in Peters township, and was 
a Republican candidate for county commis- 
sioner in 1881. .\t that time the county 
was strongly Democratic, and he was de- 
feated by only 14 votes, which was a large 



gain over his party vote. With his wile he 
is a member of the Lutheran Church. He 
married Mary Frances Gsell, daughter of 
John Gsell, of near Upton; they had issue: 

1. Bessie M.\y. 

2. Carrie M. 

3. Henry L. 

4. John H. 

5. Frank Bushey. 

6. Ruth Gsell. 

7. Samuel G. 

(XVI) HENRY G. HEGE (born in 
Peters township Oct. 15. 1852), son of 
Henry L. and Elizabeth (Gsell) Hege, was 
educated in the public schools, at the Lititz 
Academy in Lancaster county, and at the 
Chambersburg Academy. After leaving 
school he engaged in the stock buying busi- 
ness for tw-elve years, and then gave his 
attention to farming for eight years. In 
1S85 'is went into the creamery business at 
Williamson. He and his family are mem- 
bers of the Trinity Lutheran Church of 
Lemaster. Fraternally he holds member- 
ship in Marshall Lodge, No. 233, I. O. O. 
F., Mercersburg, which he joined March 15, 
1897. He married, Oct. 26, 1876, Annie 
Kinsey Geib, daughter of Jacob and Fannie 
(Kinsey) Geib, and they have issue: 

1. Grace E. Myrtle. 

2. Ora May, born 1882, died July 19, 
1891. 

(XVII) JACOB W. HEGE (born in 
Peters township. Dec. 26, 1845), son of 
Jacob and Elizabeth ( Weaver) Hege. was 
educated in the public schools, and at the 
Lititz Academy, in Lancaster county, .\fter 
completing- his education he returned to the 
old Hege homestead where he still lives. He 
married in January. 1873, Mary Kriner, 
daughter of Joseph Kriner, and they have 
issue : Elizabeth ; John H., deceased ; Annie ; 
Ida ; Emma ; and Elam. Annie is married 
to Edward Coble Greenawalt, and they have 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



had born to their union one daughter, Mabel ; 
.tiiey are now living on the farm of his 

father, county commissioner Daniel W. 
'Greenawalt, located in Peters township. 
In 1881 Jacob W. Hege, with a number 

• of others, organized a creamery association 
in Williamson, and through the united ef- 
forts of all concerned it became a prosperous 
association, this being the first creamery in 
Franklin county, Pa. He filled the office of 

■ director, and part of the time was secretary 
of the association. In the year 1896 he with 

■ others organized a Co-operative Creamery 
Association in Williamson, known as the 
Williamson Farmers Co-operative Creamery 
Association ; at this time he was elected a 

■ director, and also treasurer of the same, 
w liich positions he now very ably and accep- 
tably fills in the association. At present 
this association is in a prosperous and suc- 
cessful condition. During the year 1894, in 

• company with three others, Mr. Hege or- 
ganized a stone crusher company, which is 
now actively engaged in such enterprise. In 
1902 the Citizens' National Bank of Green- 
castle was organized, and at that time he 
was elected one of its directors; one year 
afterward it became necessary for a vice- 
president to be elected, and he was chosen, 
and is now serving in this institution, which 
is in a highly flourishing condition. 

In August. 1892, Mr. Hege was or- 
dained by Bishop J. N. Brubaker, of Mt. 
Joy, Lancaster Co., Pa., to the office of min- 
ister of the Mennonite Church, and was 
eneaeed in active service in the ministry 
until September, 1902, when, through diffi- 
culties, he severed his connection with the 
church. After due and proper consideration 
he and his wife united with St. Luke's Evan- 
gelical Lutheran Church, of Williamson. 
Pa., on Dec. 18, 1904. He now fills the 
office of elder in this church, to which posi- 
tion he was elected Feb. 26, 1905. He is 



vice-president of the church council, and is 
an active and efficient officer. He is an 
able, consistent and consecrated member of 
the church, and is an earnest, faithful, influ- 
ential and zealous Sunday-school worker. 

(XVIII) GEORGE HEGE (born m 
Peters township, April 30, 1849 — ^'^d July 
29. 1904), son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
(Weaver) Hege, was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Peters township, and was 
reared on the old Hege homestead. He was 
ordained May 18, 1889, by Bishop W. A. 
Gont, of Virginia, as a minister of the Ger- 
man Baptist Church, and was engaged 
in ministerial work ever after. He ser\etl 
two years as a deacon before he was elected 
to the ministry, and was secretary of the 
church from 1880. He was for three years 
superintendent of the first Sunday School 
established by his denomination in Peters 
township. He married Nov. 23, 1871, Fan- 
nie Etter, daughter of Samuel and Catherine 
(Kuntz) Etter, and they had issue: 

1. Cl.\r.\ Eliz.\beth died in infancy. 

2. William Milton married Mary R. 
Shindle, daughter of Jacob Shindle. 

3. M.'\RTHA E. 

4. Hettie E. died aged three years. 

(XIX) AARON HAWK (born in 
Peters township July 8, 1852), son of John 
and Mary (Hege) Hawk, was reared on 
the old Hawk homestead on which he now 
lives, and was educated in the public schools. 
He is now serving his ninth year as a school 
director of Peters township. Like his 
father and grandfather he is a member of 
the Reformed Church. He married Dec. 
25, 1S79. Elizabeth Hartman. daughter of 
Conrad and Mary (Long) Hartman and 
they have issue: Mary F. (who was mar- 
ried June 2, 1903, to Nathan Miller Greena- 
walt, and has one child, Dordia, born Aug. 
17. 1904), David A., John E., Carrie E., 
Paul H, and Irene. 



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(XX) CHRISTIAN BITNER HEGE 
(born July 17, 1841), son of Henry and 
Margaret (Bitner) Hege, is a prominent 
farmer of Guilford township. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools, and is a man of 
unusual intelligence. As a practical and 
progressive farmer he has few equals. He 
became the owner of a fine farm on the 
Chambersburg & Greencastle Road, north 
of Marion, known as the old Grossman farm. 
When this farm had been in his possession 
only three years, he grew twelve hundred 
bushels of wheat and sixty tons of hay on a 
cultivated plat of ninety-five acres. This 
large yield was due to the first-class care of 
the soil and his systematic farming. While 
on the farm he at one time had the finest 
dairy herd of Jersey cows in Franklin 
county, and also fine hogs and poultry. 
From 1865 until the spring of 870 he was 
engaged in general merchandising in Mar- 
ion, but closed out and returned to farming. 
He has represented Franklin county on the 
State Board of Agriculture since 1895, and 
he is now serving his fourth term of three 
years. When he first became a member of 
the Board he had difficulty in securing money 
enough to meet the expenses of the associa- 
tion in the county, but by good management 
he has secured for it a large membership 
with a surplus of $1.50 in the treasury. At 
first little interest was manifested in the 
work, but under his leadership agriculture 
in Franklin county has greatly improved. 
He has also been largely instrumental in im- 
proving and increasing the fruit growing in- 
dustries of the county. In May, 1903, he 
was appointed by the United States Govern- 
ment, as weather observer of the Meteoro- 
logical Bureau for Marion and Franklin 
county. In politics he is a Republican, and 
has served on the election board of his dis- 
trict in Guilford township for many years. 
He has always been an active Republican 



worker, but has steered clear of crooked poli- 
tics. He is a director in the Centennial Fire 
Insurance Company, of Cumberland and 
Franklin counties, and is president of the 
Maplewood Cemetery Association. He is 
a member of the Lutheran Church and a dea- 
con in the church at Marion. Mr. Hege 
married, Jan. 8, 1862, Annie Grossman, 
daughter of Samuel and Catharine Gross- 
man. Mrs. Hege's father, Samuel Gross- 
man, was a son of Jacob Grossman, who 
came to Guilford township from Lancaster 
county. They were both prominent farmers 
and leading citizens. She was one of a 
large family of children, the others lieing: 
Susan, who married John Wilkison, of 
Iowa : Jacob, a prominent stockdealer of Illi- 
nois ; Samuel, of Iowa : John, a college pro- 
fessor in Illinois; Jeremiah, a farmer in 
Iowa; Daniel, a piiysician in Iowa; Emma, 
who married John Seiders, of Iowa; Eliza- 
beth, who married Frank Miller, of Marion ; 
and Alfred, of Iowa. Christian B. and 
Annie Hege have issue : 

1. Alice K.. married J. Frank Hoover, 
of Fayetteville. and they have issue : Ches- 
ter and Vera. 

2. Edward B. married Margaret Gro\ e, 
of Greencastle, and they have issue : May 
Irene. Elizabeth, Hugh, Grace and Paul. 

3. Samuel E., lives in Denver, Colo., 
and is manager of the National Life Insur- 
ance company, at a large salaiy. He mar- 
ried Mabel Leacock, of Kansas, and they 
have issue : Harle, Carl and Clyde. 

4. Grace married E. K. Rafif, of Cham- 
bersburg, and they have issue : Gladys Adill. 

fXXI) JOHN BITNER HEGE (born 
March 13, 1847), son of Henry and Mar- 
garet (Bitner) Hege. was brought up on the 
old Hege homestead near Marion, and was 
educated in the public schools of Guilford 
townshi]). He worked on his father's farm 
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went to Chambersburg and took a position 
as clerk in a store. After a brief e.xperience 
in tliis business, he took a course of instruc- 
tion at the County Normal School to pre- 
pare for teaching, and then began his long 
and successful career as a teacher in Guil- 
ford township. He gave twenty-five years 
of his life to his profession, and for ten 
years he was principal of the graded school 
at Marion, and for many years he was one 
of the leaders and active workers in the 
Teachers Institute of Franklin county. He 
is well-known all over the county as a writer 
on local subjects. He became a regular 
correspondent of Public Opinion in 1885. 
and still continues to serve that journal. He 
has also edited and published a work known 
as "Marion and its Environments." He has 
preserved all his writings in carefully pre- 
pared and inde.xed scrap books, and they 
will prove a rich mine for the future histo- 
rian for the period they cover. In politics 
he is a lifelong Republican. He has 
served as a member of the Republican 
county committee, and has frequently served 
on the election board of his district. Mr. 
Hege married Nov. 25. 1875, Rebecca Fred- 
erick, daughter of Samuel Frederick, for 
many years a miller on the East Conoco- 
cheague. near Marion; they have no issue. 
Mrs. Hege's brother Samuel and sister Eliz- 
abeth live on the old Frederick homestead in 
Guilford township. Mr. and Mrs. Hege are 
members of the Reformed church of Marion. 

FOLTZ FAMILY. JOSEPH FOLTZ 
(born in Germany — died in Heidelberg 
township, then Dauphin county, in T791). 
ancestor of the Foltz family of Franklin 
county, emigrated to Pennsylvania on the 
ship "Anderson." Capt. Hugh Campbell, 
landing at Philadelphia, Aug. 26, 1751. He 
settled in Heidelberg township in what is 
now Lebanon countv, where he was the 



owner of 130 acres of land. By his will, 
which was dated March 12, 1791, he gave 
his wife Catharine Elizabeth, one hundred 
pounds, Pennsylvania currency, besides the 
goods that she brought to him when they 
were married. Joseph and Catharine Eliza- 
beth Foltz had issue : 

1. I'^RANCis, whose descendants live in 
Heidelberg township, Lebanon county. 

2. Frederick (II). 

3. Marg.\ret. 

4. M.\Ri.\ died unmarried, in 1821. 

5. catharine. 

6. Elizabeth. 

One of the daughters of Joseph Foltz 
married John Kerper. 

(II) FREDERICK FOLTZ (born near 
Schafferstown. Lebanon county — died in De- 
cember. 1822), son of Joseph and Catha- 
rine Elizabeth Foltz. removed to Franklin 
county about 1790. and settled on a farm 
near L'pper Strasburg, at the foot of the 
North Mountain. He was a man of pleasant 
manners, a good farmer and prudent in busi- 
ness. Mr. Foltz married in 1780, Mary 

Eve (born in 1763 — died March 28, 

1840). They had issue: 

1. John married Miss Reed, removed 
to Wayne county, Ohio, about 1836. 

2. Jonathan married Susan Richard. 

3. Frederick (HI). 

4. D.wiD (born Dec. 5, 1786) married 
Barabara Houser : they had ten children. 

Mary married Conrad Goldsmith. 
Christian (IV). 

7. Samuel (V). 

8. Joseph married a daughter of John 
Dice : thev had three children. 



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May I, 1815) married Joseph Flickinger, a 
farmer in Path \'alley. She is buried in 
Flickinger's graveyard, near Fannettsburg. 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OV FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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Frederick and Mary Eve Foltz, was a fanner 
near L'pper Strasburg, on the farm where 
Isaac Hunsecker now hves. In politics he 
was a Democrat. He married Catharine 
Grove (born Aug. 20, 1792 — died May 9, 
1884), a sister of the late John Grove, of 
Chambersburg ; they had issue : 

1. Anna Maria^ born Nov. 24, 181 1, 
died Feb. 21, 1846. 

2. Malinda married Dec. 17, 1850, 
John S. Brake, a farmer of Letterkenny 
township; they had four children, all de- 
ceased. 

3. Joseph married Mary Zimmerman, 
and had issue : David D., w-ho married 
Minnie Taylor, and have Forrest and Mary; 
Emma C, who married David Kohr, and 
have Nellie (married to Harry Swanger), 
Jennie, Carrie and Emma ; Ella, who married 
Willis Kohr, and have Effie, Grace and 
Steward ; and Sarah V., who married Wil- 
liam Seitsinger. 

4. Christian (born Aug. 2, 181 5 — 
died Sept. 6, 1891) was a noted hunter. 

5. William^ deceased. 

6. John, deceased. 

7. Fr.\nk, living in California. 

(IV) CHRISTIAN FOLTZ (bom 
May 12, 1790 — died Sept. 15, 1862), son of 
Frederick and Mary Eve Foltz, lived on his 
father's farm, near Upper Strasburg, 1816- 
21; on the Philip Felty farm, 1821-22; on 
the Judge Eaton farm, seven miles west of 
Chambersburg, 1822-27; on the Adam 
Stenger farm, near Upper Strasburg, 1827- 
30; on the Wolgomote farm, which he 
owned, 1830-35 ; on the Hetrich farm, two 
miles from Strasburg. 1835-37; in the Col- 
lege building, Mercersburg^ where he was 
steward of Marshall College, 1837-40: in 
the Carson house, Mercersburg, 1840-41 ; in 
the McFerren tavern, afterward ]\IcAfee"s. 
1841-44; at the "White House," Parnell's 
Knob, 1844-45 • o" "^'le Whitmer farm, 1845- 

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47 ; and on the Claylick Hall farm and 
tavern stand, 1847-51. His last years were 
spent in St. Thomas. He was a Lutheran 
and his wife a member of the Reformed 
Church. Mr. Foltz married (first), Jan. 17, 
1 816, Hannah Keefer (born Aug. 15, 1796 
— died Feb. 3, 1851), daughter of Christian 
and Elizabeth (Sells) Keefer; they had 
issue : 

1. Infant son died Dec. 8, 1816. 

2. Infant daughter (twin of preceding) 
died Dec. 11, 1816. 

3. Barnet (VI). 

4. George W. (VII). 

5. Elizabeth married Rev. I. S; 
Weisz (VIII). 

6. Mary Ann (born Nov. 24, 1822) 
married Rudolphus Palsgrove (died 1888), 
a shoemaker and farmer. They had twelve 
children. The aged widow lives with 
her son George W. Palsgrove, at Hagers- 
town. 

7. Hannah Jane (born Oct. 19, 1824 
— died Jan. 24, 1901) married May 12, 
1845, John William Lescher (born in 
Northampton county, May 23, 181 7 — died 
Jan. 27, 1875), who began his classical 
studies in 1838, under the Rev. Dr. Vander- 
vier, and entered the Theological Seminary 
at Mercersburg in 1841. He was licensed 
to preach by the Eastern Pennsylvania 
Classis of the Reformed Church in 1844. 
His first field of labor w-as at Wilkesbarre 
as a missionary, and he was chosen super- 
intendent of the public schools of Luzerne 
county in 1S54. He afterward taught a 
private school at Easton for a number of 
years, and subsequently served congrega- 
tions at Bloomsburg, Selinsgrove and 
Lyken's Valley, his ministry covering a 
period of thirty years. Rev. John W. and 
Hannah Jane (Foltz) Lescher had issue: 
Eleanor, Theodore, George C, Zacharias, 
Lizzie, William, Clara, Edmund and Nevin. 



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8. Christian C. (born Nov. 2, 1826— 
died Nov. 17, 1902) was a coachmaker by 
trade, and was a member of the coach-mak- 
ing firm of Peififer & Fohz, 1860-64. Early 
in the Civil war he performed important 
duties as a scout, and was Captain of a 
Cavalry Company of forty-seven men en- 
listed in the .service of 1862. Later he was 
a constable and detective in Chambersburg, 
and was deputy sheriff, 1871-75. He mar- 
ried Elmira Betz; they had issue: Jennie, 
wiio married Charles B. Smiley, and have 
one daughter, Helen ; and H. Clay, of Ven- 
tura, California. 

9. Daniel (IX). 

10. Frederick P. (X). 

1 1. Cyrus (XI). 

12. Rebecca Lucinda (born Jan. 2-. 
1835) married Cyrus Smith, son of William 
and Eliza (Gelwicks) Smith. He served in 
Company B, ist Maryland Volunteers, in 
the Civil war. They had issue: Calvin 
(born in Maryland), now living in Kansas. 

13. Moses A. (XII). 

14. Martin Luther (XIII). 

Mr. Foltz married (second) Catharine 
Brindle, daughter of Michael and Catharine 
(Redsecker) Palmer, and widow of John 
Brindle. 

(V) SAMUEL FOLTZ (born Feb. 
17, 1802 — died May 28, 1884) was a farmer 
at Shreve, Wayne Co.. Ohio. He married 
Dec. 18, 1821, Elizabeth Keefer (born Sept. 
27, 1803 — died Feb. 9, 1883), daughter of 
Christian and Mary (Poorman) Keefer: 
they had issue : 

1. George Augustus, born May 23. 
1823. died Sept. 15, 1834. 

2. Benjamin Franklin, born May 4. 
1825. 

3. Frederick Philip, born Sept. 17. 
1827, died Sept. 15, 1829. 

4. Mary Eve (born Feb. 15. 1829) 
married Thomas Woodland Lee; they had 



issue : Mary Eve, Emma Jane, David Don, 
Ella Iris, Grant and Earl. 

5. Julia Ann (born Feb. 26, 183 1) 
married (first), Robert Manley; they had 
issue : William Allen, Samuel, Joseph Hart- 
man, Robert Hartman, Robert Wilson, 
Annie and Rosanna. She married (second) 
William Calver. 

6. Samuel (born Oct. 3, 1833 — died 
in 1870) was a farmer at Leason, Iowa. He 
married (first) Mary Adair; they had issue: 
Lewis, Frank, George, Samuel, Mary Eve, 
Charles, Simon, Henry and Emma Bell. He 
married (second) Sarah Fildy. 

7. Jeremiah Wesley (born June 9, 
1836 — died Feb. 19, 1883) w-as a farmer at 
Shreve. Ohio. He married Mary Ann Dye, 
and they had issue : Daniel, Elmer, Nor^, 
Ella, Addie and Harry. 

8. Elizabeth Jane, born ALarch 21, 
1838, died Oct. 17, 1843. 

9. William Henry (born March 14, 
1842) is a farmer at Kellerton, Ringgold 
Co., Iowa. He married Harriet Dye, and 
they had issue: Ida. Emma, Earl. Clyde and 
Ernest. 

10. DA\in Elmer (born March 14, 
1842) is a lumber dealer at Shreve. Ohio. 
He married (first) Sept. 18, 1867, Margaret 
Pomeroy (died May 29. 1877), and they 
had issue : Esther, William Henry, and 
Helen. He married (second) May 23, 1879, 
Ellen Jones (torn March 10, 1847), a""^! 'i^'' 
issue. Ethel Kieffer and David Clarke. 

n. Zephaniah Keeper, born July i, 
1844, ^''ff' Sept. 9, 1845. 

12. James Keys, born Oct. 24, 1846, 
died Oct. 29, 1864. 

13. Martha, born June 15, 1848, died 
Aug. 15, 1849. 

(VI) BARNET FOLTZ (born Jan. 
23, 1 818 — died May 2, 1899), son of Chris- 
tian and Hannah (Keefer) Foltz. was dur- 
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.agricultural implements. In 1844-48, he 
.sold the once famous "Gap Plows" for the 
Seylars at Cove Gap. now Foltz. In 1852 
he made his third trip to Ohio and entered 
the employ of the Whiteley company at 
Springlield. Later he became the general 
agent of Warder & Co., manufacturers of 
the Champion harvesting machinery, with 
whom lie was engaged for many years. His 
affable manners and superior business tact 
made him a valuable man to the company. 
He married Oct. 22, 1857, Sophia Shindle 

(born Sept. 1830 — died Feb. 14. 1899), 
daughter of George C. and Ann M. 

(Albright) Shindle, of Lancaster county. 
They had issue : 

1. Warder, born Feb. 18, 1859, died 
July 24. 1859. 

2. Edward B. (born July 25, i860), 
manager of the Grand Opera House, Spring- 
■field, Ohio. 

3. Oscar C, born Sept. 22, 1862, is a 
machinist. 

4. Della Shindle, born Sept. 13, 
1864, died May 24, 1867. 

5. Stella L. (born Oct. 27, 1868) 
married Claude Flick. 

(VII) GEORGE W. FOLTZ (born 
May 2. 18 19 — died March 4, 1875), son of 
Christian and Hannah (Keefer) Foltz, 
learned the trade of a carpenter at Mercers- 
burg, and afterward became a contractor 
and bridge builder. The first bridge built 
by him (Colonel Stewart, contractor) was 
the wooden structure that crosses Licking 
creek at Claylick Hall. It was opened with 
a monster Whig Meeting in the Taylor cam- 
paign of 1848. In 1866. he bought the 
Messersmith farm south of Chambersburg, 
where he lived until his death. In politics 
he was a Republican. He was a member of 
the Lutheran Church, but his wife was a Ger- 
•man Baptist. He married Jan. 26, 1847, 
Anna Bonbrake (born July 17, 1822 — died 



Jan. 23, 1897), daughter of Jacob and Susan 
(Hollinger) Bonbrake ; they had issue : 

1. Augustus Christian (born Sept. 
3, 1847) was educated in the public schools 
of Waynesboro, and afterward taught school 
three years. In 1872 he entered the employ 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad as brakeman; 
in 1876, he was promoted to the position of 
train agent on a passenger train ; and in 1877 
he became express messenger to the Adams 
Express Company. In 1886 he was ap- 
pointed agent for the company at Harris- 
burg, but resigned in 1896. In politics he 
is a Republican. In 1896 he was appointed 
by the Governor to fill the unexpired term 
of his father-in-law, Alderman Kinneard, 
for the Third Ward of Harrisburg, and in 
1898, was appointed Deputy Collector of In- 
ternal Revenue under Collector Hershey. 
He married (first), Jan. 5, 1871, Emma 
Claudine Hutz (born Nov., 1847 — died 
Jan. 6, 1872), daughter of Hiram H. and 
Anna B. (Grove) Hutz, of Chambersburg; 
they had one daughter : Emma Claudine 
Hutz, born Jan. 3, 1872, died Nov. 5, 1876. 
He married (second), Mary Elizabeth Kin- 
neard, daughter of John D. and Mary A. 
(Brown) Kinneard; they have issue: Grace 
Kinneard, born Nov. 11, 1883; Martha Ann, 
born Jan. i, 1889, and Mary Catharine, born 
March 11, 1S97. 

2. George Barnet (XIV). 

3. Daniel Frederick (born Sept. 13, 
1 85 1 — died Oct. 11, 1880) was a bag- 
Sfaee master on the Northern Central 
Railroad. 

4. Hannah Susan, born Aug. 2^, 
1853, died Oct. 20, 1861. 

5. John David (born July i, 1855 — 
died Jan. 29, 1884) was a clerk in the 
National Bank of Waynesboro, and agent 
for the Adams Express Company. 

6. Cyrus Moses (born Oct. 18, 1857 
— died Dec. 20, 1888) learned the trade of 



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a printer with the Public Opinion, Chambers- 
burg. 

7. Alvin AIartix (born Oct. 16, 
1859) entered the employ of the Geiser Man- 
ufacturing Company at Waynesboro as a 
youth, and is a stockholder in the company. 
He married Nov. 18, 1890, Mrs. Georgiana 
B. Smith, daughter of George J. and Catha- 
rine S. (Funk) Balsley. 

8. William Jacob (born Nov. 19, 
1861) is employed at the Geiser works, 
Waynesboro ; he served in the Waynesboro 
town council and is frequently a delegate 
to Republican County Conventions. He mar- 
ried Dec. 24, 1895, Edith Cassat Hudson 
(born Dec. 24, 1870), daughter of George 
T. and Mary Jane (Ely) Hudson, and they 
have one son, Frederick. 

(VIII) ELIZABETH SELLS FOLTZ 
(born April 12, 1821 — died June 25, 1869), 
daughter of Christian and Hannah (Keefer) 
Foltz, married June 4, 1843, Israel Shuman 
Weisz (born in Ohio), a descendant of the 
Rev. G. M. Weisz, the pioneer Reformed 
minister in Pennsylvania, who came to 
America in 1727. He is a son of the Rev. 
George and Katie (Shuman) Weisz, and 
was graduated at the Reformed Theologi- 
cal Seminary at Mercersburg, in 1842, and 
spent his life in the ministry of the Re- 
formed Church. He served congregations 
at Clear Spring, Md., 1843-46; Newville, 
Pa., 1846-50; New Lancaster, Ohio, 1850- 
59; Hublersburg, Pa.. 1859-62; Mifflintown, 
Pa., 1862-66; Williamsport, Pa., 1866-69; 
Centerville, Upper Mt. Bethel Charge, 1868- 
72; and York, Pa., 1872-92. He was a 
fluent speaker in English and German, an 
excellent reader and a fine pulpit orator. 
Rev. Dr. Israel S. and Elizabeth S. (Foltz) 
Weisz had issue: 

I. John Calvin (died in York) en- 
hsted Jan. 2, 1862, in Company H, 49th 

p: V. i. 



2. Charles William (died June 2j^ 
1863) enlisted Aug. 2, 1862. in Company 
A, 131st P. V. I., and was mustered out. 
with his company May 23, 1863. He after- 
ward enlisted in the 2nd Heavy Artillery, 
but was killed in action before Petersburg. 

3. Emma Catharine, bom March 24. 
1847. 

4. George Foltz (born July 4, 1849) 
is in the agricultural implement and insur- 
ance business at Sioux City, Iowa ; he mar- 
ried Sadie A. Deckard, of Mifflintown, 
and has issue : Charles Deckard, James- 
Shuman, Horace Raymond. Harry Granger, 
George Sherman, Mary Estella, Sarah Irene, 
Josephine Vivian and Alice Augusta (de- 
ceased). 

5. Zacharias Ursinus (born Dec. 14,. 
1850) learned the trade of a printer with 
his uncle, M. A. Foltz, in the office of Public 
Opinion, Chambersburg. He is commonly 
known as "Doc." Weisz. He is married and 
has a son, Frederick. 

6. Jane Ellen Miner (born April 
30, 1852) married Christian Weaver^ of 
Northampton county. 

7. Williamson Nevin, born Dec. 12,^ 
1854. 

8. Cyrus Kieffer, born Nov. 18,. 
1856. 

9. Elizabeth Alice Main (born 
Nov. 15, 1858) married Mr. Yellis. 

10. Anna Mary, born Aug. 3, i860. 

11. Israel Shuman, born Oct. 14,. 
1 861. 

12. Arthur Edmund, born June 13, 
1869, died in infancy. 

(IX) DANIEL FOLTZ (born Oct. 15, 
1828), son of Christian and Hannah 
(Keefer) Foltz. learned the trade of a 
molder, and worked as a journeyman for 
a number of years. In 1856, in the days 
of "Bleeding Kansas," he went with a party 
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ton', and settled in Shawnee county. At 
•the outbreak of the Civil war he entered the 
Union army, enHsting Sept. 19, 1861, in 
Company C, 8th Kans. V. I. He served 
most of the time in the 4th Army Corps. 
Soon after the battle of Chickamauga he re- 
ceived his first promotion, and was commis- 
sioned first lieutenant before the close of 
the war. He was in command of his com- 
pany at the last battle of Nashville, and was 
mustered out at San Antonio, Tex. It is 
said that he marched about thirteen thousand 
miles during the war. After the war he en- 
gaged in farming near Burlingame, Kans. 
In 1893 he sold his property and emigrated 
to Oklahoma, where he is now living. Mr. 
Foltz married Dec. 4, 1856, Mary Ellen Sey- 
lar, of Cove Gap, now Foltz ; they had issue : 

1. A son, born Oct. 12, 1857. 

2. Belle (born Oct 21, 1859 — died 
July II, 1901) married in 1881, Mr. Rockey, 
they have five children. 

3. Alv.\h, born Sept. 12, 1861. 

4. Hann.\h Jane (born October, 
1863) married G. H. Leith, Glencoe, Okla. ; 

they have five children. 

5. Daniel (born Nov. 24, 1868) mar- 
ried March 13, 1900. Mrs. Nettie Ross, of 
Jennings, Oklahoma. 

6. Edward lives at Prescott, .Arizona. 
(X) FREDERICK P. FOLTZ (born 

Nov. 15. 1830), son of Christian and Han- 
nah (Keefer) Foltz, learned the trade of a 
•carpenter, and worked at his trade for a few 
years. In 1857, he formed the colony that 
went from Franklin county to Kansas, but 
-owing to the disturbed condition of the 
country, he returned to Chambersburg. In 
the closing years of the Civil war he removed 
to Abingdon. Knox Co., 111., where he is a 
leading citizen and a prosperous business 
man. He has taken a conspicuous part in 
all matters pertaining to the advancement of 
Abingdon, and was prominently concerned 



in securing the construction of what is now 
the Iowa Central Railroad, of which he was 
a director ; he also acted as collector for the 
Company for some time, in which capacity 
he was very successful. He was among the 
first to erect modern brick business blocks 
in the city of Abingdon, and built and owned 
the Foltz Opera House. He is the owner of 
much valuable property in the city. He was 
a pioneer in the introducing and manufacture 
of tile for drainage purposes, and was a 
member of the first manufacturing company 
formed for that purpose. He is now a stock- 
holder in the Abingdon Paving Brick and 
Tile Company. Mr. Foltz is a druggist 
and has been in the business since 1865. He 
is the discoverer and manufacturer of a valu- 
able antiseptic germ-destroyer and pain 
alleviator called "Presto" which has proved 
a boon to suffering humanity. In politics 
Mr. Foltz is a Republican. He has at dif- 
ferent times been, and is at present a mem- 
ber of the city council, and he is highly es- 
teemed by his fellow citizens. Mr. Foltz 
married Oct. 8, 1855, Malinda C. Jacobs, 
daughter of George and Susan Bell Jacobs, 
of Waynesboro ; they have issue : 

1. Louise Bell. 

2. Jennie Augusta. 

3. George Jacobs married Lucy M. 
Givens, Jan. i. 1885, and have Frederick P., 
Jr., Merle H. and Jennie Laura. 

4. Frederick Luther died April 18, 
1864. 

5. Linnie Mary. 

6. Lillie May died Sept. 15, 1870. 

7. Helen Daisy was a twin to Lillie 

May. 

(XI) CYRUS FOLTZ (born Jan. 18, 
1833), son of Christian and Hannah 
(Keefer) Foltz, learned the trade of a car- 
penter in Waynesboro, and afterward worked 
at coachmaking in Chambersburg. In 1856 
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county, and shared in the rough experiences 
of the territory. He filled by appointment 
responsible positions in the Southwestern 
service during the Civil war. and by election 
he was county commissioner. He owns a 
farm near Manhattan, Kans., and has been 
successful as a farmer and stockman. Mr. 
Foltz married (first) Helen M. Thomas 
(born May 20, 1842), daughter of Chester 
and Thursday (Stevens) Thomas; they had 
issue : 

1. Arthur J. (born July 11, 1861) is 
an engineer and farmer. He married Dora 
Bellony ; they have issue : Nina and 
Florence. 

2. Chester C. (born Aug. 13. 1866) 
is a railroad engineer in Colorado. 

3. Daniel H. (born Aug. 13, 1866) 
is a farmer and stockman. 

4. Olive (bom April 22, 1869) mar- 
ried Orland McCormick ; they have two chil- 
dren : Lenore and Helen. 

5. Emma B. (born May 14, 1871) mar- 
ried Joseph McCormick ; they have issue : 
Lillith and Lance. 

6. Helen Maud, born March 12, 
1876, died in infancy. 

Mr. Foltz married (second), Hattie E. 
Whitney (born April 13, 18 — ■), a native of 
Rhode Island ; they have issue : 

1. Mildred B., born March 14, 1882. 

2. Clarence E., bom Aug. 10, 1884. 

3. Lester, born July 7, 1893. 

4. Everett Whitney, born June 21, 
1895. 

(XII) MOSES ABRAHAM FOLTZ 
(born July 2, 1837), son of Christian and 
Hannah (Keefer) Foltz, was educated in 
the public schools and at Wilkesbarre Acad- 
emy. In April, 1855, he entered the office 
of the Transcript at Chambersburg to learn 
the printing trade. In December of the same 
year tlie paper was merged into the Reposi- 
tory, in the office of which he remained until 



he completed his trade in 1858. He was ap- 
pointed foreman of the office three months 
before the expiration of his apprenticeship,, 
and held this position until April, 1859, when 
he purchased the Times newspaper in part- 
nership with P. Dock Frey. The paper was 
sold to Sellers & Kennedy during the Presi- 
dential campaign of i860, Mr. Foltz remain- 
ing as foreman of the printing office. In 
1 86 1, he became superintendent of the print- 
ing office in Chambersburg. conducted in 
behalf of the Reformed Publication Board, 
and retained this position until the burning 
of Chambersburg in 1864, when the publica- 
tions of the Reformed Church were removed 
to Philadelphia. In 1863, during Lee's in- 
vasion of Pennsylvania, he was compelled to 
do printing for the Confederate headquarters, 
and in 1864, he was one of the hostages held 
by General McCausland for the money de- 
mand made upon the borough of Chambers- 
burg. previous to the burning of the town. 
In the winter of 1864-65, he worked as 
pressman in the Repository office. In the 
spring of 1865, he formed a second partner- 
ship with P. Dock Frey, engaging in the 
hat and shoe business. He retired from the 
firm a year later, and embarked in the job 
printing business in May, 1866. He pub- 
lished a monthly advertising sheet. The 
Country Merchant, 1866-69, and in July, 
1869, established Public Opinion, a Repub- 
lican newspaper, of which he was the editor 
and proprietor for thirty years. This news- 
paper enterprise proved a great success, and 
under Mr. Foltz' direction Public Opinion 
became one of the leading local papers of the 
State. It was bright, newsy, outspoken in 
politics, and enterprising in the collection 
and preparation of matter interesting to its 
readers. Its pages were especially rich in 
contributions relating to the history of the 
town and county. Among its occasional 
contributors on historical subjects was the 




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late Benjamin Chambers, and among the im- 
portant series of papers publislied in its 
columns were "Chambersburg in the Olden 
Time," written by Dr. William C. Lane, and 
"Reminiscences of the War," compiled by 
Jacob Hoke. Dr. Lane's articles have formed 
the basis of all subsequent researches relat- 
ing to the early history of Chambersburg. 
Mr. Hoke's reminiscences were afterward 
published in pamphlet form, and are part of 
the permanent literature of the county. The 
paper was a success from the start. It was 
a positive influence in politics, its views be- 
ing copied all over the State. The business 
and material interests of the county and 
county-seat found a warm friend in Mr. 
Foltz and his paper. Public Opinion was the 
advocate of all the important new railroad 
enterprises in the county, of the erection of 
the water works and the electric light plant 
in Chambersburg, and of the transfer of the 
Taylor works, now the Engineering Com- 
pany, and the Wolf & Haymaker establish- 
ment, now the Wolf Company, to Chambers- 
burg. Mr. Foltz tried to make his journal 
a distinctly county paper, and while Repub- 
lican in politics he never hesitated to assert 
its independence when the public welfare 
seemed to require it. He frequently repre- 
sented his party in county, district and State 
conventions, but never held public office until 
1893-94, when he was a Representative from 
the county in the Pennsylvania Legislature. 
He was appointed postmaster at Chambers- 
burg, March i, 1899, an office that he has 
filled with marked ability and discretion, and 
that he still holds. He was one of the 
original members of the Kittochtinny Histor- 
ical Society, and as such continues active in 
promoting historical research in the county. 
He has read a munber of valuable papers 
before the society, those relating to the early 
German and Scotch-Irish settlers being es- 
pecially important. All these papers have 



been printed. Upon the organization of the 
Historical Society he was chosen its second 
vice-president, and in 1903-04, he was its 
president as the successor of President 
Samuel A. Martin, D. D. He is an elder in 
Zion's Reformed Church. 

Mr. Foltz married Nov. 6, i860, Char- 
lotte Sophia Etter (born Nov. 18, 1842). 
daughter of Samuel and Susan (Greenawalt) 
Etter, both members of old Chambersburg 
families ; they have issue : 

1. Helen M., born Jan. 11, 1862, died 
March, 1862. 

2. William Etter (born Nov. i, 
1863) was educated in the public schools and 
at Mercersburg College. He learned the 
printing trade under his father in the office 
of Public Opinion. After completing his 
apprenticeship he served as clerk in the 
Chambersburg post office under Postmaster 
Curriden, 1884-86, and held clerkships in the 
offices of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, 
1886-99. He was appointed assistant post- 
master at Chambersburg, March i, 1899, a 
position that he still fills. He is a Mason, 
and a member of the Knights of Pythias, 
the Heptasophs and the Elks. He has 
served as Vice Grand Chancellor of the Penn- 
sylvania Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, 
and became Grand Chancellor in August, 
1904. As captain and drill master of the 
Junior Hose and Truck company, he has 
enabled the company to win prizes for ex- 
cellency in drill at a number of State fire- 
men's conventions. He married Minnie 
Scott, daughter of George W. and Anna 
(Lemaster) Scott ; they have issue : Herbert 
Scott, born Aug. 30, 1891. 

3. Emma May (born Dec. 26, 1865), 
was graduated at the Music Department of 
Wilson College in 1885, and was president 
of Alumnae, College of Music, 1901-03. 
She married April 15, 1891, Charles William 
Cremer, son of Rev. Dr. William C. and 



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C. M. (Gruel) Cremer. He was graduated 
at Franklin and Marshall College in 1882. 
After leaving college he became local editor 
of the Valley Spirit, which position he held, 
1893-97. He afterward served on the staff 
of the Philadelphia Titties, and is now man- 
aging editor of the Record and Blue Ridge 
Zephyr, Waynesboro. 

4. Herbert Christi.\n (born Jan. i. 
1869) was educated in the public schools 
and at the Chambersburg Academy. He was 
local editor of the Public Opinion under his 
father, 1886-99, and under J. M. Runk, and 
Runk & Hoke, 1899-1903. He is a Past 
Chancellor, Kearney Lodge. K. of P., and a 
member of the Elks Lodge, No. 600. 

5. Edward Greenavvalt (born March 
18, 1872) learned the trade of a painter in 
the Cumberland Valley Railroad shops. 

(XIII) MARTIN LUTHER FOLTZ 
(born at Mercersburg, April 15, 1841), son 
of Christian and Hannah (Keefer) Foltz, 
was one of the Franklin county colony that 
emigrated to Shawnee City, Kans., in 1857. 
He worked on a farm until the outbreak of 
the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company 
I, 2d Kans. V. I., serving until Oct. 31, 
1861. He again enlisted Aug. 25, 1862, and 
served with the Army of the Frontier until 
the close of the war. He was an orderly 
sergeant when mustered out. Since the war 
he has been a successful farmer and stock 
raiser, and owns several valuable stock farms 
at Wakarusa, near Topeka, Kans. Mr. 
Foltz married Feb. 7, 1866, Rebecca Heber- 
ling (born at .Athens, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1842), 
daughter of Hiram H. and Catharine 
(Dickerson) Heberling. Mr. Heberling 
was a member of the first Kansas State 
Legislature. Martin L. and Rebecca Foltz 
had issue : 

I. Junius H. (born Feb. i. 1S75) 
married Feb. 22, 1899, Florence Tillman 
(born in Indiana, May 4,' 1878). 



2. Nevin, born Oct. 14, 1879; 

(XIV) GEORGE BARNET FOLTZ 
(born Aug. 25, 1849), son of George \V. 
and Anna (Bonbrake) Foltz, was reared on 
the farm and followed farming from early 
manhood. When his father's health became 
impaired he was intrusted with the care of 
the farm near Chamljersburg, and conducted 
it with marked intelligence and skill. After 
the Messersmith farm was sold, he removed 
to Washington township, where he now lives. 
In politics he is an earnest Republican, has 
served one term as Director of the Poor, and 
has been mentioned by his party friends as 
a candidate for sheriff. He married Dec. 
21, 1876, Catharine Thomas Latshaw (born 
Oct. 19, 1854), daughter of John L. and 
Margaret (Thomas) Latshaw: they have 
issue : 

1. LiLLiE Margaret, born March 13, 
1878. 

2. Anna May, born Aug. 29, 1880, 
died Dec. 29, 1880. 

3. Beverly Augustus, born July 24, 
.1882, is a graduate of Mercersburg Acad- 
emy and in his third year at LVsinus 
College. 

4. Mary Elizabeth, twin to Beverly 
Augustus, born July 24, 1882, is a graduate 
of Shippensburg Normal School, and now 
engaged as a teacher. 

5. Emma Catharine, born Aug. 2, 
1887, is a student at Shippensburg Normal 
School. 

6. Georgia B., born Sept. 21, 1896. 

SNIVELY FAMILY. JOHANN 
JACOB SCHNEBELE (born in Switzer- 
land in 1659 — died in 1743). the ancestor of 
the Snively family of Franklin county, was 
among the earliest emigrants to Pennsylvania 
from the Palatinate. It is believed that he 
settled in Lancaster county as early as 1714. 
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14, 1729. He was a Mennonite. Of his 
children there is knowledge of only one son. 

I. Jacob (II). 

(II) JACOB SCHNEBELE, now 
Snivel}- (born in Switzerland, Dec. 21, 1694 
— died Aug. 24, 1766), son of Johann Jacob 
Schnebele, came to Pennsylvania with his 
father and settled in Lancaster county, but 
he crossed the Susquehanna and moved west- 
ward at a very early period. He was one of 
the first settlers in the Conococheague valley, 
taking up a large tract of land in what is 
now Antrim township, Franklin county, east 
of Greencastle. It is claimed that he built 
his cabin in 1734, on the site of the stone 
mansion built by his son Andrew in 1781, 
and now owned and occupied by Adam B 
Zarger, Esq. The Rev. Michael Schlatter, 
the father of the Reformed Church in the 
United States, visited him there, in 1749, 
speaking of him as an "honest Swiss." He 
was twice married. The name of his first 
wife has not been ascertained; by this mar- 
riage he had issue: 

1. John (III). 

2. Christian (IV). 

3. Magdalene married Mr. French. 

4. Eve. 

5. Anna. 

Mr. Snively married (second), April 14, 
1736, Barbara Eberle; they had issue: 

1. Henry (V). 

2. Fannie, born Oct. 16, 1742. 

3. Catharine, born Oct. 28, 1744, 
•died young. 

4. Susanna, born March 16, 1746. 

5. Joseph (VI). 

6. Andrew (VII). 

7. Elizabeth, born Feb. 21, 1754. 

8. Anna Mary, born July 29, 1755, 
'died young. 

9. Michael, born Jan. 25, 1757, died 
ammarried. 

10. Mary, born Nov. 27, 1758. 



11. Catharine, born Jan. 27, 1760. 

12. Christiana, born Nov. 14, 1761. 

13. Jacob (VHI). 

14. Barbara, born Nov. 22, 1765. 

(III) JOHN SNIVELY, son of Jacob 
Snively by his first wife, went to Frederick, 
Md., but afterward removed to the West. 
He married Louisa French; they had issue: 

1. Michael. 

2. Jacob. V 

3. Barbara married William Jackson, 
of Lancaster, Ohio; they had issue; Ezra; 
John; Mary, who married Joseph Sheets; 
Nancy, who married Daniel Swayne; 
Thomas, who married Mrs. Shelleberger ; 
William ; and Elizabeth. 

4. Margaret. 

5. John married Mary Miller; they 
had issue; Jacob, who married Ruth Kelly; 
Joseph; Nancy, who married Amos Horner; 
Henry, who married Sarah Stevenson ; John^ 
w^ho married Mary Wolf; Daniel, who mar- 
ried Mary Ann Stentz ; Christiana, who 
married Humphrey Chilcoot; Elizabeth, 
who married John Sellers ; Harriet ; and 
George. 

(IV) CHRISTIAN SNIVELY, son 
of Jacob Snively by his first marriage, was 
a farmer in Antrim township. He married, 
in 1762, Margaret Washabaugh (born Dec. 
26, 1741), and they had issue: 

1. Elizabeth, born March 16, 1764. 

2. John (IX). 

3. Fanny, born Dec. 14, 1768. 

4. Henry (born Nov. 17, 1769 — died 
Nov. I, 1840) married in 1794, Mary Mag- 
dalena Whitmore (born March 25, 1774 — 
died July 7, 1858), and had issue: Bar- 
bara, who married Daniel Stotler; Christian, 
who married Mary Stotler; Joseph, who died 
uimiarried, in 1827; Susan, who married 
Christian Newcomer; Peter, who married 
Maria Hershey ; Martha, who married David 
Galley; Elizabeth, who died unmarried, in 



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1827; Ann, who married (first) Daniel 
Herr, (second) James Bonsall, and (third) 
Rev. John Winter; Margaret, who married 
Edward Heath ; Sarah, who married James 
Wilson ; and Henry, who married Mary J. 
Touner. 

5. Susanna, born March 2, 1772. 

6. Catharine, born Nov. 12, 1775. 

7. Maria, born Oct. 7, 1778. 

8. Joseph (born Jan. 7, 1781) went 
to Columbiana county, Ohio; he married 
and had two sons : John and Joseph. 

(V) HENRY SNIVELY (born in 
1739), son of Jacob and Barbara (Eberle) 
Snively, w^as a farmer in Antrim township. 
He married Barbara Whitmore ; they had 
issue : 

1. Peter (born March 4, 1767 — died 
Sept. 18, 1828) married Elizabeth Hollin- 
ger (born March 4, 1780 — died Sept. 16, 
1844), and had issue: Joseph; and Mary, 
who married Joseph Strickler [Strickler 
Family]. 

2. Elizabeth. 

3. Henry married Miss Hershey, and 
had issue: Joseph, Henry, David, Jacob, 
Samuel, Barbara and Hannah. 

4. Jacob married Miss Hoffard. 

5. Joseph married Mary Sherman, and 
had issue: Peter, John. Jacob, Jonathan, 
Christian and Levi. 

(VI) JOSEPH SNIVELY (born in 
Antrim township, Dec. 19, 1748 — died Oct. 
30, 1833), son of Jacob and Barbara 
(Eberle) Snively, was a farmer, and owned 
1 .000 acres of land south and east of Shady 
Grove. Mr. Snively married June 13, 1771, 
Magdalena Stoner (died Oct. 25, 1795), 
and they had issue : 

1. Barb.\ra (born Jan. 12, 1774) mar- 
ried Martin Baechtel. 

2. Jacob (X). 

3. Anna (born Jan. 22. 1780 — died in 
1863) married Isaac Garber. 



4. John (XI). 

5. Joseph (XII). 

(VII) ANDREW SNIVELY (born 
in Antrim township, Jan. 4, 175 1 — died FebV 
5, 1813), son of Jacob and Barbara (Eberle) 
Snively, succeeded to the old Snively home- 
stead, and in 1781 built the fine stone man- 
sion still standing. Mr. Snively married 
(first), Jan. 15, 1775, Susanna Funk (born 
March 17, 1754 — died July 11, 1788), and 
they had issue : 

1. Henry (born Dec. 3, 1775) married 
Elizabeth Snively, and had issue : Fanny, 
who married Samuel Baechtel; Henry (born 
Dec. 15, 1805), wlio married Airs. Keziah 
Wayland ; David, who died unmarried ; An- 
drew, who married Mary Garlinger; 
Susanna, who married Jeremiah Gordon ; 
Mary, who married Samuel Zellers ; Ann, 
who married J. H. Rouch ; and Catharine, 
who married George H. Davidson. 

2. Catharine (born Nov. 10, 1776) 
married John Bowman (died in 1822), and 
had issue: Susan (born May, 1800 — died 
in 1872) married Charles Atkinson; An- 
drew ; Nancy ; Mary ; and Elizabeth. 

3. Susanna (born March 13, 1778) 
married Mr. Newman, and had a son, 
Joseph. 

4. Elizabeth (born July 5. 1779) 
married Michael Stoner, and had issue: 
Susanna, who married Henry Smith ; Eliza ; 
Joseph ; Nancy ; Michael ; David ; and Julia, 
who married Dr. Robert C. Hays. 

5. Jacob (born April 30, 1781) mar- 
ried Elizabeth Bench, of Bedford county, and 
had issue: Andrew J. (born in 1808) mar- 
ried Julia A. Sill ; Mary Ann married James 
McVicker; and Elizabeth married John 
Thomp.son. 

6. Nancy (born March 15. 1784) mar- 
ried David Stoner, and had issue : Andrew ; 
Margaret ; Susanna ; Elizabeth ; Eliza ; 
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Gonlon ; and David P., who married Mary 
Francis Gordon. 

7. David (born April 8, 1786 — died 
unmarried) was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar, Jan. 12, 1807. 

Mr. Snively married (second), Nov. 5, 
1789, Mary Magdalena Shenk (born May 
19, 1762 — died Oct. 20. 1830). and had 
issue : 

1. John, born Oct. 31, 1790, died in 
1811. 

2. Andrew (born June 30, 1792 — died 
Aug. 16, 1850) was a member of the Penn- 
sylvania Legislature in 1841, 1842 and 1845. 

3. SamT-iel, born June 12, 1794 
(XIII). 

4. Mary Magdalen,\ (born March 7, 
1797 — died Aug. 3, 1876) married Martin 
Hoover, and had issue: Andrew S., who 
married Sarah Slanker; Daniel, who mar- 
ried Rebecca Kirk; Martin, who married 
Kate C. Craven ; Joseph, who married 
Sarah Kuhn ; H. Webster ; and William Up- 
ton. 

5. Samuel. 

6. Daniel (XIV). 

7. Jeremiah, born Dec. 4, 1804, died 
at birth. 

(VIII) JACOB SNIVELY (bom Nov. 
14, 1763), son of Jacob and Barbara (Eb- 
erle) Snively, went to the western part of 
the State of New York, where some of his 
descendants are still living. He married 
Eva Coleman : they had issue : 

1. John. 

2. Abraham. 

3. Jacob married Mary Shairhold ; 
they had issue: Sarah (born Jan. 30, 1806) 
married Peter Bowman ; Daniel (born April 
23, 1807 — died February. 1847) married 
and had James, Richard and Daniel : Eliza 
(born July 5. 1809) married Richard Col- 
lier: Susan (born Aug. 4, 1810) married 
Daniel Williams: Martin (born Nov. 2, 



6. 

/• 
8. 



181 1 — died Dec. 13, 1R74) married Susan 
M. Copeland : Abraham ; James ; Sophia 
(born Oct. 30, 1814 — died April 9, 1872). 
married John Johnson ; and Marilla. 
4. Conrad. 

Rudolph. 

George. 

Susanna. 

Mary married Benjamin Bowman. 
9. Nancy married IMr. Doane. 
(IX) JOHN SNIVELY (born in An- 
trim township, Feb. 25, 1766 — died June 
30, 1844), son of Christian and Margaret 
(Washabaugh) Snively, was a farmer in 
Antrim township. He married Oct. 24. 1794, 
Anna Hege (born Dec. 16, 1775 — died Aug. 
17, 1852), daughter of Christian and Maria 
(Stouffer) Hege; they had issue: 

1. Elizabeth (born Oct. 3, 1795) mar- 
ried Henry Wenger. 

2. Christian (born June 26, 1797 — - 
died in 1872) married Mary Myers. 

3. John (XV). 

4. Henry (born Feb. 22, 1801 — 
died Jan. i, 1878) married Catharine Bone- 
brake. 

5. Mary (born Aug. 26, 1803 — died in' 
1870) married Jacob Myers. 

6. Jacob H. (XVI). 

7. David (born April 30. 1808 — died' 
in 1859) married Mary Zimmerman. 

8. Catharine (born Aug. 22, 1810 — 
died Jan. 8, 1862) married Christian Strite. 

9. Marth.\ (born Jan. 28, 1813) mar- 
ried Samuel Strite. 

10. N.^NCY (born Aug. 12, 1815) mar- 
ried John Shelly. 

11. Fanny (bom .-\pril 24, 1818) mar- 
ried Jacob Miller. 

12. Susanna (Ixirn June 4. 1821 — 
died Dec. 25, 1877) married Samuel Bink- 
ley. 

(X) JACOB SNIVELY (born in An- 
trim township, Feb. 7, 1776), son of Joseph 



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and Magdalena (Stoner) Snively, was a 
farmer near Shady Grove. He married Eliz- 
abeth Stoner ; they had issue : 

1. Mary married Martin Newcomer, 
for many years proprietor of the "Frankhn 
Hotel" in Chambersburg, and a prominent 
citizen; they had issue: Eliza, who married 
■George Ashton ; Upton, a leading hotel man ; 
and Prisby S., a physician, who married 
Sarah Ellen Irwin. 

2. Sus.\NN.\ married Samuel Snively 
(XHI). 

3. Eliza married Sept. 16, 1830, 
George Besore (born Dec. 21, 1799 — died 
Aug. 16, 1871), a prominent citizen of 
Waynesboro; they had issue: Clara; Anna, 
who married Dr. Abraham H. Strickler 
[Strickler family] ; and Alfred, who died 
young. 

4. Nancy married Dr. John Lambert 
(born in 1816 — died Sept. 8, 1872), a lead- 
ing physician of Chambersburg ; they had 
issue : Ann Eliza ; Bruce ; and Ellen, who 
married William Bard. 

5. Rebecca married John Oaks; they 
had issue: Orlando; Leander; and Eliza 
Bell, who married Emanuel J. Bonbrake 
[Bonbrake Family]. 

6. Catharine M., married James 
Chariton; they had issue: Ruhama E., who 
married J. Slyder; Rebecca C, who married 
J. Little ; Joseph Snively : Annie E. ; George 
Besore ; Newton Wortli ; Alfred H. ; William 
Martin ; and Daniel F. 

7. Daniel died unmarried. 

(XI) JOHN SNIVELY (torn Dec. 
5. ''^7^3 — fl'ed April 12. 1827), son of Jo- 
seph and Magdalena (Stoner) Snively, mar- 
ried June 28, 1810, Catharine Poorman; 
1hey had issue : 

1. Elizabeth married Adam Grittin- 
ger. of Lebanon; they had issue: Lucretia, 
Henry and Catharine. 

2. Mary married John Early of Leb- 



anon ; they had issue : Louisa, Jacob, Ben- 
jamin F., Mary, Joseph, Lucretia, Ezra and 
Anna. 

3. Melchi (XVII). 

4. Catharine married William Mala- 
\'ary. 

(XII) JOSEPH SNIVELY (born 
Dec. 12, 1786 — died Aug. 22, 1872), son of 
Joseph and Magdalena (Stoner) Snively, 
was a prominent farmer in Antrim township, 
where he owned 1,000 acres of land, and 
lived on what was known as the "Mansion 
Farm" near Shady Grove. He was a practi- 
cal surveyor, and was frequently engaged 
in surveying during his entire life. In poli- 
tics he was a Whig, and he was a member 
of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven- 
tion of 1838. He was a county auditor of 
Franklin county, 1847-50, and he was high- 
ly respected by his neighbors, and often 
served as executor in the settlement of es- 
tates. Mr. Snively married May 28, 181 1, 
Nancy Baechtel (died June 13, 1853) ; and 
had issue: 

1. Isaac, born in 1813, died at Yale 
College, July 26, 1831. 

2. Mary (born Feb. 15, 181 5) married 
Isaac Motter, of Williamsport, Md. ; they 
had issue: Ann Elizabeth; Nancy Alice, 
who married P. L. Leman ; Joseph Lewis ; 
Joshua ; Mary Matilda ; Lsaac Snively ; and 
Emma Barbara. 

3. Benjamin (XVIII). 

4. Christiana (born Oct. 5, 1819 — 
died June 16, 1854) married Jan. 18, 1842, 
Dr. Robert C. Hays ; they had issue : Joseph 
Snively: Stephen \\''i]son. who married La- 
vinia Culbertson and had Lewis Hunter ; 
Nannie Elizabeth, who married Alexander 
Stewart; Mary Frances, who married John 
L. Heck ; Emma Julia, who married Daniel 
S. Hunter; and Christiana S. 

5. Joseph (born Dec. 12. 1821) mar- 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



James; Nancy Alice, wlio married Clayton 
Phipps; Joseph Alexander: Edward S. ; and 
Mary Elizabeth, who married Phineas E. 
Kreps. 

6. Samuel B. (XIX). 

7. D.-wiD, born Jan. 21, 1828, died at 
Erie in Angnst, 1868. 

8. Nancy (born Dec. 8, 1832) married 
John Hoffman; they had issue: Arthur J. 
and Lewis. 

9. Emma Amelia (born July 23, 
1840) married William A. Reid ; they had 
issue : Alice B., Joseph Snively, John Rob- 
ert and Ruth. 

(XIII) SAMUEL SNIVELY (born 
June 12, 1794 — died Dec. 16, 1872), son 
of Andrew and Mary Magdalena (Shenk) 
Snively, was a prominent farmer in Antrim 
township. He married Susanna Snively, 
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stoner) 
Snively; they had issue: 

1. Eliza died young. 

2. Mary Ann died young. 

3. Rebecca died young. 

4. Lemuel (XX). 

5. Jacob Samuel (born Jan. 3, 1837) 
was first lieutenant of Company D, 158th 
P. V. I., 1862-63, and he afterward served 
in the 21st P. V. C. He married Dec. 4, 
1856, Hannah Margaret Snyder (born Aug. 
24, 1838), daughter of Peter and Hannah 
(Cook) Snyder: they had issue: Clara B., 
Samuel Frisby, Ernest Sprague, Harry, 
Bertha C, Claude Snyder and Stuart Moore. 

6. Almira (born June 6, 1840) married 
Rev. J. Philip Bishop ; they had issue : Grace, 
Samuel Snively, Dwight D., Merle D. A., 
Senseny P., and Storrs Myron. 

7. William Henry (born Feb. 5, 
1843) served in Company K, 126th P. V. I., 
1862-63, ^'""^^ afterward in Company K, 21st 
P. V. C. He married, in 1872, Nannie S. 
Gearhart ; they had issue : Mary Georgette 
and Sue E. 



8. Susanna R. 

9. Ann Elizabeth (born June 15,, 
1848— died Sept. 18, 1881) married An- 
drew Snively Stover; they had issue: Wil- 
liam and Samuel Snively. 

(XIV) DANIEL SNIVELY (born 
June 29, 1802 — died Oct. 15, 1872), son of 
Andrew and Mary Magdalena (Shenk) 
Snively, removed to New Albany, Ind. He 
married Jan. 24, 1833, Mary Ann Culbert- 
son( born Oct. 3, 181 1 — died Oct. 6, 1880), 
and had issue : 

1. William Andrew (born Dec. 6,, 
1833 — died March 2, 1901) was graduated 
at Dickinson College in 1852. He entered 
the Methodist Episcopal ministry, but in 
1865 was ordained deacon and priest by 
Bishop Stevens, of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. He was assistant at St. Andrew's 
Church, Pittsburgh, and rector of Christ 
Church, Cincinnati ; St. Peter's Church, Al- 
bany; Grace Church, Brooklyn; and Trinity 
Church, New Orleans ; he was a voluminous 
writer on church topics. He married 
Oct. 12, 1865, Ella Pirtle (born April 
16, 1839), and had issue: Jennie Pirtle, 
Mary, Julia, Theodore Culbertson, and 
Ella Rogers. 

2. Joseph Culbertson (bom Jan. 17, 
1836— died years ago) was a physician in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He married April 16, 
1872, Josephine Strickland (died Jan. 29, 
1875), ^"d had one daughter, Edith Jose- 
phine. 

3. Daniel Duncan, born March 9, 
1838, died Oct. 26, 1862. 

4. Julia Frances (born April 30, 
1840) married Oct. 21, 1862, William 
Henry Lewis ; they had issue : Edward 
Mann, William Andrew, Arthur Henry, 
Julia Culbertson, Francis Snively and Ade- 
laide Louisa. 

5. Anna Mary Culbertson (born 
Sept. 23, 1843) married Jan. 19, 1875,. 



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Francis Colton ; they had issue : Emily Mar- 
ian and Julia. 

6. John Culbertson (born Sept. i8, 
1845) married March 14, 1872, Fannie S. 
Eyster ; they had issue : WilHam Daniel 

..and Julia Frances. 

7. SuMMERFiELD Emory (born June 
ID, 1848) is rector of St. Paul's Protestant 
Episcopal Church, Flatbush, L. I. He mar- 
ried Oct. 24, 1882, Ida Eliot Sellack. 

8. Thaddeus Alexander (born Feb. 
I, 1 851) is rector of St. John's Protestant 
Episcopal Church. Troy, N. Y. He married 
April 25, 1878, Eliza M. Crosby; they have 
a son, Alexander Crosby. 

(XV) John Snively (born Jan. 12, 
1799 — died March 4, 1853), son of John 
and Anna (Hege) Snively, was a farmer in 
Guilford township. He married Nov. i, 
1827, Catharine Keefer (born Aug. 22, 
1802 — died Sept. 30, 1854), daughter of 
Jacob Keefer, a farmer near Marion ; they 
had issue : 

1. Daniel, born Nov. 27, 1828, died 
May 5, 1845. 

2. Annie (born Oct. 21, 1830 — died 
July 24, 1867) married March 5, 1858, John 
Stamy; they had issue: Abraham A., who 
married Dec. 3, 1878, Clara Little, and had 
John Walter and Nannie Snively., 

3. Jacob, bom Feb. 13, 1833. died 
March 22, 1850. 

4. John Keeper (XXI). 

5. Isaac Newton (XXII). 

6. Samuel K. (born in Guilford town- 
ship, June 5, 1841) was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and at the Chambersburg Acad- 
emy. At the beginning of the Civil war he 
enlisted for the three months' service in 
Company B, 2d P. V. I., and at the e.xpi ra- 
tion of the term of his enlistment he re- 
enlisted for three years in Independent Bat- 
tery B, in which he served in Kentucky and 
Tennessee. He remained with his battery 



as a veteran until the close of the war, be- 
coming a sergeant, and being mustered out 
in Texas in November, 1865. After the war 
he studied medicine with his brother, Dr. 
I. N. Snively, and was graduated M. D. at 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 
1869. He began the practice of his profes- 
sion at Hanover, Pa., with his brother, Dr. 
A. J. Snively, but in 1870 he removed to 
Williamsport, Md., where he has since been 
in continuous practice. Dr. Snively married 
Dec. 30, 1879, Annie E. Dellinger, of Wash- 
ington county, Maryland. 

7. Andrew J. (born July 15, 1844 — 
died at Hanover, Pa.) was graduated M. D. 
at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, N. Y., 
in 1866, and practiced at Hanover. He mar- 
ried Dec. I, 1875, Mary Elizabeth Gitt (born 
March 7, 1853), daughter of J. W. Gitt, of 
Hanover ; they had issue : Austin Flint, 
John Uhl, Roxie Irene and Mary Catharine. 

(XVI) JACOB H. SNIVELY (born 
March 25, 1806 — died May 3, 1852), son 
of John and Anna (Hege) Snively, was a 
farmer in Antrim township. He was a Men- 
nonite, and his wife a Reformed Mennonite. 
Mr. Snively married March 5, 1838. Catha- 
rine Stouffer (bom Sept. 5, 1814 — -died Nov. 
28, 1891), daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth 
(Oberholtzer) Stouffer; they had issue: 

1. Anna (born April 24, 1839) mar- 
ried Jan. 13, 1859, Christian Strite; they had 
issue : Mary Emma, Ellie Kate, Ettie Ma- 
linda, Annie Elizabeth, Frank S., Benjamin 
Stouffer, Isabel, Charles Lesher and Edith 
Maria. 

2. Mary, bom Sept. 27, 1840, died 
March 2, 1844. 

3. Franklin, born Jan. 18, 1842, died 
March 7, 1844. 

4. Martha B. 

5. Catharine S. 

6. J. Stouffer (born Aug. 14, 1847) 
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Sept. II, 1848), and liad issue: Clarence 
E., J. Howard, Charles Robert and Frank 
Ellis. He married (second) Jennie Cris- 
well. 

7. Maria. 

8. Benjamin F. (XXIII). 

(XVII) MELCHI SNIVELY (born 

Jan. 9, 1816 — died , ), son of 

John and Catharine (Poorman) Snively, 
was a farmer in Antrim township and a mer- 
chant at Shady Grove, where he was the first 
postmaster. He married (first) Aug. 8, 
1837. Elizabeth Newcomer (died Aug. 8, 
1861) ; they had issue: 

1. Frederick B. (born June 17. 1838 
— died May 31, 1879) was a merchant at 
Shady Grove. He married, in i860, Corne- 
lia Hammond, daughter of John and Eliza- 
beth (O'Neal) Hammond: they had issue: 
Edwin S. (born June 15, 1864), a member 
of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1895-96; 
Jessie Estella ; Catharine K. : Nellie C. ; and 
Frederick Bryan. 

2. William, born Dec. 16, 1839, died 
young. 

3. George B. (born Sept. 9, 1841) 
served in the 17th P. V. C, 1862-65. He 
married Feb. 5, 1867, Mary E. Kennedy, 
daughter of Lazarus Kennedy : they had , 
issue: Minerva, Melchi K.. Franklin B., John 
Harv'ey, George M. and Lou Elbe. 

4. Scott K. (born Sept. 8. 1845) lives 
in Missouri. He married Jennie Irwin : they 
had issue : Melchi Irwin, Edith, Scott, Hugh 
and Jane Gracey. 

5. Virginia, born May 18, 1847. 

Mr. Snively married (second), June 9, 
1863, Mrs. Catharine Boyd, daughter of 
James Kennedy. 

(XVIII) BENJAMIN SNIVELY 
(born in Antrim township. May 9, 1817), 
son of Joseph and Nancy (Baechtel) Snively, 
lives on the old Snively homestead at Shady 
Grove. He is a prominent farmer and as a 



Republican has filled a number of township 
oflices. Mr. Snively married Dec. 12, 1839, 
Matilda Mitchell, daughter of James and 
Catharine (Nigh) Mitchell. Mrs. Snively 
is a descendant of the Rev. John Steel, the 
famous "fighting parson" of the Conoco- 
cheague, who commanded a company of his 
parishioners in the Kittanning Expedition 
of 1756. Mrs. Steel was a sister of the 
mother of President Andrew Jackson. Ben- 
jamin and Matilda (Mitchell) Snively had 
issue : 

1. Catharine, living near Shady 
Grove. 

2. Isaac (died Nov. 22, 1870) served 
in Company K, 126th P. V. L, 1862-63. 

3. James Ross lives at Pittsburgh ; he 
married Lillian Bonbrake, daughter of 
Emanuel J. and E. Belle (Oaks) Bonbrake. 

4. Benjamin. 

5. William Stewart. 

6. Edith Matilda married S. H. 
Rutherford, of Paxtang. 

7. Mary Lundie married William T. 
Omwake [Omwake Family]. 

8. Warren died young. 

(XIX) SAMUEL B. SNIVELY 
(born in Antrim township, July 27, 1825 — ■ 
died Oct. 2, 1882), son of Joseph and Nancy 
(Baechtel) Snively, was a farmer and lived 
on the homestead farm of his father and 
grandfather, near Shady Grove. He was a 
surveyor, doing much of that work for his 
neighbors, and he was trusted and honored 
as an honest, upright man. He was a mem- 
ber of the Reformed Church, which he 
served as deacon and elder for many years. 
Fraternally he was a charter member of 
Mount Pisgah Lodge, No. 443, F. & A. M.. 
of Greencastle, and took much interest in the 
order. He married Feb. 24, 1850, Maria 
Tritle, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Hege) 
Tritle ; they had issue : 

I. Joseph L. (XXIV). 



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2. Mary E. married Stephen Slike. 

3. Emma F. married C. Kieffer Kie- 
sacker. 

4. Anna Baechtel. 

5. Nora Maria. 

(XX) LEMUEL SNIVELY (born 
July 19, 1834), son of Samuel and Su- 
sanna (Snively) Snively, was educated in the 
public schools, at the academies at Greencas- 
tle, Mercersburg and Chambersburg and at 
Dickinson College. He was for many years 
a farmer on the homestead farm belonging to 
his father. His farm is part of the original 
tract taken up by Jacob Snively in 1734, and 
has been in the Snively family 170 years. 
In politics he is a Republican, and he has 
served three terms as township clerk and 
township auditor in Antrim township. He 
also served a term as county auditor. When 
he retired from farming he removed to 
Greencastle. where he has been a justice of 
the peace for many years. He is an active 
Republican worker. With his wife he is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Snively married Dec. 20, i860, Anna Mary 
Rowe,. daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Prather) Rowe; they had issue: 

1. John Rowe. 

2. Susan Almira. 

3. Belle Gilmore. 

4. Elizabeth Prather. 

5. Watson. 

6. Mary Wise died Jan. 7, 1882. 

7. Samuel. 

(XXI) JOHN KEEPER SNIVELY 
(born in Guilford township. May 31, 1836), 
son of John and Catharine (Keefer) Snively, 
was educated in the public schools of his 
native township, and had one year at Rock 
River Seminary, Mt. Morris, 111. He has 
been all his life a farmer on the old Snively 
homestead, on which his father lived and 
died. Mr. Snively ie one of the few who 
never moved. In politics he is a Republican, 



and as a young man held different township 
offices. He and his wife are now devoted 
members of the Refomied Mennonite 
Church. Mr. Snively married (first) Dec. 
8, 1S59, Urilla Barbara Hade (born Nov. 
21, 1839 — died Nov. 15, 1864), daughter 
of AVilliam Hade, one of the most successful 
and prosperous farmers of Quincy township; 
they had issue : 

1. William Hade ( born Oct. 4, i860) 
has been in business in Philadelphia for the 
last twenty years and has been very success- 
ful in all his ventures. He married Letitia 
Miller, daughter of Solomon Miller, of Guil- 
ford township ; they have issue : Ralph, Ada 
^lary, Ray and John Russell. 

2. Isaac Newton (XXV). 

3. Urilla Barbara, born Sept. 20, 
1864, died Nov. 11, 1880. 

Mr. Snively married (second), Dec. 2, 
1866, Mary Jane Hade; they had issue: 

1. Annie Elizabeth (born Nov. 20, 
1869) married Milton W. Hoch, of Cum- 
berland county ; they have one son, John K. 

2. John Walter, born Sept. 2, 1871, 
died Jan. 10, 1872. 

2. Emma Kate (born Jan. 10. 1873) 
married Menno Ryder, son of George Ryder, 
of Sluilford township; they have issue: 
Charlas Franklin and Mary Pearl. 

4./ Charles Paxton, born Sept. 4', 
1874. 

5. Charlotte Jane (born Feb. 8, 
1876) married Frank Etter, of Guilford 
township : they have issue : Edna Jane, Su- 
san Vera and Carrie Blanch. 

6. .\ndrew Fr.\nklin (born in Guil- 
ford township Jan. 31, 1878) attended the 
public schools of Franklin county and then 
entered Chambersburg Academy, whence he 
was graduated with distinction in June. 
1899. He then read medicine with his uncle, 
Dr. Andrew Jackson Snively, at Hanover, 
Pa. He graduated from the Medico-Chirur- 




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gical College of Philadelphia in 1903 with 
the degree of M. D. He then served as resi- 
dent physician at the Samaritan Hospital, 
from the time he graduated until July i, 
1904, since when he has been located at No. 
5308 Market street, Philadelphia. He is 
rapidly gaining a good practice. 

(XXII) ISAAC NEWTON SNIVELY 
(born near Jackson Hall, Franklin county, 
Feb. 2^, 1839), son of John and Catharine 
(Keefer) Snively, spent his early life on his 
father's farm, assisting with the various 
farm duties in the summer, and attending 
the public schools in the winter. At the age 
of fourteen years, being left an orphan, he 
started out in quest of employment, and en- 
tered the store of Hutz & Son. in Chambers- 
burg, as salesman with his cousin, John P. 
Keefer, who very kindly gave him access to 
his fine library. Soon the ambitious boy ac- 
quired a taste for reading and study that dis- 
qualified him for the duties of clerking, and 
he withdrew- from his position to enter the 
Fayetteville Academy, then under the super- 
vision of the Rev. Mr. Kennedy. From 
there he returned to Chambersburg and at- 
tended the classical school of the noted 
Thomas J. Harris, now deceased, where for 
a time he acted as an assistant. Afterward 
Dr. Snively took an active part in the Frank- 
lin County Teachers' Association, and was 
one of the popular teachers of the public 
schools in that vicinity. In 1857 he w^as 
graduated from Duff's Commercial College 
at Pittsburgh, Pa., and in 1S58, while teach- 
ing the Mount Vernon school, near Waynes- 
boro, he commenced the study of medicine 
and anatomy with Dr. Benjamin Frantz. In 
1859 he became a pupil of the late Dr. John 
C. Richards, of Chambersburg. and was 
graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Phil- 
adelphia, in 1863. In the same year, when 
the Confederate army invaded Pennsylvania, 
the Doctor went to Harrisburg. and after 

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passing the examination before the State 
Medical Board, was commissioned assistant 
surgeon, his commission bearing the date of 
June 20, 1863. He was assigned by Dr. 
King, surgeon-general of the State, to duty 
at Camp Curtin, and he became acting sur- 
geon of the 20th P. V. I., Col. William B. 
Thomas commanding. He allowed himself 
to be mustered out with his regiment, and 
returned to Chambersburg, where he asso- 
ciated himself in the practice of his profes- 
sion with his late preceptor, Dr. J. C. Rich- 
ards. In addition to their regular practice 
they had charge of the Town Hall hospital. 
On Sept. 8, 1863, the surgeon general of 
Pennsylvania sent him a commission assign- 
ing him to the 155th P. V. I., then encamped 
at Beverly Ford, Va., Major Ewing com- 
manding. Dr. Snively declined this, as well 
as a lucrative appointment on the Pacific 
coast in a United States marine hospital, pre- 
ferring to continue in practice with Dr. Rich- 
ards. At the time of the burning of Cham- 
bersburg, July 30, 1864. Dr. Snively was 
away, and his young wife barely escaped the 
flames of their burning building, to find her- 
self destitute. She could not find her hus- 
band for a week, when he was discovered 
on duty in the United States General Army 
Hospital at Beverly, N. J., where he had 
charge of Wards 11 and 19, until about Jan. 
I, 1865, when he resigned to succeed Dr. 
James Brotherton^ Jr., of Waynesboro, who 
had just died, and Dr. Snively located in this 
city, where he has since enjoyed a ven,- large 
and lucrative practice. He was one of the 
founders of the Franklin County Medical 
Society, and president in 1874. When the 
question of having the railroads to the town 
of Waynesboro arose, Dr. Snively took a 
very important part in the matter, and he 
was elected president of the Baltimore & 
Cumberland Valley Railroad in 1882, a posi- 
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In liis practice Dr. Snively has been emi- 
nently successful, he having made a specialty 
of surgery, and he has but few equals in 
Pennsylvania. Dr. Snively has long made 
the eye a feature of his practice, and has per- 
formed some very delicate operations, in 
more cases than one being able to restore 
sight after it had been lost for several years. 
In addition to the part he has always taken 
in the Franklin County Medical Society, he 
is a prominent member of the American Med- 
ical Association, and of the Pennsylvania 
State Medical Association. Dr. and Mrs. 
Snively were prominent members of the 
Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a 
stanch Republican, and fraternally he is a 
member of the I. O. O. F.; the G. A. R., 
Capt. John E. Walker Post, No. 287, of 
which he has been surgeon for a number 
of years; the Heptasophs ; the Royal Arca- 
num, the Fraternal Mystic Circle ; the Junior 
Order American Mechanics, and the P. O. 
S. of A. Dr. Snively enjoys a reputation 
that extends all over the State as a skilled 
surgeon and able physician. He takes great 
pleasure in the breeding of blooded cattle 
and horses at his beautiful country home on 
the Antietam, known by the name of ".\n- 
tietam Place." 

Dr. Snively's field of professional labor 
extended into the South Mountain in Penn- 
sylvania and Maryland. Being fond of the 
studies of geology and mineralogy, he be- 
came intensely interested in that volcanic 
mineral belt, on the summit of South Moun- 
tain, running in a northeastern and south- 
western direction, along which are extensive 
porphyry beds and outcroppings of rich min- 
erals, principally native copper, carrying 
more or less of the precious metals. In this 
region, which was very indifferently noted 
by the state geologists, he spent much time 
and money in preliminary development and 
attracted many mining engineers from vari- 



ous parts of the world, all of whom reported 
favorably upon the conditions there. Dr. 
Snively's efforts to call the attention of min- 
eralogists and capitalists to th"e South Moun- 
tain deposits of rich ore have extended over 
a period of a cjuarter of a century ; and it is 
due to his geological knowledge, and his 
persistent exploitation of the extensive min- 
eral wealth there, that there has been given 
to the scientific world the knowledge of this, 
as yet, only partially explored region. Dr. 
Snively has been compelled to work under 
difficulties, but these have not checked his 
enthusiasm and his belief that such a rich 
section should be developed in justice to 
the cause of science. By reciuest of a state 
official Dr. Snively once accompanied an as- 
sistant to the state geologist over this copper 
region, but he did not seem impressed, and 
asserted to the Doctor that "the native cop- 
per was a mere surface segregation, and did 
not extend to any depth, and that he failed 
to see any evidences of igneous action in this 
region." Dr. Snively meanwhile took out 
a mass of native copper which he discovered 
only four feet beneath the surface, identical 
with the Lake Superior ores, and weighing 
aljout twenty-five pounds. A brief period 
afterward a shaft sunk on this mineral belt 
showed an abundance of native copper at 
the depth of one hundred and fifty feet, and 
only one year ago Mr. Zinc, a well driller, 
bored a hole to the depth of three hundred 
feet and passed through native copper and 
epidote over eight feet thick at the depth of 
two hundred and fifty feet beneath the sur- 
face. Such eminent geologists as Prof. Wil- 
liams of the Johns Hopkins University. Bal- 
timore, Md., Mr. Blandy. and Joseph Re- 
vere, of Boston, have pronounced this an 
igneous region and the outcroppings of great 
value. Dr. Snively has sold a portion of his 
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W. D. Elger, of New York, and still holds 
Jarge interests which he proposes to develop 
in the near future. 

Dr. Snively married Dec. 24, 1863, 
Alice B. Barr (died July 21, 1902), daug'h- 
ier of Abraham Barr, Esq., of near Waynes- 
boro ; they had issue : 

1. A. Barr (XXVI). 

2. RoBLEY DuNGLisoN (born April 20, 
1874) was educated at the Waynesboro 
High School and Maryland Academy, and 
was graduated M. D. in 1895, his medical 

-education being partly obtained at the Medi- 
cal Department of the University of Penn- 
sylvania and partly at the Medico-Chirur- 
gical College, Philadelphia. He began the 
practice of his profession at Hanover, Pa., in 
1896, but removed to Philadelphia in 1898. 
He is lecturer in surgery in the Philadelphia 
Training School for Nurses. 

3. Harry Norman (bom Jan. 26, 
1879) was educated in the public schools of 
Waynesboro, at Mercersburg Academy and 
^t Marston's University School ; he studied 
at Lafayette College. 1899- 1900, at Johns 
Tlopkins Lmiversity. 1900-01, and was 
'graduated at Leland Stanford University, 
California,^ in 1904. He is now a student in 
.the Medical Department of Johns Hopkins 
University, Baltimore. 

Dr. Snively married (second), Feb. 12, 
1904, Anna Bella Good. 

(XXIII) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 

'SNIVELY (born on the old Snively home- 
stead in Antrim township, June 9, 1851), 
son of Jacob H. and Catharine (Stoufifer) 

iSnively. was educated in the public schools 
and at the State Normal School at Millers- 
ville. After leaving school he returned to 

'his farm, and has been a farmer all his life. 
Mr. Snively married in February. 1895, 
Mary Miller, daughter of Abner Miller, who 
removed from Cumberland to Franklin 

• countv : thev had issue : 



1. Robert, deceased. 

2. Frederick H. 

3. Helen. 

(XXIV) JOSEPH L. SNIVELY 
(born in Antrim township, April, 185 1), 
son of Samuel B. and Maria (Tritle) Snively, 
was educated in the public schools, and was 
graduated at Franklin and Marshall College 
in 1874. He studied medicine with Dr. A. 
H. Senseny, in Chambersburg, and was grad- 
uated M. D. at Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, in 1877. He practiced for a 
year in West Virginia ; then he returned to 
Antrim township, where he has been in active 
practice at Shady Grove since 1880. He 
is a member of the State Medical Society, 
and of the Medical Society of Franklin 
County. Fraternally he is affiliated with the 
B. P. O. E., and his religious connection is 
with Grace Reformed Church, Greencastle. 

(XXV) DR. I. NEWTON SNIVELY 
(born in Guilford township, Franklin Co., 
Pa., near Chambersburg, April 5, 1862), 
son of John Keefer and Urilla Barbara 
( Hade) Snively, is Dean of the Medical 
Department of the Temple College and visit- 
ing physician to the Samaritan Hospital, 
Philadelphia, and also holds the position of 
Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics 
and Clinical Medicine in the Medical Depart- 
ment of the Temple College. He is a mem- 
ber of the Philadelphia County Medical So- 
ciety, the Pennsylvania State Medical Soci- 
ety, the American Medical Association and 
a Fellow of the American Academy of Med- 
icine. He was one of the founders of the 
Northwest Medical Society of Philadelphia, 
and was president of that society in 1896. 
He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a mem- 
ber of Mt. Moriah Lodge, Free and Accepted 

. Masons: a member of Mary Commandery; 
of the Philadelphia Consistory; and of Lu 
Lu Shrine. 

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schools of his native county and graduated 
from the Chambersburg Academy in 1883. 
He then entered Pennsylvania College, Get- 
tysburg, and graduated in the regular clas- 
sical course with the degree of A. B. in 
1887, and for literary work done after grad- 
uation received — 1890 — the degree of Mas- 
ter of Arts. During his Junior and Senior 
years at Gettysburg he pursued special 
courses in biology, chemistry, physiology, 
comparative and human anatomy and zoo- 
logy, was graduated with distinction, and 
received the appointment from the Faculty 
to deliver the scientific oration. While at 
Gettysburg he was a very active member of 
the Phi Gamma Delta Greek Letter Frater- 
nit)- : he was also an active member of the 
Philo Literary Society. In the fall of 1887 
he successfully passed the entrance examina- 
tions for the Junior year at Bellevue Hospi- 
tal Medical College, New York City, and re- 
ceived the degree of M. D. with honor in the 
spring of 1889 from that institution. He 
was tendered the position as resident physi- 
cian in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 
wdiich position he held for several months, 
resigning in the fall of 1889 in order to begin 
private practice in Philadelphia. 

His first professional position in Phila- 
delphia was in 1890 and 1891 as visiting 
physician to the Methodist Home for Aged 
Couples. In 1891, 1892, 1893, he was assist- 
ant Neurologist to the Dispensary of the 
Medico-Chirurgical College. He began his 
teaching career as assistant to the Professor 
of Physiology in the Medico-Chirurgical 
College in the fall of 1893, which position 
he held until elected to the position of lect- 
urer on Physical Diagnosis in the Aledico- 
Chirurgical College in 1897. This chair 
he resigned to accept the position as 
Professor of Materia Medica, Pharma- 
cology and Therapeutics in the Medi- 
cal Department of the Temple College 



in the summer of 1901. The Doctor 
was the first physician in Philadelphia to 
use antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria ;. 
he has written many valuable papers upon 
Therapeutics and read them before th:; vari- 
ous societies of which he is a member. He 
resides at No. 161 7 North Broad street, and 
has a large general practice in Philadelphia 
and surrounding counties. 

On Jan. 1, 1891, the Doctor married. 
Cynthia Powers Tipton (born Nov. 5, 
1866). They have three children: 

1. Urilla Hayde Snively, born Jan. 
30, 1893. 

2. Katharine Tipton Snively, born 
Oct. 4, 1898. 

3. I. Newton Snively. Jr., born Oct. 

9> 1903- 

(XXV) A. BARR SNIVELY (born 

at Waynesboro, Nov. 20. 1869). son of Dr. 
Isaac N. and Alice B. (Barr) Snively, was; 
educated in public and private schools in his 
native town, at the Chambersburg Academy 
and at Wright's University School, of Balti- 
more. He was graduated A. B. at Johns 
Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1892, and 
M. D. at the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1895. After 
receiving his degree he returned to Waynes- 
boro, where he took up the practice of his 
profession, which he has since continued 
with marked success. In 1902-3 he took a 
post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, and at the same time he held an 
interneship at the Church Home and Infirm- 
ary, at Baltimore, Md. After his post-grad- 
uate course he resumed his practice in 
Waynesboro. Dr. A. Barr Snively conducts 
a sanatorium at Blue Ridge Summit for 
the treatment of incipient cases of tuber- 
culosis. The institution is called The Blue 
Ridge Mountain Sanatorium. He is a mem- 
ber of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity of Johns 
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iSociety ; and the Alpha Mu Pi Omega Medi- 
•cal Fraternity of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania ; and of the County, State and local 
Medical Societies. He has served as presi- 
•dent of the Franklin County Medical Soci- 
ety. Dr. Snively married Oct. 15, 1895, 
May Carlisle, daughter of Thomas M. and 
Annie M. (Seibert) Carlisle, of Chambers- 
burg ; they had issue : 

1. Dorothy, born Sept. i, 1896. 

2. A. Barr. born Feb. 9, 1899. 

3. Louise, born Aug. 7, 1900. 

4. Alice Barr, born July 30, 1904. 

SHONTZ FAMILY. The first of the 
name to come to Pennsylvania was Hans 
Tschantz, who settled in Pequea, Lancaster 
■county, before 17 19. 

(I) CHRISTIAN SCHANTZ, grand- 
father of Rev. Jonas B. Shontz, late pastor 
of St. John's Reformed Church, Chambers- 
burg, was a farmer and cabinet maker in 
Huntingdon county. He was of German an- 
cestry. He married (first) Mary Hoover, 
and they had two sons, and five daughters : 

1. Christian (II). 

2. JoN.\s went South and is belie\'ed 
to have been lost at sea. 

3. Marg.aret married John Boyer, and 
they went to Ohio. 

4. Mary married George Nicodemus, 
■of Blair county ; they had issue : Mary, who 
married Mr. Haney; Christian, an elder of 
the Reformed Church at Altoona ; Samuel, 
of Martinsburg; Elizabeth and Margaret, 
both married to Brumbaughs; and Daniel 
and Susan, both deceased. 

5. N.\NCV married Rev. Theodore 
Pouse, a minister of the Reformed Church, 
A\'ho at one time served eight congregations 
— four in Blair and four in Huntingdon 
•counties; they had a large family of chil- 
•dren : Adam, John, Benjamin, Dewalt S., a 
Reformed minister at Lisbon, Iowa ; Reuben 



I., a private in Company C, 53d P. V. I., who 
died in the army ; Frederick S., sergeant in 
Company D, 205th P. V. I., who died in 
1904, in Philadelphia; Christian S., de- 
ceased ; Margaret, who died young ; Cath- 
arine, who married Samuel Grove, private 
in Company D, 205 th P. V. I. ; Mary, who. 
married Benjamin B. Hoover; Elizabeth, 
who married Anthony Shultz, and has a 
large family ; and four who died in in- 
fancy. 

6. Elizabeth married George Moyer, 
and they had issue: Margaret, who mar- 
ried Jonathan Brinole ; John, of Company 
G, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves, and Company 
D. 205th P. V. I., who married Carrie Ful- 
ton ; Mary Ann, who married William 
Davis : Daniel, who married Miss Hood ; 
Nancy, who married Anthony Cunningham ; 
William, who married Miss Straighthoof ; 
and Jacob and Samuel. 

7. Catharine married John Grove, 
and they had issue : Nancy, who married 
Henr}- Brumbaugh, of Hamilton township, 
Franklin county ; Andrew, who married 
Sarah Fink; Margaret, who married Jacob 
A. Fouse; and Mary Ann, who married Rev. 
J. B. Shontz. 

Christian Schantz married (second) 
Elizabeth Grafifius, of Huntingdon county, 
who was of Huguenot extraction. 

(II) CHRISTIAN SHONTZ (born 
Aug. 22, 1807 — died May 24, 1883), son 
of Christian and Mary (Hoover) Schantz, 
was a farmer and school teacher in Hunting- 
don county. He married Mary Buckwalter 
(born Nov. 30, 1800 — died Sept 18, 1891), 
daughter of Frank and Barbara (Stoufifer) 
Buckwalter, a Mennonite minister who 
wrote the first book on feet-washing. Rev. 
Daniel Buckwalter was a strong preacher 
and good writer. Being a school teacher 
Mr. Shontz was induced to simplify the 
spelling of his name from Schantz to Shontz. 



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Christian and Maria (Buckwalter) Shontz 
had issue : 

1. Daniel (born Jan. 14, 1830), a 
carpenter at Philipsburg, Centre county, 
married Rachel Baker, daughter of Benja- 
min Baker, and they had issue: Martha 
Jane, John B., Rebecca Ann, Terissa, 
Alfred S. (deceased), Jonas E. (de- 
ceased), Harvey E., Laura H., Ruth 
and Walter. 

2. John (born June 19, 1831), a car- 
penter at Tyrone, Pa., married (first) Su- 
sanna Yohn, and they had issue : Levi, who 
died young, Elizabeth, who married April 
24, 1880, Joseph McCollough, and lives in 
Altoona, Pa. ; and William, who died young. 
He married (second) Elizabeth Howell; no 
issue. 

3. George (born March 15, 1833), a 
post fence maker, married Catharine E. 
Clapper, and they had issue: William 
Henry, deceased; Catharine J., who married 
Michael Myers, and lives near Huntingdon, 
Pa. ; Abraham Lincoln, a grocer of Cham- 
bersburg; Jonas B., married Annie M., who 
married Grant Smith ; Samuel Howard mar- 
ried and lives in Nebraska ; Robert ISIilton, 
deceased ; George W., married and lives in 
Braddock, Pa. ; Benjamin Franklin married 
and lives in Yeagertown, Pa., where lie is a 
prominent agent of the Prudential Life In- 
surance Company ; Horatio Orlady, married ; 
Margaret E., who married Mathew Garner; 
and John Wintrode, who married Laura 
Stone. 

4. C.\TH.\RiNE (born Sept. 20, 1835 — 
died April 15, 1882) married Isaac Donal- 
son (died in Oct., 1904), of Huntingdon 
county ; they had issue : Margaret, George 
Scott, Mary Maria, Christian S., Ann M., 
Elizabeth and Wilbur, all married and living 
in and near Pittsburgh, Pa., except Margaret 
and George Scott, who are deceased. 

5. Jonas B. (HI). 



6. Margaret (^born Dec. 14, 1838)- 
married (first) Feb. 15, 1863, Eli P. Brum- 
baugh, of Huntingdon county, and had is- 
sue : Franklin ; Annie, who married Dr. 
R. L. Dartt, of Bellefonte, deceased ; Charles;, 
Lettie, who married Erwin Watson; and 
Elizabeth, who married Lewis Shultz. Mrs. 
Brumbaugh married (second) Nov. 19, 
1879, John E. Ketterman (born in York 
county, Dec. 26, 1828), son of George and 
Mary (Bush) Ketterman. He was a car- 
penter and builder; was county surveyor of 
Huntingdon county, and for many years a 
justice of the peace. He died in October, 
1904. They had one son; John H., now a 
school teacher. 

7. William D. (^born Jan. 4. 1840),, 
enlisted in Company C, 53d P. V. I., Oct. 
2y, 1 86 1, and was promoted to be sergeant; 
he was killed in action at Spottsylvania 
Court House, May 10, 1864. He married 
Jan. 6, 1 86 1, Eliza Frank, and they had is- 
sue: Harry F., a pension examiner at Wash- 
ington, D. C, died suddenly at Mt. Carmel, 
111., May 19, 1904; William Howard is de- 
ceased; Mrs. Eliza (Frank) Shontz married 
(second) Christian Fouse, now deceased. 

8. Christian B. (born Feb. 12.- 1842) 
enlisted in Company G, 5th Pennsylvania 
Reserves, June 21, 1861, and was mustered 
out at Spottsylvania Court House, May 13, 
1864; later he served in the Veteran Corps. 
He married Elizabeth Donelson, and they 
had issue: Frank, deceased; John D., mar- 
ried; David S., deceased; Clara; Edgar, 
married ; and Bertha M. All live in Piiilips- 
burg, Pennsylvania. 

9. David (born Feb. 25, 1844 — died 
June 16, 1885) served as a private in Com- 
pany G., 5th Pennsylvania Reserves, and 
first sergeant of Company D., 205th P. V. 
I. He married Helen Runk. and they had 
issue : Frederick and Ralph E., both mar- 
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(111) JONAS B. SHONTZ (born in 
Huntingdon county, May 13, 1837), is a son 
of Christian and Alaria (Buckwalter) 
Sliontz. He was educated in the pubhc 
schools and one select school, and remained 
on his father's farm until he was twenty-two 
years old. He entered Franklin and Marshall 
Academy in 1859, but his studies were in- 
terrupted by poverty and the outbreak of the 
Civil war. He enlisted in Company G, 5th 
Pennsylvania Reserves, June 21, 1861, and 
served his full term of three years, partici- 
pating in the battles of Mechanicsville, 
Gaines" Alill, Charles City Crossroads, Mal- 
vern Hill, second Bull Run, Antietam, Fred- 
ericksburg and Gettysburg. In all these bat- 
tles the loss of the regiment was very heavy, 
but Private Shontz escaped unhurt. After 
his discharge June 21, 1864, he assisted in 
raising a company and was commissioned 
first lieutenant of Company D., 205th P. V. 
I., Sept. 2, 1864. He commanded his com- 
pany in the battle of Fort Steadman, March 
25, 1865, and in the charge on Fort Mahone, 
April 3, 1865. He was with his regiment in 
the advance after the evacuation of Peters- 
burg, and was with the army when General 
Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court 
House. 

After the close of the war Mr. Shontz 
engaged in merchandising in Marklesburg, 
Pa., from July 30, 1865, to March 15, 1866. 
He married Mary A. Grove, Dec. 21, 1865. 
On Sept. I, 1868, he entered the Reformed 
Theological Seminary at Mercersburg and 
was graduated in 1871. His first charge was 
in Iowa, 1871-76. Coming East to visit the 
Centennial Exposition he preached at Wil- 
kesbarre from November, 1876, to ]\Iay, 
1877, when he was chosen chaplain of the 
Maryland penitentiary, a position that he 
held until April i, 1882. He was pastor of 
the Reformed Church at Shippensburg, 
1882-87, and at Akron, Ohio, 1887-88. In 



both charges he was very successful. He 
found the Shippensburg congregation a 
feeble one, but during his pastorate of less 
than five years, 260 persons were added to 
the Church and a substantial brick parson- 
age was built. At Akron the increase in 
membership in seventeen months was 160. 
On May i, 1888, he received a call from St. 
John's Reformed Church, Chambersburg, 
which was then a very small mission, hav- 
ing a membership of only 67. In a few 
months the little church building was found 
to be too small for the audiences that as- 
sembled, and before the close of the year the 
congregation determined to build a new 
church. The last service in the old church 
(built in 1849 by a membership that was en- 
tirely German), was held April 2, 1889. 
While the new church was building the Con- 
gregation worshipped in the Court House, 
and in the Falling Spring Presbyterian 
Church. The new church cost $7,500, and 
was dedicated Oct. 20, 1889, free of debt. 
The membership at this time was 145. In 
1892, a parsonage was completed at a cost 
of $3,600, for the ground and building. In 
1893 a Sunday-School room was erected at 
a cost of $1,700. The congregation in- 
creased steadily in membership, and the tenth 
anniversary of Mr. Shontz' pastorate found 
it numbering over 300, and nearly free from 
debt. St. John's began the twentieth cen- 
tuiT with 329 members, and is still grow- 
ing. 

In 1884, Mr. Shontz organized the Cum- 
berland Valley Sabbath School Assembly, 
at Williams' Grove, and he was its president 
for two years. He was president of the 
Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Associa- 
tion in 1891-92, and one of the vice-presi- 
dents for many years. He is specially fond 
of Sunday school work, and has the faculty 
of interesting children in Church work. He 
was associated with the great exangelist. 



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Moody, in his work in Baltimore, Md., for 
seven months at one time. He is a frequent 
contributor to the church papers. 

Rev. Shontz resigned the pastorate of 
St. John's Reformed Cluircii at Chambers- 
burg on May i, 1904, to enter the field 01 
Evangelistic work in the Reformed Church 
at large. 

Mrs. J. B. Shontz departed this life on 
June 29, 1904. greatly beloved by a very 
large relationship and many friends. 

-SKINNER FAMILY. The Skinner 
family of Franklin county is descended from 
John Skinner (born in 1733 — died Nov. 21, 
1801), who came from England and settled 
in New Jersey, but afterward removed to 
the Cumberland Valley, where he purchased 
land in 1782. That he was a man of energy 
and enterprise is shown by the fact that he 
was awarded the contract "for making a 
good and sufficient road between the east 
side of Clark's Gap to the place commonly 
known as the Burnt Cabins," Nov. 22, 1786. 
This was part of the State road from Miller's 
Spring, at Mount Rock, Cumberland county, 
to Pittsburgh. The contract price was £600. 
Mr. Skinner's sureties were Robert Peebles, 
William Rippey, Francis Campbell, Daniel 
Duncan and William Barr. An order for a 
payment on the contract was transferred to 
Mr. Duncan, by whom it was lost : a dupli- 
cate was issued by the council, .Vpril 12, 
1787. Mr. Skinner carried the road beyond 
the limits of his contract, for which he asked 
payment ; he also asked for an allowance for 
the depreciation of the paper money paid to 
him as specie. He subsequently built the 
road between Sideling Hill and Ray's Hill. 
The name of Mr. Skinner's wife was Mary 
(born in 1743 — died June 21, 1799), but 
her surname is unknown; they had issue: 
B\S ' I. Anna, born April 16, 1756. 

2. WlLLI.XM (II). 



3. Archer (born Oct. 2, 1759) went 
to Ohio. 

4. George (born May 7, 1761) kept a 
hotel in Horse Valley; he w-as twice married, 
the second time in 181 1, but the names of his 
wives are unknown. 

5. Phoebe, born May 7, 1763. 

6. John (III). 

7. Enoch (IV). / , jj^ 

8. , born in 1774. ' ' 

(II) WILLIAM SKINNER (born 

Nov. 15, 1757 — died May 8. 1856}^ son of 
John and Mary Skinner, was a farmer in 
Path Valley. He bought 434 M acres of 
land that was afterward divided into four 
farms. The original warrant for this tract 
was granted to Thomas Blair, June 3, 1762. 
Mr. Skinner married Martha Duncan (born 
Dec. 4, 1759 — died Dec. i, 1845) ! they had 
issue: 

1. William married Jane Harry, 
daughter of Titus and Catharine (Rovvls) 
Harry; they had a daughter Rachel, born 
May 5, 1817, who married June 25, 1841, 
Robert Price (born Sept. 12, 1812). son of 
John and Hannah (Rowls) Price: they had 
issue: Sylvester married Martha Diven (he 
served in the 4gth Regiment. P. V. I) ; 
Mary A. married George Shields : Thomas 
J. : Almira J. married James Fagan ; Wil- 
liam A.; Noah A. married Jane Shields; 
Martha married David Ferguson : James 
served in the 21st and 9th Pa. Cav., and was 
killed on the skirmish line, March 16, 1865. 
The Price family are members of the Cath- 
olic Church. 

2. Stephen (V). 

3. John (VI). 

4. David Duncan. 

5. Enoch. 

6. Daniel. 

7. Nancy married ■ Morrow. 

8. Mary married Lawrence Hammond 
(VII). 



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g. Martha married James Stark 
(VIII). 

(III) JOHN SKINNER (born Feb. 
15, 1765 — died March 2^, 1819), son of 
John and Mary Skinner, kept a hotel in 
Horse Valley. He married Sarah Wilson 
(born in 1766 — died March 9, 1834), daugh- 
ter of Andrew and Lilias Wilson ; they had 
issue : 

1. William W. (IX). 

2. John. 

3. Anne married James Walker [Wal- 
ker Family]. 

4. Sarah married John McAllen (X). 

5. Mary Morris married Adam Nim- 
mon (XI). 

6. Lilias married Samuel Elliott (XII) . 

(IV) ENOCH SKINNER (born Aug. 
19, 1770 — died Jan. 14, 1817), son of John 
and Mtrry Skinner, lived in the Gap west of 
Mercersburg. He married Elizabeth Wil- 
son, daughter of Andrew and Lilias Wilson ; 
they had issue: 

1. John married April 12, 1824, Mary 
Sterritt ; they had William Sterritt, bom in 
1826: and Andrew Dougal Wilson, born in 
1828. 

2. Andrew. 

3. Stephen died Oct. 21, 1813. 

4. LiLi.\s married William Craig. 

5. Elizabeth. 

6. Morris Porter. 

7. Archibald. 

8. Franklin. 

(V) STEPHEN SKINNER (bom in 
Cumberland county, March 21, 1783 — died 
Sept. 30, 1 851), son of William and Martha 
(Duncan) Skinner, was a farmer, and in 
1808 settled on a farm in Path Valley that 
his father owned. He was an elder in the 
Presbyterian Church at Spring Run. He 
married April 18, 1805, Nancy Morrow 



(born Jan. 7, 1785- 
thev had issue : 



-died Aug. 10, 1855) ; 



1. EzRAj born in 1805, died Aug. 24, 
1806. 

2. Daniel (XIII). 

3. William married (first) in 1832 C. 
Shoemaker, and (second), Feb. 27, 1840, 
Sarah Rine. 

4. Thomas married a Brinley. 

5. Morrow R. married Elizabeth Shoe- 
maker; their son. Morrow R. Jr. (born at 
Roxbury, Jan. 5, 1848), married Oct. 26, 
1 87 1, Emma C. Tritt, daughter of Samuel 
and Juliana (Heagy) Tritt; they had Cora 
Ann ; Daniel Bruce J. ; Effie C, and Minnie 
(died in infancy). 

6. David Duncan (XIV). 

7. Stephen McGinley (born March 
26, 1818), a ruling elder in the Spring Run 
Presbyterian Church, married March 26, 
1840, Margaret Culbertson (born March 
I, 1818), daughter of Samuel Culbertson; 
they had issue; Isaac, Drusilla, James W.,- 
West C, Daniel M., Maggie S., and Eliz- 
abeth. 

8. Enoch. 

9. James W. married a Kilgore. 

10. Agnes married James Doyle. 

11. Martha (born Dec. 18, 1820 — 
died Jan. 15, 1884) married May 9, 1838, 
William Flickinger (born March 4, 1816 — 
died June 11, 1892). 

12. Catherine married, in 1831, Dan- 
iel Johnston. 

13. Mary. 

(VI) JOHN SKINNER (born April 
17, 1786 — died July 17, 1863), son of Wil- 
liam and Martha (Duncan) Skinner, was a 
farmer in Path Valley, He married Judith 
Doyle, daughter of Barnabas and Mary 
(McElhenny) Doyle; they had issue: 

1. William (XV). 

2. John D., born Nov. 14, 1814, died 
Tan. 12, 1864. 

3. David J. (XVI). 

4. Mary married a McElhenny. 



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(VII) MARY SKINNER (born in 
1803), daughter of William and Martha 
(Duncan) Skinner, married in March, 18 18, 
Lawrence Hammond (born in 1797 — died 
April 6, 1883), son of Martin and Margaret 
(Brindle) Hammond, a farmer; they had 
issue : 

1. Martin L. (born March 16, 1830) 
married Nov. 20, 1851, Martha Barclay. 

2. Margaret married Feb. 2, 1837, 
Alexander Widney. 

3. Martha (born Jan. 19, 1819) mar- 
ried Feb. 23, 1841, George Taylor (born May 
16, 181 1 ), son of Caspar Taylor; they had 
issue: Franklin, Martin, Mary B., Margaret 
A., Emeline, Hannah, Ida and Samuel. 

4. Agnes (born Dec. 25, 1823) mar- 
ried Jan. 28, 1 84 1, Dr. Isaac Clugston (born 
Jan. 12, 1814 — died Jan. 22, 1879), son of 
Robert and Elizabeth (Bonebrake) Clugs- 
ton; they had issue: Jefferson L., James A., 
Howard S., Mary M., Cinderella, Martha 
E., Alva C, Lillie F., Ida A., John S., 
George B., and Edie M. 

5. Violet married Jan. 30, 1849, Dan- 
iel Weidman. 

6. Mary Ann (born in 1828 — died Oct. 
2, 1854) married Jan. 20, 1846, Isaac Zeig- 
ler (born in 1808 — died Aug. 15, 1859). 

7. Emily married William A. Mackey. 

8. Elizabeth married March 23, 1853, 
James Stitt. 

9. Barbara married a Burd. 

10. Teresa married a Campbell. 

(VIII) MARTHA SKINNER (born 
in 1805 — died Aug. 5, 1887), daughter of 
William and Martha (Duncan) Skinner, 
married in 1825 James Stark (born in 
Morristown, N. J., April 4, 1799 — died July 
26. 1882), son of Isaac and Elizabeth 
(Glenn) Stark, a miller, merchant and 
farmer. He was a ruling elder in the LTpper 
Path Valley Presbyterian Church. James and 
Martha Stark had issue: 



1. One son was killed by natives in 
Chili, South America. 

2. Adolphus was killed by a landslide 
in California, in 1850. 

3. Albert G. enlisted in Company .\, 
77th Regiment, P. V., Oct. 30, 1861 ; was 
promoted from corporal to sergeant, Aug. 
2, 1863; to first sergeant, Feb. 15, 1863; to 
first lieutenant, Aug. 24, 1863; and to cap- 
tain, Sept. 8, 1864. He was wounded at 
Resaca, Ga., May 16. 1864; he resigned July 
7, 1865. After the Civil war Capt. Stark 
went to Kansas City, Mo., where he engaged 
in the real estate business. 

4. Denton D. was graduated at Jef- 
ferson College, Canonsburg. Soon after 
leaving college he enlisted in the 37th Illi- 
nois Infantry, and served in the Missouri 
campaign under Fremont, and was in the 
battle of Pea Ridge under Curtis. In the 
summer of 1862 he was made adjutant of 
the 1st Arkansas Cavalry, and in 1863 he 
became captain of the Arkansas Battery of 
Light Artillery. 

5. Newell Duncan enlisted in Com- 
pany H. 126th Regiment, P. V.. Aug. 9, 
1862; was wounded in the battle at Freder- 
icksburg. Dec. 13, 1862. He became a mer- 
chant at Topeka, Kansas. 

6. Isaac Andrew died at Trinidad, 
Colo.. Dec. 16, 1872. 

7. Nancy Jane married Dec. 17. 1845,. 
Joseph Ferguson. 

8. Elizabeth Glenn, born in 1833, 
died Aug. 12, 1853. 

9. Margaret was unable to walk from 
her twelfth year. 

10. Sarah married John W. Everett, 
and died at Carthage, III. in 1876. 

(IX) WILLIAM WILSON SKIN- 
NER (born in Path Valley Jan. 2. 1794 — 
died Aug. 19. 1862). son of John and Sarah- 
(Wilson) Skinner, was a miller. He mar- 
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Aug. 24, 1800 — died Dec. 9, 1869), daughter 
of John and Jane Ramsey, of Burnt Cabins ; 
tliey liad issue : 

1. John Wilson (XVII). 

2. Robert W., bom in 1835, died Jan. 

15, 1850. 

3. William P. (born March 24, 1836 
— died Jan. 9, 1901) was deputy register 
and recorder under his brother, A. A. Skin- 
ner, and cierlv to the county auditors. He 
married Adah ZulHnger Over, daughter of 
David and Margaret (Richards) Over, of 
Upper Strasburg; they had issue: Clarence, 
Leona, Jeanne, Helen, Robert and William. 

4. Morris P. 

5. Adolphus a. (born April 14, 1844 
— died Nov. 11, 1894) was educated in the 
schools of his native town, and at the acade- 
mies at Spring Run, Shade Gap and Acade- 
mia. He was elected register and recorder 
in 1872, and re-elected in 1875, serving six 
years. He was afterward deputy register 
and recorder, 1882-84. He married Oct. 

16, 1879, Susan E. Keefer (born Dec. 27, 
1859), daughter of John and Catharine (Eb- 
erly) Keefer; they had issue: Adolphus L., 
born Dec. 25, 1880, and Mary Ann, born 
April 4, 1882. 

6. Alexander M. 

7. Ellen married Daniel Hammond. 

8. Jennie married Ezra Skinner. 

9. Elizabeth married Robert Typer. 

10. Percilla married James Seibert. 

11. Susan Caroline (Carrie) mar- 
ried William Park. 

(X) SARAH SKINNER (born Dec. 
30, 1802 — died Sept. 12, 1865), daughter of 
John and Sarah (Wilson) Skinner, married 
Jan. 9. 1823, John McAllen (born in 1768 — • 
died July 27, 1840), grandson of Robert 
McMlen, who emigrated to Pennsylvania 
about 1730, and settled on a farm adjacent 
to Harrisburg. The McAllens were of the 
Clan Argyle. Mr. McAllen came to Fan- 



nettsburg in 1794, and bought large tracts 
of land in Path Valley, as well as Horse 
Valley. He built two sawmills, two flour 
mills and a steam tannery. He was twice- 
married; his first wife was Margaret Ged- 
tlis. John and Sarah Mc.\llen had issue : 

1. John Franklin married (first) 
.\pril 8, 1847, Elizabeth Aloody Nimmon,. 
ilaughter of Adam and Mary M. (Skinner) 
Nimmon; they had issue: John Adams, 
Thomas Franklin, Robert Franklin, Marga- 
ret Jane (married George W. Park), Sarah 
Lilias (married William E. Harris), Eliza 
Bell, Elizabeth Nimmon, Anna Mary (mar- 
ried S. A. Walker), William West and Grace- 
Nimmon. He married (second) Nancy J. 
Wineman ; they had Frank, Archibald and 
Donald. 

2. Robert Wilson (born March 10, 
1826 — died Jan. 23, 1867) was a brigadier- 
general of militia before the Civil war, and 
during the war lieutenant-colonel of the- 
107th Regiment, P. V. He married (first)' 
Feb. 7, 1850, Isabella Campbell (born in 
1829 — died March 27, 1858) ; they had 
issue : John Howard and Thomas Campbell ; 
and (second) Isabella Wilhelm, and had 
Robert W. and William. 

3. Thomas Wilson married Mrs. Mar- 
garet (Horner) McGaughy, of Gettysburg. 
They had one daughter : Roberta M. 

4. William S. (bom in 1837 — died 
July 3, 1903) was a farmer. He married 
Dec. 26, 1870, Clementine Kyle (died Aug. 
24, 1881), daughter of David and Mary 
(Beatty) Kyle; they had issue: John K., 
Margaret, Sarah, Norman, and Clementine. 

5. Sarah Jane married Oct. 16, 1867, 
John S. Flickinger, a physician, son of Jo- 
seph and Nancy (Statler) Flickinger: they 
had issue : Joseph McAllen and Edith S. 

(XI) MARY MORRIS SKINNER, 
daughter of John and Sarah (Wilson) Skin- 
ner, married in 1819 Adam Ninimon (born? 



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BIOGR.A.PHIC.AI. ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIN COUNTY. 



in Cimiberland county, in 1776 — died in 
1843), son of George Nimmon, a native of 
Belfast, Ireland, and a soldier in the Ameri- 
can Revolution. Adam was a wagoner in 
his youth and later a farmer; they had issue: 

1. John S. (born in 1827 — died Dec. 

4, 1902) entered the service as captain of 
Company D. iith Pa. Cav., Aug. 31, 1861 : 
was promoted to be major, May 25, 1865, 
and mustered out with his regiment, Aug. 
13, 1865. He was engaged in merchandiz- 
ing at Fannettsburg and afterward lived in 
retirement at Willow Hill. He married 
Sarah Flickinger (died in 1876), daughter 
of Joseph and Xancy ( Statler) Flickinger; 
they had one son : John S. 

2. Elizabeth 'SI. married John F. ^Ic- 
Allen (X). 

(XH) LILIAS SKINNER (born in 
April, 1796 — died Aug. 20, 1881), daugh- 
ter of John and Sarah (Wilson) Skinner, 
married Nov. 14, 181 6, Samuel Elliott (bom 
in March, 1790 — died Sept. 24, 1855) and 
had issue: 

1. John W. 

2. William S. (born in 1819- — died in 
1899) married Catherine Anna Brown, born 
in 1824 — died in 1856) and went to Free- 
port, Iowa; he inarried (second) Rosanna 
\\'idney McCartney (born Feb. 5, 1825 — 
'died Feb. 27, 1872). 

3. Stephen A. 

4. Samuel M. 

5. George W. 

6. Lilias died unmarried. 

7. Catherine married Henry Brewer. 

8. Martha E., born in 1840, died in 
1887. 

(XIII) DANIEL SKINNER (born 
Oct. 18, 1807 — died Jan. i, 1886), son of 
Stephen and X'ancy (Morrow) Skinner, was 
a prominent Republican and was a county 
■commissioner, 1866-69. He married March 

5. 1835, Susanna Klippinger (born July 17, 



1813 — died April 19. 1871). daughter of 
Anthony and Mary (Hess) Klippinger; they 
had issue: 

1. Ezra (XVIII). 

2. Amos A. enlisted in Company G, 
126th Regiment. P. \'., Aug. 11, 1862, and 
was a corporal of his company ; he was mus- 
tered out May 20, 1863. He married Miss 
Mumma. 

3. Edgar served in the 126th Regiment, 
P. V. He married (tirst) Frances Fisher, 
and (second) Catharine Mason. 

4. Stephen Oliver (died Dec. 4, 
1864) enlisted in Company A, 77th Regi- 
ment, P. v., Oct. 31, 1861, and was a cor- 
poral of his company; he was captured at 
Chickamauga. Sept. 19, 1863, and died at 
Andersonville. where his grave is marked 
12,218. 

5. Licinda married Dennis Stitt. 

6. Daniel C, bom March 2, 1847, f''^<i 
Sept. 14, 1849. 

(XIV) DAVID DUNCAN SKINNER 
(born in Path Valley, Oct. 11, 181 3 — died 
in 1893), son of Stephen and Xancy ( Mor- 
row ( Skinner, was a farmer near Dry Run. 
In early life he drove a team to Pittsburgh 
for a number of years. In 1844, with only 
$700, he bought a farm on which he put all 
the improvements. By industry and thrift 
he became the owner of three farms, com- 
prising six hundred acres. He married 
(first) March i, 1835, Margaret Flickinger. 
daughter of John Flickinger; they had issue: 

I. Stephen, postmaster at Dry Run, 
married Mary !\IcMu!lin ; they have issue : 
Libbie (married William Kolb), Mary N. 
(married Dr. W. E. Wolf), Jennie (Gamble) 
and Linnie (married George E. Starlipps). 

Mr. Skiimer married (second) May 6. 
1856. Jane Beers (born Feb. 2. 1832 — died 
May 13, 1887). daughter of Alexander 
Beers, of Huntingdon county; they had 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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1. Robert (born Aug. 12, 1857) went 
to Nebraska. He married Miss Vaughan, 
and has one daughter, Thirza. 

2. Eldor.\do (born Dec. i, 1858) Hves 
in Nebraska. 

3. GiLSON H. (born July 4, i860) mar- 
ried Sarali Stitt ; they ha\;e issue : Mabel 
and Margaret. 

4. Nancy M.. born Jan. i, 1862. 

5. Clinton I., (XIX). 

6. WiLBERT W. (born Jan. i, 1866) 
married Ida Taylor ; they have issue : Cath- 
arine, Myrtle, Chalmer and Dwight. 

7. M.\RY L. (born June 15, 1868) mar- 
ried Andrew Brenizer. 

8. Retta J., born Oct. 24, 1870, died 
in 1887. 

9. Emm.\ (born Aug. 8, 1873) '^ ^ 
teacher in Fannett township. 

10. Anna M., born Oct. 18, 1875, died 
in childhood. 

(XV) WILLIAM SKINNER (born 
in Path Valley, March 20, 1820 — died April 
24, 1878), son of John and Judith (Doyle) 
Skinner, was a merchant at Dry Run until 
he was elected sheriff of Franklin county. 
He served one term, 1853-56. In politics 
he was a Democrat. He continued to reside 
at Chambersburg until his death, except 
during a few years when he lived on a farm 
that he owned, south of the town on the 
Waynesboro road. For three years he was 
engaged in the dry-goods and notion busi- 
ness with his two sons. He married June 8, 
1843. Sarah Ann Aikin (born in 1823 — 
died April i. 1887) : they had issue: 

I. Frank H. (born May 18. 1844) 
married Dec. 3, 1867, Sarah Jane Galbraith, 
daughter of Joseph and Mary Jane (Palm) 
Galbraith ; they have issue : William Gal- 
braith, born Sept. 18. 1868. died Sept. 19, 
1870; Edward Aughinbaugh, torn March 
6, 1872; Sarah Ann Fleming, born Oct. 14, 
1876: and Carroll Howard. 



2. William C. (born June 18, 1849) 
was deputy sheriff of Franklin county, 1875- 
78, and sheriff, 1880-83. He was at one 
time extensively engaged in the manufacture 
of brick at Chambersburg. He married, in 
1873, Alice R. Hassler, daughter of Mel- 
chor Hassler. 

3. Mary J. married Dr. T. C. Robinson. 

4. Adela married James G. Haymaker. 
(XVI) DAVID J. SKINNER (born 

in Path Valley, Aug. 10, i822^died Aug. 

10, 1894), son of John and Judith (Doyle) 
Skinner, remained on the Skinner home- 
stead farm for fifteen years after his mar- 
riage; he then purchased the Adam Crouse 
farm, in 1859. Afterward he lived on a 
farm at Dry Run, containing several hun- 
dred acres of choice land, which he pur- 
chased. He married !March 20, 1845, Cath- 
arine Barclay, daughter of Andrew and 
Sarah (Stark) Barclay; they had issue: 

1. George W. (XX). 

2. Sarah J. married J. F. Burke, of 
Dry Run. where she still resides. 

3. Mary E., born Aug. 11. 1849, ^^'^^ 
Dec. 27, 1850. 

4. LoRRENA, born Feb. 25, 1851, died 
Feb. 12, 1853. 

5. John M. is engaged in general mer- 
chandising at Mount Vernon, Missouri. 

6. \\'ILLL\M B. (born in 1856) was 
educated at the Chambersburg Academy, 
and was graduated at the State Normal 
School at Shippensburg. He was associated 
with his brother, Capt. George W. Skinner, 
in the publication of the Fulton Democrat, 
and while thus engaged he studied law. and 
was admitted to the Fulton County Bar June 

11, 1877. He was district attorney of Ful- 
ton county 1879-82, after which he removed 
to Mount Vernon, Mo., where he was twice 
elected district attorney and established a 
lucrative practice. He married Nellie Great- - 
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7. Annie M. married Dr. J. E. Lutz, of 
Salina, Kansas. 

8. Lizzie C. is a clerk in the United 
-State Pension office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylva- 
nia. 

9. Jennetta A. married Dr. E. Gil- 
more Jones, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

10. D.wiD M. married Phoebe Bowers 
and is practicing law in Missouri. 

11. Ad.-\ B. is residing with her mother, 
who is still living at the age of eighty years. 

12. LoTTA Bl.'\nche married Dr. Wil- 
liam F. Skinner (XXI). 

(XVII) JOHN WILSON SKINNER 
(born in Path Valley Aug. 11, 1832 — died 
June 2, 1880), son of William W. and Mary 
Ann (Ramsey) Skinner, as a boy drove a 
team for his father, being employed in haul- 
ing goods over the mountains. He was 
afterward in the mercantile business for 
many years, but retired to a farm on which 
he spent the close of his life. He was a Re- 
publican in politics, and a Presbyterian in 
religion. He married (first) Mary Jane 
Kirkpatrick (born Oct. 9, 1834 — died Nov. 
24, 1858) ; they had issue: 

1. William died in infancy. 

2. Araminta married D. D. Gamble 
and moved to Indiana county, Pennsylvania. 

3. Mary married (first) James A. Bair, 
and (second) Alexander Maxwell. 

Mr. Skinner married (second) Emme- 
line Woods, daughter of Wayne Woods 
(who was a grand-nephew of Anthony 
A\'ayne). of Blain. Perry county: they had 
issue : 

1. Clara May married Henry Neal. 

2. William F. (XXI). 

3. Samuel Albert (born Oct. 3, 
1869), who was postmaster at Dry Run, 
1893-97. and has been a justice of the peace 
since 1897, is also engaged in mercantile 
business and is a very successful and promi- 
nent man of his locality. 



4. Harry W., who married Frances 
Gable, daughter of Michael Gable, gradu- 
ated from the Philadelphia College of Phar- 
macy with the class of 1883. later engaged 
in business in Chambersburg, and estab- 
lished the now well known "Skinner's 
Pharmacy." 

5. Alice is unmarried. 

6. Cora married W'illiam Campbell. 

7. Edith married John Jones. 

(XVIII) EZRA SKINNER (born in 
Fannett township, April 21, 1839), son of 
Daniel and Susanna (^Klippinger) Skinner, 
was educated in the public schools at Dry 
Run, and has been a farmer all his life. His 
sister still lives on the old farm of 1 1 1 acres 
bought by his grandfather, Stephen Skinner. 
He enlisted in Company F, 158th Regiment, 
P. v., Nov. I, 1862, and was mustered out 
with his company Aug. 12, 1863. The reg- 
iment served in North Carolina, and in June, 
1863, in a feint upon Richmond, by way of 
White House Landing and Bottom's Bridge. 
It joined the Army of the Potomac, under 
Gen. Meade, at Boonsboro, but three days 
later Lee made his escape across the Poto- 
mac. It was mustered out at Chambersburg. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
He married Jennie Skinner, daughter of 
William W. and Mary A. (Ramsey) Skin- 
ner ; they have issue : 

1. Laura S. married Dr. Irwin G. 
Stewart. 

2. Newton (born in 1870 — died 
March 17. 1872. 

3. McGiNLEY married March 30, 1893. 
Jessie Devor (born Jan. 22, 1871), daugh- 
ter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Brinley) Devor. 

4. Lulu married George Hixon. 

5. Herbert. 

6. Ada May. 

(XIX) CLINTON I. SKINNER 
(born in Path Valley, March i, 1864). son 
of Duncan D. and Jane (Beers) Skinner, was 



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educated in the public schools and is a 
farmer on the old Skinner homestead, one 
mile north of Dry Run, which he owns. His 
farm contains 175 acres and is one of the 
most fertile in the valley. He is a stanch 
Republican and a consistent member of the 
Upper Path Valley Presbyterian Church. 
On Jan. 23, 1890, he married Myrtle 
McCartney, daughter of Wilson and 
Maria (Seibert) McCartney. Mrs. Skin- 
ner is one of a family of ten chil- 
dren, the others being: Elizabeth J. 
married Frank Anderson; Isabella mar- 
ried Samuel Haines; Mary (now de- 
ceased) married William Flemming; Flora 
married Mr. Johnston, of Nebraska ; Rose 
is the widow of Samuel Coons; Ida( now 
deceased) married Blair Myers; Joseph A. 
married Amanda Cowen ; William ; Sallie 
became the wife of Harvey Kuhn. 

(XX) GEORGE WASHINGTON 
SKINNER (born in Path Valley, Jan. 13. 
1846), son of David J. and Catharine (Bar- 
clay) Skinner, was educated in the public 
schools, at Milnwood Academy, Shade Gap, 
and at Washington and Jefferson College, 
Washington. Pa. Inspired by an ardent 
patriotism he ran away from college, when 
only a little over sixteen years old, and en- 
listed in Company A, 77th P. V. I., Nov. i, 
1862. He was promoted to sergeant July 
5. 1864: to first lieutenant, Sept. 8, 1864, 
and to captain, Aug. i, 1865. He served 
with his company in the severe campaign in 
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, in 1863 
and 1864, and in 1865, after the surrender 
of Gen. Lee, he went to Texas and assisted 
in suppressing the last remnants of the hos- 
tile Confederates. He was mustered out 
with his company Dec. 6, 1865. 

After the war Capt. Skinner returned to 
his home in Franklin county, .\lthough a 
\-eteran he was then only twenty years of age. 
The next vear, the vear in which he attained 



his majority, he was nominated and elected 
county treasurer. He ser\ed the full term 
of two years, 1868-69. I" the latter year, 
and again in 1870, he was elected representa- 
tive for the counties of Franklin and Perry 
in the State Legislature, and served on the 
most important committees in the house. In 
the Legislature he distinguished himself by 
his earnest advocacy of the payment of the 
"Border Raid Claims." In 1872 Capt. Skin- 
ner removed to Fulton county, where he 
continued to reside for more than a quarter 
of a century. In 1875 and 1876 he was 
journal clerk of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives. From 1876 to 1880 he was 
one of the owners and publishers and the 
principal editor of the full on Democrat. 
While engaged in the newspaper business he 
studied law and was admitted to the Frank- 
lin County Bar, May 7, 1879, and to the 
Fulton County Bar on the 9th of June, 1879. 
He was four times a representative in the 
Pennsylvania Legislature from Fulton coun- 
ty, 1889-94 and 1899-1900; served as Uni- 
ted States Disbursing Pension Agent at 
Pittsburgh, Pa., from Aug. 23, 1893, to Jan. 
I, 1898, by appointment of President Cleve- 
land. He is now superintendent of the State 
Soldiers' Orphans" Industrial School, at 
Scotland, having been appointed July i, 
1900. 

Capt. Skinner was married Jan. 10, 1872, 
to Ida M., only daughter of James H. and 
Mary A. Parker, of Reading, Pa. They had 
issue as follows : 

1. Nellie Parker, born March 29, 
1873, married April 12, 1899, Edgar G. 
Criswell, of Pittsburgh, Pa., now of Boston, 
Mass.. business manager and associate editor 
of The Cross, an Episcopal Church paper. 

2. J.iiMES P.^RKER, born .Aug. 21, 1877, 
died March 17. 1883. 

3. Mary Hazel, born Aug. 23. 1882, 
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4. Parker Ringel, born May i, 1885, 
is now a student at Washington and Jeffer- 
son College. 

5. Don .\LD Kerper, born Oct. 10. 1892, 
is a student at Chambersburg Academy. 

(XXI) WILLIAM FRANCIS SKIN- 
NER (born at Dry Run, Dec. 23, 1867), son 
of John W. and Emmeline (Woods) Skin- 
ner, was educated in the public schools and 
at the Dry Run Academy. After leaving 
the academy he taught school for one term 
and then studied medicine with Dr. E. G. 
Jones, of Dry Run. He was graduated M. 
D. at Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
phia, in 1890. After receiving his degree he 
practiced for a few months at Ickesburg. 
Perry county, but in the autumn of the same 
year he formed a partnership with Dr. R. W. 
Ramsey, at St. Thomas. When Dr. Ramsey 
removed to Chambersburg, in April, 1891, 
Dr. Skinner remained at St. Thomas, and 
continued in practice there until August, 
1899, when he removed to Chambersburg, 
where he has been in active practice ever 
since. He took a post-graduate course at 
the Philadelphia Polyclinic, in 1899. Dr. 
Skinner was appointed physician to the Sol- 
diers' Orphans' Industrial School, Scotland, 
Pa., in January, 1900, and in 1901 he was 
elected coroner of Franklin county. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He is a member of 
the American Medical Association, and of 
the Pennsylvania and Franklin County Med- 
ical Societies. He is a member of several 
secret societies, and is a member of Falling 
Spring Presbj'terian Church. He married 
May 19, 1 89 1, Lotta Blanche Skinner, 
daughter of David J. and Catharine (Bar- 
clay ) Skinner ; they have issue : 

1. Robert R.\msey, born May 31, 1892, 
died Nov. i, 1895. 

2. Katharyne Barclay, born Feb. 
28, 1895. 

3. Elizabeth, born Jan. i, 1897. 



GILMORE FAMILY. JOHN GIL- 
MORE, the ancestor of the Gilmore family 
of Chambersburg, was a native of the north 
of Ireland. He emigrated to Pennsylvania 
with his wife, Martha Montgomery, in 1793, 
and settled in Chester county. Later he re- 
moved to Cumberland county, and was a 
farmer near Carlisle. John and Martha 
(Montgomery) Gilmore had issue: Jane, 
Elizabeth. Mitchell, James, John, William, 
Alexander R. and Martha. 

(II) WILLIAM GILMORE (born July 
17- 1799 — '^lied July 5, 1852), son of John 
and Martha (Montgomery) Gilmore, was 
an active business man and a prominent citi- 
zen of Chambersburg. He was a Democrat 
of the old school, and was a Democratic 
leader in the county. He was postmaster at 
Chambersburg. 1838-41, and sheriff of 
Franklin county 1841-44. He was a man of 
literary tastes, and although too young to 
take part in the War of 181 2. he was soon 
afterward a leading spirit in the Pennsylva- 
nia militia. He was second lieutenant of the 
Washington Grays, of Chambersburg, under 
Capt. John McClintock, and rose to be cap- 
tain and major: he was brigade inspector of 
the 2nd Brigade, nth Division, Pennsyl- 
vania Militia, 1835-39. Major Gilmore 
married Oct. 13, 1825, Martha Kirby (born 
Jan. 21, 1806 — died Dec. 3, 1886), daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Jean (Withney) Kirby; 
they had issue : 

1. John M., born July 6, 1826, died 
July 2-j, 1894. 

2. Thomas Kirby. born June 24, 1828, 
died Dec. 20, 1856. 

3. Martha married Jacob S. Nixon. 

4. William Blair. 

5. JoANN.\ K., born .April 11, 1838, 
died Aug. 8, 1867. 

6. James Ross (III). 

7. Benjamin Franklin, born Sept. 
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8. Elizabeth Gray, living in Cliam- 
bersburg. 

(Ill) JAMES ROSS GILMORE (bom 
at Chambersburg), son of Williani and 
Martlia (Kirby) Gilmore, was educated at 
the Chamljersburg Academy. After leav- 
ing school he was engaged with the engineer- 
ing department of the old Franklin Railroad, 
now the Cumberland Valley Railroad. He 
afterward went to Philadelphia and became 
a clerk in the Lmion Bank. In 1861, at the 
breaking out of the Civil war he was a vol- 
unteer in the United States service, becom- 
ing an assistant in the United States Military 
Telegraph Corps. He assisted in building all 
the telegraph lines that connected the military 
camps with the capital, had charge of the 
first outpost office established in the anny, 
and became Superintendent of the Corps in 
July. 1861. He returned to Chambersburg 
in the winter of 1861, and in the summer of 
1862 he volunteered as a private in Com- 
pany A, 126th P. V. I. He was with his 
company at Antietam and with Headquar- 
ters 5th Army Corps during the campaign 
ending with the battle of Fredericksburg, 
Dec. 13, 1862. After the battle of Freder- 
icksburg he was orderetl to Washington for 
duty in the War Department under the im- 
mediate orders of the Secretary of War. He 
remained in Washington until the spring of 
1863, when he was ordered to Fortress Mon- 
roe, Va., and thence to Newbem, N. C, 
where he served during the siege and the 
yellow fever epidemic. In November, 1864, 
he was appointed a captain of United States 
Volunteers, and assigned to the staff of Ma- 
jor-General John G. Foster, U. S. A., and 
later to that of Major-General Quincy .\. 
Gillmore, U. S. A. He was also tem- 
porarily attached to the staff of Gen- 
eral Sherman, and was with him dur- 
ing the siege and at the capture of Savannah. 
Immediately after the fall of the city he was 

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ordered to cooperate with an officer of the 
navy in blowing up and removing obstruc- 
tions in the Savannah River placed there 
during the Rebellion. While on staff duty 
he took part in the siege of Charleston, and 
was with the first Union Officers who en- 
tered that city and Fort Sumter at the sur- 
render. Feb. 28, 1865. At the close of the 
war. during the period of reconstruction he 
served in Charleston, S. C, under Maj. Gen, 
Daniel E. Sickles, as department quarter- 
master and was thus engaged at the time of 
his muster out. Captain Gilmore was bre- 
vetted major and lieutenant colonel in 1865 
for "meritorious services and devoted appli- 
cation to duty." He remained in the serv- 
ice after the close of the war until Novem- 
ber, 1866, when he was honorably mustered 
out. Later he again entered the service 
under Maj. Cjen. Q. A. Gillmore, with whom 
he served in the Eng-ineer Department of 
the Army on duty in connection with the re- 
building of the fortifications in New York 
Harbor, and on the South Atlantic coast, 
and the river and harbor improvements in 
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Col. 
Gilmore's connection with Maj. Gen. Gill- 
more lasted twentj'-two years, 1866-88. He 
was then transferred to Detroit, Mich., serv- 
ing under the orders of Colonel, afterward 
Major General, Ludlow, on the river and 
harbor improvements on the eastern shore of 
Lake Michigan, 1888-92. In the latter year 
he returned to Chambersburg with his fam- 
ily, where he has since lived in retirement. 
He took an active part in the celebration of 
the centennial anniversary of the Chambers- 
burg Academy in 1897, and was the master 
spirit of the Congress of the Scotch-Irish 
Society of America upon the occasion of its 
meeting at Chambersburg in 1901. He was 
one of the original members of the Kittoch- 
tinny Historical Society and was chairman 
of the executive committee for four years, 



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1898-1902, and a Vice President. 1903. In 
politics he is a Republican. He is a trustee 
of the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, 
Chambersburg. Pa. : a director of the Cham- 
bersburg Hospital : a member of the New 
York Commandery of the Military Order of 
the Loyal Legion of the United States ; and 
of George Washington Post No. 103, G. 
A. R., New York City. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Army and Navy Club of New 
York ; the Union of the Titans, New York ; 
the United Service Club, Philadelphia; 
the Society of the Army of the Potomac; 
the Scotch-Irish Society of America, and 
the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society. Col- 
onel Gilmore married in 1872, Harriet El- 
liott Beatty, daughter of James and Isabella 
Elliott; they have issue. 

1. Walter Beatty was graduated 
from the Chambersburg Academy, 1893, 
and from Princeton University in 1897 ^^'^'^ 
the degree of B. A., and he is now an attor- 
ney-at-law at Chambersburg. 

2. William Blair was graduated from 
the Chambersburg Academy in 1897, from 
Peekskill Military Academy in 1898, and 
from Princeton University with the degree 
of B. S. in 1902. He is engaged in engi- 
neering work in West Virginia. 

DAVID M. GOOD, Jr., one of the 
leading citizens of Waynesboro, and presi- 
dent of the Geiser Manufacturing Company, 
was torn Dec. 21, 1849, '" Leitersburg, 
Washington Co., Md., and in 1864 accom- 
panied his parents on their removal to 
Hagerstown, where he resided until 1873, 
the year he came to Waynesboro. 

(I) JACOB GOOD, the great-great- 
grandfather of David M. Good, Jr., was a 
resident of Leitersburg District, W'ashington 
Co., Md., as early as 1765, and he was 
probably a descendant of Hans Good 
((Gutli). who settled south of Conestoga 



Creek in Lancaster county. Pa. There were 
Guths in Brecknock township, Lancaster 
county, as early as 171 1, and there is no 
doubt that it was from that locality Jacob 
Good (Guth) removed to western Maryland. 
The land he purchased in 1765 comprised 
Good's Choice, with an area of 163 acres, 
originally embraced in Skipton-on-Craven, 
and Luck, a tract of 100 acres, formerly in- 
cluded in the Resurvey of Well Taught. He 
lived in a log house that stood on the banks 
of the Little Antietam, near the present resi- 
dence of Harvey J. Hortel ; on the other 
side of the creek was a sawmill in opera- 
tion as early as 1772. Mr. Good eventually 
owned 350 acres of land embracing these 
improvements at the confluence of Little 
Antietam with Antietam, and there he re- 
sided until 1787, when he sold the estate 
to Joseph Long, his son-in-law, and re- 
moved to Huckleberry Hall, a tract several 
miles distant in the valley of the Little 
Antietam. There he died in 1797. leav- 
ing his wife, Barbara, and the following 
children : 

1. John. 

2. Ann.\ married Peter Longenecker. 

3. Elizabeth married Joseph Long. 

4. Barbara married Peter Witmer. 

5. C.\therine married Peter New- 
comer. 

6. Jacob. 

7. Mary married Christian Hershey. 

8. Christian (II). 

9. Abraham. 

(II) CHRISTIAN GOOD, son of 
Jacob, and great-grandfather of our subject, 
was born Feb. 2-i. 1757. and engaged in 
farming in Leitersburg District, Washington 
Co., Md.. where he owned 220 acres of land 
which he sold in 181 7 to Stephen Martin, 
his .son-in-law. He died Dec. 5, 1820. a 
worthy, pious member of the old Mennonite 
faith. His wife Barbara, was born Oct. 24, 



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243 



1759, and died May 16, 181 3. Their chil- 
«dren were as follows : 

1. Christian (III). 

2. Peter. 

3. Abraham. 

4. Jacob. 

5. John. 

6. David. 

7. Elizabeth married Henry Funk. 

8. Nancy married Peter Newcomer. 

9. Barbara married Stephen Martin. 
(Ill) CHRISTIAN GOOD (2), 

grandfather of David M. Good, Jr., was 
Tjorn Nov. 18, 1783, in the Leitersburg Dis- 
trict, and in 1813 he purchased the farm in 
Washington township. Franklin Co., Pa., 
upon whicli Midvale Station, on the Western 
Maryland railroad, is located and which is 
now owned by his grandson, Jacob F. Good. 
There he resided until his death, Jan. 2, 
1863. He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Michael Stover, and they had born to them 
■these children : 

1. D.wiD M. (IV). 

2. Henry. 

3. Christian. 

4. Jacob S. 

5. Daniel F. 

6. Christiana married Jacob Funk. 

7. Sarah married Samuel Welty. 

8. Mary. 

(IV) DAVID M. good, Sr., son of 
Christian Good (2), and father of David 
M. Good, Jr., was bom Nov. 30, 181 3, at 
Midvale, Washington township, Franklin 
'Co.. Pa., and was educated at the academy 
at York, Pa. At the age of eighteen years 
he entered the store of Henry Smith, of 
Waynesboro, as salesman, and for one year 
he was similarly employed at Massillon, 
Ohio. In 1840 he embarked in a general 
mercantile business at Leitersburg, Md., in 
partnership with Charles A. Fletcher, and 
there he continued until 1852, when he re- 



moved to Old Forge, in Chewsville District, 
where he owned and operated a farm and 
mill. From 1867 to 1870 he was engaged in 
the general business in Hagerstown, Md., 
during which period he resided at Leiters- 
burg. In 1870 he located at Waynesboro, 
where he died Oct. 20, 1885. 

In 1839 David M. Good married Mar- 
garet B. Davison, who died in 184 1. In 
1842 he married (second) Mary M., daugh- 
ter of Henry and Elizabeth (Stehman) 
Dietrich, who still survives. The children 
born to this union are: 

1. Allen. 

2. Milton D. 

3. Stehman Y. 

4. Preston O. 

5. David M. (V). 

6. Henry W. 

7. Mary K. married Dr. J. B. Amber- 
son. 

8. Titus S. 

9. Genora B. 

10. Victor B. 

11. Lillian married Joseph C. Clugs- 
ton. 

(V) DAVID M. GOOD, Jr., came to 
Waynesboro some thirty years ago, enter- 
ing the dry-goods firm of Price & Hoeflich, 
in the capacity of a salesman. After ten 
years of faithful service his reliability and 
uprightness of character enabled him to pur- 
chase Mr. Price's interest in the business, 
through Mr. Price's willingness to accept the 
voung man's personal obligations. He had 
watched his career, and his faith in the 
young merchant was fully justified, as every 
note was paid before it came due. The firm 
of Hoeflich & Good did a large business. It 
afterward became the firm of Good, Besore 
& Unger, Mr. Hoeflich retiring and Mr. 
Good moving up to the head of the new 
firm. At a later date Mr. Good sold his 
interest, and after a pleasure tour through 



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the West he entered, the collecting depart- 
ment of the Frick Company, and spent two 
more years in the South and West, on col- 
lections and adjustments for this Company. 
He then bought Mr. Unger's interest in the 
former business, which was continued suc- 
cessfully under the title of Besore & Good, 
the latter finally selling his interest to Mr. 
Besore, who continued the business. 

In 1897, in association with his brother, 
V. B. Good, our subject purchased the stock 
of merchandise of J. F. Durbin, and shortly 
after the formation of the firm of Good 
Brothers D. M. Good, Jr., entered the serv- 
ice of the Geiser Mfg. Co., first as collector, 
then as general manager, being now presi- 
dent. On account of other increasing busi- 
ness interests he withdrew from the firm of 
Good Brothers. Mr. Good is well known 
throughout the United States and enjoys the 
esteem and confidence of all his acquain- 
tances. He is a self-made man. and gained 
his first substantial start in life through his 
own thrift and industry. As president of the 
great corporation he represents he is but 
filling a position for which he laid the 
foundations in early years, by thoroughness, 
perseverance, faithfulness and integrity. 

In 1902 Mr. Good became one of the 
organizers, director and first vice-president 
of the Chambersburg, Gettysburg, Waynes- 
boro Electric Railway Company. He is 
one of the organizers and directors of the 
People's National Bank of Waynesboro, and 
president of the Waynesboro Board of Trade 
and various industries of Waynesboro. In 
politics he is a stanch Republican. In re- 
ligion he is a member of the Waynesboro 
Presbyterian Church, in which he has filled 
various church offices. 

Mr. Good married Mrs. Josephine A. 
Funk, of Waynesboro, Pa., daughter of Dr. 
R. M. French, of Fayetteville, Pa. This mar- 
riage has been blessed with one daughter. 



Mary Peal Good, of Waynesboro, who is- 
now in Europe. 

Mr. Good is a self-made man, his career 
of unbroken success being due to his 
tireless energ}- and industry, and his 
fidelity to duty in both private and 
public life. His motto is "Only the 
useful are successful." Mr. Good came 
to Waynesboro over thirty years ago. 
without a dollar, and by pluck and 
perseverance has won his present prominent 
and enviable position as president of the 
Geiser Manufacturing Company, the leading, 
if not the largest, manufacturing concern of 
its kind in the world. A short time ago 
he returned from a three months' tour of 
Europe and Asia, in the interest of the com- 
pany of which he is the head. Mr. Good has 
recently been elected vice-president of the 
National Association of Thresher Manu- 
facturers of the L'nited States, an organiza- 
tion representing over $50,000,000 of in- 
vested capital. He stands in the front rank: 
of America's Phalanx of "Captains of In- 
dustry." 

CROFT FAMILY. FREDERICK 
KRAFFT (born at Gross Readesheims. near 
Worms, Germany, in 1714 — died in Broth- 
ers Valley township, Somerset county, in 
1802), probably emigrated to Pennsylvania 
on the ship "Winter Galley,"' from Rotter- 
dam, landing at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1738. 
On the same vessel was Johan Jacob Krafft, 
who, it is believed, was a brother of Fred- 
erick. The tradition in the Croft family is 
that soon after their arrival in Pennsylvania 
they came up the Cumberland Valley 
through Shippensburg to the site of Cham- 
bersburg, where they lived at or near the 
graveyard of the Falling Spring Presby- 
terian Church. Here the brothers disagreed 
and separated, according to the tradition,. 
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.'State. Besides Frederick and Johan Jacob 
Krafft, who emigrated in 1738, there were 
two others, apparently brothers, Frederick 
and Heinrich Kratift, who came on the ship 
"Shirley," landing Sept. 5, 175 1. That 
these two were not the brothers who found 
a temporary home in the Falling Spring 
cave is indicated, if not proved, by another 
Krafft tradition, which is that while the 
brothers were living in the cave, there was a 
death in the Chambers family. The only 
known death in that family before 1748 was 
the demise of Sarah Patterson Chambers, 
the first wife of Col. Benjamin Chambers, 
.the founder of Chambersburg. A Frederick 
Krafft was one of the earliest German set- 
tlers in Guilford township, where he took up 
land as early as 1749. It is probable that 
this Frederick Kraft't was Johan Frederick 
Krafft, who emigrated on the ship "Sam- 
uel," landing at Philadelphia, Aug. 30, 1737. 
This land, known for many years as a Keller 
farm, was southeast of the Bonbrake lands, 
the latter being contiguous to Grindstone 
Hill Church. That this Frederick and Fred- 
erick Kraft't of the cave are not identical is 
shown by a release for these lands executed 
by Frederick Kraff't and Elizabeth, his wife, 
•of Frederick Co., Md., and Jacob Harsh- 
berger and Margaret, his wife, March 26, 
1796. In this release it is said that the fa- 
ther of Frederick and Margaret, the grant- 
ors, died "undispossessed" of these lands. 
Frederick Kraft't, the ancestor of the Krafft 
family named at the beginning of this arti- 
-cle obtained an order for survey for 292 
acres of land in Guilford township, April 9, 
1768. The survey was made Sept. 14, 1768. 
This land was north of the Witherspoon 
farm, now owned by Hon. John \V. Wither- 
spoon, and nearly a mile east of the Cham- 
bersburg and Greencastle road. Mr. Krafft 
sold it to John Miller, May i, 1779, and 
thirty years afterward it became the property 



of Miller's grandson, Christian Miller. Later 
Mr. Krafft bought from Henry Shryock, 
of Chambersburg, a farm in Brothers Val- 
ley township, in what is now Somerset coun- 
ty. The agreement for the purchase was 
dated Nov. 3, 1792, and he was a taxable 
in that township in 1796. 

Mr. Krafft married (first), Oct. 15, 
1739, Anna Barbara Sallade (died March 

29, 1746) ; they probably had a son Freder- 
ick. He married (second) April 29, 1746, 
Maria Margaretta Kusien (died March 14, 
1 772, and they had issue : 

1. John Peter, born Feb. 23, 1747. 

2. Anna Dorothea (born Oct. 24, 
1748) married Philip Wegerline, or Weig- 
ley. 

3. Anna Barbara (born Jan. 26, 
1 751) married George Coleman. 

4. John Martin, born May 21, 1752. 

5. John Valentine, born March 2, 

1754- 

6. Eva (born Dec. 22, 1756) married 
Martin Fightner, and they had issue: John 
and Martin. 

7. Abraham, born March 24, 1759. 

8. Catharine Elizabeth (born 
March i, 1761) married Jonathan Harry, 
and they had a son, John. 

9. David (H). 

Mr. Krafft married (third) May 6, 
1776, Anna jNIaria Baumgardner, (died Oct. 

30, 1779), but had no issue. 

(II) DAVID CROFT (born Aug. 3, 
1765 — died Dec. 18, 1845), son of Fred- 
erick and Maria M. (Kusien) Krafft, owned 
four farms in Hamilton township, near 
Emanuel Church, on one of which he lived. 
He married Catharine Unangst (born April 
9, 1766 — died Aug. 10, 1834), daughter of 
Andrew Unangst ; they had issue : 

1. David (III). 

2. John, born Aug. 6, 1792, died un- 
married, Dec. 29, 18 1 7. 



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3. Catharine (born Feb. 18, 1794) 
married William JMiller. 

4. Abraham (born in 1801- — died on 
April 16, 1885), inherited one of his father's 
farms in Hamilton township. He married 
Nov. 2, 1826, Catharine Ross (born in 180S 
— died Nov. 20, i8gi), daughter of George 
Ross ; they had issue : John Ross, David, 
Elizabeth, Drusilla Catharine, Mary Jane, 
Sarah Ann and Charlotte. 

5. Samuel (born Jan. 17, 1806 — died 
April 21, 1839) was a farmer. He married 

Faust; they had one son, John F., 

born July 31, 1838, died Feb. 10, 1902. 

6. Elizabeth marrietl Samuel Cold- 
smith. 

7. Mary married Jacob Keckman, and 
lived at Canton, Ohio. 

8. Margaret married Abraham John- 
son, and removed to Ohio. 

(III) DAVID CROFT (bom April 7, 
1788 — died Feb. 2, 1818), son of David and 
Catharine (Unangst) Croft, was a farmer in 
Hamilton township. He married Mary 
Magdalena Coble (born Aug. 29, 1792 — 
died Jan. 15, 1853), and they had issue: 

1. John (IV). 

2. Sarah (born about 181 3) married 
John Brindle, and removed to Indiana ; their 
eldest son, Samuel, born before their rem- 
moval, remained with his grandmother in 
St. Thomas township. 

(IV) JOHN CROFT (born Aug. 9, 
181 5 — died Feb. 9, 1892), son of David and 
Mary M. (Coble) Croft, was a wagoner in 
his young days from Baltimore to Pitts- 
burgh, and later a farmer, at the time of his 
death owning three large farms. He served 
as assessor and school director in St. Thomas 
township, and held other township offices. 
He was a member of the Lutheran Church 
at St. Thomas, and for many years a mem- 
ber of the official Ixjard. He was very act- 
ive in raising the quota of soldiers from St. 



Thomas township for service in the Civil: 
war, and was generous in his assistance of 
the soldiers' families. In politics he was a 
Democrat and his good judgment and high 
honor caused him to be called upon fre- 
quently to arbitrate differences among his 
neighbors. His success was the result of 
his own efforts. Mr. Croft married Mar- 
tha Wertz (born Oct. 2^, 1816 — died Jan. 
6, 1903), daughter of Conrad and Anna 
Mary (Cook) Wertz, of St. Thomas town- 
ship. They had issue : 

1. Samuel (V). 

2. David (born Jan. 20, 1840 — died in 
1892) married (first) Elnora W. Kinnard 
and had issue: William H. ; J. Irvin; 
Harry C. ; M. Myrtle ; Ida G. ; and Howard. 
He married (second) Mrs. Emma Brewer. 
David Croft was a member of the i6th Pa. 
Cav. for three years in the Civil war, and 
was discharged at the expiration of his term 
of enlistment. 

3. John (born June 26, 1842) mar- 
ried (first) Clara Gelwicks; (second) Lydia. 
Strock, and had one son, Frank W. 

4. George W. (born Aug. 6, 1844) 
was a soldier in the Civil war. He married 
Sarah Jane Walker, and had three children,. 
John W., M. D. ; Clarence; and Martha 
Elizabeth. 

5. A daughter, bom Oct. 1 1, 1846, died 
Dec. 22, 1846. 

6. Mary E. (born Feb. 18, 1848) 
married Dec. 25, 1867, John W. Cell 
(born Dec. 24, 1844), who served in 
Company D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves, 
in the Civil war, and removed to 
Kansas in 1878. They had issue: 
Martha Ellen, John F., George C, Daniel 
E., Charles W'ertz, Lottie Catharine, Rachel, 
King, Martin Luther, Mar>' Ann, Christian 
H. and Samuel W. 

7. Rachel C. (born June 22, 1850) 
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Homer, Ethel, Janet, John C. and Alartlia. 

8. Daniel C. (VI). 

9. Charlotte E. (born Aug. 31, 
1855) married WilHam J. Clark. No issue. 

(V) SAMUEL CROFT (born in St. 
Thomas township, Nov. 16, 1836), son of 
John and Martha (Wertz) Croft, was edu- 
cated in the public schools of St. Thomas 
township, and studied at Pennsylvania Col- 
lege, Gettysburg, 1857-58. He afterward 
studied medicine, and was graduated M. D. 
at the Medical Department of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, in 1863. He began 
the practice of his profession at St. Thomas, 
but enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, in Company H, 
126th P. V. I., in which he served until 
his discharge, Alay 20, 1863. After his re- 
turn from the army he resumed the practice 
of medicine at St. Thomas, which he con- 
tinued until 1865, when he entered the Sus- 
quehanna University at Selinsgrove for a 
theological course. He was graduated in 
1868, and was licensed in June, of that year, 
when he entered the ministry of the 
Lutheran Church at Pinegrove, Center coun- 
ty. He served the Greenwood mission in 
Perry county, 1868-69; the charge at Karth- 
aus, Clearfield county, 1869-72; at Wilmore, 
Cambria county, 1872-73; at Cassville, 
Huntingdon county, 1875-80; and at j\Ic- 
Alavey's Fort, 1880-81, where he also prac- 
ticed medicine. He was afterward at the 
Stone Valley charge, Huntingdon county, 
where he remained five years, where he also 
practiced medicine; he was called to the 
Grafton charge, Huntingdon county, but 
owing to failing health he resigned in 1892, 
and returned to his father's farm in St. 
Thomas township — then a part of the un- 
divided estate. In 1895, '^^ removed to. the 
village of St. Thomas, where he engaged 
in mercantile business in partnership with 
his brother John, until 1899, when he came 
to Chambersburg where he is engaged in 



the same business with his son William H. 
Croft. Mr. Croft married Dec. 24, 1861, 
Anna ^lary Embich, daughter of Henry 
Embich; they had issue: 

1. Charles L. (born Dec. 17, 1862), 
married Amanda Smucker and has a son, 
Paul. 

2. Carrie L. (born Aug. 21, i8'')5), 
married Irvin Croft and has two children, 
Chester A., and Ruth. 

3. Sarah E. (born April 10, 1867), 
died Aug. 3, 1868. 

4. George A. (bom Aug. 16, 1869), 
is a photographer at Uniontown. He is 
unmarried. 

5. AL\rtha Blanche (born Feb. 21, 
1871), married Frisby S. Brake, and they 
have issue: E. Frederick, Hubert W., Mabel 
E. and Mary B. 

6. William H. (born April 2. 1873). 
a grocer, married Verna Creary, and has a 
daughter, Helen Bell. 

7. John C. (born Jan. 17, 1876), 
now at Fort Stanton, N. M., is a car- 
penter and a leader of band at a sanitarium. 
He is unmarried. 

8. Walter S. (born July 7, 1878), 
was a sergeant in Spanish-American War; 
later he enlisted in 47th U. S. A., and was 
sent to the Philippines. He was discharged 
by special order to enter the Metropolitan 
Police Force at Manila, served four months, 
resigned and came home via San Francisco. 
After spending two years in California he 
came east and is now located in Hagers- 
town, Md., where he is engaged in electrical 
work. He is unmarried. 

(VI) DANIEL CALVIN CROFT 
(born in St. Thomas township, July 29, 
1853), SO" of John and Martha (Wertz) 
Croft, was educated in the public schools 
under Prof. Samuel Gelwix, at Upper 
Strasburg, and at the State Normal School 
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Normal School, he taught a public scliool for 
two terms in St. Thomas township, and. 
after completing his course, for seven terms. 
He then farmed for a number of years, was 
engaged in the creamery business for four 
years, and in the general merchandising 
business at Marion for ten years. In 
politics he is a Democrat. He served 
one term each as assessor and school di- 
rector in St. Thomas township. In 1902 he 
was elected a County Commissioner of 
Franklin County, beginning his term in Jan- 
uary, 1903. In the spring of 1904 he re- 
moved to Chambersburg. He is a meml>er 
of the St. Thomas Lodge, and the Chambers- 
burg Encampment I. O. O. F., and has 
passed all the chairs. He is also a member 
of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, of St. 
Thomas, and of the Junior order of the 
American Mechanics, at Marion. He is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, and is a 
deacon and has been the leader of the choir 
for more than thirty years. Mr. Croft mar- 
ried in 1878, Etta W. Sellers, daughter of 
George and Dorothy Sellers, of St. Thomas ; 
no issue. 

POMEROY FAMILY. (I) GEORGE 
POMEROY (born probably in Ireland- 
died in Letterkenny township in 1776) was 
the first of the name to settle in the Cumber- 
land Valley, and was the ancestor of the 
Pomeroy family of Franklin county. He 
was a taxable in okl Lurgan in 1751. but 
lived in what is now Letterkenny township. 
The Pomeroy tradition is that their emigrant 
ancestor was Thomas Pomeroy, a merchant 
of Liverpool, who was seized in the street 
by a "Press gang" for service in the Royal 
Navy, but succeeded in putting his captors 
to sleep by plying them with liquor, and mak- 
ing his escape to a merchant vessel in the 
harbor bound for America. There is no 
record evidence relating to Thomas, but the 



will of George Pomeroy, of Letterkenny, 
dated Oct. 5, 1773, and probated at Carlisle 
Nov. 6, 1776, proves that he was the proge- 
nitor of the family. His name in his will 
is spelled Pumroy. The name in Europe is 
always Pomeroy. The late Maj. John M. 
Pomeroy conjectured that Thomas Pome- 
roy changed the spelling of his name as a 
disguise in case of pursuit ; the inference is 
still stronger that he dropped the name 
Thomas and called himself George Pumroy. 
This spelling was retained by some members 
of the family until 1856, when the return to 
the old form was made uniform. Mr. Pome- 
roy married Margaret (surname unknown), 
who died on the Letterkenny homestead, in 
1777. They had issue: 

1. Thomas (II). 

2. John (III), 

3. George remained on the homestead. 
He served with Capt. John McConnell's 
marching company of Col. Abraham Smith'j 
battalion, in the campaign of 1778. 

4. Elizabeth married Charles P>oyle. 

5. Mary married Robert Reed. 

6. H.\NN.\H married John Wallace. 

7. Margaret married David Duncan. 

8. Is.\BEL married John Carmichael. 
(II) THOMAS POMEROY (born 

'" ^733 — died September, 1803) son of 
Ge(irge and Margaret Pomeroy. was a 
farmer, and lived on a large farm that he 
owned two miles east of Roxbury. In 1763 
the Indians made a raid along the North 
Ivlountain, and his wife and two children 
were killed by the savages. He went that 
morning a short distance from the house to 
shoot a deer, and it was during his absence 
that the massacre occurred. A contempo- 
r;iry account says that Mrs. Pomeroy was 
scalpeil. one of her arms broken and her 
skull fractured by the blow of a tomahawk. 
These victims of savage ferocity were buried 
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over their graves the barn of the late John 
A. Rebuck was subsequently built. A few 
years ago, in a small cleared space at the 
margin of the woods, a pile of stones indi- 
cated the location of Thomas Pomeroy's res- 
idence. Mr. Pomeroy was a large, heavy 
man, which is characteristic of his descend- 
ants. It is a tradition that he was so fat 
that he was a burden to himself. His shirt 
collar was half a yard wide. His warrants 
for land were dated Dec. 17, 1767, 117 acres, 
102 perches; and Oct. 14, 1775, 176 acres 
22 perches. Mr. Pomeroy was twice mar- 
ried. He married (second) in 1768, Mary 
Graham (born March 5, 1747 — died April, 
1815), daughter of Francis and Mary Gra- 
ham. Tliomas and Mary (Graham) Pome- 
roy had issue : 

1. John (IV). 

2. Thomas was engaged in boating on 
the Mississippi ; he died in New Orleans of 
yellow fever. 

3. Ch.\rles (died in 1825) was a 
farmer near Roxbur}'. He married in May, 
1807, Mary Holliday. They had issue: 
Thomas, John, Charles W., Margaret and 
Elizabeth ( married May 12, 1835, Michael 
Gamble). 

4. FR.\^•CIS went to Kentucky ; he left 
daughters but no sons. 

5. George went to Kentucky; he left 
sons and daughters. 

6. Joseph went to Kentucky; he left 
■descendants. 

7. James, born February, 1779. 

8. Marg.\ret married John Adams. 

9. Elizabeth married John White 
(V). 

10. ]\Iary married John Caldwell; they 
went to Kentucky. 

(Ill) JOHN POMEROY, son of 
George and Margaret Pomeroy, went to 
Westmoreland county before the Revolution. 
and wielded great power among the early 



settlers of the region. He was Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the First Battalion, Westmore- 
land County Associators, and was so distin- 
guished in resisting the inroads of the In- 
dians during the Revolutionary period that 
he became popularly known as "the Indian 
Killer." He took command at Fort Ligo 
nier, Oct. 31, 1777, and was very active in 
promoting the efficiency of Fort Barr and 
Fort Wallace, near which he lived. On 
April 2, 1781, Col. Archibald Lochrey re- 
ported that he had just returned from bury- 
ing a man scalped and killed at Colonel 
Pomeroy's house; that another man was 
missing and all of Pomeroy's effects had 
been carried off. In 1785 Colonel Pomeroy 
was one of the commissioners to locate a 
county seat for Westmoreland county. As 
a Justice of the Peace he had the confidence 
of the people, and the disagreements of his 
neighbors were often referred to him for 
settlement without legal proceedings. In 
the summer he would dispense justice under 
a large oak tree near his dwelling. The dis- 
trict where he lived is still known as "Pome- 
roy's Plains." Mr. Pomeroy obtained a 
warrant and survey May 20, 1768, for 
twenty-four acres of land on the Conedogui- 
net, in Letterkenny township. He married 
Hannah Graham, daughter of Francis and 
Mary Graham. They had issue: 

1. Francis went to Wooster, Ohio. 

2. John (VI). 

3. George went to Wooster, Ohio. 

4. Thomas went to Wooster, Ohio. 

5. Marg.\ret. 

6. Mary married James Gibson. 
(IV) JOHN POMEROY (born in 

Lurgan township, Feb. 25, 1769 — died in 
1 8 18), son of Thomas and Mary (Graham) 
Pomeroy, was a farmer, and at the time of 
his death was living on a farm belonging to 
his father-in-law in Southampton township. 
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tia. As a citizen he was a man of genial 
manners, industrious habits and strict integ- 
rity. He was taken ill while on the return 
journey of a trip to Baltimore with his 
wagon, was brought to Shippensburg in a 
sleigh, and died at the house of his brother- 
in-law, David Nevin. Mr. Pomeroy mar- 
ried May 12, 1794, Elizabeth Nevin (born 
Dec. 4, 1771 — died in 1826), daughter of 
Daniel and Margaret Williamson (Rey- 
nolds) Nevin. They had issue: 

1. Daniel Nevin (VII). 

2. Mary, born Oct. 5, 1798, died un- 
married, July 23, 1857. 

3. Thomas (VIII). 

4. Joseph (IX). 

5. John Nevin (X). 

6. William Reynolds (XI). 

(V) ELIZABETH POMEROY (died 
in 1840), daughter of Thomas and Mary 
(Graham) Pomeroy, married John White 
(died in 1818), son of John White, of "Cul- 
bertson's Row." He was a farmer on the 
farm on which his father lived and died. 
John and Elizabeth (Pomeroy) White had 
issue : 

1. Samuel Eaton (born in 1806 — 
died March 17, 1871), a manufacturer of 
woolen goods, married in 1838, Nancy 
Burns (born March 14, 1811 — died Oct. 22, 
1902), daughter of Jeremy and Sarah 
(Renfrew) Burns. They had issue: Jer- 
emy Burns (born Jan. 31, 1841), member 
of the State Legislature, 1885-86, married 
Mary E. Byers ; Emma S. married John Ken- 
nedy; and Nannie married Hiram George. 

2. Ebenezer went to Ohio. 

3. Thomas Pomeroy. 

4. John. 

3. Mary married J. Harvey Allen. 

6. Elizabeth married John Gillan 
[Gillan Family]. 

(VI) JOHN POMEROY, son of Col. 
John and Hannah (Graham) Pomeroy, re- 



moved from Westmoreland to Mercer, now 
Lawrence county. He married Jane Porter 
and they had issue: 

1. John (XII). 

2. Thomas (died in 1878) was a mem- 
ber of the State Legislature in 1846 and 
1847, ''i"d ^\'ss for fifteen years an Associate 
Judge of Lawrence county. He was an 
elder of Neshannock Presbyterian Church,, 
at New Wilmington, 1845-78. He married 
Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of John and 
Mary Phillips. They had issue: James; 
Calvin ; Elizabeth married Andrew Marquis ; 
Mary married Mr. Kendricks ; Ruth E. ; and 
Augusta P. married Rev. Dr. J. M. Nealey. 

3. William. 

4. Joseph S. was graduated at Jeffer- 
son College, Canonsburg, in 1846. He has 
been pastor of Presbyterian churches in West 
Virginia, since 1849, ^'""^ "ow lives at Fair- 
\-iew. He married Isabel Griffith. They 
had issue: John B., a Presbyterian minister 
at Antwerp, Ohio ; Myra ; Ella ; Samuel ; and 
Chester died at East Liverpool. 

5. Maria (born July 4, 18 10) married 
(first) John McKean, and had issue: Hugh 
William, John Porter, Hannah Jane, and 
Mary Elizabeth. She married (second) Mr. 
Donaldson, and (third) Mr. Black. She 
lives at New Wilmington. 

6. Kesiah married James \\'ood. and 
they liad issue: Ellen married Frank Wil- 
son ; and Jane married Isaac Gibson. 

(VII) DANIEL NEVIN POMEROY 
(born in Lurgan township, Feb. 7, 1796 — 
died Feb. 8, 1827). Son of John and EHza- 
beth (Nevin) Pomeroy, learned the trade 
of a tanner and currier, but was interrupted 
in his apprenticeship, by the death of his 
father and compelled to return to the farm 
throu,gh family exigencies. In 1820 he be- 
gan business at his trade in Shippensburg, 
and in 1823 succeeded to the tannery that 
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He successfully conducted the business until 
his death, which came in the flower of man- 
hood. Mr. Pomeroy married Jan. 15, 1822, 
Jane Means (born Nov. 7, 1804 — died 
March 1, 1830), daughter of John and Mary 
(Patterson) Means. They had issue: 

1. John Means (XIII). 

2. Elizabeth Nevin, born July 14, 
1825, died March 15, 1900. 

(VIII) THOMAS POMEROY (born 
near Roxbury, Franklin Co., July 11, 1801 
— died Jan. 13, 1871 ), son of John and Eliz- 
abeth (Nevin) Pomeroy, learned the trade 
of a tanner with his uncle, William Reynolds, 
and engaged in business on his own account 
at Roxbury in his early manhood. The tan- 
nery was the gift of his granduncle, John 
Williamson, of Charleston, S. C, a wealthy 
bachelor. Later he embarked in merchan- 
dising and lumbering in addition to conduct- 
ing the tannery. He invested extensively 
in land and left a large estate. In politics 
Mr. Pomeroy was a Whig and Republican. 
He was a County Commissioner of Franklin 
county, 1845-8, and an Associate Judge, 
1851-56. Judge Pomeroy was a man of 
fine presence, courteous in manner, and of 
strict integrity. He died suddenly while 
seated in his chair. Judge Pomeroy mar- 
ried March 18, 1832, Mary Ann Wilson 
(born May 30. 181 1 — died Dec. 8, 1882), 
daughter of Col. Stephen and Mary (Cul- 
bertson) Wilson. They had issue: 

1. Mary Jane (born Dec. 8, 1832) 
married Aug. 16, i860, Samuel Davidson 
Herron, for many years cashier of the Fourth 
National Bank, Pittsburgh. They had issue : 
Thomas Pomeroy, born June 12, 1861 ; 
Charles, born Jan. 29, 1863; Andrew Wil- 
son, born June 6, 1865; Anna Mary, born 
July 25, 1871, died Jan. 13, 1872; and Cor- 
nelia Davidson, born Jan. 8, 1873. 

2. John Jay (born Sept. 8, 1834 — 
died Dec. i, 1889) received his preparatory 



education at Tuscarora Academy, Academia, 
and was graduated at Lafayette Colleg'e, 
Easton, in 1857. He taught a private school 
for two years, and then entered the Theolog- 
ical Seminary at Princeton and v/as gradu- 
ated in 1 86 1. He was licensed by the Pres- 
bytery of Carlisle, April loth, and ordained: 
by the Presbytery of Lewes, Nov. 28, 1861. 
In 1862 he entered the army as chaplain of 
the 3d Pennsylvania Reserves, and remained 
with the regiment until it was discharged, 
in June, 1864, and was afterward chaplain of 
the 198th P. V. I., until the close of the war. 
Mr. Pomeroy was pastor of Upper Octarora 
Presbyterian Church, 1865-75 ; at Rahway,, 
N. J., 1875-84; of the Central Presbyterian 
Church, Chambersburg, 1884-89. He mar- 
ried Jan. 18, 1869, Mary H. Moore, daugh- 
ter of Robert and P. Allen (Girton) Moore, 
of Danville. They have issue : Robert 
Moore, torn April 20, 1870, died Sept. 5, 
1870; Ann Elizabeth, born Aug. 16, 1871 ; 
Thomas Wilson, born Feb. 4, 1873; Edwin 
Moore, born Nov. 29, 1875 ; Sarah Louisa,- 
born Nov. 12, 1878; Helen and Phebe. 

3. Stephen Wilson (born at Roxbury, 
Dec. 16, 1836) was educated at Tuscarora 
Academy, and was graduated at Lafayette 
College in 1861. After leaving college he 
served nine months in Company H, 126th 
P. V. I. He entered the Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, and was graduated in^ 
1866. He was licensed to preach by the 
Presbytery of Carlisle, and served congre- 
gations at Harrisburg, 1866-67; ^t McCon- 
nellsburg. Green Hill and Wells Valley,. 
1868-71 ; at Newton, Hamilton and Mount 
Union, 1871-78. and Shirleysburg, 1878. He 
married Nov. 27, 1867, Euphemia Knox 
Smith (born Dec. 15, 1841), daughter of 
Silas E. and Elizabeth { Wier) Smith. They 
have issue: twin daughters, born Feb. 12, 
1869, died the same day: Elizabeth Kno.x, 
born June 9, 1871 ; Anna Mary, bom March' 



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13. 1874; Silas Smith, born April 4, 1876; 
and Euphemia Wier, born May 11, 1879. 

4. Thomas, born Jan. 15, 1839, died 
Jan. 5, 1862. 

5. Andrew A. (born Sept. 10, 1841 — 
died March 31, 1865) was educated in the 
public schools and at the Fayetteville Acad- 
emy. He enlisted in Company H, 126th P. 
V. I., Aug. 2, 1862. In October he was 
prostrated with camp fever and was com- 
pelled to return home, but rejoined his regi- 
ment in February, 1863. was with it in the 
battle of Chancellorsville, and was wounded 
May 3, 1863. He was mustered out with 
his regiment May 22, 1863. Later he en- 
tered the 198th P. V. I., as first lieutenant, 
and was killed while leading his company at 
White Oak Road. 

6. Elizabeth born Jan. 22, 1844, died 
Aug. 25, 1848. 

7. Alexander Wilson (born at Rox- 
bury, Aug. 4, 1846) received a business edu- 
cation, and was engaged in mercantile pur- 
suits at Roxbury until 1879, when he opened 
a dry goods store in Chanibersburg, and was 
a member of the dry goods firm of Pomeroy 
& Mackey until 1901. when he retired. He 
is now living at Bridgeport, Ohio. Mr. 
Pomeroy married Mary C. Walker (born 
Nov. 25, 1859 — died May i, 1902) daughter 
of Capt. John H. and Caroline (Elliott) 
Walker. They had issue : Andrew, drowned 
at Bridgeport, Ohio, May 27, 1903, aged 
seventeen years; and Carrie and Julia. 

8. Anna Elizabeth, born Jan. 17, 
1849, died Nov. i, 1849. 

9. William Culbertson (born Nov. 
24. 185 1 ) was educated in the public schools 
and at the Tuscarora Academy. As a youth 
he served in his father's store, and the knowl- 
edge thus ac(|uired was supplemented by a 
course at a business college. He then entered 
the Juniata Bank as a clerk. In 1876 he was 
transferred to the branch at Port Royal, of 



which he was cashier until 1894. He then 
became cashier of the Port Royal Bank 
w liich he was mainly instrumental in found- 
ing under the firm name of Pomeroy & Co. 
He is a member of its board of directors, and 
also a director of the Juniata Valley Bank, 
and of the First National Bank of Middle- 
burg. In politics he is a Republican. He 
was a member of the State Legislature, 1883- 
84, and again in 1901-02. He married 
March 20, 1879, Ellen B. Crawford, daugh- 
ter of Dr. E. D. Crawford, of Mifflintown. 
They have issue : Mary Wilson, Darwin 
Crawford, Gertrude Murray, Ellen Culbert- 
son and Pamelia Jackman. 

(IX) JOSEPH POMEROY (born 
near Roxbury, Oct. 18, 1804 — died at Acad- 
emia, Sept. 21, 1874), son of John and Eliz- 
abeth (Nevin) Pomeroy, learned merchan- 
dizing in the store of Stephen Culbertson at 
Shippensburg, and afterward conducted a 
store at Concord for three years for his uncle, 
David Nevin. With his brother, William 
R., he purchased this store in 1829. In 1835 
he bought his brother's interest, but in 1842 
he entered into partnership with William R. 
and John M. Pomeroy, and they erected a 
tannery near Concord. This partnership 
was dissolved in 1847, Joseph Pomeroy tak- 
ing over the tannery, which he retained until 
his death. In 185 1 he removed to Academia, 
Juniata county, where he remained. He ac- 
quired a large estate for that period. In 
politics he was active as a Whig and Repub- 
lican. He was county auditor for Frank- 
lin County, 1833-36^ and a member of the 
Legislature in 1841. In 1856 he was the 
first Republican candidate for Congress in 
the district of which Juniata and Franklin 
counties were a part, but was beaten by 
Wilson Reilly, the Democratic candidate. In 
1 86 1 he was chosen an Associate Judge of 
Juniata county, being the only candidate on 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



was a man of great force of character and 
unusual business ability. Judge Pomeroy 
married (first) July ii, 1826, Eleanor Ma- 
clay (bom March 29, 1807— died July 15, 
1846), daughter of Robert and Arabella 
(Erwin) Maclay. They had issue: 

I. John Nevin (born at Concord, Sept. 
26, 1833— died Oct. 10, 1902) was educated 
at Tuscarora Academy, and afterward en- 
gaged in mercantile pursuits with his father 
at Academia. He was subsequently in the 
wholesale drygoods business in Philadelphia 
with his cousin, John M. Pomeroy. During 
the Civil war he was clerk to Major Pome- 
roy, a paymaster in the army. After the 
war he was for five years an Inspector of 
Customs in Philadelphia, and then became a 
merchant at Parkesburg. In 1875 he re- 
turned to Academia to manage his father's 
estate, and in 1892 he removed to Chambers- 
burg, where he was notary public until his 
death. Mr. Pomeroy married Isabella J 
Kelly, daughter of Col. William C. and 
Salhe (Patterson) Kelly. They had no 
issue : 

2. Arabell.\ Erwin, born Nov. 28, 
1835, died April 12, 1839. 

3. Elizabeth Nevin (born Dec. 11 
1837) married Jan. 5, 1857, Jeremiah 
i^rankhouse, a farmer of Juniata countv. 
They had issue: Joseph Pomeroy, Adrienne 
F., Eleanor Maclay, Elizabeth Nevin, Mary 
Stewart, Charles David, William Revnolds 
and Agnes Van Dyke. 

4- Robert Maclav, born Aug. 19, 
1842, died July 27, 1845. 

Judge Pomeroy married (second) May 
5. 1847, Ann B. Crawford (died Oct. 11, 
1855), daughter of Dr. Samuel and Lydia 
Crawford. They had issue: 

1. Eleanor M. married John T. 
Nourse. 

2. Lydia K.. born Sept. 23, 1849, died 
Sept. 5, 1850. 



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3- Samuel Crawford (born June i, 
1851) married Agnes Van Dyke. 

4- Mary married Dr. David Maclay 

[Maclay Family]. 

Judge Pomeroy married (third) Jan. 13, 
1857, Mrs. Jane Eleanor McGinley (died 
Nov. 17, 1866), daughter of David and 
Lleanor (Herron) Maclay, and widow of 
John McGinley; and (fourth) Aug. ij, 
1868, Mary Stewart (died Jan. 31. 1881)! 
(X) JOHN NEVIN POMEROY 
(born near Roxbury, Feb. 12, 1808— died 
in Washington, D. C, April 24, 1848). son 
of John and Elizabeth (Nevin) Pomeroy, 
was graduated at Jefferson College, Can- 
onsburg, in 1826, and at Princeton Theolgi- 
cal Seminary, in 1829. He served as a mis- 
sionary in North Carolina, but purchased 
the Sciota Gazette at Chillicothe, in 1832. 
In 1835, he returned to Pennsylvania, and 
engaged in mercantile pursuits and in teach- 
mg until 1844, when he was appointed to a 
clerkship in the War Department. He mar- 
ried (first) July 24, 1832, Julia Fulwiler 
(died Feb. 2, 1836), daughter of William 
Fulwiler, of Landisburg, Perry county. 
riiey had issue: 

1. William Fulwiler (born Jan. 3, 
1834) was graduated at Marshall College,'. 
Mercersburg, in 1852. 

2. Julia A. (born Jan. 26, 1836) mar- 
ried Sept. 16, 1857. Samuel E. Samuel, a 
druggist at Columbus, Ohio. They had 
issue: Mary Pomeroy, Carrie Elizabeth, 
Anna Maria, Julia Fulwiler, Ella fannette,' 
Elizabeth Nevin and Florence Louisa. 

Mr. Pomeroy married (second) Jan. 9, 
1843, Hannah S. Slemmer, daughter of 
Adam and Margaret Slemmer, of Norris- 
town. She was a sister of Gen. Adam J. 
Slemmer. John N. and Hannah S. Pome- 
roy had issue: 

1. Margaretta, born Jan. 9, 1844. 

2. Joseph (born Sept. 22, 1845) con- 



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ducted the Saturday Local in Chambersburg, 
and was local editor of the Franklin Reposi- 

.tor\. 

3. Adam Slemmer (born July 9, 
1847) married Feb. 5, 1873. Margaret E. 
Crawford, daughter of Dr. E. Darwin and 
Pamelia (Jackman) Crawford, of Mifflm- 
town. They have one daughter, Edith. 

(XI) WILLIAM REYNOLDS POME- 
ROY (born at "Herron's Branch," Nov. 27, 
i8ii_died May 9, 1890), son of John and 
Elizabeth (Nevin) Pomeroy, learned the 
trade of a tanner and currier at Shippens- 
burg, and removed to Concord in 1829. He 
was engaged in merchandizing with his 
brother, Joseph, and his nephew, John M. 
Pomeroy, 1842-47- Mr. Pomeroy married, 
1845. Elizabeth Maclay (born Jan. 23. 1819 
—died April 4, 1874), daughter of Robert 
and Arabella (Erwin) Maclay. They had 

issue : 

1. Arabella married James Diehl. 

2. Robert Maclay. 

3. Elizabeth Nevin. 

4. John. 

5. William. 
(XII) JOHN POMEROY, son of John 

and Jane (Porter) Pomeroy, was a promi- 
nent citizen of Lawrence county, and like 
his grandfather was known as Col. John 
Pomeroy. He married Eliza McGary. They 

had issue: 

I. Robert Porter (born Dec. 27, 
1843) enlisted in Company D, 134th P. V. 
I.. Aug. 13. 1862. and was mustered out 
with the company. May 26, 1863. He wa,« 
County Commissioner of Lawrence county. 
1881-84; Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
House of Representatives, at Harrisburg, 
1 891 ; Postmaster of the House of Represen- 
tatives. 1897; and a member of the Penn- 
svlvania Legislature, 1903-05. He was com- 
mander of the New Castle Post, G. A. R., 
1901-02. He married Jan. 11, 1870, Le- 



nora L. Fulkerson (born June 20. 1849), 
daughter of John C. and Ehza (Houk) Ful- 
kerson, and they have issue: Mary Corinth, 
Ixjrn April 21, 1871, married Sept. 15, 1897, 
Frank Chapin, and has two children, Le- 
nora and John Albert; John \\'aldo, born 
Oct. 27, 1874. married Aug. 4, 1897, Luetta 
Montgomery; Eliza Edna and Diana Myr- 
tilla. twins, born Aug. 6. 1876, were both 
educated at Westminster and Bryn Mawr 

Colleges. 

2. Mary Jane (born in 1848) inarried 
Clarke Shearer ; no issue. 

3. Thomas (born October, 1849), 
lived in Oregon. 

4. Frances E. (born in 1851), mar- 
ried Scott Mitchell, a Free Methodist minis- 
ter, and they have issue : Harry and Albert 

Pomeroy. 

5. Elizabeth married Joseph Van 
Orsdale, and lives at Dallas, Oregon. They 
have issue: John, Alexander, Ruth Eliza, 
Robert, Pauline and Clarke. 

6. Myrtilla married John Byers, and 
they have issue: Polly, Francis, Lena and 

jean. 

7. John W. was educated at Westmin- 
ster College and was graduated M. D. at the 
Cleveland College of Medicine. He prac- 
tices his profession at Tipton, Ohio. He 
married Lena Baylifif; no issue: 

(XIII) JOHN MEANS POMEROY 
(born April i, 1823— died June 20, 1887) 
son of Daniel N. and Jane (Means) Pome- 
roy. being left an orphan in his early child- 
hood, was reared in the family of his uncle. 
Joseph Pomeroy, at Concord. His educa- 
tional advantages were confined to the 
schools of the neighborhood, and six months 
at an academy in Chambersburg. However, 
he received a sound business training in his 
uncle's store, by which he was equipped for 
mercantile pursuits, to which most of his life 
was devoted until he purchased the Franklin 




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Repository, in Chambersburg, in 1874. He 
had an interest in the tannery at Concord, 
1842-7. He was afterward a merchant in 
Philadelphia, and the \irtnal founder of the 
town of Pomeroy, in Chester county. Mr. 
Pomeroy was a life long Whig and Repub- 
lican, and active in politics from his youth. 
He represented Franklin county in the Leg- 
islature in 1846 and 1847; was a member 
of the Common Council, in Philadelphia, in 
1859; a delegate of the Republican x\ational 
Convention in i860, supporting Abraham 
Lmcoln ; and a paymaster of volunteers for 
two years during the Civil war with the rank 
of major. In 1881-82, Major Pomeroy was 
again a member of the Legislature 'from 
Franklin county. Major Pomeroy married 
Dec. 9, 1846. Rebecca C. Kelly (born June 
15, 1829— died Oct. 4, 1899), daughter of 
Col. William C. and Sallie (Patterson) 
Kelly. They had issue: 

1. D.^NiEL Nevin, lx)rn March 23, 
1848, died March 6, 1853. 

2. Ellen J.^ne, born Oct. 4, 1850, died 
March 9. 1853. 

3. WiLLL\M Kelly, born June 13, 
1854, died July 23, 1862. 

4- John Heck (born in Philadelphia, 
Dec. 17. 1856), was educated at the Parkes- 
Inirg Academy, and learned the printing 
trade in the office of the Franklin Repository; 
he was one of the proprietors of the paper,' 
1884-91. He has been superintendent of the 
pruning department of the Scotland Indus- 
trial School since 1895. He married Oct. 
2. 1889, Katie Springer (born Jan. 13, 
1865), daughter of L. L. and Catharine (An- 
thony) Springer, of near Reading. They 
liave issue: Rebecca Kelly, born April 9, 
1891; Ralph Springer, born July 26, 1892: 
and Katharine Louisa, born April 9, 1900. 

5. -Albert Nevin (XIV). 

6. S.XLLiE Bell, born July 17, 1862 
died July 15, 1871. 



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(XIV) ALBERT NEVIN POMEROY 
(born in Philadelphia, May 27, 1859), son 
of John M. and Rebecca (Kelly) Pomeroy, 
spent his early life in his native city and at 
Pomeroy, a country home near Philadelphia, 
named after his father. He obtained his 
education in private schools in Philadel- 
phia, and at Parkesburg Academy. In Oc- 
tober. 1874, his father moved to Chambers- 
burg, having purchased the Franklin Repos- 
itory. Mr. Pomeroy resumed his studies at 
the Chambersburg Academy, where he re- 
mained until 1876, when he was obliged to 
leave school to take charge of the Adams 
Express office in Chambersburg, his father 
having accepted the agency. In this position 
he continued until 1878, when he entered 
the Repository office and worked at the 
printing trade for a short period, after which 
he became a reporter on the paper. In 1883, 
his father associated with him in the busi- 
ness his two sons. John H. and A. Nevin 
Pomeroy, under the style and title of John M. 
Pomeroy & Sons. This firm, which estab- 
lished the daily issue in 1883, continued until 
1885, when the paper and printing plant 
passed into the hands of John H. and A. 
Nevin Pomeroy. who conducted the business 
under the firm name of Pomeroy Bros., until 
1890. A. Nevin then purchased the interest 
of his brother and became sole owner. He has 
conducted the business e\er since, consisting 
of the daily and weekly issues and a large 
job printing plant. 

In 1887, Mr. Pomeroy was appointed 
assistant chief clerk in the office of the Secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth, a position that he 
held for four years, when the political com- 
plexion of the office was changed by the 
election of Governor Pattison. In 1894 he 
was elected to the State Legislature, and 
served in the session of 1895, serving as one 
of the committee to investigate alleged irreg- 
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In 1900 he was again elected to the Legis- 
lature, and served in the session of 1901, 
being a member of the Appropriations and 
several other important committees. He 
was also appointed by Governor Stone as 
one of the Commissioners from Pennsylva- 
nia to the Pan-American Exposition at Buf- 
falo, N. Y. He was chairman of the Re- 
publican County Committee. 1889-92. In 
March, 1903, he was appointed superintend- 
ent of Public Printing and Binding by Gov- 
ernor Pennypacker. Mr. Pomeroy attends 
the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, in 
which he is a member of the board of trus- 
tees. He is a member of the Masons, Odd 
Fellows, American Mechanics, Royal Ar- 
canum, Patriotic Order S. of A.. Red Men, 
Modern Woodmen, Mystic Circle, Pen and 
Pencil Club of Philadelphia, and Scotch- 
Irish Society of Pennsylvania. He is a direc- 
tor in the Chambersburg, Greencastle and 
Waynesboro Street Railway Company, and 
in Norland Land & Improvement Company. 
Mr. Pomeroy married May 26, 1885, 
Bell McLellan (born in i860), daughter of 
William and Ellen (Cheney) McLellan. 
Her father was a leading lawyer of Cham- 
bersburg, and a son of Dr. John McClellan, 
the celebrated surgeon of Greencastle, A. 
Nevin and Bell Pomeroy have two sons : 

1. William McLell.\n. 

2. John Nevin. 

JOHN MILTON RUNK was born in 
Howard county, Ind., Nov. 17, 1852. of 
German descent. 

(I) VALENTINE RUNK emigrated 
from Germany when a young man, to New 
York City. Soon after his arrival in .\mer- 
ica he secured employment on a farm, by 
which he obtained the means to repay a 
friend who had loaned him the money to pay 
his expenses across the ocean. He also 
worked for the money to pay the expense of 



bringing his parents from Germany to Amer- 
ica, the time thus consumed by him being 
fourteen years. The family finally settled 
in Pennsylvania. He married, antl became 
the father of a son, John (II). 

(II) JOHN RUNK, son of Valentine, 
was born in Hanover, York Co., Pa., and 
there grew to manhood. He saw service in 
the war of 181 2-1 5. For a time he resided 
in Maryland, but about 1813, he removed to 
a farm one mile south of Hedgesville, W. 
Va., and in 1836 he sold his farm and with 
his family located in Highland county, Ohio, 
where he and his wife died, aged, respec- 
tively eighty- four and eighty-nine years, be- 
loved by all who knew them as devoted 
Christian citizens. John Runk married Eliz- 
abeth Miller, of Hanover, Pa., and they had 
issue : 

1. John, born in Maryland. 

2. Daniel, born in Maryland. 

3. Betsey, born in Hedgesville, West 
Virginia. 

4. Samuel (HI). 

5. George, born in Hedgesville. 

6. William, bom in Hedgesville. 

7. Jacob L., born in Hedgesville. 

8. Mary, born in Hedgesville. 

9. Joseph T. born in Hedgesville. 

(III) SAMUEL RUNK (born in 
Berkeley county, W. Va., Nov. 27, 1816) 
was married to Margaret Ratcliff, of High- 
land county, Ohio, daughter of Edom Rat- 
cliff, a native of North Carolina, and Han- 
nah (Smith) Ratcliff, who were among the 
first settlers of Highland county. In 1844, 
Edom Ratcliff and family, including Samuel 
Runk, wife and two daughters, removed to 
Honey Creek township, Howard county, In- 
diana. Edom Ratcliff settled on a farm near 
the present site of Russiaville, where he and 
his wife died at ripe old ages. They were 
tlie parents of nine children who grew up to 
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Samuel Runk located in a dense t'oresl 
about two miles southeast of his father-in- 
law, wliere he has remained ever since, being 
at this writing in his eighty-eighth year. He 
is the owner of several fine farms. His mar- 
riage with Margaret Ratcliff, who died in 
1877, resulted in nine children, six of whom 
survive : 

1. Matilda married Joseph Elliott, and 
preceded her mother to the grave. 

2. William Allen died while serving 
in the Union army during the Civil war. 

3. Hannah married F. M. Duncan. 

4. Jacob. 

5. Miles. 

6. John Milton (IV). 

7. Louisa married Thomas Carter. 

8. Abraham Lincoln. 

9. Margaret AlleN was easily the 
leader in the singing in her neighborhood, 
and did much to turn many wandering souls 
to the fountain of redeeming love. She 
married George T. Lindley. Her death oc- 
curred a few years after that of her mother. 

Samuel Runk always took a deep interest 
in education, although in his time schools 
were of little advantage to him. His chil- 
dren received from him such help as money 
could give in their efforts to obtain good 
educations. Five of his nine children were 
for years representative school teachers. He 
and his sons have always been stanch Repub- 
licans. 

(IV) JOHN MILTON RUNK was 
brought up at farm labor. When a little 
over sixteen years old he began to teach 
school, a profession he followed for ten years. 
He was educated in the public schools, the 
Kokomo Normal and the National Normal 
school of Lebanon, Ohio, then under the 
able management of Alfred Holbrook. In 
1878, while teaching school in McLean 
county. Illinois, Mr. Runk began compiling 
local history for Chicago publishing houses, 

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and continued tlie same until 1887, with the 
exception of two years, when he was one of 
the owners and editors of the Kokomo (In- 
diana) Gaccttc, a new- party organ which he 
helped to forge to the front, and practically 
to supplant an organ of forty years standing, 
but which had become so much allied to ring, 
politics that it had to go. In 1886, Mr. 
Runk came to Chambersburg, where on Dec. 
I2th of that year, he was married to Mariah 
Brehm, daughter of Philip and Barbara^ 
(Hamaker) Brehm, natives of Lancaster 
county and of German descent. The Brehm 
famil)' came to Chambersburg with the Wolf 
& Hamaker mill manufacturing establish- 
ment from Allentown, Mrs. Brehm being a- 
sister of D. L. Hamaker, of the firm, and 
Mr. Brehm being the general foreman. 
Philip Brehm and wife are the parents of 
the following children : Anna, who married 
Jerome Baumgardner; Mariah, who married 
John M. Runk ; Amy, deceased, who mar- 
ried Rev. W. F. Bond ; Edwin, deceased ;. 
Fanny, who married Sol. Sollenberger : P. 
Hamaker, of Camden, N. J, who married 
Alverda Miller ; Lyman, who married Annie 
Schuerman ; and Lizzie and Barbara, both 
deceased. The Brehm family are active 
members of the Lutheran Church, father 
Brehm and daughter Amy having been in- 
strumental in establishing Trinity Lutheran 
mission in Chambersburg. 

Soon after marriage, John M. Runk 
formed a partnership with Richard C. Brown 
and engaged in the publication of historical 
books. Six years later he was one of the 
editors and publishers of an elaborate his- 
tory of Cincinnati and Hamilton county, 
Ohio, in which he and his associate were as- 
sisted by some of the most eminent wTiters 
of that city, among them being John B. 
Jewett, W. H. Venable, author of Venable's 
History of the L'nited States ; Hon. D. 
Thew Wright : Re\-. Dudlev Ward Rhodes ; . 



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Col. D. W. McClung; Dr. P. S. Connor; 
and Rev. A. S. Dudley. He was subse- 
quently associated with the late Dr. William 
H. Egle, for many years the efficient State 
librarian, in the compilation and publication 
■of valuable works on local historj- in Penn- 
sylvania, and still later he published a large 
wfjrk in two volumes on the State of Dela- 
ware, in which he was assisted in the edito- 
rial work by John F. Meginness of Wil- 
liamsport, and Miss Rebecca Schively and 
C. W. Cremer of Chambersburg. In all, 
Mr. Runk assisted in the compilation and 
publication of thirty large books on local and 
State history. 

In September, 1899, John M. Runk pur- 
cTiased from Hon. M. A. Foltz, Public 
Opinion, a leading Republican newspaper in 
Chambersburg, and for more than a year he 
gave his undivided attention and time to that 
paper, being assisted by George O. Seil- 
liamer and Herbert C. Foltz. Public Opin- 
ion was founded by M. A. Foltz in 1869, 
.and he has often said that Mr. Runk was the 
(Only man who could have induced him to 
sell the establishment for the reason he be- 
lieved in Mr. Runk's honor and ability, to 
maintain its already high standard. Mr. Runk 
sold a half interest in the paper to John W. 
Hoke, and for years thereafter these gentle- 
men kept Public Opinion in the front rank 
of Franklin county journalism. They estab- 
lished the morning Opinion, which is now a 
fixture, and a favorite local newspaper, with 
a circulation all over Franklin county and in 
•various States. During 'Sir. Runk's efforts 
in journalism in Chambersburg, he became 
interested in a scheme to build a trolley road 
in Chambersburg and Franklin county. In 
fact he was alone for more than a year in 
advocating such a convenience. But finally 
the seed which lie had sown took root, and 
companies sprang up like mushrooms, want- 
ing the privilege to build a trolley line in 



Chambersburg. Mr. Runk secured the fran- 
chise from the borough authorities for his 
company, and a road has been built and is in 
operation. During the coldest winter this 
county has known for over forty years, Mr. 
Runk was superintendent of the road, and 
made a remarkable success with poor equip- 
ment. An appreciative public will see that 
no effort can rob Mr. Runk of the credit of 
establishing a trolley road in Chambersburg 
and to and through Fayetteville. He has 
made his monument in this cultured locality. 
.A.S one evidence of the sacrifice he was will- 
ing to make to accomplish what he had set 
out to do, it may be stated that he was in- 
duced by members of the trolley company, to 
sell his newspaper at a loss to himself, so as 
to give his whole time to their enteqjrise. 

John M. Runk and wife have had three 
children : 

1. Milton B., deceased. 

2. June M. 

3. John Ch.a.rles. 

JOSEPH F. EMMERT, inventor of the 
Emmert Universal Vises and founder of the 
Emmert Mfg. Co., Waynesboro, Pa., was 
born near Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 
April 3. 1845, tbe son of John and Elizabeth 
(Fahrney) Emmert. 

JOHN EMMERT was a descendant of 
Leonard Emmert, who originally came from 
Lebanon county, Pa. Elizabeth (Fahrney) 
Emmert was a daughter of Dr. Fahrney, of 
Maryland, of world-wide fame, .\mong his 
children was Samuel, of whom mention 
will be made later in this narrative. The 
Fahrneys originally came from Switzerland. 
About the year 1850 John Emmert removed 
to \\'ashington county, Md., where he con- 
tinued farming, and there it was that the 
subject of this sketch was reared. The 
family consisted of three sons and three 
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drew, after serving an apprenticeship in the 
cabinetmaking business, turned his attention 
to medicine, reading medicine under the in- 
struction of Dr. Daniel Fahrney, liis uncle, 
and later attending lectures, after which he 
entered upon the practice of medicine, locat- 
ing in the Beaver Creek District, Washing- 
ton Co., Md., where after about twelve years 
practice he died at the age of thirty-nine 
years, leaving the record of a successful and 
honored practitioner. 

Our subject was reared as a farmer and 
received his education in attendance at the 
common schools. His father dying in Au- 
gust, 1858. he continued his education win- 
ters, but the vacations were spent in "tink- 
ering at things," working with carpenter's 
tools, etc., and among the many things pro- 
duced were a small reaper, an upright saw- 
mill, and many articles of furniture. It may 
be interesting in this connection to note here 
that the desire "to make things" and even 
to invent things probably descended from 
ancestors. Samuel Fahrney, his uncle, was 
noted for his inventive genius as a mechanic, 
and among the many important productions 
of his fertile brain was a machine for 
harvesting grain. It was probably between 
the years 1845 and 1850 that John Emmert 
and Samuel Fahrney formed a partnership 
in order to further test and develop this 
new device. It is important to note here 
that this first device for cutting grain had in 
its construction the reel and the sickle, which 
afterward became the standard parts of all 
grain cutting machines. The projectors, 
however, failed in successfully introducing 
this device as a farm implement, and but a 
few years elapsed until the ideas and princi- 
ples were taken up by others, who became 
rich and famous. 

But to return to our subject's boyhood 
days, the pent-up desire to invent and to 



work with tools could not be held in check, 
and in the spring of 1861 he succeeded in 
securing a position in the wood department 
with George Frick, Waynesboro, Pa., who 
was then manufacturing stationary engines 
and the Original Geiser Grain Separator. 
After an apprenticeship of three years, and 
having gained a good knowledge of pattern 
and machine work and a desire to further 
develop a practical knowledge of pattern 
work, he went westward, seeking employ- 
ment, stopping in Altoona, Pittsburgh, and 
other cities, and finally secured a position 
in the new car shops at Kent, Portage Co., 
Ohio. Shortly afterward he proceeded to 
Polo,"Ill., where he visited his brother Ben- 
jamin, but not being able to secure work in 
the pattern line he engaged in house carpen- 
tering. Shortly afterward he accepted a 
position with C. C. Burrows & Co., Decatur, 
111., as patternmaker, and after several 
months returned to Altoona, Pa., and secured 
work in the car building department. It was 
at this time that he was summoned to attend 
the funeral of Dr. Andrew Emmert, in 
Washington county, Md., and just one 
month later that of his brother Benjamin. 
The winter of 1865 he spent in settling the 
estate of Dr. Andrew Emmert. 

In the spring of 1865 Mr. Emmert en- 
gaged with a firm in Quincy, Franklin Co., 
Pa., who were then building the Geiser 
Grain Separator. But a short time elapsed, 
however, until The Geiser, Price & Co. was 
formed in Waynesboro, Pa., Josiah Fahrney 
becoming one of the firm. This gave an 
opportunity for a new partner in the Quincy 
shops, and thus J. F. Emmert became one of 
the firm, which was known at this time as 
Hess & Emmert. This firm continued the 
foundry and machine business until late in 
1868. During this time J. F. Emmert took 
out a patent for a Lifting Jack for vehicles. 



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manufacturing the same and also selling 
State and county rights. 

In December, 1868, he moved to 
WaynestKjro and later engaged with Peter 
Geiser, working on improvements for the 
Geiser Grain Separator and other machines. 
It was during this time that he and Mr. 
Geiser were in partnership in the manu- 
facture and sale of the Oven Peel or Scraper 
and a Wash Stand. Some attention was also 
given to a three-wheeled cycle or velocipede, 
and the further sale and introduction of the 
Carriage Jack. In January, 1871, he en- 
gaged with the Geiser Mfg. Co., working in 
the experimental department on improve- 
ments for the Geiser Separator. Here it was 
that his attention was first directed to im- 
provements on vises. 

Later he developed an adjustable seat 
for buggies, for the person who ordinarily 
sits on the laps of others during the journey. 
During the year 1871 a patent was granted 
to him for a safety shaft coupling for separa- 
tors and other farm machinery. In the early 
part of 1872 he began work for the firm of 
Prick & Bowman, which afterward became 
the now well-known firm of Frick Co. This 
service continued until June, 1875. 

It was during this period and in the year 
1874 that Mr. Emmert was granted a patent 
for improvements on carpenter's vises. Six 
vises were manufactured and sold for cost. 
In June, 1875, ''^ "^^'^^ again in the employ 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Altoona, Pa., 
but later returned again to Franklin county. 
Pa., and in l-'ebruary. 1878. located in the 
village of Five Forks, where he engaged 
in general repairs, etc., also designing and es- 
tablishing the Eureka Hand Wagon. Early 
in the year 1879 he again engaged in the 
pattern dqiartment of Frick Co., having 
charge of this department. Here he con- 
tinued until the year 1891, when he improved 
the original vise herein mentioned, taking up 



the old patent, and covering all with new 
patents, the new form now being known as 
The Emmert L'niversal Pattern Makers' 
Vise. While continuing his occupation he 
began manufacturing and selling this vise,, 
but was hampered because of a lack of 
facilities, and about 1898 he engaged A. L. 
]\Ietcalf, machinist, of Waynesboro, to man- 
ufacture the vises, ordering them a dozen 
at a time. Each sale meant others as a re- 
sult and the demand grew with each suc- 
ceeding month. During this time Mr. Em- 
mert had made an effort to form a stock 
company, but did not succeed until October,. 
1900, when The Emmert Manufacturing Co. 
was formed with a capital of $15,000, with, 
the privilege to increase same to $25,000. 
The projectors of the company were I. E. 
Yost and Simon W'iener, and the first of- 
ficers were Jason Bell, president ; Thomas 
Kennedy, secretary and treasurer ; J. F. Em- 
mert, superintendent. A plant was erected 
at once in what was once the old canning 
factory on Fifth street. South Waynesboro, 
Pa., the Cumberland \'alley railroad adjoin- 
ing. The present officers of the company are 
A. E. Price, president ; Jason Bell, vice-presi- 
dent ; H. S. Kuhn, secretary ; W. M. Brown, 
treasurer; Robert McDonald, superin- 
tendent. Directors: A. E. Price; Jason. 
Bell ; Simon Wiener ; Clarence Gordon ; D. 
R. Foglesonger; and J. F. Emmert. Pres- 
ent capital. $60,000. Men employed, 80 to 
85. Present products : Quick Acting and 
Universal Vises for both metal workers and 
wood workers in upward of fifty sizes and 
varieties. 

In 1866 Mr. Emmert married Susan R. 
McPhern, daughter of James McPhern, a 
farmer living near Waynesboro, Pa. After 
the family moved to Waynesboro, in 1869, 
Mrs. Emmert died, leaving the following 
three children : Aaron, who died in October, 
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partment of Prick Co. ; and Elizabeth, who 
married Victor Miller, of the Landis Tool 
Co. 

Mr. Enimert was married,, the second 
time, to Annie E. Benedict, daughter of 
Jacob Benedict, a farmer residing near 
Ouincy, Pa. To this second marriage be- 
long the following children: Jesse B., a mis- 
sionary of the German Baptist Church in 
India, who sailed in October, 1902; Edith 
G., who married J. Frank Miller, of Waynes- 
boro, Pa., now employed in the treasurer's 
department of The Geiser Co. ; Harvey D., 
attending Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. ; 
Sudie Mae, married to John D. McCleary, 
employed in the pattern department of the 
Landis Machine Co., Waynesboro, Pa. The 
family are members of the German Baptist 
Church, to which the Emmerts have be- 
longed for several generations. 

One sister, wife of Elder William 
Koontz, of Shady Grove, Pa., is the only 
one now living. 

WATTS. FREDERICK WATTS 
(born in Wales, June i, 1719), married in 
1749, Jane Murray, niece of David Murray, 
Marquis of Tullibardine, a partisan of the 
Pretender Charles Edward, who after the 
battle of Culloden fled to France. Mr. Watts 
emigrated to Pennsylvania with his family 
about 1760, and after a short residence in 
Chester county, moved westward and lo- 
cated upon the western shore of the Juniata, 
near its confluence with the Susquehanna 
River, about twenty miles from Carlisle. 
The Revolution breaking out. a few years 
after his arrival, he became a zealous advo- 
cate of the rights of the people with whom 
he liecame identified. He was appointed one 
of eight meiubers of Cumberland county who 
met in Philadelphia in 1776. He assisted in 
organizing the battalion for the c(nmty, and 
was made lieutenant colonel of the ist Bat- 



talion, and represented the same at the mili- 
tary convention of July 4, 1776, which met 
at Lancaster. He was in command of the 
1st Battalion of the "Flying Camp," at the 
surrender of Fort Washington, Nov. 6, 
1776, where he was captured but soon after 
exchanged. He was commissioned Justice 
of the Peace for Cumberland county, April 
I. 1776, chosen a representative to the As- 
sembly in 1779, appointed sub-Lieutenant 
of Cumberland county, April 18. 1780, Brig- 
adier-General of Pennsylvania Militia May 
2-j, 1782, a member of the Supreme Execu- 
tive Council from Oct. 20, 1787, until its 
abolition by the constitution of 1790, and 
was at the same time acting as a member of 
the Board of Property. He died Oct. 3, 
1787. He had one son, David Watts (II) 
and several daughters. 

(II) DAVID WATTS, only son 
of Frederick and Jane (Murray) Watts, 
was born in Cumberland county, Oct. 
29, 1764. He was prepared by his 
mother, a woman of unusual literary 
attainments, for entrance to Dickinson 
College in Carlisle, which was founded 
in 1783. He graduated in the first class that 
left its halls, and then studied law with that 
eminent jurist. William Lewis, of Philadel- 
phia, becoming eminent himself as a lawyer. 
He married, in September, 1796, Julia Anna 
Miller, daughter of Gen. Henry Miller 
( 1751-1824), who, as Major of the ist 
Pennsylvania Regiment, and Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the 2d Pennsylvania Regiment, 
took an active part in the battles of Long 
Island. White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, 
Head of the Elk, Brandywine, Germantown, 
Monmouth, etc. On June i. 1775, Miller, 
as first lieutenant of a Rifle Company, un- 
der Capt. Michael Doudel, commenced the 
march from York. Pa., to Cambridge, Mass., 
this company being the first that arrived in 
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Island, or west of the Hudson. The com- 
pany was attaclietl to Col. Thomson's Rifle 
Regiment, which received the first commis- 
sion issued by Congress, and took rank of 
every other regiment. Capt. Doudel's health 
becoming impaired, he resigned, and Miller 
was appointed to the command of the com- 
pany. Gen. Wilkinson, in his Memoirs says, 
"that Major Miller, of Hand's Riflemen, 
was ordered by Gen. Washington to check 
the rapid movements of the enemy in pur- 
suit of the American amiy while retreating 
across the State of New Jersey. The order 
was so successfully executed, and the ad- 
vance of a powerful enemy so embarrassed, 
that the American troops, which afterward 
gained the independence of their c<3untry, 
were preserved from an overthrow, which 
would have proved the grave of our liberties." 
After the Revolution, Col. Miller was Quar- 
termaster-General during the Whiskey In- 
surrection in 1794. At the breaking out of 
the war of 18 12, he was appointed Brigadier- 
General of the United States Militia, sta- 
tioned at Baltimore, and charged with the 
defence of Fort McHenry and its depend- 
encies. He was a member of the Order of 
the Cincinnati, and possessed tlie entire con- 
dence of Gen. Washington. David Watts 
died Sept. 19^ 181 9, leaving six sons and 
three daughters. 

(Ill) FREDERICK WATTS, second 
son of David and Julia (Miller) Watts, was 
born in Carlisle May 9, 1801, graduated from 
Dickinson College in 18 19, commenced the 
study of law in 1821, and was admitted to 
the Bar in August, 1824. As early as Octo- 
ber, 1827, he practiced in the Supreme Court 
and as late as the May term of 1869. All 
through that period of forty-two years (ex- 
cept the three he was on the Bench) there is 
not a single volume of reports, containing 
cases from the middle district, in which his 
name is not fotmd, to which must be added 



the fact that for tifteen years he was the re- 
porter of the decisions of that court. In 
1845 1''^ became president of the Cumberland 
Valley Railroad, and continued in that office 
for twenty-six years. When he took hold 
of it, it was in debt, out of repair, unproduc- 
tive, and in a dilapidated condition, but 
through his good and economical manage- 
ment, k was brought to a high state of pros- 
perity, having paid all its indebtedness, and 
been made to yield handsome returns. In 
March, 1S49, ^Ir. Watts was commissioned 
President Judge of the Ninth Judicial dis- 
trict, composed of the counties of Cumber- 
land, Perry and Juniata, which office he re- 
tained until 1852. In 1854 he was elected 
president of the board of trustees of the Agri- 
cultural College of Pennsylvania, which 
office he held until near the close of his life. 
During the same year he projected the erec- 
tion of the gas and water works for Carlisle, 
and having formed a company for their con- 
struction was elected president. In August, 
1 87 1, he was appointed Commissioner of 
Agriculture by Gen. Grant, then president, 
and served in that capacity during the entire 
period of the latter's administrations. The 
country had not in its employ, a more indus- 
trious, honest, faithful, and large-hearted 
servant. After his retirement he still de- 
voted himself assiduously to the practical de- 
velopment of the agricultural resources of 
the country. On Sept. 6, 1S27, he married 
(first) Eliza Golde Cranston, and their chil- 
dren, none of whom survived him, were: 

1. M.\Ri.\ Ross. 

2. l.\ur.\ golde. 

3. Eliz.a. Cranston. 

He married (second) March 24. 1835, 
Henrietta Ege, and their children were : 

1. WiLLi.\M Miles. 

2. M.^RY. 

3. Julia Miller. 

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5. Coleman Hall. 

6. Edward Biddle (died in infancy). 

7. Sarah Campbell (died in in- 
fancy ) . 

8. Edward Biddle (2). 

9. Sarah Campbell (2). 

10. Henrietta. 

11. Brown Parker. 

Judge Watts died Aug. 17, 1889. 

(IV) FREDERICK WATTS, second 
son of Frederick and Henrietta (Ege) 
Watts, was born Jan. 9, 1843. ^^ was edu- 
cated at Dickinson and the Pennsylvania 
State Colleges, graduating from the latter in 
1862, after which he took a commercial 
course, graduating from Eastman's Com- 
mercial College in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 
1865. In the summer of .1866, he was in the 
grain business in Newville, acting also as 
agent for the Cumberland Valley Railroad 
at that place. In 1869 he resigned to enter 
an engineer corps, being employed nn the 
Perry county, Mont Alto, and Martinsljurg 
Railroads until December, 1872, when he 
went to Washington, being made the follow- 
ing year chief clerk in the Agricultural De- 
partment, which position he held until 1878, 
when he connected himself with the passen- 
ger department of the Cumberland Valley 
Railroad, which position he still holds. 

Mr. Watts married Nov. 22, 1872, Helen 
Elizabeth Waters Bayly, of Cambridge, Md., 
a woman of charming personality and intel- 
lectual force, who gave evidence in her per- 
son, of the long line of distinguished ances- 
tors from whom she descended — the Baylys, 
Waters, Ecclestons, and Scarboroughs, 
names famous in the annals of Virginia and 
Maryland, occupying important positions in 
Colonial affairs, and closely identified with 
the settlement of the Chesapeake country. 
She was tenth in descent from William 
Bayly and Edward Waters, who arrived in 
Jamestown in 16 10, only two years after its 



settlement, when it contained but 50 or 60 
houses, surrounded by a log palisade, with 
a population of nearly 500 men, women and 
children. They came in time to witness and 
share the starvation that depleted the colony 
by 400, causing the desertion of the place, 
only to return again, upon meeting on the 
river. Lord Delaware, with additional colon- 
ists and provisions. The frienilship formed 
during that awful summer, known as the 
"starving time," was afterward cemented by 
the inter-marriages of the lineal descendants 
of William Bayly and Edward Waters. 

Surviving the Indian massacre of 1622, 
which extended over 140 miles, destroying 
347 persons, Edward Waters was made a 
member of the General Court, and a com- 
missioner of the district between Southamp- 
ton and Fox Hill in 1628. His descendant 
was made Lieutenant Colonel of Nansemond 
county in 1673. William Bayly's son, Rich- 
ard, was made captain of the mounted po- 
lice, organized for the protection against the 
Indians in 1644, and a lineal descendant, 
Josiah Bayly, grandfather of Mrs. Watts, 
was Attorney-General for the State of Mary- 
land, succeeding Roger B. Taney, who was 
made Secretary of the Treasury by President 
Jackson. Her father. Dr. Alexander H. 
Bayly, was one of the most noted physi- 
cians of the State outside of Baltimore city, 
being a member of the Chirurgical Society, 
and President of the State Lunacy Commis- 
sion. Mrs. Watts was also tenth in descent 
from Col. Edmund Scarborough, who in 
1658 was Colonel of Militia, a member of the 
Governor's Council and Surveyor General to 
his Majesty. James II. From these men so 
prominent in the early history of the colony, 
came a long line of descendants that grad- 
ually moved up the Chesapeake Bay, mak- 
ing their names felt in each generation as 
soldiers or statesmen. Still later, the mar- 
!ias:e of Frederick \Vatts and Helen Eliza- 



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beth Waters Bayly, united in tlieir (inl\- 
daughter, Kathleex Bayly Watts, the 
blood of the Revolutionary patriots of Penn- 
sylvania with that of the cavaliers and found- 



£rs of Virginia. 



HOKE FAMILY. HLXRY HOKE 
(born in Adams county — died at McCon- 
nellsburg in 1873), the ancestor of the Hoke 
family of Chambersburg, was of German 
origin. He removed from Adams to Fulton 
county, before 1826, and was a tinsmith at 
JMcConnellsburg. Mr. Hoke married Sarah 
Eyster, who belonged to one of the oldest 
'German families of Southern Pennsylvania. 
She was a descendant of John Jacob Eyster, 
a native of the kingdom of Wurtemberg, 
Germany, who emigrated to Pennsylvania 
between 1717 and 1727, bringing with him 
his son, Christian Eyster, born in Germany 
in 1 710. The family settled at Oley. Berks 
county, but removed to York county, in 
1736. Elias. Eyster (born in 1734), who 
bved to be almost a centenarian, was the 
eldest son of Christian. Mrs. Hoke was a 
grand-daughter of Elias Eyster. Henry and 
Sarah Hoke had issue : 

1. George, a tanner at McConnellsburg, 
was a member of the first grand jury of 
Fulton county, in 1851. 

2. H. Elias (II). 

3. Jacob ( III ). 

4. David, a millwright. 

5. Joseph, a merchant. 

6. John, a farmer near McConnells- 
burg, was made an .\ssociate Judge of Ful- 
ton county, in 1871, to fill a vacancy. 

7. Lewis, a merchant. 

8. M.\RY died unmarried. 

9. Hann.\h married A. Sheppler. 
(ID H. ELIAS PIOKE (born at Mc- 

Connellslnirg, Dec. 21, 1822 — died Oct. 5, 
1896), son of Henry and Sarah (Eyster) 
Hoke, was educated in the schools of his 



native town, and learned the tinning trade 
with liis father. He came to Chambersburg 
about 1856, where he went into the dry- 
goods business with his brother Jacob, in 
which lie continued until his death. He was 
for many years a member of the Methodist 
Church, and was a fine Bible scholar. Few 
men in Franklin county were as well posted 
on public questions, and he was a stanch Re- 
publican. He married, April 25, 1849, Har- 
riet Stenger (born Nov. 19, 1827 — died 
Nov. 21, 1892), daughter of Peter and 
Christiana (Shearer) Stenger, of Fort Lou- 
don ; they had issue : 

1. Edward S. (born April 17, 1850), 
is a merchant in Chambersburg. He mar- 
ried (first), Laura Welsh (bom in 185 1 — 
died July 5, 1879), daughter of Matthew 
P. and Catharine (Strealy) Welsh, and 
they had a daughter, Harriet S. He mar- 
ried (second) M. V. Bricker. of Chambers- 
burg. and they have one daughter, Mary E. 

2. Harry E. (lx)rn December. 1851) 
is cashier of the National Bank of Hanover. 
He married Mary Hafer, and they have 
issue : Clarence, Ethel, Earl, Ralph, Walter 
and Margaret. 

3. George M. (born at Fort Loudon in 
1853), ^ minister of the M. E. Church, is 
now in charge of the congregation at New 
Cumberland. He luarried Virginia Bud- 
ding, of Wrightsville; they have issue: Wil- 
liam, Christiana, Norman, Robert and Mary. 

4. \\'iLLiAM S. died in infancy. 

5. How.ard M. (born in Chambersburg 
in 1857) married Bertha Keet, of Harris- 
burg, where he is secretary to Attorney Gen- 
eral Carson. He is an author of some note, 
being a regular contributor to some of 
the fiction magazines. He has one son : 
Russell. 

6. Walter S. (born in iSrio) lives in 
Bordeaux, France, where he is a dentist. He 
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Pa., and they have issue: Hampton. Walter 
and Josephine. 

7. Charles E. (born in 1862) is a 
dealer in grain, and business manager of 
Public Opbiion. He married Sarah A. Reed 
(died Dec. 12, 1903), daughter of WilHam 
G. and Rebecca (Lindsay) Reed, of Cham- 
bersburg. Tiiey had issue: Reed ; John L. ; 
and a daughter only a week old at the 
mother's death. 

8. John Wesley (IV). 

(IH) JACOB HOKE (born at Mc- 
Connellsburg, March 17, 1825 — died 1893), 
son of Henry and Sarah (Eyster) Hoke, 
was educated in the schools of his native vil- 
lage, and at the age of twelve years he en- 
gaged as a clerk in a country store, where 
he remained until May, 1841, when he came 
to Chambersburg. At Chambersburg he 
was employed in various mercantile estab- 
lishments until August, 1848, when he en- 
gaged in business on the northeast corner of 
the Public Square, in partnership with David 
Oaks, under the firm name of Oaks & Hoke. 
This partnership lasted only two years, and 
was followed by the firms of Hoke and Kirk- 
patrick, J. & J. W. Hoke. J. Hoke & Co.. 
and Hoke & Appenzellar. Mr. Hoke came 
to Franklin county without capital, but by 
strict economy he accumulated a few hun- 
dred dollars with which to begin business in 
a small way. and he lived to become the most 
extensi\e dry-goods dealer in Chambers- 
burg. Slight as were his educational advan- 
tages, he was always a conscientious student 
and acquired a general knowledge of liter- 
ature and theology that made him one of 
the most intelligent men in the community. 
When he came to Chambersburg, he united 
with the First United Brethren Church, and 
he was always one of the most earnest 
workers in his denomination. During the 
Civil war he was active in aiding the 
•wounded belonging to both armies on the 



fields of Antietam and Gettysburg, after 
those severe battles, and in the Chambers- 
burg hospitals. He kept a memorandum of 
dates and events that came under his obser- 
vation during the war, and wrote for Public 
Opinion a series of forty-two articles that 
were afterward published in pamphlet form 
with the title of "Reminiscences of the War." 
This pamphlet appeared in 1884. It is the 
best record extant of scenes and incidents 
that occurred in and about Chambersburg 
iluring the war. Later Mr. Hoke published 
a more elaborate work entitled "The Great 
Invasion, or General Lee in Pennsylvania." 
He also wrote works of a religious character 
that were published by the United Brethren 
Publishing Company, at Dayton, Ohio, and 
had a large circulation. Among these were 
"The Higher Life," and "Clusters from 
•Eschol." As a part of his church work, he 
conducted a large class every Thursday 
evening for a number of years for the study 
of the Bible. He was an intelligent and en- 
tertaining talker, and it is still remembered 
of this class that he led it in a realistic and 
delightful manner. In counsel, in prayer, in 
personal effort in evangelical work, and in 
hearty and generous contributions to benev- 
olent enterprises, he held for many years the 
first place in the congregation of which he 
was a member. He loved warm, spiritual 
meetings, and never was happier than when 
helping the minister in such meetings. He 
would only consent to be a layman, nothing 
more, but preached frequently and was an 
entertaining lecturer. For a number of 
years, he delivered lectures for the benefit of 
schools, colleges and bene\'olent institutions 
on the invasion of Pennsylvania and the bat- 
tle of Gettysburg, but ill health compelled 
him to abandon this work. He was presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Franklin County 
Bible Society, and for many years secretary 
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ence Branch Missionary Society. He was 
also a member of the General Board of Mis- 
sions of the United Brethren Church. Mr. 
Hoke married (first), in 1850, Margaretta 
McClellan (died in 1875), a native of Cham- 
bersburg. He married (second), in 1880, 
Mrs. Annie (Mehaffey) Hutton, who sur- 
vives him. She was a daughter of Joseph and 
Annie Margaret (Stabler) Mehaffey. and a 
native of Marion, Pa. In Mr. Hoke's last ill- 
ness his wife cared for him so tenderly that, 
as he felt he was approaching the mysterious 
river, he asked that she should not leave him, 
and from that time, while he lived, she was 
with him day and night, to bathe his fevered 
lips and aching brow until all was over. 
There was no issue by either marriage. 

(IV) JOHN WESLEY HOKE, son of 
H. Elias and Harriet (Stenger) Hoke, was 
educated in the public schools of Chambers- 
burg and at the Chambersburg Academy, 
and was graduated at Lafayette College, 
Easton, in 1890. After leaving college, he 
studied law with the Hon. W. Rush Gillan, 
and was admitted to the Franklin County 
Bar, at the February term, 1893. In 1891- 
92, he was news editor of the Franklin Re- 
pository. In 1898, he was elected District 
Attorney of Franklin county, and served the 
full term of three ye-rs with marked al)ility 
and success. In 1900 he bought a half in- 
terest in Public Opinion from John M. 
Runk, and conducted it in partnership with 
Mr. Runk under the firm name of Runk & 
Hoke until January, 1902, when he bought 
his partner's interest. When Mr. Hoke ac- 
quired a part interest in Public Opinion, it 
was a weekly newspaper of wide circulation, 
but in March, 1901, the daily Opinion was 
e-stablished. Under Mr. Hoke's direction, 
both the daily and weekly issues of the paper 
have been conducted with great ability and 
success, and the property ranks among the 



best in the Cumberland Valley. Mr. Hoke 
is a Republican in politics, and was nomi- 
nated by his party as the candidate for repre- 
sentative in the State Legislature March 15, 
1904. He belonged to the Reforniel 
Church. Fraternally he is a member of the 
Knights of Malta, of which he is a Past 
Commander and has passed through all the- 
chairs; and of the Knights of Pythias and 
the B. P. O. E.. 

REV. GEORGE \\-. AUGHIN- 
BAUGH, D. D. A lifetime of work marked 
at every step by deej) personal interest,, 
breadth of knowledge — both of men and 
means — and complete self-abnegation has 
justly won for Rev. George W. Aughinbaugh 
a widespread reputation and warmth of af- 
fection that falls to the lot of few men. He 
has spent himself in the cause of Christian 
education and his name is known and hon- 
ored throughout many States. He is a na- 
tive of Pennsylvania, born in Chambers- 
burg, Feb. 12, 1819, a son of John and 
Elizabeth ( McCullough) Aughinbaugh. 

(I) HENRY AUGHINBAUGH. the 
grandfather of Rev. Dr. George W. Aughin- 
baugh, was the youngest of three brothers- 
who came from Germany to America about 
1770. He was a shoemaker by trade, and 
located in Cumberland county, Pa. Like so- 
man)- of his countrymen he was a member of 
the Reformed Churcli. His remains are 
buried in Shippensburg. 

(II) JOHN AUGHINBAUGH, father 
of Dr. Aughinbaugh, was born in Cumber- 
land county, Oct. 28, 1791, and died in 1852. 
When a young man he came to Franklin- 
county and here married Feb. 28, 1816, 
Elizabeth McCullough, who was of Scotch- 
Irish descent. She died in 1875. There 
were eight children in their family, only twO' 
of whom are now living, as follows: 





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1. Henry P. 

2. George W. (HI), one of tlie two 
sur\-ivors. 

3. John. 

4. Henrietta married Rev. Henry 
Heckerman, a minister of the Reformed 
Chnrcli. 

5. Anna Mary married William Mc- 
Kesson. 

6. Katherine Elizabeth married 
Lyman S. Clark, Esq., of Chambersburg. 

7. David C. is a resident of Hagers- 
tovvn, Mai'ydand. 

8. Ed\v.\rd R. 

(HI) GEORGE W. AUGHINBAUGH 
spent his youth in Chambersburg. He was 
first sent to private school and later to the 
academy there, and in the spring of 1841 en- 
tered Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa. 
He graduated in the fall of 1844. John W. 
Nevin, D. D., LL. D., a theologian of world- 
wide reputation and whose scholarly attain- 
ments were universally recogiiized, was 
president of the College, and conferred the 
degree of B. A. on the graduates, eight in 
number. Mr. Aughinbaugh was honored Ijy 
his class in being selected as valedictorian, 
the highest honor in their bestowal. Soon 
after graduation he was given a position in 
the preparatory department of the college 
and while teaching there also pursued and 
completed his theological studies. In 1846 
he received an unanimous call to the vacant 
pastorate of the Reformed Church at 
Emmitsburg, Md., and at once re- 
signed his position as teacher to ac- 
cept this new and greater responsi- 
bility, which he carried most satisfac- 
torily to all for ten years. In 1856 he re- 
signed his pastorate at Emmitsburg. and 
opened a classical school at Bedford, Pa. A 
break came in his work. howe\'er, three years 
later, when in 1859 he removed to the Val- 
ley of Virginia, and resumed preaching for 



a time, although it was not long before he 
assumed charge of the I-'emale Seminary at 
Orkney Springs, Va. This was only for a 
brief period, too, as in 186 1 Virginia seceded 
from the Union, and Mr. Aughinbaugh re- 
turned to Pennsylvania and resumed pastoral 
work. In 1864 came a call to the presidency 
of Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, Ohio, but 
unfortunately this had to be given up after 
a year's stay because of the ill eiifects of the 
change of climate upon the health of the 
whole family, and Mr. Aughinbaugh re- 
turned to the church in Pennsylvania which 
he had left a year before, located at Riegels- 
ville, Bucks Co., Pa. In 1872 he was elected 
to fill the presidency of Palatinate College 
at Myerstown, whither he removed in the 
spring of 1873. ^^^^ eight years Dr. Aughin- 
baugh devoted his entire powers to the ad- 
vancement of this institution and was suc- 
cessful in his labors. In 1881, for reasons 
satisfactory to himself, he resigned his posi- 
tion in Palatinate College, and accepted the 
presidency of Mercersburg College, which 
had been closed for a year, and was heavily 
in debt. His main object in going there 
was to save the property for the church. In 
this he was successful, and opened up the way 
for the establishment of the Mercersburg 
Academy, which is now one of the first in- 
stitutions of its class in the country. In 
1893, at the advanced age of seventy-four. 
Dr. Aughinbaugh retired from his educa- 
tional work, so arduous in its demands for 
one of his years, in the happy consciousness 
of good work well done. He retired to a 
fine farm which he owns near Green Village, 
and after more than sixty years service for 
the Reformed Church and its colleges is pass- 
ing the evening of his days amid quiet coun- 
try scenes, beloved and honored by all who 
know him. 

Dr. Aughinbaugli's hel]imeet during the 
earlier years of his labors was Miss Mary 



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Louise Higbee, of Burlington, Vt., to wiiom 
he was married in 1848. Three children 
came to them, viz. : 

1. Ch.arle.s H., died in 1890. 

2. George W. is a druggist in Phila- 
delphia. 

3. Martha S. is living at home. 
Mrs. Aughinbaugh was called to the 

other world in 18G7. and five years later Dr. 
Aughinbaugh was luiited to his second wife, 
whose maiden name was Emma Keely, 
daughter of Henry B. Keely, of Berks coun- 
ty. Mrs. Emma K. Aughinlsaugh passed 
away Jan. 20, 1902. Two children were 
born to them: 

1. Mary E. is a teacher of instrument- 
al music at Wilson College, Chambersburg. 

2. John K., a Philadelphia druggist, is 
unmarried. 

Dr. Aughinbaugh is one of the oldest 
ministers of Franklin county and is still a 
man of remarkable memory for one of his 
years. Few men can look back upon a life 
more rich in achievement than his has been 
in the cause of education and Christianity, 
while his private life has been filled with 
kindly deeds which were the natural and 
■spontaneous expression of his beautiful char- 
acter. 

DIEHL FAMILY. John Frederick 
Diehl (born in Germany, Jan. 5, 1743, died 
May 13, 181 6), the ancestor of the Diehl 
families of Franklin and Adams counties, 
emigrated to Pennsylvania on the "Snow 
Squirrel," John Benn, master, from Rotter- 
'dam, landing at Philadelphia. Oct. 21, 1761. 
He settled in what is now Butler township 
(formerly Menallen township), Adams 
^county, and was a member of the German 
Baptist Church (Dunkard) of which there 
was quite a settlement in that section. He 
is rated on the tax list of Menallen township. 
'in 1799, as one of the wealthy men of the 



township. Mr. Diehl was twice married, but 
the surname of his first wife has not been 
ascertained. His second wife's name was 
Mary, and she died Aug. i, 1822, in the 
seventy-sixth year of her age. By his first 
marriage he had issue : 

1. Jacob (II). 

2. Abraham married ^lary Deardorff, 
and they had issue. Elizabeth married Mr. 
Strine : Mary married Mr. ]^Ianier ; Sarah ; 
and Joseph. 

3. Mary married David Pfoutz. 

By his second marriage Mr. Diehl had 
issue : 

1. John married Miss Stoner; they had 
no children : 

2. Samuel married Katie Bream, and 
died in 1863, in his seventy-sixth year. They 
had issue : Julian married Isaac Koons ; 
Mary married John !\Iiller; Sarah Married 
Simon Labaw ; Ellen married William Sad- 
ler : Joseph married Annie Heagy : and John 
went to Illinois and married. 

3. Da\'H) married Miss ^IcGrew ; they 
had no children. 

4. Eliz.JiBeth died unmarried in 1858. 

3. Hannah married (first), Mr. Leh- 
man, and had two children. Christian and 
John; (second) Mr. l-'issell, and had 
children. 

(II) JACOB DIEHL (born near Get- 
tysburg, in Adams county, in I768^died 
in 1841), son of John Frederick Diehl, the 
immigrant, was a farmer on Rock Creek, 
and is rated in the tax lists of Mount Joy 
township, in 1799, as a man of considerable 
proi)erty. He married Christiana Bosser- 
man (bom in 1768 — died in 1849). They 
had issue : 

1. John (HI). 

2. Jacob married Margaret Miller, and 
thev had issue: Susanna; Elizabeth mar- 
ried John Trostle : Sophia married Isaac 
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Kittinger ; Isaac married Elizabeth Howard ; 
and Hanson, deceased, married Miss Mu- 
mert. 

3. Daniel married Maria Houghlin ; 
they had issue : Jolm, Daniel and La\inia. 

4. Frederick (born in 1808 — died 
April I, 1883), was a farmer at Cashtown. 
He married in 1836, Matilda Black, daugh- 
ter of James and Jane (Hamilton) Black, 
and they had issue: Cleopatra, Van Buren, 
Jane A.. James, John H. and Oscar D. 

5. Joseph died unmarried. 

6. Mary married Jacob Spitler, and 
moved West. 

7. Sus.\N married Michael Trostle, and 
they had issue : Mary married Daniel Dear- 
dorff ; Jacob married Sarah Pfoutz ; John 
married (first) Lizzie Diehl, daughter of 
Jacob, and (second) Lizzie Pfoutz; Wil- 
liam : Levi married Miss Spangler ; Joseph 
married Sallie Van Arsdale; and Tillie mar- 
ried (first) Henry Beitler, and (second) Jo- 
seph Myers. 

8. Sarah married John Deardorff ; they 
had no children. 

9. Eliz.\ married John Houghtlin, and 
they had issue: Jacob; Abraham; Sallie 
married (first) Stephen Chamberlain, (sec- 
ond) Mr. Tibbats, and (third) Joseph My- 
ers; and Mollie married John D. Lehman, 
of Lee county, Illinois. 

(Ill) JOHN DIEHL ( born near Gettys- 
burg, Sept. 2, 1795 — died July 14, 1867), 
was the son of Jacob and Christiana (Bos- 
serman) Diehl, and was a successful farmer. 
He was a soldier in the war of 1812-14, and 
participated in the defense of Baltimore. In 
1819 he married Julian Snyder, daughter of 
Conrad and E\-e ( Knouse) Snyder, of 
Adams county (born near Gettysburg, Feb. 
18, 1800 — died March 13, 1849). They 
liad issue : 

I. Levi, born July i, 1821, died July 7, 
1824. 



2. Sarah A., Ixirn May 3, 1823, mar- 
ried Jacob S. Hollinger. [See Hollinger 
Family]. 

3. Jeremiah (IV). 

4. Daniel S., born .\\m] 20, 1827,, 
lives in Carroll county, Md. ; he married 
Elizabeth Brown, and they had two children : 
Charles died unmarried ; and .Annie married! 
to Howard Brumbaugh. 

5. Julia Ann, born Feb. 2^, 1829,. 
married Abraham Fisher. 

6. Baltzer Snyder, born June 20,. 
1833, died Dec. i, 1834. 

7. Lorenda Catherine, born July 15, 
1837, married Joseph E. Lehman, deceased., 
formerly of Lee County, Illinois. 

(IV) JEREMIAH DIEHL (born in 
Adams county, Dec. 17, 1824 — died at 
Marion, June 7, 1896), son of John and' 
Julian (Snyder) Diehl. was a farmer in 
Adams county, and later was a grain dealer 
at Gettysburg. He came to Franklin county, 
in 1867. He married Sept. 29, 1846, Sarah- 
Brough( born Nov. 29, 1825 — died July i, 
1902), daughter of Andrew and Mary 
(Diado) Brough, born near East Berlin,, 
Adams county, and raised near Hampton. 
[See Brough Family]. They were members. 
of the German Baptist Church. They had 
issue : 

1. John A. (V). 

2. Mary Grace, born Jan. 13, 1863, 
died in infancy. 

3. Edgar Brough (VI). 

(V) JOHN A. DIEHL (born in Butler 
township, Adams county, June 9, 1849), son 
of Jeremiah and Sarah (Brough) Diehl, was 
born on a farm, and raised in Gettysburg. 
He was educated in the public schools and at 
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. At the 
age of seventeen, he came to Franklin 
county, with his parents, and in 1868 began 
the grain business at Marion, and in 1873 
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ever since. In 1890 he purchased tlie in- 
terest of Samuel M. Linn, in the firm of 
Linn & Coyle, grain and coal dealers in 
Chambersburg, and became a member of the 
firm of Coyle & Diehl, who now have ele- 
vators at Chambersburg, Fayetteville, Mar- 
ion, Greencastle and Richmond ; and he also 
has a number of other interests in different 
parts of the country, being very successful 
in business. In politics he is a life long 
Democrat, and the Diehl family has been 
Democratic since the days of Thomas Jef- 
ferson, but he has never aspired to any polit- 
ical office. He is a member and elder of the 
Reformed Church at Marion. Mr. Diehl 
married Dec. 28, 1876, Hannah Mary Sten- 
ger (born July 24, 1848), daughter of Peter 
and Christiana (Shearer) Stenger, of Fort 
Loudon. They have issue : 

1. M.\BEL S. married John B. Diehl (no 
relative). 

2. Mary Edith. 

3. George Edgar. 

4. Miriam Brough. 

5. John Linn. 

6. Robert Markle. 

(VI) EDGAR BROUGH DIEHL 
(born at Gettysburg, March 3, 1865), son 
of Jeremiah and Sarah (Brough) Diehl, was 
educated at the public schools and at the 
Chambersburg Academy, and he graduated 
with honor at Eastman's National Commer- 
cial College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1885 
he went to Lemaster, and engaged in the 
grain, coal antl lumber business, which he 
still manages. He is also ticket, freight and 
express agent. In 1902 he established an 
electric light plant, which supplies electric 
light to the \-illages of Bridgeport and Le- 
master, and to the borough of Mercersburg, 
and the Mercersburg Academy. This was 
the first electric light plant in the county to 
be run I)y water. The same year he built at 
Markes the first concrete dam in tiie coun- 



ty. Mr. Diehl is a partner with Seth Le- 
master in the Markes Milling Company, a 
modern feed mill at Markes. In 1904 Mr. 
Diehl. in partnership with his brother John 
A. Diehl, of Marion, purchased a half in- 
terest from his brother in a farm located near 
Brown's j\Iill in Antrim township. The 
partnership was formed for the purpose of 
establishing a commercial apple farm, and 
at present time they have three thousand 
apple trees under cultivation. Air. Diehl is a 
Democrat in politics, but has no political as- 
pirations. He has served as a school director 
of Peters township. Fraternally he is a thir- 
ty-second degree Mason, and is one of the 
charter members of the Zembo Shrine at 
Harrisburg, Pa. He is an elder of the St. 
Thomas Presbyterian Church. 

On Feb. 18, 1891, Mr. Diehl married 
Sarah Catherine Dixon, daughter of Gen. 
William D. and Martha (Gillan) Di.xon. 
They have issue : 

1. S.A.RAH Martha. 

2. Jeremiah Dixon. 

3. Edgar William. 

4. Catherine Jeffrey. 

JACOB HOSTETTER, a successful 
retired merchant, of Greencastle, Franklin 
Co., Pa., has been a resident of this county 
since he was a child of three years. His 
birth occurred at Hanover, Adams Co., Pa., 
Oct. 2^. 1 83 1, and he is a son of Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Michael) Hostetter. 

(I) JACOB HOSTETTER, Sr., his 
grandfather, was a mechanic and expert 
clock and watch maker, making a specialty 
of the tail clocks now known as Grand- 
father clocks. Our subject has one of these 
clocks, made in 1798, which is still in ex- 
cellent condition. Jacob Hostetter, Sr., 
made his home in Hanover, Adams Co., Pa., 
whence he served as a meml)er of Congress, 
and he was a warm personal friend of the 



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renowned Henry Clay. Four sons were 
born to Jacob, three of whom, Jacob, W'il- 
liam and Charles, grew to maturity and re- 
moved in 1828, to New Lisbon, Ohio, where 
they reared families. One of them, (Jacob) 
became a judge; William became a banker; 
Charles was a merchant ; these three were 
pioneers of Ohio. The fourth son was Sam- 
uel, the father of our subject. 

(II) SAMUEL HOSTETTER was 
a clock and watch maker, and after locating 
in Greencastle, in 1833, followed that calling 
until about 1836. when he engaged in farm- 
ing in Montgomery township, two and one- 
half miles west of Greencastle, there re- 
maining until 1855, when he retired to 
Greencastle; he there died Jan. 8, 1873. 
His birth occurred May 3, 1790. His wife, 
who died in 1859, was born Sept. 24. 1792. 
They were both natives of Adams County. 

(III) JACOB HOSTETTER, spent 
his early life with his father, and at the age 
of nineteen, he went with Dr. Witmer, read- 
ing medicine for one year, and clerking in 
the drug store. He then went to Pittsburgh 
and clerked in a wholesale drug establish- 
ment, and in 1854 he opened a drug store in 
Greencastle. which he conducted for four 
years. After this he tra\-eled as salesman 
for one year. In i860 he embarked in the 
grocery business in Greencastle, and for five 
or six years was thus occupied, when he took 
into partnership Charles Ruthrauff. under 
the style of Jacob Hostetter & Co., so con- 
tinuing until 1880, when Mr. Hostetter pur- 
chased the interest of his partner and assum- 
ed full control. In 1883 he admitted his 
son to partnership and adopted the name of 
J. Hostetter & Son. which still continues, 
although the father retired from the firm in 
1894. Mr. Hostetter was one of the original 
stockholders of the First National Bank, of 
Greencastle. For twelve years he acted as 
Notary Public. He has alwavs been alive 



to the best interests of the city, lalxjring 
hard for the good of the people. He is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, with which 
body he has affiliated fur many years. 

In Chambersburg, Pa., Mr. Hostetter was 
married to Georgiana Washabaugh, a 
daughter of William Washabaugh, of 



Chambersburg, 



and granddaughter of 



George K. Harper, founder of the Re- 
pository and a prominent Whig of Cham- 
bersburg. The marriage took place in Sep- 
tember, 1854, and of the children born to 
them, two died in infancy. Of the others, 

1. S.\MUEL P. (IV) is a merchant. 

2. Nannie, married Samuel P. Whit- 
more, of Antrim township. 

3. Elizabeth married William F. 
Patton. 

4. Georgiana H., married Luther A. 
B. Fleming, of Greencastle. 

5. Emeline married Harry S. Snyder, 
a merchant clothier, of Greencastle. 

In public affairs Jacob Hostetter has al- 
ways taken a deep interest, and he has filled 
all of the town offices, having been elected 
as a candidate of the Republican party. He 
was one of the promoters of the Cedar Hill 
Cemetery, and is today secretary of the or- 
ganization. When he embarked in business 
here, Mr. Hostetter was obliged to start in 
a very modest way, but success crowned his 
efforts, and his establishment grew in mag- 
nitude until today it would grace any city. 
His methods have always been such as to 
command patronage, as it was always his 
plan to carry the best of everything at prices 
which would prove universally satisfactory. 
Since the younger member assumed charge 
some new ideas have been carried out, but 
the store is still conducted upon the solid 
basis of fair and honorable dealing which 
made its fame in the past. 

(IV) SAMUEL P. HOSTETTER 
was born March 26, 1861, and was reared 



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in Greencastle, where he received his early 
education, later taking a course at the Lewis- 
town Academy, in 1878-79. He then entered 
the store of his father as a clerk, and in 1883 
was taken into partnership, in 1894 taking 
sole control. Mr. Hostetter is a thoroughly 
practical business man, alive to the best in- 
terests of the community, and one of \\hom 
Greencastle may well feel proud. In ad- 
dition to other interests he is the owner of a 
fruit farm in Antrim township. 

In 1884 Mr. Hostetter was married to 
Alice F. Funk, daughter of Aaron and 
Elizabeth (Frick) Funk. She was born in 
Washington township, Franklin Co., Pa. 
Mr. and Mrs. Hostetter are consistent mem- 
bers of the Lutheran Church, in which they 
are very popular. 

Three children have been born to this 
union, namely : 

1. Jacob F., a clerk in his father"o 
store, is a graduate of Norristown Business 
College. 

2. Samuel K. 

3. Elizabeth F. 

PALMER FAMILY. (I) MICH.\EL 
PALMER (bom in Lancaster county, June 
6, 1770 — died April 7. 1853), the grand- 
father of Dr. Charles F. Palmer of Cham- 
bersburg, was a farmer. He remo\ed to 
Franklin county, and settled in Hamilton 
township. Mr. Palmer married Catharine 
Redsecher (born July 19. 1775 — died June 
3, 1846), a native of Lebanon county. They 
had issue : 

1. Jacob. 

2. Michael. 

3. Jonas C. (II). 

4. Elizabeth. 

5. Catharine (born June 30. 1804 — 
died June 30, 1885), married John Brindle 
(born May 5, 1797 — died March 14. 1854), 
a farmer in St. Thomas township. They 



had issue: Mary E., who married Col. 
James G. Elder; and Amelia Jane, born Nov. 
18. 1836, died Feb. 15, 1850. 

(IIj JONAS C. PALMER (born 
April, 1814 — died August, 1889), son of 
Michael and Catharine ( Redsecher) Palmer, 
was a farmer in Hamilton township. He 
was active in local politics, and was a county 
commissioner of Franklin county, 1867-70. 
He was a member of the Reformed Church. 
Mr. Palmer married Catharine C. Flack 
(born in 1819 — died Dec. 20. 1884), daugh- 
ter of Alexander Flack. They had issue: 

1. Margaret E. (born May 14, 1843), 
married Moses A. Keefer. 

2. William Penn married Margaret 
Root, and they had issue : Betty, Minnie 
and John. 

3. Charles F. (HI). 

4. Emma married Charles M. Deatrich. 
No issue. 

5. Catharine married John F. Mish. 
No issue. 

6. Benjamin F. married Mrs. Ollie 
W'olford. and they had one son : Charles. 

7. David D. married Annie Keefer. 

8. Harry, born in 1859, died Oct. 5, 
1880. 

9. George Washington (born Nov. 
12, 1857) is a farmer on the old Palmer 
homestead in Hamilton township. He mar- 
ried March 16, 1892, Flora Keefer, daugh- 
ter of William S. Keefer, and they have one 
son. J. Charles. 

(Ill) DR. CHARLES F. PALMER, 
son of Jonas C. and Catharine (Flack) Pal- 
mer, was educated in the public schools of 
Hamilton township, at the private school of 
Rev. Dr. James F. Kennedy of Chambers- 
burg, and at the Mercer sburg Academy. He 
subsequently received a business education 
at the Iron City College. Pittsburgh. He 
taught two terms in the public schools, and 
was for three years a clerk in the store of 




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of work for the Executive Mansion and tlie 
Capitol. He married Rebecca Rinebeck 
(died in Baltimore in 1833). They had 
issue: William, Leonard, Thomas, Joseph, 
Samuel, George. Jesse, David, Charles, 
Daniel, Benjamin, Frederick. John and Re- 
becca. 

2. ^I.\RY Elizabeth (born on Good 
Friday in 1753 — died June 18, 1835), mar- 
ried Godfrey Lenhart (born March 17, 
1754 — died Aug. 15, 1819). They had is- 
sue ; Margaret, Elizabeth, Henry, William, 
Catharine and two other daughters. Of 
these Elizabeth Lenhart married John Bay- 
ley, and had a daughter Catharine, who mar- 
ried Samuel Tyler, LL. D. ; William Len- 
hart (born Jan. 19, 1787 — died July 10, 
1840) was a distinguished mathematician ; 
Catharine Lenhart (lx)rn Oct. 10, 1791 — 
died Jan. 25. 1859) married April 25, 181 1, 
John B. McPherson, and was the mother of 
the Hon. Edward McPherson, of Gettys- 
burg. 

3. Anna Margaret. 

• 4. Anna Catharine. 

(11) JACOB HARBAUGH (born in 
Switzerland, Feb. 5, 1730 — died in Har- 
baugh's Valley, April 28, 181 8), son of 
Yost Herbach, emigrated to Pennsylvania 
with his parents, and as a young man pur- 
chased a tract in Frederick county, Md. He 
married April, 1761, Anna Margaretta 
Smith (born April 3, 1740 — died March 18, 
1803), daughter of George Smith, and they 
bad issue : 

1. Ann.\ Margaretta n)orn Jan. 27, 
1-762) married Henry Snyder, buried at 
Grindstone Hill, no issue. 

2. Jacob (born March 21, 1763 — died 
Dec. 16. 1842) lived in Harbaugh's Valley. 
He had issue : Joseph. Mary, Jonathan, Ben- 
jamin, Soloman. Elizabeth. David, Nancy, 
Catharine and Matilda. 

3. John (lK>rn May 27, 1764 — died 



June 18, 1834) married Elizabeth Winters 
(born in 1766 — died Aug. 10, 1827), of 
Washington Co., Md. They had issue: 
Jacob, Margaret, Elizabeth, Henry, John, 
Jonathan. Catharine and David. 

4. Susanna (born Nov. 6, 1765) mar- 
ried Jacob Hoover, a Moravian. They had 
issue : Daniel, Rachel, Sophia, Margaret and 
Catharine. 

5. Catharine, born March 6. 1767, 
died unmarried. 

6. B.\rbara, born March 12, 1768, 
died Oct. 6, 1809. 

7. Julian, born June 21, 1769, died 
Nov. II. 18 1 7. 

8. Anna Maria (born March 17, 
1 77 1 — died March 3, 1843) married John 
Shriver, and they had issue: Juliann, Mar- 
garet, Catharine and Henry. 

9. Henry, born Aug. 22, 1772, died 
unmarried, Nov. 11, 1844. 

10. George (IV). 

11. Yost, born Jan. 21, 1776, died 
Aug. 18, 1777. 

12. Yost (born March 17. 1778 — died 
April 28, 1817) married Elizabeth Mong, 
and they had issue: Elizabeth, Juliann, 
Catharine, Margaret, Mary Ann, Daniel 
and Susan. 

13. Frederick, born Nov. i, 1779, 
died Nov. 14, 1779. 

14. Joseph, born Dec. 2, 1780, died 
Dec. 5, 1780. 

15. Eli.\s (born Jan. i, 1782 — died 
Aug. 4. 1854) married Dec. 30. 1817. Anna 
Catharine Pentzer (born Aug. 23. 1793 — ■ 
died Feb. 15, 1849). They had issue: 
Leonard. Jacob. Henry. \'alentine. George, 
Hiram. F.lias, Susan E. and Simon Wash- 
ington. 

^ (III) YOST HARBAUGH (born on 
Kreutz Creek, York county. Oct. 11, 1741, 
— died of Asiatic cholera. Aug. 16, 1832), 
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Braddock's expedition, when only fourteen 
years old, and later served with Bouquet's 
expedition. He was appointed a captain in 
the York County Militia, Sept. 11, 1776, 
and served in the Jersey campaign. He was 
also a captain in Col. William Rankin's 
Battalion, York County Associators, 1777- 
78, and was in service in the campaign 
around Philadelphia. He, was a memher of 
the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1799. He 
married and had issue : 

1. Eve (born in 1767 — died Feb. 22, 
1852) married Daniel Wolf, of \\'est Man- 
chester township, Y'ork county. 

2. AxxA ]\Iargaret married John 
Walter (V). 

3. John (died in 1838) lived near 
Maria Furnace, Adams county. He mar- 
ried and had issue : Mary, Yost, Elias, Re- 
becca, Susan and John and Samuel. 

4. Jacob owned a mill on Bermudian 
creek ; a daughter married a Spangler. 

5. A daughter married Benjamin Em- 
mert. 

(IV) GEORGE HARBAUGH (born 
in Harbaugh's Valley, March 17, 1774 — 
died Feb. 3, 1853), son of Jacob and Anna 
M. (Smith) Harbaugh, settled at the foot 
of South Mountain, in Washington town- 
ship, about 1800. In 1805 he built the 
stone house so frequently mentioned in the 
Pennsylvania German poems of his son, the 
Rev. Dr. Henry Harbaugh. He was one of 
the founders of the German Reformed 
Church at \\'aynesboro. Mr. Harbaugh 
married Jan. 2. 1801. Anna Snyder (born 
May 21, 1779 — died Oct. 31, 1837), daugh- 
ter of Jacob Snyder, and they had issue : 

I. Catharine (born Sept. 9. 1801) 
married Abraham Welty (born March 18, 
1798), and they had issue: George, Jacob, 
John, Nancy, Elizabeth, Susan, Abraham. 
Rebecca, Sarah. William Henry. 



2. Elizabeth (born Dec. 13, 1802) 
married D. M. Livers, and went to Monroe 
county, 111. in 1845; ^^'^^Y '''^'^ issue: Ann, 
George, William, John, David, Samuel, 
Margaret and Joseph. 

3. Nancy (born May 21, 1805) mar- 
ried Jacob Hoover, and they had issue: 
Susan, Henry, George, Elizabeth, Jacob, 
x^nna, Abraham, David, Mary, Catharine, 
Rebecca, Isaljella, John O. and Sarah. 

4. Jacob, born Jan. 11, 1807, died 
March i, 1808. 

5. Rebecca (born Oct. 13, 1808) niar- 
ried Samuel Barkdoll (died March 26, 
1837), and had issue: John, Ann, George, 
Jnliann, Samuel, Margaret and Mary. 

6. Susan (born March 18, 18 10) 
married William Johnston (born May 13, 
1808), lived near Waynesboro. They had 
issue: George Harbaugh, Nancy, Washing- 
ton. Catharine. William, Susan Louisa, 
Mary Elizabeth. John Aaron, Margaret 
Charlotte and Sarah. 

7. John (born Jan. 25, 1812) went to 
Monroe county. 111., in 1845. He married 
Marv Livers, and they had issue: Ann, 
George, Margaret, Catharine, Agnes Cecelia, 
David, Benjamin. Joseph and Jonathan. 

8. Leonard (born Jan. 8, 1814) lived 
near Bellefontaine, Ohio. He married Re- 
becca Helwig (born Dec. 12, 1820), and 
had issue: George Washington, Henry- 
Clay and John Benjamin. 

9. George (born Oct. 28. 181 3 — died 
March 4, 1891) lived on the old Harbaugh 
homestead below Waynesboro. He mar- 
ried Nancy Hoover (born May 21, 1822,) 
and had issue : Martha Jane and Theodore 
Augustus. 

10. Henry (VI). 

11. Washington (bom Jan. 6, 1821 — 
died July 31. 1852) was a physician, and 
practiced his profession at Waynesboro and 



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in Bedford county. He married Miss Boet- 
ler (died June 6, 1852), and had diree chil- 
dren. 

12. David (born Nov. 29, 1823) was in 
the ministry of the Lutheran Churcli. He 
married Margaret Augustine, and they had 
issue: Luther Excelsior, Walter Gunn. An- 
gelina Olivia and Harlan Kellar. 

(V) ANNA MARGARET HAR- 
BAUGH, daughter of Capt. Yost Har- 
baugh, married (first) John Walter (died 
in 1 8 14), a fuller, who came from York to 
Franklin county, when a young man. They 
ha(a issue. 

1. Jacob, lived one mile South of 
Wciynesboro, but removed to Springfield, 
Ohio. He was a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Legislature in 1847. 

2. John (VII). 

3. Anna Maria married Daniel Monn. 

4. Margaret, married John Gillan 
[Gillan Family]. 

Mrs. Walter married (second) Mr. 
Fisher, and was the mother of Henry L. 
Fisher, Esq., the eminent York lawyer. 

(VI) HENRY HARBAUGH (born 
Oct. 28, 1 81 7— died Dec. 28, 1867) son of 
George and Anna M. (Snyder) Harbaugh, 
was designed by his father for agricultural 
pursuits and received only an ordinary edu- 
cation in the school described in "Das alt 
schulhaus an der krick." In his boyhood he 
passed the winter in the school house by the 
creek, and in summer was occupied in turn- 
ing the hay, or in following the plow. When 
he determined to leave the farm he spent 
part of a year in the mill of his uncle, Elias 
Harbaugh in Harbaugh's Valley, and then 
went west as far as Ohio. This was in 1836. 
He found employment with a house builder 
at Massillon, and gave his spare time to 
study. His design was to prepare for the 
ministry of the Reformed Church. He re- 
mained about Massillon, Canal Dover, and 



Xew Hagerstown until 1840. teaching 
school three winters and attending the New 
Hagerstown Academy during two summers. 
After four years absence he returned to 
Franklin county, and in October, 1840, en- 
tered Marshall College as a freshman. After 
two years in the college he studied Theology 
in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed 
Church for one year. He was licensed to 
preach in 1S43, and his first charge was at 
Lewisburg, Pa., where he remained seven 
years. In 1850, he accepted a call to the 
First Reformed Church, Lancaster, and in 
1860-63 1''^ ^^''^^ pastor of St. John's Re- 
formed Church, Lebanon. On Xew Year's 
day he became professor of Systematic and 
Practical Theology in the Seminary of the 
Reformed Church at Mercersburg, where he 
remained until his death. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Union College, N. Y., 
in i860. 

While at Lewisburg, Dr. Harbaugh be- 
gan his career as a writer. In 1849 l^s pub- 
lished his first book, "The Sainted Dead;" 
in 1850, he founded the "Guardian," a 
monthly magazine for the young; in 1851,. 
he published his second book, "The Heaven- 
ly Recognition," and other volumes followed 
in rapid succession : "The Heavenly Home" 
and "The Lord's Portion." in 1853; "Union 
with the Church" and "Birds of the Bible," 
1855: "Schlatter's Life and Travels'' and 
"Fathers of the Reformed Church,"' 1858; 
"The True Glory of Woman," and "A Book 
of Poems," 1858; and "The Golden Cen- 
ser,'' i860. He also published "Hymns and 
Chants," 1861 ; and "The Child's Cate- 
chism," and "Youth in Earnest,'' 1857. He 
was also the author of many lectures and 
addresses. His only publications not of an 
avowedly religious character were "Annals 
of the Harbaugh Family," 1856, and Har- 
baugh's "Harfe," a collection of his poems 
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lished after his death. His pubhshed pam- 
phlets were very numerous. An apprecia- 
tive "Life of the Rev. Henry Harbaugh, D. 
D.." was written by his son. Linn Harbaugli, 
Esq., and published by the Reformed Church 
Publication Board, in 1900, with an intro- 
duction by the Rev. Dr. Nathan C. Scheaf- 
fer, and a eulogy by the Rev. Dr. E. \ . Cer- 
hart. Dr. Harbaugh married (first), Dec. 
14, 1843, Louisa Goodrich (born June 20, 
1824 — died Sept. 26, 1847), of Carroll 
county, Ohio. They had issue : 

1. M.^RY Olivi.a. Allena, born Oct. 
17. 1845. 

2. Laura Amanda, born April 21, 
1847, died May 9. 1847. 

Dr. Harbaugh married (second) Mary 
Louisa Linn (born July 12, 1827), daugh- 
ter of James F. and Margaret I. (Wilson) 
Linn, and they had issue: 

1. A daughter, born Sept. 28, 1849, 
died Oct. 5, 1849. 

2. A son, bom July 17, 1850, died July 
30, 1850. 

3. Wilson Linn (born July 26, 
185 1 ) is a druggist at Haverford, Pa. He 
rnarried May 24. 1876, Rosanna McNaugh- 
ton, and they had issue : Henry W. and 
Duncan J. 

4. A daughter, born March 27, 1854, 
died March 29, 1854. 

5. Margaret Anna^ born Oct. 20, 

1855- 
6. 



7- 
8. 

9- 



H. Lange, born Oct. 24, 1857. 

James F. Linn (VIII). 

M. Louisa, born Dec. 19, 1862. 

John A., born Feb. 8, 1867. 
(VII) JOHN WALTER (born in 
Washington township, June 22, 1808 — died 
in June. 1895), son of John and .\nna M. 
(Harbaugh) Walter, was reared and edu- 
cated in Washington township. He learned 
the trade of a wagonmaker, and conducted 
the business for a number of vears. He 



afterward engaged in the manufacture of a 
revolving hayrake, of which he bought the 
patent. With Gen. James Bums, he in- 
vented a sausage cutter, which they patented 
and which proved a successful invention. 
Later he engaged in the manufacture of 
marble tombstones, purchasing the marble 
works of William Loughridge. near Waynes- 
boro, which he owned and managed until 
1861, when he retired. Mr. Walter mar- 
ried in 1 83 1, Catharine Bcsore (died in 
1857) , daughter of Jacob and Mary ( Smith) 
Besore, and they had issue : 

1. Henry (IX). 

2. Susanna married Joseph Mentzer, 
of Washington county, Maryland. 

3. Julia married George Newcomer, 
of Franklin Grove, Illinois. 

4. Mary Margaret married Daniel 
Newcomer, of Franklin county. Pa. They 
removed, after the war, to Polo, Illinois. 

5. Charles L. (born March 5, 1844), 
learned the trade of a marble cutter. He 
served in Company E., 126th P. V. I., and 
participated in the battle of Fredericksburg, 
In 1878 he began farming on the farm which 
he now owns, near Waynesboro. He mar- 
ried in 1869, Amanda G. Funk, daughter of 
Henry W. Funk, and they have one daugh- 
ter : Meta. 

6. Cora C. (died June, 1899) married 
Henry G. Bonbrake [Bonbrake Family.] 

7. Joseph (torn Sept. 25. 1846 — died 
Jan. 20, 1890) was a merchant at Five 
Forks, and afterward at Waynesboro. 

(VIII) JAMES F. LINN HAR- 
BAUGH (born April 29. i860), son of 
Henry and Mary L. (Linn) Harbaugh, 
studied at Mercersburg College until 1880, 
and was graduated at Franklin and Marshall 
College in 1882. After leaving college he 
studied law with Bonbrake & Zacharias, in 
Chambersburg, and was admitted to the 
Franklin County Bar, Dec. 13, 1884. He 



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has since practiced his profession in Cham- 
bersburg. He was the fusion Republican 
candidate for the State Legislature in 1902. 
and is a charter member of the B. P. O. E. 
He belongs to the Reformed Church. Mr. 
Harbaugh married, in 1887, Pauline Kim- 
■mell, daughter of Francis M. and Phoebe J. 
.(Forward) Kimmell. Judge Kimmel, Mrs. 
(Harbaugh's father, was a native of Somerset 
'county. He studied law with the Hon. Jere- 
miah H. Black, and was admitted to the 
Somerset County Bar, March 13, 1839. In 
185 1 he was elected President Judge of the 
1 6th Judicial District, comprising the coun- 
ties of Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and Som- 
trset, and won a high reputation on the 
Bench. After the expiration of his term, in 
1862, he practiced ins profession in Cham- 
'bersburg until his death. Mr. and Mrs. 
Harbaugh have no children. 

(IX) HENRY WALTER (born in 
Washington township, Dec. 14, 1831 — died 
Nov. 16, 1893), son of John and Catharine 
(Besore) Walter, was a marble and stone 
cutter at Waynesboro for many years, con- 
ducting the marble works previously owned 
by his father. Mr. Walter married March 
25, 1864, Lydia Newcomer, daughter of 
Peter and Nancy ( Good ) Newcomer. They 
had issue: 

1. Charles (X). 

2. Bruce. 

(X) CHARLES WALTER (born near 
AVaynesboro, Jan. 20, 1866), son of Henry 
and Lydia (Newcomer) Walter, was edu- 
cated in the public schools and the Cham- 
bersburg Academy. He was graduated at 
Lafayette College, Easton,, Pa., in 1888. 
He studied law with William T. Omwake, 
Esq., Waynesboro, and the Hon. W. Rush 
Gil Ian, Chambersburg, and was admitted to 
the Franklin County Bar, April 28, 1890. 
He began the practice of his profession at 
Waynesboro, but moved to Qiainbersburg 



in 1895. He was District Attorney of 
Franklin county, 1893-96, being elected as 
a Republican. Fraternally he is a charter 
member of Chambersburg Lodge of Elks. 
Mr. Walter married, in 1901, Meta Taylor 
Schley, daughter of Col. Towner and Lb. 
(Harrison) Schley, of Shepherdstown. W. 
\'a. They have one daughter: Mnvy C, 
born June 8, 1902. 

BENJAMIN FRANTZ, M. D. The 
(lean of the medical profession of Waynes- 
boro, if not of Franklin county. Pa., and one 
of the prominent and most highly respected 
citizens of this city, was born Oct. 17, 1824, 
on the old Frantz homestead farm, located 
about two miles south from Lititz, Lancaster 
county. He is a son of Christian and Anna 
(Frick) Frantz, both families being old and 
honored ones in Pennsylvania. 

The progenitors of the Frantz family in 
America migrated at a very early date in 
company with many families who were driv- 
en from their native land, the Palatinate, 
Switzerland, by religious persecution. These 
sturdy ancestors handed down to their de- 
scendants manv of their sterling qualities. 
Trusting to the stormy seas and the savages 
of a wild land, they came to .America and 
located in Lancaster county. Pa., having 
procured a grant for a site for settlement 
from the proprietors along Pequea creek. 
One of the prominent members of the band 
that first settled in that section was Michael 
I'rantz, who was the great-great-grand- 
father of Dr. Benjamin Frantz, of Waynes- 
boro. He probably came to Pennsylvania 
as early as 1670, and many of his descend- 
ants fill responsible positions and occupy 
some of the finest farms in Lancaster and 
adjoining counties. Like the majority of his 
fellow refugees, he was a member of the 
Mennonite Church. 

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m 



Dr. Frantz, was born Dec. 15, 1749, in Lan- 
caster county. He married a Hostetter, an 
equally prominent family, and their chil- 
dren are thus recorded : 

1. Jacob, born March i, 1773. 

2. Anna, born Sept. 2, 1774. 

3. John, born March 13, 1778. 

4. Elizabeth, born Nov. 2, 1780. 

5. Barbar.'X, born Nov. g, 1784. 

6. Christian, born Dec. 17, 1786. ' 

7. Maria, born June 12, 1788. 

(II) CHRISTIAN FRANTZ, was 
born on the old Frantz homestead. He mar- 
ried Nov. 21, 1808, Anna Frick, born near 
Neffsville, Lancaster county, Oct. 12, 1787, 
daughter of Abraham Frick, who married a 
Royer. The father died in February, 1862 
and the mother died April 8, 1836. Their 
children were : 

1. IsA.\c, born Nov. 11, 1809, married 
Anna Newcomer, of near Shippensburg, Pa., 
and died in May, 1845. 

2. John, born Aug. 10, 181 1, married 
(first) Anna Weaver, of near Strasburg, 
and (second) Catherine Ryder, of near 
Loudon, Franklin county. He died March 

3. 1877- 

3. Abraham, bom Sept. 20, 1813, 
married Martha Groff, of near Strasburg, 
Lancaster county and died in December, 
1883. 

4. Jacob, born Oct. 13, 1815, married 
Frances Hoffman, of near Ringgold, Md., 
and he died in December, 1879. 

5. Christian, born May 4, 1819, mar- 
ried Leah Stauffer, of near Chambersburg. 
He is buried at Green Hill Cemetery. 

6. Samuel, born Sept. i, 1821, mar- 
ried Barbara Stauffer, sister to Christian's 
wife. 

7. Benjamin (HI) was born Oct. 17, 
1824. 

8. Anna, born Feb. 26, 1828, mar- 
ried Martin Hoover, of near Ringgold, Md. 



They resided in Pennsylvania, and she died 
Sept. 14, 1 90 1. 

Christian Frantz came to Franklin coun- 
ty in the spring of 1825, and purchased an4 
settled on a farm formerly belonging to 
John Stoner, later owned by John Frantz-, 
but nuw the property of Jacob Slioemaker, 
who married a daughter of John Frantz, 
and a niece of Dr. Frantz. In the spring of 
1843, Christian Frantz ceased farming and 
erected a residence on land near Fair View 
mill, now owned by Ferd Forthman, where 
he died. Christian Frantz was an ordained 
minister of the Reformed Mennonite Church 
while he yet resided in Lancaster county, and 
he was the tirst man to settle in this county 
who belonged to that religious body. Much 
of his time was spent in preaching, having 
stated meetings near Carlisle, Shippensburg, 
Chambersburg, Loudon, and near Hagers- 
town, Md. For many years he was the only 
minister in Franklin county, and he also 
made pioneer journeys on horseback over 
the mountains into Ohio, Indiana and Illi'^ 
nuis, when there were yet no highways, 
only bridle paths blazed through the woods. 
It was through his efforts that a church was 
established at Ringgold about 1827. In 1876 
a house of worship was secured in Waynes- 
boro. On account of his zeal and persistent 
effort in advocating here the doctrines of his 
faith, this is still known as Frantz's Church 
and its members are known as "Frantzites." 

(Ill) DR. BENJAMIN FRANTZ 
was six months old when his parents re- 
mo\-ed to Franklin county. He was reared 
on the farm until the age of eighteen years, 
obtaining his education in the common 
schools. His inclinations did not lead him 
to adopt agriculture as a vocation, while still 
a \ijuth his desires being to become a 
physician. Consequently on Dec. 6, 1842, 
he left home, and at Lampeter Square, en- 
tered the office of the Drs. Martin and Jacob 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Musser, fatlier and son, and grandtatlier 
and uncle of Prof. Jolm H. Musser, Pro- 
fessor of Principles and Practice of 
Medicine in the University of Penn- 
sylvania, in I'liiladelpliia. and there he 
began the reading of medicine. The ambi- 
tious boy had made his application first to 
the senior doctor, who was not inclined to 
admit a student, while the younger physician 
favored the plan. In May, 1843, '^^ went 
into the office of the younger physician at 
Bird-in-Hand, and in May 1844, he made 
arrangements with Dr. A. H. Sensing, at 
Chambersburg, where he concluded his 
studies. In the fall of 1844 he entered Jef- 
ferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and 
graduated in the class of 1846, beginning his 
practice at Waynesboro in the same year. 

Dr. Frantz has practiced alone all these 
years, with the exception of two years when 
his son was associated with him. Since 
1884 the doctor has made a specialty of the 
Diseases of the Ear, Nose, Throat and 
Lungs, and has been very successful in his 
treatment. In liis younger years he was 
called upon to perform all kinds of surgery, 
including dentistry. Dr. Frantz has always 
been progressive, and he was one of the first 
and he introduced it into his practice about 
the same time that other eminent physicians 
began to use it in Philadelphia. 

On Oct. 7, 1849, Dr. Frantz was united 
in marriage with Mary A., daughter of 
Michael Ryder, born April 15, 1830, near 
Dry Run, in Path Valley, Franklin county. 
She died Feb. 21, 1899; the children of this 
union were : 

1. S.^MUEL R., born Sept. 25. 1S50, 
married Mary Benson. of Waynesboro. 

2. Charlotte Eliz.\beth, Ixmi Sept. 
23, 185 1, married George Bell, of Maryland 
and they live in Indiana. 

3. CAROLINE, born Feb. 19, 1853, mar- 
ried .\ndrew Marshbank, of Harrisburg, Pa. 



4. Joseph, bom Oct. 28, 1854. gradu- 
ated from Jefferson ^ledical College, and is 
a practicing physician at Waynesboro, where 
he married Gertrude Smith. 

5. Marv, born Dec. 8, 1S56, died, aged 
two months. 

6. Isaac, born Feb. 20, 1858, died 
March 31, 1901. 

7. Abraham, born Nov. 13, 1861, re- 
sides, unmarried in Philadelphia. 

8. AxN.\ was born July 2^, 1864. 

9. John was born Feb. 10, 1866. 

10. Marv (2), born Nov. 5, 1873 '* O"^ 
of the leading teachers of the Waynesboro 
Business College, one of its organizers, and 
a graduate of Goldie's Business College at 
Wilmington, Delaware. 

1 1. Herman B. was born May 18, 1875. 
Dr. Frantz is held in high esteem both 

by the profession and by the public. He has 
held many responsible professional positions 
and has done much in the way of literature 
and lecturing, for the advance of medical 
science in this section of the State. He be- 
longs to the \arious medical societies of the 
State and County, and was one of the organ- 
izers and the second president of the Way- 
nesboro Academy of Medicine. 

GEORGE B. RUSSELL, A. M., D. D., 
LL. D., a retired minister of the Reformed 
Church, Waynesboro, Pa., was born Aug. 
iS. 1824, at the Russell Mill, now Strife's, 
near Leitersburg, Washington Co., Md., the 
second son of Christian and Catherine (Bes- 
ore) Russell, and the grandson of 

(I) JOHN RUSSELL. 

(II) CHRISTIAN RUSSELL, the 
son of John Russell, was born at Berlin, 
Somerset Co., Pa., in 1796. The family re- 
moved to Hagerstown, Md.. in 1798: thence 
about the following year to Leitersburg, on 
the Antietam, where the father operated for 
some time the "Well Taught" farm and 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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flouring-mill attached. Christian RusseU 
was apprenticed wlien a boy to Daniel Royer, 
a tanner, wlio had his tannery east of 
Waynesboro, on tlie farm now owned by 
Dr. A. H. Strickler. Upon reaching his 
majority he returned to Leitersburg, and 
purchased the farm and mill jjroperty of the 
heirs of his father; after some years he be- 
came financially embarrassed, through en- 
dorsing for friends, and lost his property in 
1828, from which time onward the family 
had a hard struggle with poverty. Christian 
Russell married Catherine Besore, who was 
born in 1794. at the old Besore homestead on 
the "Marsh" southwest from Waynesboro, 
in Washington township, Franklin county. 
She was the daughter of David and Barbara 
Besore. Her grandfather, Daniel Besore. 
was one of the pioneer settlers of Washing- 
ton township. The family lived on the 
"Marsh" farm which has been held by them 
and their descendants for over 140 years, 
and it is now owned by a great-grandson, 
Rev. Dr. Russell. Daniel Besore is sup- 
posed to have come to America from Ger- 
many or Switzerland, but the family is of 
Huguenot origin, being Protestant refugees 
Avho fled for protection from French perse- 
cution. The tradition of the family is to the 
effect that the name was originally La Bes- 
sieur, but became variously changed later on. 
The present name of Besore runs back to 
Basore, Bashor and Basehar ; the descend- 
ants of the ancestors, Daniel and Da\id, are 
to be found in Pennsylvania and other 
States. 

To Christian Russell and his wife six 
children were born : 

I. Emily, the eldest, married Louis Die- 
trich, and she was the mother of Dr. N. C. 
Dietrich, of Waynesboro, a successful phy- 
sician : till in her eighty-fifth year, when she 
died, she resided in Waynesboro. 



2. Barbar.\ died immarried in 187 1, 
aged fifty-one years. 

3. David B. died in 1900, aged seventy- 
nine years. 

4. George Besore (HI) is in his 
eighty-first year. 

5. Rev. Christian, who died in Phil- 
adelphia, studied at Mercersburg, and was 
graduated from Franklin and Marshall Col- 
lege in 1853, in the first class from that then 
newly united institution at Lancaster, Pa. 
He studied in the Mercersburg Theological 
Seminary, and was ordained a minister of 
the Reformed Church in 1858. 

6. Catherine, the youngest, married 
George Sarbaugh, and now, more than three 
score years and ten, resides in Washington 
township, Franklin county. 

(HI) GEORGE B. RUSSELL, when 
about nine years of age, was taken, a desti- 
tute boy, to make his home with his grand- 
parents. After a time spent with them in 
Waynesboro, and subsequently on the farm, 
he clerked in a dry-goods store until 1845, 
having attended at odd times common and 
select schools in Waynesboro. Working his 
way by personal effort, he liecame a student 
at Marshall College. Mercersburg, from 
which he was graduated in 1849, ^""^ was 
rewarded with the second honor of his class. 
He then taught the Middletown (Md.) Clas- 
sical High School for two years. He was 
next elected a Tutor at Marshall College, 
and taught in that capacity during the ses- 
sions of 1851-1852 and part of 1853, until 
the union was formed of Franklin and Mar- 
shall Colleges. While attending to his du- 
ties as Tutor of Latin, Greek, History and 
Mythology, he took the Theological course 
in the seminary under Drs. Schaff and 
Xevin, and was licensed by the Reformed 
Svnod. held at Philadelphia in October, 
1833. Soon after he was ordained by the 



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BIOGR.\PHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Lancaster Classis on a call to become pastor 
of the First English Reformed IMission 
(now Grace Church), at Pittsburgh, Pa. In 
February, 1854, he began that enterprise 
with seven members. 

After eight years as pastor of the mis- 
sion it grew strong, and he, having built — 
cliiefly by personal collections abroad — a fine 
new church, resigned in 1862, and, the next 
year, 1863, the Tercentennial of the Re- 
formed Church, he organized the First Re- 
formed Mission in Allegheny City. In 1869 
he served as the first minister and missionary 
of the Reformed Church in the State of Del- 
aware, gathering the St. John's Congrega- 
tion, located at W'yoming, below Dover. In 
1 87 1 he reorganized with nine members the 
disrupted St. John's Mission Church in West 
Philadelphia, which is now large and flour- 
ishing. In 1873 he organized the Zion Mis- 
sion in Pittsburgh, Pa., now St. Luke's 
Church, Hiland avenue. In January, 1878, 
he was made the first pastor of Grace Re- 
formed Church, first English Mission, \Vash- 
ington, D. C, where the President of the 
United States now worships. In 1883 he 
served as supply in tlie Mont Alto (Franklin 
county) charge, and held the place for about 
eight and one-half years. Then for nearly 
a year he labored gratuitously and without 
visible results as supply at Ouincy, in the 
same county. 

Dr. Russell was the publisher and editor 
of the Pastors Helper, which was first is- 
sued in 1859 at Pittsburgh. It was the first 
Sunday-school paper of the Reformed 
Chiuxh, and was undertaken at the pub- 
lisher's own venture and cost. It had a suc- 
cessful, growing and useful life of seven 
years, and then was voluntarily transferred 
to the Reformed Church Publication Board 
in Philadelphia, and called the Siiiiday- 
Sc/iool Treasury. Dr. Russellj also at his 
own risk and expense, published the Mer- 



cersbnrg Rez'icz^', from 1858 to the end of 
1 86 1, freeing it from heavy debt, and fin- 
ally returning it in flourishing condition and 
with larger circulation to the Alumni Asso- 
ciation of the College. 

In 1867 the Synod at Baltimore elected 
Dr. Russell "Book Editor" of the Reformed 
Publishing House in Philadelphia, and he 
was later formally elected an editor of the 
Reformed Church Messenger. In this and 
the same sort of work he served off and on 
for a score of years. In January, 1873, he 
originated, edited and published for the Pitts- 
burgh Synod The Reformed Era, working 
for three years here, also at his private risk. 
His active, sometimes incog., editorial and 
publishing career at intervals together ex- 
tended over more than twenty years. Be- 
sides contributing to the Guardian and Mer- 
cersbnrg Reviezv, Reformed Church Revieio 
and all the church papers, he published in 
1868 "The Ripe Harvest,'' the large first 
edition of which was exhausted within the 
year. In 1869 he issued a second and 
larger b(X)k, "Creed and Customs of the Re- 
formed Church," which in a short time ran 
through four editions. Next came the "His- 
tory uf the Greensburg Charge of Dr. 
Hacke." His last book, "Jesus in the Home, 
Saving the Children," was published in 1901, 
and the edition was soon exhausted. 

Dr. Russell received the degree of .\. 
'\\. from Marshall College in 1852, that of 
D. D. from Franklin and Marshall College 
in 1875, and the honorary title of LL. D. 
from Catawba College (N. C.) in 1899. 
He declined overtures from the trustees of 
Heidelberg College for its Presidency in 
1866; and was ofifered the same distin- 
guished position informally in 1S82 by 
friends in the Board of Marshall College; a 
similar and earlier office by the trustees of 
\\'estmoreland College. In 1881 he was 
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tinate College, Myerstown, Pa., which place 
he held for two years, and reduced part of 
the College debt. He served on the Gen- 
eral Synod's Board of Missions, and was 
president of that body for three years. He 
has been president of four different classes, 
east and west, president of the Ohio Synod, 
vice-president and also corresponding secre- 
tary of the General Synod. 

In 1858 Dr. Russell was honored by ap- 
pointment as sole delegate from the Pitts- 
burgh Christian Association to the National 
Convention of that body held at Cincinnati, 
Ohio ; and was corresponding delegate from 
the Reformed Church in the United States 
to the Reformed Church of America, in 
1863, at Schenectady. In 1857 Dr. Rus- 
sell was sent as exchange delegate from the 
Ohio Synod to the Eastern Synod of the 
United States at Allentown, Pa., and in 
1 866 he was similarly delegated from the 
Eastern Synod to the Synod of Ohio, at 
Gallion, Oiiio. He was also a delegate from 
the General Synod of the Reformed Church 
of the Lmited States to the "Alliance of Re- 
formed Churches," holding the Presbyterial 
system, at the meeting in Washington, D. 
C, in 1889. Dr. Russell has delivered a 
number of occasional special and annual ad- 
dresses at different colleges throughout the 
country, and the dedicatory address at the 
opening of the new Diagnothian Hall, Lan- 
caster, Pa. He delivered the address at the 
dedication of the St. Paul's Orphan Home, 
Butler, Pa., in December. 1867, and had the 
same part also later at the formal opening of 
the Bethany Orphan Home at Womelsdorf, 
Pa. He served for a time as trustee of Hei- 
delberg and also of Westmoreland College. 
He is a life director of the American Bible 
Society. 

In 1883 Dr. Russell removed to Frank- 
lin county, and lived upon his farm west of 
Waynesboro, along the Greencastle pike. 



until March, 1903, when he took up his home 
in Waynesboro. He has served for several 
years on the Board of Directors of the Frick 
Manufacturing Company in a business run- 
ning annually over two million dollars. 

Dr. Russell was happily married in 1859, 
in Pittsburgh, to Caroline A. Reiter, of Alle- 
gheny, Pa., daughter of George and Caro- 
line Reiter; both parents themselves were 
natives of Baltimore, but were married in 
Pittsburgh in 1831. One daughter has been 
bom to Mr. and Mrs. Russell, Louisa Rose, 
talented in music and at home in domestic 
affairs. 

It is not easy to measure in words the 
work Dr. Russell has accomplished, not only 
through his service as a preacher, his earn- 
estness as a pastor, or his popular ability as 
a writer, his success as an educator, and his 
practical force and activity as an organizer, 
but perhaps more than all else by his humble 
example of self-denial and consistent Chris- 
tian life. For more than fifty years, some 
of them without salary, he has devoted the 
talents given him to herald the message of 
Jesus Christ ; and in the starting and up- 
building of six original missions and also 
in various publications of the church of his 
faith. Life, now past the fourscore mark, 
has been filled to the full for him ; and while 
yet active in hale and hearty old age, he can 
cheerfully look back with thankfulness upon 
what by the Divine blessing has been accom- 
plished. Yet his regret is that for his Lord 
and for his fellowmen he has done so little, 
and so much is left undone. The friendless 
boy. however, has lived, suffered, struggled 
and won, not only in a personal sense, but in 
the broader life of a child of God. His 
name is known and honored in the States 
and some of his published works live in other 
lands, helpful to Christianity and the Church, 
declaring unto men the Gospel of the Living, 
Reigning Christ. 



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S C H A F F FAMILY. JACOB 
SCHAFF (born Jan 30, 1805— died 
Marcli 7, 1887), son of Anthony and 
Catharine (Omwake) Schaff, was the an- 
cestor of the Schaff family of Chambers- 
burg. The Schafif family is of German 
•origin, and the progenitor was an early set- 
tler in Maryland. Anthony Schafif, the 
father of Jacob, died in 1809, in Washington 
Co., Md., and Jacob Schaff was the first of 
the family to come to Franklin county. 
He was a farmer. He married Anna Blake- 
ney Harris, daughter of George Harris, a 
Revolutionary soldier, who enlisted in Capt. 
John Nelson's Independent Company, Feb. 
7, 1776, and with the 1st Pennsylvania Bat- 
talion in the second Canada Expedition ser\ - 
ed in the 1st Regiment, New York Line, 
imder Col. Goose Van Shaick, 1777-78, but 
was afterwards transferred to the 4th Regi- 
ment, Pennsylvania Line. After the Revo- 
lution he settled with his wife, Elizabeth 
Coxen, in Franklin county. Jacob and Anna 
B. (Harris) Schaff had issue: 

1. Malinda Catharine, died young. 

2. Simon Peter (born July 30, 1830 
— died Oct., 1900), married Lavina Byers; 
they had issue: Annie M., Felicia H., and 
Missouri V. 

3. Amanda Susan, Ixtrn March 2, 
1833. died July 7, 1887. 

4. Jacob Gideon (II). 

5. Jeremiah Lemuel (born Oct., 
1837), married Margaret Lowry Gearhart ; 
they had issue: Samuel Stover, Jacob N., 
Charles S., Judson K., George Harris, Ella 
and Carrie. 

6. Amos Jesse (born Sept. 16. 1839) 
married Anna Grace Michaels, of West Vir- 
g'inia; they had issue: Maud Whittier (died 
in 1877), Edward B. and Ray Vernon. 

7. Leah Axxa (born Oct. 31, 1842 — 
■died Jan. 30, 1870) married Gilbert B. Val- 



entine. They had issue: Oren Moss, of 
Chambersburg, who married Alice Myers, 
of Kansas, and has a daughter, Leah Anna ; 
and Jacob Bruce, who died in Altoona, be- 
fore attaining his majority. 

8. Isaiah James (born July 13, 
1845), ^'^^ fo'" twenty years a teacher in the 
public schools of his native county and of 
Washington county, Md., and was deputy 
register and recorder, 1894-97. He married 
June 12, 1866, Savilla J. Rumler; they have 
one daughter, Anna Bertha. 

(II) JACOB GIDEON SCHAFF 
(born July 28, 1835 — died Sept. 21, 1881), 
son of Jacob and Anna B. (Harris) SchafT, 
was educated in the public schools of An- 
trim township and became a teacher in Guil- 
ford and Antrim townships. In 1856 he 
relinquished teaching and became a minister 
fif the United Brethren in Christ, in which 
he continued until 1870. His first charge 
was tlie Mercersburg Mission, 1856-57, and 
his last was the Chambersburg station, 1869- 
70. He withdrew from the ministry be- 
cause of a change in his religious belief, 
touching the nature and destiny of man. 
After leaving the ministry he l>egan the 
printing business in Chambersburg, and in 
1875 established a weekly newspaper that he 
called the Ccntcnmal Register. This name 
was afterwards changed to the People's 
Register. Shortly before his death he be- 
gan the publication of an evening edition of 
his newspaper, this being the first daily paper 
])ublished in Chambersburg. It promised to 
he a successful venture, but was discontinu- 
ed in consequence of his last illness. He was 
a man of positive convictions and a forcible 
writer. He served as a justice of the peace 
for the third ward of Chambersburg, and at 
the time of his death was a member of the 
Chambersburg school board. Mr. Schaff 
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daughter of John and Susan (Group) 
Peters, of Bendersville, Adams county ; they 
had issue : 

1. Thesta Blakeney (born April 
II, 1862, in BendersviHe, Adams county, 
Pa.) was graduated from the pvibhc school 
of Chambersburg in 1880 and was the first 
graduate to win a free scholarship to Wilson 
Female College, which institution she at- 
tended, at the jame time in connection with 
duties in the newspaper office until April i, 
1885, when she retired. 

2. MoTTE L. (born in Adams county. 
Pa., April 28, 1865) removed to Green- 
castle with his parents in 1868 and to Cham- 
bersburg in 1869. He was educated in tlie 
public schools and afterwards entered the 
office of his father, in 1878, where he learn- 
ed the trade of printer. He was foreman of 
the office until the death of his father, after- 
wards succeeding him as editor, and in con- 
nection with his brother Bruce Harris and 
sister Thesta B., conducted the People's 
Register under the firm name of J. G. 
Schaff's Sons, with much success until his 
retirement, on account of ill health. He 
died in Denver, Colo., Feb. 11, 1897, and is 
buried at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 

3. Bruce Harris (born Jan. 23, 
1867) has had a career similar to that of his 
brother. He was educated like him and also 
entered his father's office at an early age and 
learned the trade of printer. He was man- 
aging editor after the death of his brother, 
until 1900, when he sold his interest in the 
paper. At present he is living in Hagers- 
town, Md., and is associated with his 
brother as treasurer and general manager 
of the J. G. Schaff Electric Company's busi- 
ness at that place. On Dec. 14, 1903, he 
married Bertha Elizabeth Hellmuth, of 
Philadelphia. They have one child. Merle S. 

4. A. Orpah (born in Chambersburg 
Oct. 22, 1869) was educated in the public 



schools and Wilson Female College. She 
was associated with her brotiiers m the in- 
terests of the Register until her marriage 
to Dr. H. M. Miley (HI). 

5. Merle D'Aubigne (born in Cham- 
bersburg, Dec. 5, 1871) resided there with 
his mother until his deatli, March 31, 1904. 
He was actively engaged in the publication 
of the paper founded by his father and was a 
main assistant of his brothers and sisters. 

6. Abigail Angelique (born in 
Chambersburg, April 20, 1877) ^^'^s edu- 
cated in the public schools, and Wilson Fe- 
male College. She is associated with her 
brother, as secretary for the J. G. Schaff 
Electric Co. 

7. Jacob Gideon (IV). 

(Ill) A. ORPAH SCHAFF, daughter 
of Rev. Jacob G. and Susan (Peters) Schaff, 
married in April, 1895, Dr. Harry ^l.. 
Miley (born at Hagerstown, Md., in 1862) 
son of Reuben T. and Ellen J. (Cunning- 
ham) Miley. His father, Reuben T. 
Miley (born in 1835 — died Dec. 19, 
1903) was a saddler and harnessmaker 
in Chambersburg, and was the son of 
Curtis Miley. who came from Lancaster 
to Franklin county, and settled near Fort 
Loudon. Dr. Miley was brought to Cham- 
bersburg by his parents in 1868, and was 
educated in the public schools. After leav- 
ing school he was clerk in a number of stores 
in Chambersburg for four years, and then 
engaged in the dry-goods business for two 
years. Later he was engaged for two 
years as buyer for a large department 
store in New York. He returned to 
Chambersburg in 1890 and studied 
medicine with Dr. George S. Hull, 
and was graduated from the Medico-Chi- 
rurgical College, Philadelphia, in 1893. He 
began the practice of his profession in 
Chambersburg the same year. He was in 
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lias since practiced alone. In 1893 he was 
the Democratic candidate for coroner of 
Franklin county, and had the satisfaction of 
cutting down the Republican majority in 
the county 455 votes. In 1898 he served the 
unexpired term of Dr. James S. Kennedy 
as physician to the Franklin county jail, and 
the same year was appointed contract sur- 
geon U. S. A., and served in the hospitals 
of the 1st and 2d Divisions at Camp 
Meade, until the close of the Spanish-Amer- 
ican war. Upon his return to Chambers- 
burg he resumed his practice, in which he 
continues, and is recognized as one of the 
leading physicians of the county. He is a 
member of the State Medical Association 
and the Franklin County Medical Society; 
lie is also a member of the Chambersburg 
Board of Health. He is a member of the 
I. O. O. F".. and of the Encampment, of 
which he is Past Chief Patriarch. He is also 
a member of the Fraternal Mystic Circle, of 
which he is a medical examiner. He is also 
examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insur- 
ance Company. Dr. Harry M. and A. 
Orpah (Schaff) Miley have two children : 

1. Merle C. 

2. Louise M. 

(IV) JACOB GIDEON SCHAFF 
(born Nov. i, 1881), son of Rev. Jacob G. 
and Susan (Peters) Schaff, was educated in 
the public schools of Chambersburg, and 
studied electrical engineering at Purdue 
University, Lafayette, Ind. He returned to 
Chambersburg in 1899, and engaged in 
business as a contracting electrical engineer, 
handling all kinds of electrical goods and 
supplies. In 1901 he opened a branch store 
at Hagerstown Md. In 1903 he made 
Hagerstown his headquarters and changed 
the style of his business to the J. G. Schaff 
Electric Company, under which title he is 
now trading. The establishment in Chani- 
.bersburg became the branch store. He is 



extensively engaged in installing plants for 
electric light, heat and power. Mr. Schaff 
put in the Municipal light plant at Shep- 
herdstown, W. Va., in 1903, and installed a 
plant at Boonsboro, Md., the same year ; 
he also erected the Mercersburg and Lemas- 
ters electric lighting plant and has put in 
many private plants, including one for John 
Hosfeld, of Shippensburg, and one at Ater- 
deen, Maryland. 

ZACHARIAS. The Chambersburg 
family bearing the name of Zacharias is de- 
scended from (I) MATTHIAS ZACHAR- 
IAS, who was born at Ellshoff, Germany, 
and who died in Frederick county. Md. He 
emigrated to America on the ship "Halifax," 
Thomas Coatam, captain, from Rotterdam, 
landing at Philadelphia, Sept. 28, 1753. On 
the same ship were his brother, Daniel Zach- 
arias, and his brother-in-law, Johannes 
Kuhn. Matthias was the youngest of three 
brothers who emigrated to Peiwisyh'ania ; 
one of the elder brothers settled in Berks and 
the other in York county. Matthias went 
to Frederick county, Md., where he was 
naturalized April 15, 1762, his certificate 
showing that he had lived in that Province 
for seven years prior to his application, and 
had within two months partaken of commun- 
ion in a Protestant church. Soon after set- 
tling in Maryland he took up a tract of land 
of 125 acres called "Mondollar," and sub- 
sequently an adjoining tract of 125 acres 
known as "Single Delight." This land lias 
never been out of the family name. Before 
leaving Germany Mr. Zacharias married 
Anna Elizabeth Kuhn. Their children were : 

1. M.\TTHI.\S (II). 

2. Anna Elizabeth, born May 15, 
1759, married Hartzell. 

3. Mary Elizabeth, born Jan. 17, 
1 766, married Clutz. 

(II) MATTHIAS ZACHARIAS, son 



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of Matthias and Anna Elizabetli (Kuhn) 
Zacharias, was born in Frederick county, 
Md., July 5, 1757. His occupation was that 
of a farmer. He served as a sokher in the 
Revokition, and was one of the escort of the 
Hessian soldiers, who surrendered at York- 
town, Va., and who were taken to York, 
Pa., in October, 1781. His grandson, Will- 
iam J. Zacharias, Esq., has possession of a 
whiskey flask, given to his grandfather by 
one of the Hessians. Painted on one side 
is the figure of a soldier in a blue coat, buff 
breeches, white leggins, a black cap with red 
crest, and wearing a sword. On the other 
side are two inscriptions: J'iz\it America 
(Long live America) and Icli bin deinc 
hulfe iioch da. Matthias Zacharias married, 
May 8, 1787, Anna Stockslager, of Adams 
county, Pa., and their children were as fol- 
lows : 

1. John. 

2. M.\TTHIAS. 

3. Anna Mary. 

4. Anna Elizabeth. 

5. George (who died in youth). 

6. Joseph (who also died in youth). 

7. Christian (III). 

(Ill) CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS, 
son of Matthias and Anna (Stockslager) 
Zacharias, born in Frederick county, Md., 
March 9, 1802, was a farmer in that county. 
He married. May 12, 1836, Sarah Picking, 
who was born Jan. i, 1812, daughter of 
John and Esther (Burns) Picking. John 
Picking (born Sept. 4, 1777, near Abbotts- 
town, Pa., died near Emmitsburg, Md., 
July 5, 1845) ^^'^s a farmer. Esther Burns 
(born Aug. 3, 1776 — died Feb. 11, 1847), 
to whom he was married in 1799, was a 
daughter of George and Mary- Burns. The 
children of John and Esther Picking were : 
Mary, born July 2/, 1800, married Daniel 
Hoffman; Jacob was born Sept. 20, 1802; 
Charlotte, March 2, 1804; Henry, Feb. 18, 



1806; Thomas, April 9, 1808; Justina, born 
Jan. 10, 1810, married Louis Wortz; Sarah 
married Christian Zacharias ; John was 
born Feb. 23, 1814; Esther, Jan. 10, 1816; 
and Daniel died in infancy. Christian and 
Sarah (Picking) Zacharias were blessed 
with children as follows : 

1. Matthias P. married Emma Potts, 
of Hillsboro, Virginia. 

2. Esther A., living at Chambersburg, 
Pennsylvania. 

3. Mary E. married James \V. Trox- 
ell, of Emmitsburg, Maryland. 

4. John F. married Anna R. Miller, 
of Frederick City, Maryland. 

5. Sarah A. lives at Chambersburg, 
Pennsylvania. 

6. Christian T. married Margaret 
Stokes, Emmitsburg, Maryland. 

7. William J. (IV). 

(IV) WILLIAM J. ZACHARIAS, son 
of Christian and Sarah (Picking) Zach- 
arias, was born near Emmitsburg, Frederick 
county, Md., March 18, 1852. He attended 
the public schools of his native county, and 
was graduated at Mercersburg College, un- 
der President Higbee, in 1876. After being 
graduated he was tutor of Latin and Greek 
in the college for one ytar, and then was as- 
sistant principal of a school at Harmony, 
Butler county, for a few months. He came 
to Chambersburg, Jan. i, 1878, and was 
appointed assistant principal of the Cham- 
bersburg Academy under Dr. J. H. Shu- 
maker, where he remained three years. While 
he was employed in the Academy, he studied 
law under Judge John Stewart, and was ad- 
mitted to the Franklin County Bar, April 
26, 1880. Two years later, in 1882, he 
formed a law partnership with E. J. Bon- 
brake, Esq., which still continues. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. In 1883, he was nom- 
inated for District Attorney on the Demo- 
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county. After serving a full term of three 
years he was re-elected, in 1886. In 1902 
he was one of the Democratic candidates for 
the State Legislature, and was defeated by 
only a narrow margin in a county that is 
usually overwhelmingly Republican. As a 
lawyer he enjoys a lucrative practice, is a 
safe counsellor, and ranks as one of the 
leaders of the Bar of his county. Socially 
he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the 
Royal Arcanum. In Zion's Reformed 
Church he is an active member, and was for 
a number of years a deacon, and since 1896 
has served as an elder. He has been con- 
nected with Zion Reformed Sunday School 
for more than twenty years. 

On March 20, 1883, Mr. Zacharias 
married Mary J. Boyd, daughter of Capt. 
Robert J. and Susan C. (White) Boyd, of 
Upton, Franklin county. Their home has 
been brightened by seven children, namely : 

1. Janet. , 

2. Robert Matthi.\s. ^ 

3. Edward Taney. 

4. John Thomas. 

5. William Owen. 

6. Christian Boyd. 

7. Dixon Scott. 

WILLIAM H. SNYDER, one of the 
most prominent citizens of Waynesboro, 
Franklin Co., Pa., and one who has Ijeen 
identified with the leading manufacturing in- 
terests of the city, was born April 10, 1843, 
in Franklin county, a son of Jacob and Susan 
(Miller) Snyder, natives of Franklin county. 

(I) JACOB SNYDER, great-grand- 
father of William H.. was a native of Ger- 
many, who emigrated about 1738, and was 
one of the first German settlers in Franklin 
county. He became the father of a son, 
Jacob (II). 

(II) JACOB SNYDER was born in 
what is known as the Dutch settlement. 



one mile from New Franklin. He married 
a Shearer, and they had three sons, and five 
daughters : 

1. Kate is now Airs. Reed, and lives in 
the Dutch settlement. 

2. Barbara is Mrs. Grove, and also 
lives in the Dutch settlement. 

3. John is deceased. 

4. Jacob (III). 

5. Henry is deceased. 

The other three daughters are aiso ae- 
ceased. 

(Ill) JACOB SNYDER was born on 
a farm in the Dutch settlement, one mile 
from New Franklin, in 1810. and died in 
1878. He married Susan ]\Iiller, who was 
born in the Dutch settlement in 1815, and 
died in 1893, daughter of Solomon ^Miller, 
who came of German descent, and became 
the father of three sons and several daugh- 
ters : John married Kate Reed, of Cham- 
bersburg; Christina married John Barr. of 
Chambersburg ; Anna married Joseph Hol- 
lenger, now of Kansas ; Solomon, Henry 
and Catherine are deceased ; and Rebecca 
lives in York City. 

To Jacob and Susan (Miller) Snyder 
were born four children : 

1. Leander is deceased. 

2. Charlotte. 

3. Annie A. married Jerome Cable, of 
Waynesboro. 

4. William H. (IV). 

(IV) WILLIAM H. SNYDER spent 
his early life on the homestead farm in the 
Dutch settlement, and he attended the com- 
mon school in the winter seasons. In 1862 
he came to Waynesboro, and served an ap- 
prenticeship at the machinist's trade with 
George Frick. Three years later he went to 
-Vltoona, Pa., where he spent nine years in 
the Pennsylvania Railroad shops working at 
his trade, and in 1873 returned to \\'aynes- 
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of Frick & Co., he taking the position of 
master mechanic, and thus continuing 
throughout the various clianges until Au- 
gust, 1899, when lie retired. He is now, and 
has been ever since tlie company was incor- 
porated, a director of the Frick company, 
being one of tlie original directors, and was 
elected vice-president in January, 1904. He 
is also one of the original directors of the 
Landis Tool Works, and still has a place on 
the board as a director. For a number of 
years he was a director in the Bank of 
Waynesboro, in which he is a stockholder 
as he is also in the National Bank of Waynes- 
boro, and he is now a director in the Ceme- 
tery Company. 

In 1867 Mr. Snyder married Bell, 
daughter of James and Martha ( Gordon ) 
Mayhew, of Scotch-Irish descent. The 
grandfather of Mrs. Snyder, Hans Gordon, 
built the first house in the village of Waynes- 
boro. Mr. Snyder is a consistent member 
of the Reformed Church, and his wife of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. In poli- 
tics he is a Stanch Republican, but has never 
cared for the honors of public office. The 
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are : 

1. Ruth Gordon died aged five years. 

2. Anna B. married Dr. John C. Cris- 
well. a dentist of Wayneslxiro. 

3. Hazel D. is at home. 
Fraternally Mr. Snyder belongs to the 

I. O. O. F. and the Machinists' Union. In 
1 88 1 he erected a comfortable home for his 
family, but in 1902 this was superseded by 
the handsome residence on West Main 
street. 

Mrs. Snyder is one of a family of ten 
children, five of whom are living : William 
H., of Hancock, Md. ; Mrs. Snyder; Martha 
J., wife of William Reed, of Pennsylvania ; 
Rose B., wife of Henry Mann, of W^aynes- 
boro; and Viena, wife of Daniel Burlin. 



SCHNEBLY. The first of this family 
in America, Dr. Henry Schnebly, was born 
Dec. 7, 1728, at Zurich, Switzerland, and 
emigrated to this country in 1750, landing 
at New York. There he was taken sick and 
was obliged to remain for some time. After 
his recovery he went to Washington county, 
Md., and having only means enough left to 
pay the expenses incident to his illness, made 
the journey on foot. There, by his skill and 
industry in the practice of medicine, he soon 
acquired the means of purchasing the tract 
of land called the "Garden of Eden," five 
miles north of Hagerstown. At the time of 
his death he was one of the largest land- 
holders in Washington county, and, besides 
the property situated where he first settled, 
owned land in Kentucky (where Elizabeth- 
town is now situated) and in Berkley coun- 
ty, W. Va., near the Springs. He left a 
farm to each grandchild who was called for 
him. He married Miss Elizabeth Shafer, 
and they had four sons and one daughter : 

1. Henry (II). 

2. John (HI). 

3. Jacob (IV). 

4. David (V). 

5. Elizabeth (VI). 

After the death of his first wife, Eliza- 
beth, Dr. Schnebly married Mrs. Mar- 
garet Houseman. He died July 24, 1805, 
in the seventy-seventh year of his age. 

(II) HENRY SCHNEBLY, eldest son 
of Dr. Schnebly, was born Feb. 2, 1756, and 
died in Hagerstown, July 15, 1787, aged 
thirty-one years, five months and thirteen 
days ; he was buried at the German Reformed 
Church. He married Catherine Fackler, 
and had one son : 

I. Daniel (ATI). 

(HI) John Schnebly. second son of Dr. 
Schnebly, was born Sept. 3, 1758, and when 
twenty- four years old, on Nov. 5, 1782, was 



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married to Catliarine Rench (daughter of 
John and Margaret Rench) who was then 
eighteen years old, having been born in 1764. 
They had eight sons and three daughters, all 
except Joseph being born on the "Garden of 
Eden" farm : 

1. Henry CVIII). 

2. John (IX). 

3. Jacob (X). 

4. Henry. 

5. David (died in infancy). 

6. Daniel Henry (XI). 

7. Peter (XII). 

8. Joseph Rench (XIII). 

9. Margaret (XIV). 

10. Elizabeth (XV). 

11. Mary (died Oct. 21, 1817, aged 
seventeen years). 

Mrs. Catharine Rench passed away 
in 1804, in her fortieth year, and on Jan. 7, 
1808, John Schnebly married Miss Cathar- 
ine Wetzel, of Staunton, Va. There was 
no issue by this marriage. John Schnebly 
was the owner of eight or nine hundred acres 
of land, was engaged in farming, and lived 
at the place called "Ashton Hall." He was 
universally beloved and respected. He died 
March 20, 1833, aged seventy- four years, 
six months and seventeen days. 

(IV) Dr. Jacob Schnebly, third son 
of Dr. Schnebly, lived in Hagerstown where 
he practiced medicine. He was in very good 
circumstances. He married Miss Cassandra 
Claggett, of the same place, and they had 
nine children : 

1. Eliza. 

2. Henry Claggett (XVI). 

3. Sophia. 

4. William (XVII). 
i 5. Elizabeth. 

■ 6. Louisa. 

' 7. Thom.'vs (XVHI). 

8. Mary (XIX). 

9. Sallie. 



Of the above family Eliza, Louisa, So- 
phia and Sallie all died unmarried, the first 
two named surviving their parents many 
years, and attaining a good old age. They 
died in Hagerstown in the house where they 
were born, and where their lives were passed. 

(V) COL. DAVID SCHNEBLY, 
fourth son of Dr. Schnebly, lived and died 
on the old homestead, the "Garden of Eden." 
He married Mary Wolgamot, of Williams- 
port. Washington Co., Md., who survived 
him thirty-six years, dying in the 104th year 
of her age. She celebrated her one hun- 
dredth anniversary, presiding at the table 
and entertaining her guests with ease and 
elegance all day. There is a memorial win- 
dow in the German Reformed Church of 
Hagerstown to the memory of herself and 
husband, they having been members of that 
church and generous contributors to its sup- 
port. At the Coloners death Mrs. Schnebly 
inherited the estate. The property had been 
entailed by his father's will, but the Colonel 
had that part of the will set aside by the Leg- 
islature (of which he was a member), and at 
the death of Mrs. Schnebly the property all 
went to her relatives, as she and the Colonel 
had no children. 

(VI) ELIZABETH SCHNEBLY, 
daughter of Dr. Schnebly, married Jacob 
Barnett, a German, who after their marriage 
became a farmer and distiller. They lived and 
died on the banks of the Conococheague, in 
Washington county. Md. They had nine 
children : 

1. Henry (XX). 

2. J.\COB (XXI). 

3. John (XXII). 

4. b.AVID (XXIII). 

5. Betsey (XXIV). 

6. Susan (XXV). 

7. Cassandra (XXVI). 

8. Mary (XXVII). 

9. Nancy (XXVIII). 



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(VII) DANIEL SCHNEBLY. son of 
Henry, was born in 1786, in Hagerstown, 
and died there Sept. 5. 1843, aged fifty-seven 
years. He commenced life as a farmer, but 
becoming tired of agriculture removed to 
Hagerstown, where he become very popular. 
He was honored with several offices in his 
nati\e county, serving as sheriff, postmas- 
ter and register of wills for many years, 
holding the latter office at the time of his 
death. He was three times married, first 
to Catharine Rencli, by whom he had eight 
children : 

1. Sarah died in infancy. 

2. Jacob died in infancy. 

3. Ellen. 

4. David died in young manhood. 
3. Elizabeth. 

6. Margaret. 

7. Calvin. 

8. Catharine. 

By his second wife, Margaret Rench, 
•daughter of Jacob and Margaret Rench, and 
sister of his first wife, Daniel Schnebly had 
fiv'e children : 

1. Edwin died in young manhood. 

2. Alfred. 

3. John died in infancy. 

4. Oscar died in infancy. 

5. Mary Louisa. 

By his third marriage, to Mrs. Jane Tur- 
ner, of Williamsport, Daniel Schnebly had 
no children. She survived him and married 
again. His first two wives had ample for- 
tunes, and he himself was considered 
wealthy, but being of a liberal and hospitai)le 
•disposition he died in rather reduced cir- 
cumstances. 

(VIII) HEXRV SCHNEBLY, eldest 
son of John, was born March 14, 1784. In 
the fall of 1835 'i^ migrated to Peoria, III, 
going all the way overland l)y private con- 
veyance, and he acquired considerable prop- 
•erty there. He died in Illinois, Aug. 4, 



1858, he and his two brotliers Jacob and 
Daniel, dying within two days of each other. 
Prior to the war of 18 12 Henry Schnebly 
married Miss Elizabeth Suavely, daughter of 
Casper Suavely, of Pleasant Valley, Wash- 
ington county, Md. ; she died on the home 
farm. Nine children came to this union, all 
born on part of the "Garden of Eden.'' 

1. Mary A. died on the home farm. 

2. John C. (XXXII). 

3. Julia M. (XXXIII). 

4. David J. (XXXIV). 

5. George Washington (XXXV). 

6. Eliza died on the home farm. 

7. James Henry (XXXVI). 

8. Susan Elizabeth (XXXVII). 

9. Amanda Ruth (XXXVIII). 
Three years after the death of his first 

wife, Henry Schnebly married again, his 
second union being to Miss Elizabeth Won- 
derlich, of Shippensburg, Pa. By this mar- 
riage there were twelve children, si.x of 
whom died in infancy, those who arrived at 
maturity being: 

1. Joseph Sprigg (XXXIX). 

2. Henrietta A. (XL). 

3. Catharine (Kate) (XLI). 

4. Tryphena (XLII). 

5. Elizabeth (XLIII). 

6. Calvin (XLIV). 

(IX) JOHN SCHNEBLY, son of John, 
was born Aug. 15, 1785. He was a farmer 
and lived in Montgomery county, Md. He 
died Oct. 23. 1818, and the family subse- 
quently removed to \\'ashington county, and 
later to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where the 
widow married again. He married Miss 
Susan Kerschner, of Washington county, 
Md.. and they had children: 

1. John (died in infancy). 

2. Elizabeth. 

3. Maria. 

4. Ann Mary (died in infancy). 

5. One that died in infancy unnamed. 



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(X) JACOB SCHNEBLY. son of John 
was born Feb. 12, 1787. He had a fann in 

Montgomery county, and was proverbial 
for his generosity and liospitaHty. He 
afterward resided in the West. He died 
in Hagerstown, Aug. 3. 1858, in the 
full hope of blissful immortality. He never 
married. 

(XI) DANIEL HENRY SCHNEB- 
LY, son of John, was born Dec. 31. 1788. 
In 1814 he married Ann Maria Rench, a 
daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Rench, 
and they had twelve children : 

1. Daniel Rench. 

2. John Henry (LXIV). 

3. Samuel R. 

4. Eliza. 

5. Elizabeth Mary (LXV). 

6. Andrew Rench (LXVI). 

7. Isaac Keller. 

8. Freeland (LXVIII). 

9. Frisby (LXIX). 

10. Frederick Dorsey (LXX). 

11. Jacob (LXXI). 

12. Daniel H. (LXXII). 

The mother died Sept. 17, 1846. in her 
fifty-first year, beloved and regretted by the 
whole community. In 1848 he married 
Miss Susanna Miller, who still survives, and 
by that union had four children, one dying 
in infancy; the others were: 

1. David Miller (LXXIII). 

2. Catharine (LXXIV). 

3. Joseph Rench (LXXV). 
Daniel Henry Schnebly lived for a while 

as a tenant on his father's farm, which was 
a part of the "Garden of Eden." For some 
time he kept a hotel in Hagerstown, where 
he resided at the time General Jackson was 
made president, and he entertained the Gen- 
eral when he was on his way to take the 
Presidential chair. He afterward removed 
to a farm given to his wife by her father, in 
Ringgold's Manor (and which adjoined her 



father's place), and there remained until his 
death, Aug. 3, 1858, in 1857 retiring from 
active farming but continuing to occupy a 
house on the farm. Mt. Moriah Church is 
situated on a part of this property. Mr. 
Schnebly sold his property upon moving to 
this place. 

(XII) PETER SCHNEBLY', son of 
John, was born in February, 1797, never 
married, and died in ]\Iarch. 1836, aged 
thirty-nine years, regretted by all who knew 
him. 

(XIII) JOSEPH RENCH SCHNEB- 
LY (born in 1 803) was the youngest child 
of John and Catharine Schnebly. His mother 
died when he was nine months old. He 
married Miss Sarah Middlekauff, and they 
had four children : 

1. Charles grew to manhood and died 
in the West. 

2. Melville grew to manhood and 
died in the West. 

3. Florence lives in Arkansas. 

4. Emma lives in Arkansas. 

The family lived in Arkansas, and Jo- 
seph R. Schnebly died there, during the war 
of the Rebellion. (The name Rench was 
originally spelled Rentch, but this genera- 
tion has dropped the "t"). 

(XIV) MARGARET SCHNEBLY, 
eldest daughter of John, was born in 1794, 
and on May 6, 1819, married Rev. Isaac 
Keller, of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Keller was pastor of the churches at McCon- 
nellsburg and Williamsport and Peoria, 111., 
being the first pastor of each of those church- 
es, and preaching acceptably to each of them 
for a number of years. He also preached 
two years in the German Reformed Church 
in Hagerstown. In 1833 he remo\ed to 
Peoria, III., and organized the First Presby- 
terian Church there, of which he was pastor 
for twelve years. He died in 1867, his wife 
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28, 1870. Rev. Keller and wife had eight 
children : 

1. Cath.\rine Schnebly. 

2. Thomas (XXIX). 

3. George (XXX). 

4. John Schnebly (XXXI). 

5. ISA.A.C FiNLEY died when nearly two 
years old. 

6. Mary Elizabeth. 

7. One that died in infancy, unnamed. 

8. Margaretta. 

Of the above children, Catharine Schneb- 
ly, Mary Elizabeth and Margaretta Keller 
never married, but lived together on the old 
homestead in the vicinity of Peoria, 111. The 
first named assisted in the compilation of this 
genealogy. 

(XV) ELIZABETH SCHNEBLY, 
second daughter of John and Catharine 
Schnebly, was born July 30, 1798. On Feb. 
23, 1837, she was married to Joseph Rench. 
son of Jacob and Margaret Rench, and they 
had two children, one son and one daughter. 
The daughter died in infancy, and Willie, 
the son, died when six years old. Mr. Rench 
was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian 
Church of Hagerstown for many years. 
He died very suddenly Sept. 6, 1879, in the 
seventy-third year of his age. Elizabeth 
was the last survivor of John's family, and 
passed away . When in her eighty- 
sixth year (1883) she assisted in compiling 
the genealogy of the Schnebly family, and 
was at the time very active, with a mind re- 
markably vigorous. 

(XVI) HENRY C. SCHNEBLY. son 
of Dr. Jacob, was a merchant. He removed 
to Philadelphia where his wife died, and he 
remarried. He married ( first ) Miss Hen- 
rietta Chew, and they had four children: 

1. Chew. 

2. Jacob. 

3. LOVINIA. 

4. DoRiNDA (Dolly). 



(XVII) WILLIAM SCHNEBLY, sec- 
ond son of Dr. Jacob, was born and reared 
in Hagerstown. After a number of years 
he went to reside in New Jersey, where he 
married a Miss Zabriskie ; they had four 
children : 

1. Louisa. 

2. Elizabeth. 

3. William. 

4. (name of fourth not 

given). 

(XVIII) THOMAS SCHNEBLY, 
third son of Dr. Jacob, also married a Miss 
Zabriskie, of New Jersey, where he resided, 
and died leaving three children : 

1. Cassandra. 

2. Cl.\ggett. 

3- 

(XIX) MARY SCHNEBLY, daugh- 
ter of Dr. Jacob, married \\'alter Berry, of 
Prince George County, Md. He died in a 
short time, leaving one child : 

I. Sarah Louisa, who married James 
H. Grove, a lawyer of Hagerstown. They 
removed to Martinsburg, W. Va., after 
some years living on a farm near that place, 
where she died leaving four children, James 
Hite, Thomas, Mary aufl Washington 
Berry. 

(XX) HENRY BARNETT, son of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Schnebly) Bamett, 
was a farmer. He finally sold his property 
and moved to Ohio, settling near Xenia, 
Greene county. He married Catherine Mc- 
Laughlin, near the "Garden of Eden." They 
had five children : John, Nancy, Otter, Su- 
san and Sarah. 

(XXI) JACOB BARNETT, son of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Schnebly) Barnett, 
first lived on his father's farm, but sold off 
and went to Illinois. His wife being dis- 
satisfied they moved back without unpacking 
the wagons, and settled on a farm near 
Boonsboro, Washington Co., Md. He mar- 



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ried Elizabeth Miller, of Washington coun- 
ty, Md., and they had seven children : Eliza- 
beth, Louisa, Ottro, Matilda, Tilghman. 
Catherine and William. 

(XXII) JOHN BARNETT, son of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Schnebly) Barnett, 
lived and died on his farm on the banks of 
the Conococheague. His widow made her 
home with her sister, Mrs. Andrew Rench, 
and died there. He married Sallie Price, of 
Washington county, Md., and had five chil- 
dren : William, Arthur, Josiah, Washington 
and John. 

(XXIII) DAVID BARNETT, son of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Schnebly) Barnett, 
lived and died near Hancock. He mar- 
ried Nancy Schnebly. and had three daugh- 
ters : Susan, Elizabeth and Mary. 

(XXIV) BETSEY BARXETT, 
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Schnebly) 
Barnett, married a Mr. Immell, who was a 
farmer near Chaiubersburg. They had seven 
children, George. John, Leonard, David, 
Barnett, Annie and Catharine. 

(XXV) SUSAN BARNETT, daugh- 
ter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Schnebly) Bar- 
nett, married a Mr. Small, and had two sons 
and four daughters, Washington, John 
Schnebly, Caroline, Eveline, Elizabeth and 
Susan. 

(XXVI) CASSANDRA BARNETT, 
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth ( Schnebly) 
Barnett, married a Mr. Bagford, and had 
three daughters and three sons, Julia Ann, 
Mary Ann. Comfort, Calvin, and two other 
sons whose names were not known to the 
compiler. 

(XXVII) MARY BARNETT. daugh- 
ter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Schnebly) Bar- 
nett, married a Mr. \\'ashabaugh, and they 
had three daughters. He was a l^rewer. 

(XXVIII) NANCY BARXETT, 
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth ( Schnebly) 
Barnett, married Rev. Benjamin Kurtz, a 



Lutheran minister, and they had two sons, 
Luther and Theophilus. Nancy was raised 
by her uncle, Col. David Schnebly. 

(XXIX) THOMAS KELLER, eldest 
son of Rev. Isaac and Margaret (Schnebly) 
Keller, was born in 1822, in McConnells- 
burg. Pa., went West with his father and 
family in 1835, and resided near Peoria, 
111., until April, 1883, when he went to his 
present residence, in Holt county, Nebraska. 

(XXX) -GEORGE KELLER, second 
son of Margaret (Schnebly) Keller, went to 
Oregon after attaining his majority and was 
accidentally drowned in the Willamette 
river in 1852. ' 

(XXXI) JOHN SCHNEBLY KEL- 
LER, third son of Margaret (Schnebly) 
Keller, was born in Williampsort, Md.. went 
to Peoria, 111., with his father when a little 
child, and resided there until the fall of 
1883, when he migrated to Holt county. 
Neb. He married Ann E. Aloore, of Peo- 
ria county, 111., and they had eight children, 
George. (LXII), William, Isaac (LXIII), 
May, Eva, Anna, John and Bertha. 

(XXXII) JOHN C. SCHNEBLY, eld- 
est son of Henry, was born near Hagers- 
town, in 1835, and w'ent to Peoria. 111., with 
his father and family. He resided on a 
farm eight miles from Peoria, but later sold 
this farm and built a house in another place, 
about three miles from Peoria, where he was 
living at the time of his death in August, 
1 88 1. He married Maria Stonebraker, of 
Washington county. Md., and their children 
were : 

1. Ann.-v :\I.\ry (XLV). 

2. JULI.-^ (XLVI). ' 

3. Henry L. (XLVII). 

4. Charles died young. 

5. Emm.\ (XLVi'iI). 

6. F.^NNIE. 

7. Jennie. 

8. John Rench (XLIX). 



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9. Edward. 

10. Herbert. 

(XXXIII) JULIA MARGARET 
SCHNEBLY. eldest daughter of Henry, 
was born in 181 6, and was educated at Em- 
mitsburg, Md. In 1835 she went West with 
her father, and in March, 1836, married 
Charles Ballance, of Peoria, 111. They had 
ten children : 

1. Virginia (L). 

2. Josephine Rench (LI). 

3. Julia (LII). 

4. Eliza (LIII). 

5. Sarah died when a few days old. 

6. Charles (LIV). 

7. Willis Henry (LV). 

8. Mary (LVI). 

9. John. 

10. Amanda (LVII). 

Mr. Ballance died in 1887. He emi- 
grated from Kentucky several years before 
his marriage, was an able lawyer, was coun- 
ty surveyor for several years, acquiretl quite 
a large landed estate, and at the time of his 
death was considered a wealthy man. His 
property has since improved in value, and 
his heirs are all in very comfortable circum- 
stances. Mrs. Ballance died in 1899. at 
the advanced age of eighty-three years. 

(XXXIV) DAVID J. SCHNEBLY, 
second son of Henry, was bom in 1818, 
and died Jan. 5, 1901. He was named for 
his uncle. Col. David Schnebly, and by him 
was given a scholarship in Marshall College, 
Mercersburg, where he received a liberal ed- 
ucation. He edited the Mercersburg Journal 
for four years. After graduating he re- 
turned to his home in Illinois, remaining 
there a short time, and then went to Oregon, 
where he married a Miss Painter, originally 
from Philadelphia. He afterward removed 
to Washington Territory. He and his wife 
had four children : 

I. Henry. 



2. Charles. 

3. Mary Virginia married a Mr. 
Adams (LVIII). 

4. Carrie Jean married John B. 
Davidson, a judge in the courts there. 

(XXXV) GEORGE WASHINGTON 
SCHNEBLY, third son of Henry, went 
West with his father in 1835. On attaining 
his majority he went to town and operated 
a steam sawmill, making considerable money 
thus. He married Miss Margaret Cox, and 
afterward went to California. Returning he 
settled at Mossville, Peoria county, 111., 
where he engaged in farming, running a 
sawmill and trading in grain. They had 
seven children : 

1. George (LIX). 

2. William, died in the spring of 
1883, ^ y^^y promising young man. 

3. Julia (LX). 

4. Mary (LXI). 

5. Robert. 

6. Susan. 

7. Margaret. 

(XXXVI) JAMES HENRY 
SCHNEBLY, son of Henry, has been en- 
gaged in various occupations. He mar- 
ried Miss Sophia Niel, and they are 
living at Edwards Station. They have 
no children. 

(XXXVII) SUSAN E. SCHNEBLY, 
daughter of Henry, born in Washington 
county, Md., married Edward Edwards in 
1844. He died, and she is now living at the 
home place near Edwards Station. They 
had six children ; the svu'vivors all living in 
Illinois : 

1. Henry. 

2. Frank. 

3. W^\shington (died soon after 
reaching manhood). 

4. Edward. 

5. Nellie. 

6. Susan Elizabeth. \ 



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(XXXVIII) AMANDA RUTH 
SCHNEBLY, daughter of Henry, was born 
in Washington county, Md. Her mother 
dying when she was six months old, her 
father's step-mother took lier in charge, and 
she reniained witii her grandmother until 
the latter's death, in 1835, when she went 
West with her father. She died in 1878, 
and is buried in the Springtield cemetery at 
Peoria. She married Capt. William Reed, 
of St. Louis, a steamboat captain, and they 
had two children : 

1. Eliza, Mrs. Smith, who lives in 
southern Illinois. 

2. WiLLi.\M, who was accidentally 
drowned in the Illinois river when a lad of 
fourteen or fifteen. 

(XXXIX) JOSEPH SPRIGG 
SCHNEBLY, eldest son of Henry and 
Elizabeth W. Schnebly, was bom in Wash- 
ington county, Md., and grew up in the west. 
He married Miss Elizabeth Stonebraker, of 
Washington county Md. They are members 
of the Calvaiy Mission Church, of Peoria. 
111., and live in the suburbs of that city. They 
had thirteen children, of whom five died in 
infancy, the others being: 

1. Anna. 

2. Cora. 

3. Joseph. 

4. Henry. 

5. Landis. 

6. Elmer. 

7. Daisy. ' 

8. Walter. 

(XL) HENRIETTA A. SCHNEBLY, 
eldest daughter of Henry and Elizabeth 
Schnebly, was also born in Maryland, being- 
taken west in her infancy. She was married 
in Peoria county to Samuel Shuman, of 
Minnesota, where they made their home for 
several years, finally settling in Illinois, east 
of the Illinois river in Woodford county, 
where they have acquired considerable prop- 



erty. They have had six children, five now 
living: 

1. John. 

2. Henry. 

3. George. 

4. Fr.'\nk. 

5. Bessie. 

(XLI) CATHARINE (Kate) 
SCHNEBLY, second daughter of Henry 
and Elizabetli W. Schnebly, was born in 
March, 1836, in Peoria county, Illinois. She 
grew up and was educated there. She mar- 
ried John Field, of Bureau county, Illinois, 
and they ha\'e had fi\'e children : 

1 . Hetty. 

2. Anna (deceased). 

3. Charles. 

4. Clement. 

5. Clinton. 

(XLII) TRYPHENA SCHNEBLY, 
third daughter of Henry and Elizabeth W, 
Schnebly, was also Ixjrn at the homestead 
near Peoria, and was educated at the 
Steubenville Seminary. After graduating 
she taught in the public schools at Peoria. 
She married George Rounds, a grocer of 
Peoria, and they afterward removed to Chi- 
cago, where they still reside. They have 
one child : 

I. George. 

(XLIII) ELIZABETH SCHNEBLY, 
fourth daughter of Henry and Elizaijeth W. 
Schnebly, was born at the old homestead, 
and, like her sister, received a liberal educa- 
tion at the Steubenville Seminary, and taught 
in the public schools of the home neighlxjr- 
hood after her graduation. She then went to 
live with her sister in Chicago, where she 
met Major George Treadwell, a furrier, of 
.\lbany, N. Y., whom she married. They 
reside in .Albany, and have had six children : 

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4. Louis. 

5. Camill.\. 

6. Charles died in infancy. 
(XLIV) CALVIN SCHNEBLY. 

youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth \V. 
Schnebly, is living- on the old homestead, 
where he was born and reared. He married 
Jennie Chambers, of Dayton, Ohio, and they 
have had four children, but the two sons died 
in infancy. The daughters are : 

1. Lucy. 

2. Alice. 

(XLV) ANNA MARY SCHNEBLY, 
eldest daughter of John C, married James 
P. Lucas, of Peoria county. 111., and they live 
in the suburbs of that city. They have five 
children living: 

1 . Jessie, 

2. Mary. 

3. John. 

4. Emma. 

5. Charlie. 

(XLVI) JULIA SCHNEBLY, second 
daughter of John C, married Andrew Olm- 
stead. They are living in Peoria. They 
have two children : 

1. Maud. 

2. Ralph. 

(XLVII) HENRY L. SCHNEBLY. 
son of John C, married Miss Francesca Fox, 
of Texas, and they are living on a farm near 
Chenoa, 111. They have had four children : 

1. Maud. 

2. Ch.\rles. 



(XLVIII) EMMA SCHNEBLY, 
daughter of Juhn C, married Edgar Daven- 
port, a railroad man of Eureka, 111., where 
they reside. The}' have two children: 

I . Fr.\n k. 



(XLIX) JOHN RENCH SCHNEB- 
LY. son of John C, is in the hardware busi- 



ness, and resides at Peoria, 111. He married 
Mary Brown, and they have had two chil- 
dren, both of whom are deceased. 

(L) VIRGINIA BALLANCE, eldest 
daughter of Charles and Julia M. 
(Schnebly) Ballance, was born in Peoria. 
She married Col. Webb, who was killed in 
the battle of Red River, during the Relaellion. 
She subsequently married her brother-in-law, 
Daniel M. Bash, and they have had five chil- 
flren. three of whom are li\'ing, Louis, Amy 
and Edith. Mr. Bash is now a U. S. A. 
paymaster, stationed at San Antonio, Texas. 

(LI) JOSEPHINE RENCH BAL- 
LANCE married Daniel M. Bash, of Toledo, 
Ohio. She died in about nine months, and 
her remains were brought to Peoria and in- 
terred in Springfield cemetery. 

(LII) JULIA BALLANCE, third 
daughter of Julia M. (Schnebly) Ballance, 
married Leslie Robison, a young lawyer of 
Peoria. She died of consumption, five or 
six years after her marriage, leaving two 
sons : Charles Ballance and Leslie. 

(LIII) ELIZA BALLANCE, tlaugh- 
ter of Julia M. (Schnebly) Ballace, married 
James M. Rice, a lawyer of Peoria, and they 
have four children living: Lillie Ballance, 
Caroline Montgomery, Mary Virginia and 
James Montgomery. 

(LIV) CHARLES BALLANCE, son 
of Julia M. (Schnebly) Ballance, married 
Fannie Green, of Peoria, and they have had 
eight children, two of whom are deceased, 
the survivors being: Mabel, Josephine, Jes- 
sie, Lillie, Charles and Henry Green. Mr. 
Ballance has a stone yard. 

(LV) WILLIS HENRY BAL- 
LANCE, second son of Julia M. (Schnebly) 
Ballance, married Augusta Nevins. daugh- 
ter of Rev. H. V. D. Nevins, of Jacksonville, 
111., and they have five children : Virginia, 
Flora, Harriet, Julia Margaret and Myrtle. 
They live in Peoria. 



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(LVI) MARY BALLAXCE, daugh- 
ter of Julia M. (Schnebly) Ballance, mar- 
ried Holdridge Collins, a lawyer of Chicago, 
111., where they reside. They have two chil- 
dren. Rejoice Ballance and . 

(LVU) AMANDA BALLANCE, 
daughter of Julia M. (Schnebly) Ballance, 
married William S. Brackett, a lawyer of 
Chicago. Her health being delicate they re- 
moved to Peoria, where they were living two 
years at the time of her death from con- 
sumption, in June, 1883. She left one child, 
William, who was then two and one-half 
years old. 

(LVIII) MARY VIRGINIA 
SCHNEBLY, daughter of David J., of 
Washington, married a Mr. Adams, of Walla 
Walla, Wash., a merchant. She died Oct. 
30, 1887, and is buried at San Diego, Cal- 
ifornia. They had five children : 

1. Fredrica. 

2. Arthur M. died young 

3. Philip Henry. 

4. Marg.^ret Edna. 

5. Bert H. 

(LIX) GEORGE SCHNEBLY, son 
of George W., married a Miss Saul, of 
Peoria, where they reside. They have one 
child. 

(LX) JULIA SCHNEBLY, daughter 
of George Washington Schnebly, married 
Clarence Case, of Alta, 111., who is agent 
and operator for the Rock Island & Peoria 
R. R. Co., at that place. They have two 
children. 

(LXI) MARY SCHNEBLY, daugh- 
ter of George W., married Henry Judson 
Starr, a young lawyer of Peoria, where they 
reside. They have a daughter: 

I. Susan. 

(LXII) GEORGE KELLER, eldest 
son of John S. Keller, married Mary Sum- 
mers, of Peoria, and they had one child. 
Robbie, whu died when seven months old. 



(LXIII) ISAAC KELLER, third son 
of John S. Keller, married Mattie Long of 
Richmond township, Peoria Co., 111., and 
they have one child, Edith. They live in 
Peoria. 

(LXIV) JOHX H. SCHNEBLY. sec- 
ond son of Daniel H. Schnebly, married Mis.s 
Elizabeth Houser in 1843. They went to 
Missouri to reside, and she died there after 
some years, leaving three children, all living 
in Missouri : 

1. Elizabeth (married). 

2. Belle (Mrs. Jacob Rench). 

3. Frank (married). 

(LXV) ELIZABETH ^NIARY 
SCHNEBLY, eldest daughter of Daniel H., 
married John Booth, of Delaware, Washing- 
ton Co., Md. Mr. Booth died in 1871, and 
Mrs. Booth now resides in Hagerstown, 
with her daughter, Mrs. Staley. They had 
ten children : 

1. William (LXXVI). 

2. Susan M. (LXXVII). 

3. Marg.\ret (LXXVIII). 

4. Frisby (died in childhood). 

5. Mari.a (died in childhood). 

6. LiLLiE (LXXIX). 

7. Harriet (LXXX). 

8. John (LXXXI). 

9. Schnebly' (LXXXII). 

10. Bartholomew (LXXXIII). 
(LXVI) ANDREW RENCH 

SCHNEBLY. son of Daniel H., was born 
Sept. 7, 1823, in Washington county, Md., 
and finished his educational training at Mer- 
cersburg College, which he left in 1843. ^^ 
returned to his father's farm in Maryland, 
which he now owns, the place known as 
"Ann ]\Iaria's Delight." In 1847 he went 
to the Mexican war with the Maryland Bri- 
gade, light artillery, under the cmnmand of 
Capt. Tiighman, served thrfnigh that strug- 
gle, and received a pension for his services. 
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ing, and he continued to reside in that State 
for a number of years, taking a prominent 
part in the affairs of his locality. In 1857 
he was elected to the Legislature as repre- 
sentative from Washington county. In 1869 
Mr. Schnebly came to Franklin county, Pa., 
to manage the business of his father-in-law, 
locating in JMercershurg. where he has ever 
since remained. After his father-in-law's 
death he embarked in the grain business and 
for nine years he was agent for the Cumber- 
land Valley Railway Company. Mr. 
Schnebly has been prominent as a business 
man from the time of his location in this 
section, but he has never taken an active part 
in public affairs, desiring neither town nor 
county offices. On the death of Joseph 
Winger he was elected president of the 
Farmers Bank, and has held that incuiuliency 
for about fifteen years, discharging its duties 
with the dignity and ability which ha\-e char- 
acterized him through life. Since i86q he 
has been a member of the Board of Regents 
of Mercersburg College. 

In 1858 Andrew R. Schnebly married 
Miss Harriet M. Hoke, daughter of Adam 
Hoke, who had a family of seven daughters 
and one son. ]\Ir. Hoke was a tanner by 
trade, but became interested in farming and 
prospered in that calling, owning about ten 
farms in Franklin county. Mr. and 'Sirs. 
Schnebly had one child, Daniel Hoke 
(LXVII) , born Aug. 16, 1868. The mother 
died in 1888. On April 11, 1893, Mr. 
Schnebly married for his second wife, a niece 
of the first and her namesake. Miss Harriet 
Olivia McCauley, who was born Jan. 30, 
1852, in Middletown, Md., daughter of Rev. 
Dr. C. F. and Maria (Hoke) McCauley, of 
Reading, Pa. She was one of a family of 
eight children : Martha E., who married 
William N. Fox, of Reading; Charles A. H., 
who is a graduate of West Point, and is now 
a lieutenant colonel in the Regular army (he 



married Miss Olive Lay of Chicago) ; Edwin 
B.. deceased ; Harriet O., wife of Andrew R. 
Schnebly; Emily A., who married Luther 
A. Yarington, of Reading; Clara S., de- 
ceased; Catharine L., wife of Rev. Rufus 
W. Miller, of Reading; and Harry W'eber, 
who is a first lieutenant in the Regular army. 

Mr. and Mrs. Schnebly are members of 
the Reformed Church, in which he is an elder 
and one of the earnest, active workers. He 
lends his support to all worthy enterprises, 
and is justly regarded as one of the sub- 
stantial citizens of his community. No chil- 
dren have been Ixirn to his last marriage. 

(LXVII) DANIEL HOKE 
SCHNEBLY, son of Andrew^ R., was torn 
Aug. 16, 1868, near Mt. Moriah, Washing- 
ton Co., Md., and after a good preliminary 
training entered ^Mercersburg College. In 
1884-85 he attended the Virginia Military 
Institute, at Lexington, Va., and then spent 
another year at Mercersburg. Until 
1895 he was engaged as a clerk in the ]Mer- 
cersburg Bank. In 1888 he went to Cali- 
fornia in company with his father, and in- 
1894-95, he was in Florida. He passed away 
Oct. 30, 1899, aged thirty-one years, be- 
loved and regretted by all whose privilege 
it had been to know him. 

(LXVIII) FREELAND SCHNEBLY, 
son of Daniel H., served one year in the 
Mexican war, and participated in the first 
battle of that war. He returned home, sul> 
sec|uently went West, and there lost his life. 

(LXIX) FRISBY SCHNEBLY, son 
of Daniel H., was drowned in the Potomac 
river when he was a young man attending 
college. He had gone fishing and the friend 
who was with him at the time, Thurston 
Amistrong. grieved so over the affair that 
his mind became affected, and he died in the 
hospital. 

(LXX) FREDERICK DORSE Y 
SCHNEBLY. son of Daniel H., is unmar- 



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ried and resides in the State of Washington, 
having made his home with his cousin, David 
J. Schnebly, for many years. He is editor 
■of the Ellensburg Localizer. 

(LXXI) JACOB SCHNEBLY, son of 
Daniel H., married Fannie Roland, of Ring- 
gold's Manor. He died Dec. ii, 1872, and 
his- wife subsequently married Hewitt Stone- 
braker, a widower with three children: they 
have one son, Eddie. Mr. and Mrs. 
Schnebly had eight children, six of whom are 
living: 

1. ROL.^ND. 

2. SUS.\N MaRI.A.. 

3. Harry. 

4. Andrew. 

5. LiLLIE. 

6. Emma. 

(LXXII) DANIEL H. SCHNEBLY, 
son of Daniel H., married Miss Maria Davis, 
of Ringgold's Manor, and they have five 
children. They moved from Washington 
■county, Md., to Missouri, and they live in 
Kahoka, that State. 

(LXXni) DAVID MILLER 
SCHNEBLY. son of Daniel H., married 
Miss Mary Cromer, of Ringgold's Manor, 
and died Aug. 30, 1900, aged fifty years. 
They had nine children : 

1. William. 

2. Edgar. 

3. Daniel. 

4. Walter. 

5. John. 

6. Mary. 

7. Albert. 

8. Frederick. 

9. Robert. 

(LXXIV) CATHARINE SCHNEB- 
LY. daughter of Daniel H., married Cyrus 
Dellinger, a farmer, and they had two chil- 
•dren, one dying in infancy; the other: 

I. Eva, married her cousin William, 
son of Daniel H. Schneblv. of Missouri. 



Mr. and Mrs. Dellinger li\ed near the 
Potomac river. She was a beautiful girl, 
and received her education at the Moravian 
Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa. 

(LX'XV) JOSEPH RENCH 
SCHNEBLY, youngest son of Daniel H., 
lives in the State of \Vashington. 

(LXXVI) DR. WILLIAM BOOTH. 
eldest son of John and Elizabeth M. 
(Schnebly) Booth, niarried Anna French, 
daug'hter of George French, of Hagerstown, 
and they live at Delamere on the Antietam, 
the old ancestral home of the Booths in 
Washington county, Md. They moved to 
Alamosa, Colorado. They have two daugh- 
ters : Lillie and Maria. 

(LXXVII) SUSAN M. BOOTH, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth M. 
(Schnebly) Booth, married Zachery Brown, 
a lawyer, and they lived at Rawlins, Wyo., 
but are now residing in Denver, Colo. They 
have three children : Emma, Bessie and 
James. 

(LXXVIII) MARGARET BOOTH, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth M. 
(Schnebly) Booth, married D. H. Staley, of 
Boonsboro, Md. They lived for some time 
at Delamere Heights, on the Antietam, a 
lovely and romantic spot, and now reside in 
Hagerstown. Their living children are: 
David, Levi, Willie, Mary, Margaret and 
Elonore. One son, John Booth, is deceased. 

(LXXIX) LILLIE BOOTH, daugh- 
ter of John and Elizabeth M. (Schnebly") 
Booth, married Rev. Mr. Bannister, an 
Episcopalian minister, and they live at Beaver 
Falls, Pa. They have three sons. 

(LXXX) HARRIET BOOTH is un- 
married and cared for her mother until the 
latter's death, Nov. 3. 1903. 

(LXXXI) JOHN BOOTH was killed 
in one of the last battles of the war of the 
Rebellion, near Richmond. He was imniar- 
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(LXXXII) SCHNEBLY BOOTH died 
when a young man. 

(LXXXIII) BARTHOLOMEW 
BOOTH is married and living in California. 

JOSEPH F. GEISER, electrical engin- 
eer and superintendent of the C. G. & \V. 
Street Railway Co. and of the \\'aynesboro 
Electric Light and Power Co.. and one of the 
leading business men of the city, was born 
Feb. 8, 1867, in Greencastle, Franklin Co., 
Pa., son of the late Peter Geiser, of Waynes- 
boro, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in 
this volume. 

Mr. Geiser was educated in the public 
schools and factories of the city, studying 
practical mechanics in the daytime and 
physics, electricity and chemistry at night 
after quitting the public schools. He then 
went to the Johns Hopkins university, Balti- 
more, where he took an electrical lecture 
course. \\'hile in Baltimore he was also with 
the Baxter Electric Motor Works, taking 
a course of practical instruction. He next 
went with the Electrical Construction Co., of 
Baltimore, for alx)ut two years, and from 
Baltimore he went to Bay Ridge. Md.. where 
he assisted in installing the trolley line. At 
that place he had charge of the railway and 
lighting plants for a year, but then returned 
to Baltimore. Very soon thereafter he went 
south to Dallas, Texas, where he superin- 
tended the electrical equipment of the Dallas 
Rapid Transit Railway, and had charge of 
the electrical department for alx)ut six 
months. His ser\ices were next secured by 
the Edison General Electric Co. as an elec- 
trical expert, and that company sent him to 
different points in Texas. While working 
in that capacity for six months this ambitious 
young man, being an inveterate student, day 
and night, took a course at the Dallas Busi- 
ness College. The serious illness of his sister 
called him back to Wavnesl^oro. He fully 



expected to return to Dallas, but l)eing de- 
tained in the city and unwilling to be idle he- 
began the organization of the Waynesboro 
Electric Light & Power Co., so that his home 
town might share in the progress that was 
being made in the use of electricity. Draw- 
ing plans and making estimates on the cost 
and profits, he took popular stock subscrip- 
tions, and in February. 1891. organized the 
company, for which a charter was issued May 
5, 1891. On July I, 1891, the company re- 
ceived the contract for lighting the streets 
of Wayneslxjro. The plant was installed that 
summer, and was in operation Jan. i, 1892, 
with Air. Geiser in charge, in which relation 
he has since been retained continuously, his 
previous exjjerience having splendidly 
equipped him for success in this field. The 
officers chosen at the time of organization 
were : William H. Brown, president ; Daniel 
Hoover, vice-president ; W. T. Omwake.. 
treasurer; D. H. Geiser, secretary; J. H. 
Crebs, J. F. Zullinger, E. Elden. F. Forth- 
man, directors. At the time of the sale of 
the plant to the C. G. & W\ Street Railway 
Co., July I, 1903, the officers were: F. 
Forthman, president ; Daniel Hoover, vice- 
president; W'. T. Omwake, treasurer; John 
J. Aliller, secretary; J. F. Geiser, general 
manager; W. S. Mentzer, J. F. Zullinger, 
E. W. W^ashabaugh. directors. 

On July I, 1903, when the electric light 
plant was bought by the C. G. & W. Street 
Railway Co., Mr. Geiser's work and judg- 
ment were given substantial recognition by 
his election also as electrical engineer and 
superintendent of the company, in the splen- 
did up-to-date equipment and reliable service 
of which his large experience and careful 
engineering are prominently seen and gener- 
ally recognized — to his credit. He is a con- 
stant student, careful, accurate and tenacious 
of purpose, to which characteristics his suc- 
cess is largely due. 



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Tlie plant is one of the best equipped in 
the entire county, wjth machinery of the 
A-ery latest design, and a power capacity of 
500 horse-power, and has been remarkably 
successful in maintaining good service. It 
has also been a splendid financial success for 
the company. Mr. Geiser is consulting elec- 
trician for a number of other prominent con- 
cerns in Waynesboro, his thorough compre- 
hension of his profession being universally 
recognized. Mr. Geiser is a charter member 
of the Commercial Club, in which he is ex- 
tremely popular, and has always been promi- 
nent in literary and musical circles. Not 
only is he a musician and bass singer of the 
highest rank, but he is also the capable di- 
rector of the M. E. choir, which is one of the 
best in the city. 

Mr. Geiser married Miss Margaret J., 
daughter of Frank and Eliza (Welsh) Ben- 
der, and to them ha\e been born the follow- 
ing children : 

1. Lois E. 

2. Ruth M. 

3. Frank P. 

4. Virginia W. 

PETER GEISER (deceased), inventor, 
-manufacturer and one of Waynesboro's most 
prominent men in his time, was born March 
5, 1826, in Washington county, Md., son of 
John and Mary (Singer) Geiser, natives of 
Washington county, Md.. of German de- 
scent. Their issue was : 

1. David, born Feb. i, 1814. 

2. Susanna, born Nov. 28, 181 5. 
3.. John, born July 5, 1817. 

4. Mary, born Sept. 15, 1819. 

5. Catharine, born Jan. 8, 1822. 

6. Daniel, born March 11, 1824. 

7. Peter, born March 5. 1826. 

8. Martin, born May 14. 1828. 

9. Elizabeth, born April 30, 1830. 



10. David, born June 30, 1832. 

11. Samuel, born Oct. 24, 1834. 

12. Nancy, born Jan. i, 1837. 

13. Sarah, born June 12, 1839. 
Peter Geiser attended the common 

schools of his neighborhood, having the edu- 
cational advantages of his day, and even as 
a boy displayed mechancal genius, and al- 
ways kept everything in excellent repair 
about the premises, devoting all of his leisure' 
moments to the study of mechanics. While 
on the farm he invented a grain separator, 
for which he obtained a patent in 1852, and 
three years later secuied a second patent em- 
bracing the additional feature of a 
winnowing machine. The first machines 
were built on the farm near Smithburg, Md., 
but subsequently Mr. Geiser had shops built 
at Hagerstown, Md., Greencastle. Pa., Har- 
risburg. Pa., and Ouincy, Pa., ami a few 
were built in Ohio, where shop rights were 
sold. In company with his brother Daniel 
he began the manufacture of the machines 
in Waynesboro, and the Geiser Mfg. Co. of 
to-day is the outcome of that small begin- 
ning, and will remain a monument of the 
genius and energy of Peter Geiser. 

The Geiser ^Ifg. Co. was organized prior 
to 1866 by Daniel Geiser, Jacob F. Oiler, 
Benjamin S. Price and Josiah Fahrney, with 
Peter Geiser as superintendent of the works, 
while he also recei\-e(l a royalty on the goods 
manufactured. 

JNlr. Geiser passed away March 18, 1901, 
and notwithstanding the fact that he was a 
pulilic benefactor, and made it possible for 
one of the greatest of industries to be 
founded, thus putting into circulation an im- 
mense amount of money and furnishing em- 
ployment to thousands, he died a poor man, 
as is too often the fate of those who conceive 
the great things of life. However, those 
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wortli, and the important part lie bore in the 
upbuilding of \Va}'nesboro. He was a man 
of striking characteristics, independent in his 
ideas and \ie\\s, which were not always in 
accord with public opinion, but which he 
believed to be thoroughly consistent and hon- 
est. Although he belonged to no church or 
lodge, or even a social organization, his whole 
interest being centered in the success of his 
invention, he had many very warm friends, 
who still delight to do him honor. That he 
did not succeed financially is perhaps more to 
his credit than if he had allowed his mind to 
dwell persistently upon more material mat- 
ters. To him it was of much more im- 
portance that his machine be without flaw, 
than that he grow rich by its manufac- 
ture, and this is a very admirable trait of 
character. 

On April 20, 1855, Mr. Geiser was mar- 
ried to ^lary, daughter of David and Eliza- 
beth Hoover, and sister of Daniel Hoover, 
president of the People's Bank of Waynes- 
boro. To this marriage were born children 
as follows : 

1. John A. lives in St. Louis, Missouri. 

2. William D. is deceased. 

3. James P. is a resident of Montana. 

4. Rev. Dixon H. is deceased. 

5. Elizabeth married M. S. Kunkel, 
of Waynesboro. 

6. D. SiNGERj inventor and electrician, 
is a resident of Waynesboro. 

7. Joseph F. is superintentlent of the 
railway and electric light company, Waynes- 
boro. 

8. Aramixta M. married W. J. Haw- 
man, foreman at the Frick Mfg. Co. 

9. Harry E. is a resident of Philadel- 
phia. 

10. Elvin T. is deceased. 

11. Elsie A. K. is at home in Waynes- 
boro. 



BENJAMIN LEHMAN, an extensive 
farmer of Guilford township, Franklin coun- 
ty, was lx)rn Feb. 17, 1839, on the place 
which he now owns and operates, and which 
has been in his possession since 1870. Mr. 
Lehman comes of honorable ancestry, be- 
longing to one of the oldest and most re- 
spected families in the county. The first 
of the name in this country is supposed to 
have been of German birth, and on his emi- 
gration to America settled in Lancaster 
county, Pennsylvania. 

(II) JACOB LEHMAN, his son, and 
the grandfather of Benjamin, was born in 
Lancaster county, Pa., in 1762, and died in 
1834. In 1804 he came to Franklin county, 
where he followed his trade of blacksmith- 
ing in addition to farming for many years. 
He passed the remainder of his days in 
Franklin county. He was the father of the 
following named children, all of whom 
grew to maturity : 

1. Jacob (HI). 

2. John. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Christian. 

5. David. 

6. Esther. 

7. Sarah. 

8. Mary. 

9. Barbara. 

10. Annie. 

11. Fannie. 

(III) JACOB LEHMAN, son of Jacob, 
and father of Benjamin, was born in 1802, 
in Elizabeth township, Lancaster county, 
and died in Guilford township, Franklin 
county, in 1881. He passed all but the first 
few years of his life in Franklin county, 
grew up on the farm and followed agricul- 
tural pursuits all his life becoming quite 
prosperous. About 1828 he married Mary 
Stauffer (died in March, 1877) of Guilford 



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township, and their children were as follows : 

1. John, born Jan. 22, 1829. 

2. Daniel, born May 27, 1830, died in 
infancy. 

3. Mary, torn March 30, 1833, died in 
infancy. 

4. Jacob S., born Jan. 22. 1835 (a re- 
tired minister). 

5. Christopher, born Jan. 14, 1837 
(a retired farmer now living in New Frank- 
lin). 

6. Benjamin (IV), bom Feb. 17. 
1839. 

7. Abraham, born March 17, 1841 
(a farmer on the Falling Spring road). 

8. Leah S., born Feb. 22, 1844 ( wife 
of David B. Stone). 

(IV) BENJAMIN LEHMAN was 
reared on the old homestead, and received 
bis edncation in the public schools of the 
locality. He was trained to farming from 
early boyhood, and chose that calling for his 
life work, in 1870 purchasing the old home- 
stead, which comprises 175 acres of liiglily 
improved and valuable land. He also owns 
another farm of 163 acres, adjoining. Mr. 
Lehman has worked hard to keep his prop- 
erty in excellent condition, and has suc- 
ceeded well in his ventures, being regarded 
as one of the substantial farmers of his town- 
ship, where he worthily upholds an honor- 
able old name. He has found time to serve 
his fellow citizens in various public posititms, 
having served as school director and director 
of the county poor with satisfaction to all 
concerned. In politics he is a stanch Repub- 
lican, in this respect following the example 
of his father, who was originally a \\'hig, 
but transferred his allegiance to the Repul> 
lican party upon its organization. The 
family is held in high esteem throughout the 
neighlxirhood. 

Mr. Lehman was married in 1863. to 
Miss Sarah Stover, of Guilford township. 



daughter of Frederick Stover, and this union 
has been blessed with the following named 
children : 

1. \\'iLLi.\M, who is a farmer in Guil- 
ford township. 

2. E. S., also of Guilford township. 

3. Abrah.\m^ who is residing in Pitts- 
burg, Pa. 

4. Elsie at hom«. 

5. Mary, at home. 

STRICKLER. The Strickler family of 
Franklin county is of German-Swiss descent, 
and is of the same stock as the Stricklers of 
Hellam township, York county. The rec- 
ords of Lancaster and York counties show 
that the Stricklers were there between 1730 
and 1740. The record of original land 
grants made b}- the proprietaries of the 
Province of Pennsylvania shows grants to 
Andrew Strickler Nov. 18, 1736, and Jan. 
16, 1737; to Henr}- Strickler July i, 1741, 
and in succeeding years additional grants to 
these same parties, and to other Stricklers. 
The name of Conrad Strickler appears in the 
indictment of Henry Munday and Charles 
Higginbotham in Chester county in 1736, 
as one of the tenants whose possessions of 
land west of the Susquehanna were dis- 
turbed by these men and others in the in- 
terests of Lord Baltimore, as recorded by 
I. Daniel Rupp in his "History of Lancaster 
and York Counties."' published in 1846. All 
the Land Grant and Court records found in- 
dicate that they settled near the Susquehanna 
River, some in Lancaster county and others 
in what is now York county, those on the 
west side of the river settling largely in 
the Kreutz Creek \'alley, in the vicinity of 
W'rightsville. 

(I) HENRY STRICKLER (died 
1792), wife's name Anna. The fir.st Strick- 
ler positively identified as the progenitor of 
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Strickler. w ho lived in Hellam township, on 
Kreutz Creek, and whose mill is still known 
as the Strickler mill, at Strickler Station, 
two miles west of Wrightsville, on the rail- 
road between York and Wrightsville. His 
will is on record dated Oct. 28, 1792, and 
proven Nov. 29, 1792. His son Henry came 
to Franklin county with his family in 1807, 
and Joseph followed soon after with his 
family. No record has been found giving 
the dates of birth of his children, nor the 
order of birth. His children were: 

1. Henry (II). 

2. Joseph (III). 

3. J.-^coB (born 1755 — died 1837) mar- 
ried Elizabeth Miller. Owned property in 
the Kreutz Creek settlement, and bought the 
mill and farm from his brother Henry when 
he moved to Franklin county. His descend- 
ants still occupy the mill property and sev- 
eral adjacent farms. 

4. Sus.vNNA married Joseph Bixler, and 
removed to Tyrone township, Fayette 
county. 

5. Veronica married Daniel Leather, 
and removed to Bald Eagle township. Cen- 
tre county. 

6. Magdalen.\ married Christian 
Stoner, son of Christian Stoner. who settled 
on Kreutz Creek in 1761. 



/• 



Ann.\ died unmarried. 



(II) HENRY STRICKLER (bom in 
York county — died near Clayhill, Franklin 
county, in 1816), son of Henry and Anna 
Strickler, after disposing of his interests in 
York county to his brother Jacob, removed 
to Antrim township, Franklin county, in 
1807, where he purchased several hundred 
acres of land near the present village of 
Clayhill. He married Anna Rhodes ; they 
had issue: 

I. M.\RTH.\ married Jacob Engle, and 
lived in Lancaster countv. 



2. Elizabeth married Joseph Negley^ 
and lived near Welsh Run. 

3. Henry (IV). 

4. Joseph (V). 

5. Barbara married Valentine Bohrly 
and removed to Mt. Carroll, Illinois. 

6. Susan married George \V. Shade, 
and removed to Cumberland county. 

7. M.\RY married Jacob Strickler, and 
removed to Illinois, and later to Iowa. 

8. Sarah married David Stitzel, and 
removed to Carroll county, Illinois. 

(Ill) JOSEPH STRICKLER (born 
May 20, 1764 — died INIay 15, 1813), son of 
Henry and Anna Strickler, lived in York 
and Lancaster counties, but removed to 
Franklin county. He married Elizabeth 
Neiswonger (born June 20, 1773 — died 
Sept. 8, 1865), and they had issue: 

1. Samuel (born 1794 — died March 7, 
1875), removed to Mt. Carroll, Illinois. He 
married Susan Hollinger. 

2. David (born May i, 1798 — died 
April 4, 1850) lived many years near Orrs- 
town, Franklin county, then moved to New- 
burg, Cumberland county. 

3. Jacob (born May 28, 1803 — died 
Sept. I. 1891) married Mary Strickler 
(born Dec. 21. 1803, died Oct. 2, 1897), 
daughter of Henry and Anna (Rhodes) 
Strickler. Moved to Mt. Carroll. Ill, and 
later to Grundy county, Iowa. 

4. Henry (born Aug. 23. 1806 — died 
Feb. 7, 1898). married Julia E. Miller, of 
Chambersburg, April i, 1830. They re- 
moved to Dayton, Ohio. 

5. Benjamin (born Jan. 26, 1809 — 
died July 4, 1893) married Feb. 2, 1831, 
Elizabeth Strock, of Lebanon county (born 
June 16, 1812 — died March 6, 1892). He 
removed to Mt. Carroll. Illinois. 

6. Eliza (bom Nov. 8, 1810 — died 
April II. 1882) married John B. Cook 



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(born October, 1804 — died Jan. 14, 1875), 
son of Peter Cook, of Altenwald. 

(IV) HENRY STRICKLER (born 
March 11, 1789 — died Dec. 30, 1876), son 
of Henry and Anna (Rhodes) Strickler, 
married Mary Price (born Aug. 2, 1792 — 
died July 8, 1873). He removed to Carroll 
county, IIL; in 1841, his family all following 
him with the exception of Jacol^. Henry 
and Mary StrickJer had issue : 

1. Jacob (VI). 

2. Nancy married George W. Grove. 

3. Susan married Jacob Allbright. 

4. Henry married Maria Miller. 

5. Abraham died unmarried. 

6. Catherine married Daniel Shelier. 

7. Mary died uiunarried. 

S. Hannah married a Butterbaugh. 
9. Joseph married (first) Catherine 
Long; (second) Mary Stouffer. 

(V) JOSEPH .STRICKLER (born in 
York county in 1793 — died Oct. 4, 1841), 
son of Henry and Anna ( Rhodes) Strickler, 
became, after paying tlae other heirs under 
Jiis father's will, the owner of the upper part 
of the Strickler homestead, near Clayhill, 
which he owned until his death. He mar- 
ried Jan. 15, 1829, Mary Snively, (born 
March 20, 1807— died Oct. 30, 1881), only 
daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Hollin- 
ger) Snively. They had issue : 

I. Snively (born in Antrim township 
July 4, 1830 — died Sei*. i, 1868) received 
a good common school education, afterward 
attending the Greencastle Academy. His 
first enterprise was the dry goods business. 
then the newspaper business, editing and 
publishing The Pilot at Greencastle. Pre- 
ferring a profession, he chose the law, 
studied with the Hon. James Nill, and was 
admitted to the Franklin County Bar April 
12, 1858. After practicing his profession 
in Chamliersburg for a number of years, he 
again turned liis attention to the newspajier 



business, purchasing, in the spring of 1861, 
the RcpositDvy and Transcript from A. N. 
Rankin, Esq. He conducted the paper until 
1863. when he disposed of it to Col. A. K. 
McClure and H. S. Stoner, resuming the 
practice of law at Greencastle, and at the 
same time giving his attention to his farm 
near Brown"s ]MilI until his death. He mar- 
ried Feb. 22, 1859, Helen Josephine Michael, 
daughter of Dr. Charles and Sidney M. 
(W'ilhelm) Michael, of Greencastle, Pa. 
Their cliildren were: Lillian May, Joseph 
Snively and Charles Michael. Lillian May 
married Alfred G. Hemminger; their chil- 
dren are : Abigail Frances and Mary Jose- 
phine. Joseph Snively (died Dec. 23, 1890) 
was a telegraph operator for the Cumberland 
Valley Railroad, and read law and was ready 
for admission to the Bar, when he died, at 
the age of twenty-six. Charles Michael 
studied veterinary medicine and surgery, 
and was graduated from the Ontario Veteri- 
nary College, Toronto, in 1890. He is 
prominently engaged in the practice of his 
profession in Greencastle. 

2. Henry (born in Antrim township, 
Feb. 28. 1834) received a common school 
education, afterward attending the Green- 
castle .\cademy. He first turned his atten- 
tion to a trade, and learned saddle and 
harness making. He was graduated at 
the Eastman National Business College, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1861 he entered 
the office of the Repository and Transcript 
in Chambersburg, as bookkeeper, remaining 
until 1862, when at a call of President Lin- 
coln for nine months' volunteer troops, he 
dropped his Ixioks and promptly responded 
to the call, enlisting in Company K, 126th 
P. V. I. \Mien mustered into the service at 
Harrisburg he was appointed a sergeant. 
TJie regiment at once moved to the front, 
and became part of the Army of the Poto- 
mac. At the battle of Fredericksl)urg, \'a.. 



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in the gallant cliarge of General Hum- 
phrey's Division at Marye's Heights Dec. 
13. 1862, he was severely wounded by a ball 
from the enemy passing- lengthwise through 
his left forearm, shattering the arm to such 
an extent that immediate amputation was 
necessary. In the fall of 1863 he was 
elected to the office of Register and Recorder 
of Franklin county, for the term of three 
years, and was reelected in 1866, serving 
two terms. In the spring of 1872 he was 
appointed to the Internal Revenue Service, 
in which he served four years as United 
States Storekeeper, and nine years as deputy- 
Collector of Internal Revenue; since that 
time he has lived retired in Greencastle. He 
married Dec. 24, 1883, Anna M. Fleming, 
daughter of William W. and Elizabeth A. 
(Rankin) Fleming, of Greencastle. Their 
children are : Mary Ida and Arthur Flem- 
ing. 

3. Joseph B. (born in Antrim town- 
ship, July 5, 1836), after receiving a com- 
mon school education, entered the dry goods 
store of John Rowe as clerk. At the break- 
ing out of the War of the Rebellion, he re- 
sponded to the first call of President Lin- 
coln for three months' volunteer troops, and 
entered the service as a first lieutenant, in 
Company C, 2d P. V. I. In the spring of 
1863 he moved to the old homestead farm 
near Clayhill. In the spring of 1867 he 
entered into partnership with Henry P. 
Prather in the dry goods business in Green- 
castle, but in the spring of 1872 he decided 
to go into newer fields and moved to Ne- 
maha county, Neb., where he purchased a 
tract of land and engaged in cultivating the 
virgin soil of that promising State, in which 
occupation he continued until recently. He 
now lives retired in South Auburn, Nemaha 
Co.. Neb. He married Jan. i, 1862, Martha 
W. Prather, daughter of Henry P. and Eliz- 
abeth ( Hostetter) Prather, of Greencastle. 



Their children are: Myrtle Elsie, Henry 
Prather, Joseph Ernest, Charles Snively, 
Leita Elizabeth, Clara Belle and Lottie 
Annie. 

4. Abrah.\m H. (born in Antrim town- 
ship Jan. 2^, 1840) was educated at Prince- 
ton University, where he was graduated with 
the class of 1863. He afterward studied 
medicine and was graduated at the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College, New York, in 
1866. He commenced the practice of his 
profession in Mercersburg, where he re- 
mained five years. In 1871 he located in 
Waynesboro, where he has ever since been 
successfully engaged in active practice. Dvir- 
ing the War of the Rebellion he served as a 
cadet in the Medical Department of the 
Union Army, and while yet an undergradu- 
ate in medicine, he performed the duties of 
assistant surgeon in Lincoln Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C. He takes an active part in the 
public affairs of the town. He served as a 
member of the public school board and as 
burgess of Waynesboro, and is prominently 
associated with a number of Waynesboro's 
large manufacturing industries, and presi- 
dent of the Landis Tool Company since its 
organization, and for ten years held the 
office of president of the board of health of 
Waynesboro ; was a member of the House 
of Representatives of Pennsylvania 1893- 
1894. He and his family are members of 
the Reformed Church, in which the Doctor 
has held the office of elder for a number of 
vears. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. 
Strickler married Feb. 24, 1870, Clara Anna 
Besore, only daughter of George and Eliza 
(Snively) Besore, of Waynesboro. Their 
children are : Harry Clarke and Belle. 

(VI) JACOB STRICKLER (born on 
the original Strickler homestead, Antrim 
township. Jan. 23, .1815 — died Feb. 10, 
1895), son of Henry and Mary (Price) 
Strickler, married .\niia Stouffer (born 



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April 15, 1816 — died Aug. 10, 1881), 
daughter of Jacob Stouffer, miller and 
farmer of Stoufferstown. Mr. Strickler set- 
tled on the homestead east of Chambersburg 
in 1 84 1, where he resided until his death. 
He was one of the substantial and prominent 
farmers of Guilford township, and interested 
in various other industries. About 1850 he 
began l)urning lime for land purposes, using 
anthracite coal. This was a new enterprise 
in that community, and a large trade soon 
developed. Great quantities were burned in 
the limestone section east of Chambersburg, 
the larger portion of which was hauled to 
Adams county. Mr. and Mrs. Strickler 
were members of the Reformed Mennonite 
Congregation of Falling Spring. They had 
issue : 

1. Henry B. (born Nov. 13, 1840) mar- 
ried Fianna E. Hershey (born March 17, 
1841), of Lebanon county. They are mem- 
bers of the Reformed Mennonite Church, 
which called :Mr. Strickler to the ministry in 
1870, and 1901 made him a bishop. In 1882 
he entered the office of the Frick Company 
of Waynesboro, was made assistant treas- 
urer in 1885, and its treasurer in 1887, 
which position he still holds. They have 
issue: Emerson, Ambrose and Fannie. 

2. Catherine E. (born Feb. 10, 1842) 
married Jacob S. Stoner. a farmer on the 
Falling Spring. They have issue: Amos, 
Frank, Paul and Anna. 

3. John S. (born Dec. 11, 1843) is a 
farmer and dairyman at Winchester, Va. 
He married Helen M. Heatherington. and 
they have issue : Harvey, Wilton and Mary. 

4. Abr.\h.\m (born Jan. 10. 1846) mar- 
ried AL-iry Stoner. He is engaged in the 
creamery business at Marion. 

5. Eliz.\beth. born in February, 1848, 
died February, 1851. 

6. Mary (born Dec. 12, 1849) is un- 
married and resides in Waynesboro. 



7. Jacob Stouffer (born Nov 22, 
1 851) is in the office of the Frick Company, 
Waynesboro. He married Jessie Miles, 
cif Mt. Carroll, 111., and they have issue: 
Helen. 

8. Daniel Benjamin (born April 5, 
1854) married (first) Flora Wells, (sec- 
ond) Carrie Parsons. They reside in Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

9. Amos S. (VII). 

10. David Abner (born March 26, 
1859) married (first) Susan Shirk, (sec- 
ond) Gertrude Olmstead. After graduating 
as a physician from the Hahnemann College, 
Philadelphia, he located at Duluth. I\Iinn., 
and later was appointed to a professorship 
in the Minnesota State College at St. Paul. 
In 1895 he removed to Denver, Colo., limit- 
ing his practice to diseases of the eye, ear,. 
nose and throat. He holds a chair in the Den- 
ver Homeopathic College. Issue by second 
wife: Lynda L. and Gertrude Aline. 

(VII) AMOS STOUFFER STRICK- 
LER (born in Guilford township. Oct. 3, 
1857), son of Jacob and Anna (Stouffer) 
Strickler. was educated in the public schools, 
and is a farmer on his father's homestead in- 
Guilford township. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Mr. Strickler married Dec. 17, 
1885. Ella A. Etter (born July 8. 1863), 
daughter of Edward G. and Anna A. ( Schei- 
ble) Etter, of Chambersburg. The Etters 
and Scheibles were old Franklin county fam- 
ilies. Mrs. Strickler's father, Edward G. 
Etter, was prominent in the politics of the 
county-, and her grandfather, John G. Schei- 
ble, Esq.. was for many years a justice of 
the peace in Chambersburg. Amos S. and 
Ella A. (Etter) Strickler have issue: 

1. Jacob E. 

2. Edw.\rd G. 

3. Frederick S. 

4. Anna A. 

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W KITE FAMILY. ROBERT 
WHITE (born in Fannett township, May 

15. 1799 — died June 6, 1847) ^^'^^ ^ son of 
Robert and Ariana White, natives of the 
north of Ireland, who settled in L'pper Path 
Valley. The elder White removed to Muskin- 
gum county, Ohio, in 1832, where he died 
in 1847. ^"d his wife in 1855. Robert White 
learned the trade of a coach maker, and 
worked at it in Philailelphia, Harrisburg, 
Chambersburg and other places. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Jarrett (born at Chambers- 
burg. July 30, 1799 — died Oct. 30. 1872). 
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Reiswich) Jar- 
rett, both natives of Pennsylvania, the for- 
mer of Montgomery county, and the latter 
of Chambersburg. Mr. Jarrett kept a flour, 
feed and provision store in the stone house 
now No. 257 South Main street, which is 
still standing. Robert and Elizabeth (Jar- 
rett) White had issue : 

1. Jarrett (born Jan. 20. 1820 — died 
in 1866) married Mary Rupley. They had 
one son : Winfield Scott, who died in young 
manhood at Harrisburg. 

2. John (born June 6. 1823 — died Jan. 

16. 1890) nKirrie.i Jane Garvin, of Gettys- 
burg. They had issue: Mary, who married 
Jacob Rodenhaver ; Lulu, who married Her- 
1>ert Pennypacker ; Annie, who married Dr. 
Castenline, of Louisville, Ky. ; and Tillie, 
who married Franklin Strominger, of Har- 
risburg. 

3. George W. (II). 
J.\C0B, born Feb. 27. 1826, died Dec. 



4- 
1826. 

5- 
6. 



Andrew J. (III). 
Hiram M. (IV). 
S.\MUEL, born in 



1833, died 



ii; 



/ 
1840. 

(II) GEORGE WASHINGTON 
WHITE (born Feb. 27. 1826). son of Rol>- 
ert and Elizabeth (Jarrett)^White, was liv- 
ing in Philadelphia at the outbreak of the 



war w'ith Mexico. He enlisted in Capt. 
Charles Naylor's company of the Second 
Pennsylvania Regiment, and served under 
(ieneral Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of 
Mexico, participating in all the battles in 
which his regiment was engaged, .\fter the 
war he returned to Pennsylvania and lived 
at Chambersburg for a brief period. Upon 
his marriage he removed to Dayton, Ohio, 
where he remained until the beginning of 
the Civil War, when he returned to Cham- 
bersburg where lie has since lived. After 
the development of the oil regions of west- 
ern Pennsylvania, he engaged in the oil busi- 
ness as a dealer, and had a large trade radi- 
ating from Harrisburg, until all private en- 
terprises were crushed out by the Standard 
Oil Company. He is now living in retire- 
ment in Chambersburg. Mr. White mar- 
ried. July 20, 185 1, Charlotte A. Nitterhouse 
( l3orn Nov. 10, 1832), daughter of Philip 
and Elizabeth (Frey) Nitterhouse. They 
have issue : 

1. Ada B. (born Aug. 22, 1852) mar- 
ried July 4, 1882, Albert Usherwood, of 
Marietta. 

2. Kate, born Jan. i, 1855, died Feb. 
I, 1859. 

3. Florence M. (lx:>rn March 17, 
1862) married Dec. 27, 1881, George 
Chandler, of Bethlehem. They have issue : 
Gertrude, Allen, George and Tucker. 

4. Charlotte E., married Alvin P. 
Seilhamer. [See Seilhamer Family.] 

5. Helen (born Nov. 26, 1870) is 
living in Chambersburg. 

6. Mabel, torn Sept. 24. 1875, f^'^*^' 
Jan. II, 1899. 

(HI) ANDREW JACKSON \\'HITE 
(born at Chambersburg, Jan. i, 1828, died 
April 24, 1904) son of Robert and Elizabeth 
(Jarrett) \Miite, was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and learned tailoring, at which 
he worked when a young man, making coat 



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making a specialty. He began Inisiness for 
himself as a merchant tailor in the old 
"Franklin House." where now stands the 
Central Presbyterian church, in 1858, and 
continued in Inisiness for forty years. He 
had acquired a competency when he retired. 
Beginning life as a poor boy he worked bis 
own way, and he attributed his success to 
hard work and close application to business. 
He lost heavily in the burning of Chambers- 
burg Iw the Confederates in 1864, Ijut re- 
trieved his losses by his energ}' and enter- 
prise. Mr. White never aspired to political 
preferment, but served as a school chrector 
for his ward. He was a mennlser of Colum- 
bus Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Chambersburg. 
and a life long member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He served as a steward 
and trustee of his church for many years, 
and has always been regarded by his brother 
Methodists as one of the pillars of their 
church. Mr. White married (first), Sarah 
Jane Grove. They had issue : 

1. Alice V. married May 15, 1872, 
Edward N. Hutton, son of Jacob Hutton, a 
prominent shoe dealer of Chambersljurg ; 
they have issue: .\. J. White Hutton, pro- 
fessor in the law department of Dickinson 
College, and Elva White. 

2. Hiram C, educated in the iniblic 
schools, and Chambersburg Academy, en- 
tered into partnership with his father in 
1880, and succeeded bis father in the mer- 
chant tailoring business in Chambersliurg, 
in January, i8g6. He married, Jan. 27, 
1876, Elizabeth Fuller and they ha\-e issue: 
Alice F. : Andrew Jackson, a graduate of the 
United States Military Academy, at West 
Point, class of 1904: and Edna Loui.se. 

3. M. Bl.\nciie married, Nov. 28. 
1883, William E. Finney. 

4. Carrie E. married, Jan. 21,, 1S84, 
Joseph F. Schindel. 

5. R. Walter married, June 2t, 1891, 



Lillie B. Shank, and they have one sonv 
Walter Shank. 

6. Nellie S. married, Aug. 23, i8go, 
James A. Hamilton, and they have one 
daughter, Helen. 

7. Ellwood J. married Sept. 25, 1890, 
Anna May Smith, and they have issue: 
Blanche, Edith, Ellwood and A. James. 

8. Sallie R. married, Nov. 28, 1894, 
A. Vinton Vogel. 

9. Preston B. married. Nov. 22, 1894, 
Edna D. Burkhart, and they have issue: 
Preston B. and Isabel. 

10. Howard married, Sept. 11, 1895, 
Mary B. Smyser, and they have one son, 
H. Smyser. 

Mr. White married (second) Emma K. 
Harn, of Carlisle, and they have issue: Olive 
and Gerald Harn. 

(IV) HIRAM MISH WHITE (born 
April 14. 1830 — died Feb. 13, 1903), son 
of Robert and Elizabeth (Jarrett) White, 
attended the public schools of Chambers- 
burg while his father lived, but at the age 
of seventeen years, he was withdrawn to 
become an apprentice in the wood work de- 
partment of the carriage manufactory of 
Frey. Welsh & Scott. He served the full 
term of his apprenticeship, and was free at 
the age of twenty years. He then worked 
as a journeyman carriage maker, for five 
years, when he engaged in business 
as a carriage maker with his former 
employer, Matthew P. Welsh, the 
name of the firm being Welsh & White. 
This partnership lasted only two years, when 
Mr. White retired from the carriage making 
business, in which he was recognized as a 
workman of unusual skill and diligence. He 
subsequently began the study of the law in 
the office of Nill & Kennedy, and was ad- 
mitted to the Franklin County Bar. Aug. 
15, 1839. While he was a law student he 
entered into i)artnership with his brother 



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Andrew, in tlie mercliant tailoring and 
clothing business, the name of the firm being 
A. J. & H. M. White. Their first place of 
business was at the south-west corner of the 
Public square, where the Central Presby- 
terian Church now stands. The business of 
the firm proving prosperous anil profitable. 
Mr. White purchased the Thomson property 
in Main street, and converted the parlor of 
the fine old stone mansion into a store room, 
in which the tailoring and clothing establish- 
ment was housed in the spring of i860. 
Adjoining the Thomson mansion was a one 
story frame structure that Judge Thomson 
had used as a law ot^ce and law school. This 
building was moved to the north-east corner 
of Third and Washington streets, where it 
it still standing. On its site Mr. White 
erected a modern brick storeroom and 
dwelling house, into which the business was 
removed in February, 1863. It was the 
only business structure in Chambersburg at 
that time which had single plate glass win- 
dows and doors. It was destroyed in the 
burning of Chambersburg in 1864, but was 
rebuilt, and is among the best finished houses 
in the borough. The firm of A. J. & H. M. 
White lasted until 1S71. Mr. White's con- 
nection with his brother in that business pre- 
vented him from entering upon the practice 
of the law', but he alwavs took an active in- 
terest in piilitics, and in 1873 was elected 
treasurer of Franklin county as a Democrat. 
He also served as judge and inspector of 
elections, as a member of the Chambersburg 
town council and of the school board. After 
his retirement from the clothing business he 
gave his attention to the ]nn"chase and im- 
provement of real estate, and at the time of 
his death was the owner of more real prop- 
erty than any other citizen. His holdings 
numbered forty-four in the borough — seven 
in the First, twenty-five in the Second, si.x 
in the Third, and six in the Fourth Ward. 



He was noted as a careful landlord, and his 
houses always had good tenants. Among 
his most important properties were his hand- 
some residence at No. 30 South Main street, 
the White building in Memorial Square, 
and the White block, in North Main street, 
near King. He also owned a farm of 104 
acres in (niilford township, near Chambers- 
burg. In January, 1901. he purchased a 
one-third interest in the Chambersburg 
W'oolen Company, and became its president ; 
later in the same year he become owner of a 
one-half interest, and at the time of his 
death was serving as treasurer, as well as 
president of the company. In his last years 
Mr. While i;ccame noted as the giver 
of memorial windows to Chambersburg 
churches. The first of these gifts was three 
handsome memorial windows in the new 
Methodist Episcopal, built in 1897. The 
central window of the series is a memorial 
to his father and mother and one of the side 
windows to his little daughter, Mary Eliza- 
beth, and the other to his brother, John 
White. In the new First United Brethren 
Church, built in 1900, he put a very large 
memorial window in memory of his grand- 
father, Robert White and his grandmother, 
Elizabeth Jarrett. This is the largest 
and handsomest memorial window in 
Chambersburg. What rendered this gift 
peculiarly appropriate was the fact that 
his grandmother Jarrett w^as one of 
the pioneers of the United Brethren in 
Christ in Franklin county, and one 
of the founders of the First United Brethren 
Church of Chambersburg. His mother was 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He also placed memorial windows 
in Zion's Reformed Church, of which he and 
his wife were members. In addition to his 
gift of memorial windows he gave to the 
first United Brethren Church, the second 
largest bell in its chime. Tn bis life time he 



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embellished his lot in Cedar Grove cemetery, 
where he is buried, in a manner that excels 
in artistic execution any burial lot in south- 
ern Pennsylvania. By his will he createil 
a fund to keep all these memorials in repair 
for all time. Mr. White married May 9, 
i860, Charlotte Greenawalt (horn Aug. 4, 
1826), daughter of Godfrey and Anna Mary 
(Rothbaust) Greenawalt; they had one 
■daughter : 

I. M.-\RY Eliz.\beth, born Dec. 11, 
1866, died Dec. 26, 1874. 

WEAGLY. The Weagly family of 
"Franklin county, is of German ancestry, and 
was planted on American shores by John 
Paul Weagly, who emigrated from the Fath- 
erland during the latter half of the eigh- 
teenth century. His issue was : 

1. Jacob. 

2. William. 

3. Samuel. 

4. John (II). 

5. Matthias (III). 

6. Julia. 

7. Barbara. 

(II) JOHN WEAGLY, son of John 
Paul, for a number of years kept a hotel at 
Fountain Dale, Adams county. His issue 
was: 



I. 


Isaac. 


2. 


William 


3- 


Thomas. 


4- 


George. 


5- 


Andrew. 


6. 


James. 


7- 


John. 



(•Ill) MATTHIAS WEAGLY (born 
In America July 18, 1786 — died in Antrim 
township, Franklin county, July 4, 1855) 
was a weaver by trade and for a time re- 
sided in Washington county, Md., whence 
he removed to Waynesboro. In 1829 he 
j)urchased from the Mitchells a small tract 



of land in Antrim township, adjoining the 
great road leading from Greencastle to 
Hagerstown, and there established a home- 
stead, on which he resided, engaged in the 
manufacture of carpets and linens, until his 
death. He married Anna Mary Kissinger, 
and their issue was : 

1. John P. married Ellen Hilliard, and 
settled in Illinois. 

2. Joshua settled in Ohio. 

3. Matthias settled in Ohio. 

4. George located in ^^lichigan. 

5. Alexander lives in Center Co., 
Pennsylvania. 

6. Jeremiah (IV). 

7. S.\RAH died unmarried. 

8. SusANN.\ married Elias Lowman, of 
near Pittsburgh. 

9. Margaret died unmarried in 1874. 

10. Elizabeth. -, P(y)^i^ 

(IV) JEREMIAH WEAGLY (born 
in Antrim township. Feb. 13. 1828 — died 
Nov. 4. 1892), youngest son of Matthias 
-Weagly, was born in a house directly west 
of what a year later became the Weagly 
homestead, and his abiding place through 
his entire life. He learned the mason's trade, 
and for a numbei" of years engaged in build- 
ing and contracting during the summer 
months. , Many of the best buildijigs in 
Greencastle and Antrim, are the joint work 
of himself and J. B. Crowell. From boy- 
hood his ambition had been toward the 
schoolmaster's calling, and in that capacity 
he served a long and faithful stewardship, 
teaching twenty-six years at his home school. 
It was his desire to round out a half century 
in the schoolroom, and to complete his life 
work at the school' of his boyhood, but this 
was not to be. In the Broadway building, 
at noon intermission, during his forty-sixth 
tenn, while seated at his desk, he was 
stricken with paralysis. Summoning his 
pupils arouriil him, he told them his work 




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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIN COUNTY. 



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was clone, and bade them farewell. He was 
con\eyed to his liome, where a few days later 
he entered into rest, in the sixty-fourth year 
of his age. He was a man considerably 
above the average in stature and strength, 
■dignified in bearing, and kind and genial in 
temperament. His standard of morality 
was rigidly consistent to a life long member- 
ship in the Lutheran Church. Of unques- 
tioned integrity and good judgment, he was 
frequently sought as a counselor, and in the 
early seventies became a justice of the peace, 
an office he held until his death, although, 
politically he belonged to the minority party 
in his township. In 185 1 he married Anna 
Maria Lippw a woman of gentle manners 
but resolute character, devoted in her alle- 
giance to her home and her Church (the Re- 
formed). She died March 4. 1903. in her 
seventy-fifth year. Their issue was : 

1. Edward Addison, born Nov. i, 
1858, has always resided at the old home to 
the comfort and solace of his aged mother, 
who in later life was an invalid. He is a 
teacher by profession, and is unmarried. 

2. Theodore Hamilton (V). 

(V) THEODORE HAMILT(^.\' 
WEAGLY, born Oct. 19, 1861, youngest 
son of Jeremiah Weagly, attended the pub- 
lic schools, and later spent three years at G. 
F. Zeigler's Select School for Boys at Green- 
castle, Pa. He then engaged in teaching, 
and began the study of medicine with Dr. 
William Grnbb. and afterward with Dr. J. 
•C. Gilland, graduating in Baltimore in 1882. 
About the close of the same year he located 
at Marion, Pa., where he continues success- 
fully in the general practice of his profes- 
■sion. He is a member of the County. Cum- 
berland Valley, State and National Medical 
societies. In politics he is a Repul)lican, and 
in religious connection is a member of the 
Reformed Church. Fraternally he is a Ma- 
son, affiliated with Mt. Pisgah Lodge. No. 



443, F. & A. M., Greencastle. On May 20, 
1896, Dr. Weagly married Miss Carrie L. 
Clair, of Marion, daughter of John and 
Laura (Stotler) Clair, the former for many 
years a general merchant at Marion. 

Dr. Weagly, although of studious habit 
and jovial mien, is sturdily vigorous. While 
declaring cultured lineage a goodly heritage, 
thus decries the snob in the following trench- 
ant lines from his pen : 

"What arrant fools these mortals be" 
To vainly vaimt dead ancestry. 
If naught but shadows of sire and dame 
Now savors to uphold the name. 

A leathern apron and calloused palm 
Could hide a stream, as blue and calm. 
As trickled 'neath the velvet coat 
Through gouty toe and husky throat. 

Whom thou hast been, is small concern, 
IVhat art thou nozv — we wish to learn, 
An inert phantom, from former page. 
Or strenuous man — afront the stage. 

DAVISON FAMILY. JOSEPH 
DA\"ISON (torn in Adams county Jan. 9, 
i--4_died May 13. 1842), son of William 
Davison (died in 1770). was brought to 
Antrim township by his parents when only 
three years old. He was a farmer and 
owned a large tract of land in the northeast 
corner of the township. Mr. Da\ison mar- 
ried (first) Margaret Brown (torn in 1756 
—died Feb. 26. 1797). and had issue: 

1. Hugh was a prominent man in .-\n- 
trim township and a lieutenant-colonel of 
the Pennsylvania militia, and served in the 
war of 1812-14. 

2. William (born in 1779 — died Sept. 
31. 1831). a farmer, married Jane Robison, 
and had issue: Andrew, William. Joseph, 
Hugh B., James, John Smith. Margaret, 
Hadassah and Rebecca J. Andrew Davison, 
(born Jan. i, 1807), married Sarah Brown 
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Agnes and Rebecca; Hugh B. (bofn in 1814 
— died March 25. 1880), a merchant in 
Chambersburg, married Esther E. Schaubel 
(died Nov. 3, 1903), and had William, 
George S., James M. and Edward C. ; John 
Smith (born in 1825 — died Dec. 4. 1875). 
was an editor at Dayton, Ohio; Margaret 
married Gen. David Detrich. of Greencastle. 

3. James^ a prominent farmer in An- 
trim township, was a director of the poor, 
1832-35, and a county commissioner, 1846- 
49. He married (first) Miss Patton, and 
had issue: Louisa H., married W. H. Mc- 
Knight ; Sarah Belle, married James Beatty ; 
Elizabeth, married Hugh D. Lindsay. He 
married (second) Nov. 6. 1849, Margaret 
Wills, and had issue: Joseph Brown and 
James. 

4. John was a director of the poor, 
1826-29. 

5. Jane married Andrew Lindsay, of 
McConnellsburg ; they had issue: John T., 
Davison, James C, Hugh, Columbus, Joseph 
A., Elizabeth, (married John A. McCoy), 
Jane (married Isaac Mahan), Cynthia 
(married Joseph Barr) and Mary (married 
E. Beyden). 

6. Eliz.^beth married Jesse Craig. 

7. Margaret married Mr. Patton. 

Mr. Davison m-^rried (second) Mar- 
garet Robison (born in 1761 — died Nov. to. 
1836), and had is,sue: 

1. Andrew (died in i860) was edu- 
cated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, and 
was admitted to the Franklin County Bar 
in 1823. He removed to Green.sburg, Ind., 
where he practiced his profession, and be- 
came a Judge of the Supreme Court of 
Indiana. 

2. Abraham Smith (II). 

(II) ABRAHAM SMITH DAVI- 
SON (born in Antrim township in 1802 — 
died in 1856), son of Joseph and Margaret 
(Robison) Davison, was a farmer and lived 



on the old Davison homestead uptil 1852, 
when he reino\ed to Greencastle, where he 
died. Mr. Davison married Sarah Latta, 
daughter of Alexander and Jean (Gafif) 
Latta; they had issue: 

1. Joseph A. (born Jan. 13, 1838 — 
died May 26, 1879), was educated at the 
Chambersburg Academy. In 1861 he en- 
listed in Company D, 6th Regiment. Penn- 
sylvania Reserves and was made first ser- 
geant of the- company. He was promoted to 
first lieutenant, Aug. i, 1862, and to cap- 
tain, Sept. 19, 1863. He became brigade 
inspector of the ist Brigade. In the battle 
of Gettysburg he was in charge of his regi- 
ment from Little Round Top. He received 
the brevet rank of major and lieutenant- 
colonel for gallant conduct at the battles of 
the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court 
House. Col. Davison married .\nna Mary 
Taylor, daughter of John W. Taylor, a 
former sheriff of Franklin county: they had 
issue: Charles M., Smith L.. Rol^ert T. 
and Maud. 

2. Margaret married John H. Hos- 
tetter. 

3. Andrew R. (died in Denver, Colo.^ 
Oct., 1900) was first lieutenant and cap- 
tain of Company K, 126th Regiment, P. V., 
and in 1864 became adjutant of the 209th 
Regiment, P. V. He was cashier of the 
First National Bank of Brown\ille, Neb.. 
for twenty years. He married Cora Gates. 

4. Charlotte A. married Columbus 
F. Bonner, at one time a member of tlie 
Franklin County Bar. 

5. James H. served in the 22d Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry : he lives at Altoona. 

6. John M. 

7. William Gri-bb (III). 

(Ill) WILLIAM GRUBB DAVISON" 
(born in Antrim town.ship. Oct. 5. 1849), 
son of A. Smith and Sarah (Latta) Davison, 
was educated in the public schools and began 



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life at the age of fifteen in the store of J. 
Hostetter & Co., Greencastle, where he re- 
mained three years. He was afterward a 
clerk in the office of the Cumberland Val- 
ley Railroad at Greencastle, for five years, 
and clerk for H. M. Bushey until 1878. He 
was associated with J. StoulTer Snively in 
the grain and lumber Inisiness, 1878-91. In 
the latter year he was appointed assignee of 
the Crow^ell Manufacturing Co., and the 
same year he became store-keeper of the 
Cumberland Valley Railroad Co. The latter 
position he still holds. He served as a 
school director in Greencastle, also as a 
member of the town council. He afterward 
removed to Chambersburg. He is a member 
of the Central Presbyterian Church and 
president of the board of trustees. 

Mr. Davison married, in Septemljer, 
1876, Martha J. Detrich, daughter of Gen. 
David and Margaret (Davison) Detrich; 
they had issue : 

1. Charlotte Is.^bel. 

2. Mary Jean. 

M. E. SOLLENBERGER, the cashier 
of the Bank of Waynesboro and a prominent 
and influential citizen of that place, was 
born near Mercersburg, Franklin county. 
Pa., Nov. 27, 1858, son of Samuel and Mary 
(Etter) Sollenberger. The Sollenberger 
family came originally from Germany or 
Switzerland, and settled first in \'irginia. 
With but few exceptions, they were farmers, 
and in their religious faith, adhered to the 
German Baptist Church. 

(I) MICHAEL SOLLENBERGER 
paternal grandfather of M. E., was Ixirn 
in Lancaster county in 1795, and was one 
of the early settlers of Franklin county. He 
died in 1882, after an unusually long and 
useful life. He was the father of Sam- 
uel (II). 



(II) SAMUEL SOLLENBERGER 
(Iwrn near Waynesboro, Pa., Jan. i, 1832 — 
(lied Feb. 23, T884) married Mary Etter, 
born near Salem Church, in the vicinity 
of Chambersburg, Franklin county, daugh- 
ter of John Etter. She still lives, residing 
at Lemasters, Franklin county. The chil- 
dren born to Samuel Sollenberger and his- 
wife were as follows : 

1. John, who died in childhood. 

2. M. E. (III). 

3. Margaret, who married J. H. 
Meyers. 

4. Eliz.-\beth, deceased. 

5. Samuel. 

6. M.\RY, who married George W> 
Smith. 

7. Jacob. 

8. A.\ron B., a physician in Waynes- 
Iwro. 

Q. Annie, who married Samuel Mey- 
ers. 

10. Sarah, who married Henr_\- Angle. 

11. Harvey, in business in Chicago. 

(III) M. E. SOLLENBERGER spent 
his first twenty-one years on the farm. He 
was educated in the common schools at 
Church Hill, and later attended the Nor- 
mal School at ]\Iillersville, in 1880-81. He 
began teaching in 1880, the first year being 
in Franklin county, after which he taught 
two years in Illinois. After the death of 
his father he returned home, and the follow- 
ing two years taught the Grammar school 
at Bridgeport (Markes post office), Franklin 
county, following this with three years at 
Fort Loudon, Franklin county, where he 
had charge of the schools. In 1889 he was 
elected to the principalship of the Grammar 
school in Waynesljoro, where he began 
teaching, but as he received an appointment 
to a position in the Go\ernment mail ser- 
vice, he resigned from the school. He held 



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the government position for five and a half 
years, the first two and a half being spent 
■on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & 
Baltimore Railway between Philadelphia 
and Baltimore, and the balance of the time 
on the Northern Central Railway between 
Baltimore and Elmira. N. Y., by way of 
Harrisburg. 

When the Bank of Waynesboro was or- 
ganized in 1895. -^J^''- Sollenberger was 
ofifered the position of bookkeeper of the 
same, so he resigned from the mail service 
and took up his duties in the Bank. In 
January, 1899. he was elected cashier of 
the Bank, which position he holds at the 
time of this writing. He has resided in 
Waynesboro since September, 1889. He 
is a member of the Waynesboro City Coun- 
'cil. Religiously he belongs to the German 
Baptist Church, and for five years ending 
Jan. I, 1903, was superintendent of the 
Sunday-school. 

Mr. Sollenberger married in Decemljer. 
1889, Lydia A., a daughter of Harry C. 
Funck, deceased, a sister of Mrs. J. J. 
Oiler. To tlieir union two children have 
I>een born : 

1. Ethel. 

2. Orville. 

JACOB NEWTON BREWER, a re- 
tired merchant of Mercersburg, is a son 
of Jacob Brewer, and has long held an hon- 
orable place in the commercial world. 

(I) JACOB BREWER (born Nov. 
22. 1775) grandfather of Jacob Newton, 
came to Franklin county from \\'ashington 
county, 'Sid., and settled two miles south of 
TVIercersburg, following the occupation of 
farming until his death. He married Mary 
Angle, who was born April 9, 1778, and 
clc\en children were l)orn to them : 

r, David, Iwrn Oct. 8, 1797, was a 



farmer in Washington county, Md. ; he 
married Elizabeth Cushwa. 

2. Ad.\m, born Dec. 8, 1798, lived in 
Franklin county, until he married and 
moved to Illinois, where he died. 

3. Jacob (II), born Aug. 27, 1801, 

4. Henry, born Aug. 24, 1803, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Reichard, from Washington 
county, Md., and lived and farmed in Frank- 
lin county. Pa., where he died. 

5. Elizabeth, born Feb. 25, 1806, 
married Capt. John Cushwa, of Maryland, 
and they moved to Franklin county, where 
thev died leaving a family, two of whom 
live in Mercersburg: David O. and Eliza. 

6. Joseph, born March 11, 1808, was 
a farmer in Franklin county : he married a 
Aliss Vandiaw, and left several children, 
among them William U. Brewer, of Cham- 
bersburg. 

7. John T.. born May i, 1809. was 
a tinner by trade, in Franklin county; he 
married Maggie Zook, and they died leaving 
a large family, all of whom lived in Illi- 
nois. 

8. Mariah, born July 28, 181 1, mar- 
ried Daniel Richard, and lived first in Wash- 
ington county, Md., but afterward moved 
West, and died there leaving a family. 

9. SrsAN, born Dec. 14. 18 14, niar- 
ried Lazarus Kennedy, and !i\ed near Green- 
castle, where they engaged in fanning. 

10. Catherine, born Nov. 11, 1816, 
married George Swig'ert, in Franklin county, 
and moved to Illinois, where he died leaving 
a family. His widow still lives near Knox- 
\ille, Knox county, Illinois. 

11. George ^^'.. born Sept. 5, 1819, 
married L. Gehr, and died leaving a widow 
and one son. Hast Gehr, a lawyer. 

(in JACOB BREWER, father of 
Jacob Newton Brewer, was born Aug. 27, 
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county. He married Mary Xeglcy, daugh- 
ter of Jacob Negley, Sr., a distiller and 
farmer. Their children were : 

1. Jacob Newton (HI). 

2. D.-wiD A. married Mary Diltz, of 
Illinois, where he died, and where the widow 
and her family live. 

3. Joseph M. married (first) Susan 
Angle, of Franklin county, moved to Illinois, 
and after the death of his wife, he remar- 
ried in Abilene, Kansas ; he is the father of 
seven children. 

4. George W. married Elmira Hoke, 
who died leaving two children ; he then mar- 
ried again and four more children were 
bom to him. and they live in Kansas. 

5. James K. married Betsy Brewer, of 
Franklin county, where they live and farm 
at Welsh Run ; they have one child, Lizzv. 

6. Mary Ann married Jacob G. Ang- 
le, since deceased, and she lives in Mercers- 
burg. 

7. Elizabeth married T. A. Waddell, 
an undertaker of Alercersburg, who died 
leaving two children, George and WilHam, 
who live in Omaha. 

8. CATHERINE married the late Jacob 
Brewer, a farmer at Welsh Run, and she 
lives with her sister Mary Ann ; her children 
are living in the West. 

9. Susan married James E. Duffield, 
a farmer living at Welsh Run, Franklin 
county, and their children were : William, 
Newton, Alice, Hattie, Nettie, May and 
Grace. Mrs. Duffield is deceased. 

10. Louis.A married Benjamin Forney, 
of Hagerstown, where they live. 

(HI) JACOB NEWTON BREWER, 
born Oct. 17, 1825, near Mercersburg, was 
educated in the schools of the neighborhood, 
remaining until he attained the age of 
twenty years. In April, 1846, he went into 
business for himself, after a year's experi- 
ence in clerking, commencing without capi- 



tal, but by dint of earnest application and 
careful observation he gradually increased 
his business, paying back all that he had 
borrowed, until he became known as one 
of the foremost merchants of his locality. 
At the age of thirty, Mr. Brewer mar- 
ried Eliza Jane Brewer, born Feb. 3, 1829, 
in Washington county, Md., daughter of 
Emanuel Brewer, of that county. Six chil- 
dren were born to the union, two of whom. 
are living. 

1. Franklin P., born Feb. 13, 1858, 
now owns the store and business of his 
father, Mr. Brewer having retired about 
1885, after forty years work. 

2. Newton Hirsh, born Feb. 9, 1864, 
was partner of his brother, and died single. 

3. Edward Dudley, born Oct. 11, 
1873, died in his youth. 

4. Mary Lucretia, born March 18, 
1868, married Rev. H. G. Mendenhall, of 
Philadelphia, and is deceased. 

5. Nellie Adeline, born Sept. 28,_ 
1866, married Dr. S. S. Bishop, of Franklin 
county, now of Carlisle, and died leaving 
two children, Helen and Nettie, who live 
in Greencastle. 

6. Jennie Shannon, Ixirn Nov. 28, 
1870, married Lewis T. Byron, a tanner of 
Mercersburg, now of Hagerstown, and has 
two children, Dorothy Brewer and Lewis T. 

Mr. Brewer has never sought political 
preferment, and is a Democrat in his views. 
He is one of the directors of the bank, and 
secretary of the board. He is treasurer of 
the Fairview Cemetery, and has held the 
position since the beginning of the company 
in 1867. For several years he has held the- 
position of Burgess and has taken a great 
interest in educational matters. Much re- 
spected in this community, he has ever been 
one of the public-spirited citizens. Religi- 
ously he is a member of the German Reform 
Church, as are also his wife and family.. 



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He was an elder in that organization, but 
lias withdrawn gradually from many of the 
activities and responsibilities of life. 

BRERETON. The Brereton family of 
the United States is one of ancient lineage 
in England and Ireland, and can be traced 
to Ragnwald, Jarl of Mori, Norway, A. D. 
800, from whom it is descended through 
the Dukes of Normandy and tlie French 
Counts of Blois to Ralph de Brereton, of 
the time of William II, who took his name 
from the Manor of Brereton, bestowed on 
him by his father, Gilbert de Venables. 
This was one of the many manors which 
fell to the lot of de Venables after the bat- 
tle of Hastings. Gilljert de Venables was 
a son of Eudes, Count of Blois, and Mar- 
garet, davighter of Richard, Duke of Nor- 
mandy. The Manor of Venables, from 
which he took his name, is situated in the 
'Duchy of Normandy and w^as probably part 
-of his mother's dower. According to the cus- 
tom of the times, it fell to him as the second 
son and gave him his name. From the 
Ralph de Brereton mentioned, descended 
the Breretons of Cheshire, England. The 
American family is derived from Thomas 
Brereton, a merchant of Dublin, son of Rev. 
Andrew Brereton, I\I. A. (Trinity College. 
Dublin, 1660, died July 22. 1690), and 
his third wife, ^lary. The Re\-. .\ndrew 
Brereton was fourth in descent from Sir 
William Brereton, of Brereton and !Malpas 
Castle, Cheshire, and his second wife, Alice, 
daughter of Sir John Savage and Dorothy 
Vernon. Sir William Brereton was Lord 
Chief Justice and High Marshal of Ireland, 
in the reign of Henry ^'III. 

Thomas Brereton, of Dublin, merchant 
also of Balbriggan, near Baltrothery, 1724. 
married Lucy , and had issue : 

1. Thom.\s (II). 

2. Mary died in 1798. 



(II) THOMAS BRERETON (bom 
in Dublin, Ireland, May 31, 1720 — died at 
Fells Point, Baltimore, Nov. 15, 1787), son 
of Thomas Brereton, was a mariner in 
early life. From his correspondence, which 
has been preserved, it is learned that he was 
in the service of Gildart & Co., merchants 
of Liverpool, England, as captain of one 
of their ships, in 1752. He was the agent, 
or factor, of this firm at Oxford on the 
Choptank river. Eastern Shore of Mary- 
land, 1754-55, and perhaps later. He re- 
turned to Liverpool prior to 1761, and in 
that year sailed in command of the priva- 
teer "Betty," owned by John \Valker of the 
firm of Gildart & Co. The "Betty" was 
a ship of 350 tons burthen, "manned by 
forty seamen, and carried twelve six and 
nine-pound guns, besides swivel guns." 
In 1763, Captain Brereton was again in 
Maryland, and settled permanently in Bal- 
timore, as the colonial correspondent of Gil- 
dart & Co. His business card appears in 
the first number of the Maryland Journal 
and Advertiser, Aug. 20, 1773. He was 
also a notary public of Baltimore, and his 
notarial seal bears the coat of arms of the 
Brereton family. He was frequently named 
as executor in the wills of his neighlx)rs, 
and while serving in this capacity communi- 
cated to (ieneral Washington the contents 
of a will in which the General was inter- 
ested. Washington's answers are treasured 
by the family as precious relics. Captain 
Brereton married Feb. 26, 1781, Sarah 
Marshall (born in Northan^pton county, 
Va., in 1765 — died at Blaclensburg, Md., 
in 1813), daughter of !\Iajor Thomas John 
and Sarah (Darley) Marshall. The Mar- 
shalls were an old Virginia family, their 
ancestor, John Marshall, having settled on 
.\llen Creek, in 1633. Major Marshall was 
a Revolutionary officer, serving as a lieu- 
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iment, Maryland Line. After Captain 
Brereton's death his widow married Wil- 
liam Ross, of Bladensburg. Thomas and 
Sarah (Marshall) Brereton had issue: 

1. Thom.-\s, born Aug. 7, 1782, died 
Sept. 2, 1782. 

2. Thomas (2), born Jan. 3, 1785, 
was an Ensign in the United States Navy, 
and died young. 

3. John Andrew (III). 

(Ill) JOHN ANDREW BRERE- 
TON (born in Baltimore. April 15, 1787— 
died at Charlestown, Mass., April 21, 1839). 
son of Thomas and Sarah (Marshall) 
Brereton. was brought up in the home of 
his step-father, William Ross, at Bladens- 
burg. He studied medicine and surgery, 
and was graduated M. D.. at the Maryland 
College of Physicians, June 8, 1808. On 
March 4. 181 1, he was appointed to the Med- 
ical department, L^. S. N., and served on 
the L^ S. Frigate "Congress" during the 
war of 18 1 2. After the war he was stat- 
ioned at Washington for a number of years. 
From 1 82 1 to 1839 he was Assistant Sur- 
geon, V. S. A., and was serving at Fort Inde- 
pendence, Boston Harbor, at the time of his 
death. Dr. Brereton published a catalogue 
of the flora of the District of Columbia, and 
edited the first botanical magazine pub- 
lished in America. His botanical re- 
searches gave him considerable celebrity, 
and he was also prominent among the early 
phrenologists. In Freemasonry he attained 
high degree. Dr. Brereton married Dec. 
14, 1814, Amelia Lovering (born in Lon- 
don, England, Aug. 11, 1793), daughter of 
William Lovering, an English architect, 
who designed many of the early buildings 
in Washington, D. C. She was brought to 
America when only one year old. Her 
mother dying during her infancy she was 
placed in the care of Mrs. Ross, Dr. Brere- 
ton's mother. It is said that General Wash- 



ington in their childhood held one of the 
children upon each knee, while visiting at 
the Ross home. Dr. John A. and Amelia 
Brereton had issue: 

1. Mary died young. 

2. Thomas John (IV). 

3. Laura Randall, died unmarried 

4. Eugenia, died unmarried. 

5. Henry, died in boyhood. 

6. George, died in infancy. 

7. Emily, died young. 

(IV) THOMAS JOHN BRERETON 
(born in Washington, D. C.,- Aug. 13, 
1822— died at Yonkers, N. Y., Sept. 14, 
1870), son of John A. and Amelia (Lover- 
ing) Brereton. entered the Military Acad- 
emy, West Point, in 1839, and was gradu- 
ated, third in his class. June 30, 1843; Pi'"-"- 
moted Brevet Second Lieutenant, 4th 
Artillery, July i, 1842; transferred to 
Ordnance, July 20th; Second Lieu- 
tenant March 3, 1847: Brevet First 
Lieutenant :May 9, 1846, "for gallant and 
meritorious conduct in the battles of Palo 
Alto and Resaca de la Palma, Mexico." 
First Lieutenant, Oct. 31, 1851, and Cap- 
tain. July I. 1857. After serving on Gen. 
Taylor's staff, at Palo Alto and Resaca, 
he was placed in command of Fort Brown, 
the base of supplies for the army under 
Taylor. After the Mexican War he served 
at the Frankford, Allegheny and Mobile 
Arsenals. While at Allegheny Arsenal he 
obtained a furlough and built the Allegheny 
Valley Railroad, as far as Kittanning, as 
chief engineer, and afterwards President. 
He resigned in 1858 to manage the large 
estates of Mrs. Denny. He also engaged in 
the oil business as a distiller of petroleum 
from coal. He was an early adherent of 
the Oxford movement in the Protestant 
Episcopal Church : a vestryman and warden 
of his parish, and a member of the standing 
committee of his diocese. Captain Brereton 



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married, Oct. 12, 1854, Amelia Mellizena, 
daup-hter of Hon. Harmar and Elizabeth 
F. (G'Hara) Denny, and descendant of 
William Denny (landholder of Cumberland 
county in 1750, when that county was in- 
corporated), whose son William married 
Agnes, granddaughter of Richard Parker, 
first bona fide settler, perhaps excepting 
Silvers, west of the Susquehanna river. 
William and Agnes Denny lived in the old 
log house in Carlisle, torn down a few years 
ago to make room for the Denny Memorial 
Hall of Dickinson College. Thomas John 
and Amelia M. (Denny) Brereton had 
issue : 

1. Elizabeth Denny, born June 21, 
1856. 

2. Thomas John (V). 

3. William Denny, born Oct. 14, 
i860. 

4. CAROLINE Emily, born June 11, 
1863. 

5. Henry Edwin Harmar, born July 
12, 1865. 

6. Denny, born Nov. 29, 1867. 

(V) THOMAS JOHN BRERETON 
(born in Pittsburg, Sept. 21, 1858), son of 
Thomas J. and Amelia M. (Denny) Brere- 
ton, was graduated at Columbia College in 
1879, and at the School of Mines, Columbia 
College, in 1883. While at college he was 
with V. Colvin in the New York State sur- 
vey of the Adirondacks. Atier leaving col- 
lege he entered the service of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad, in the department of surveys 
and construction. In 1884, he was trans- 
ferred to the maintenance of way depart- 
ment, at Altoona, and in 1886 became As- 
sistant Supervisor of the Monongahela Di- 
vision, in 1888 Assistant Supervisor of the 
Pittsburg Division, and in 1889 Supervisor 
of the Tyrone Division. In 1893, he was ap- 
pointed Engineer of the Cumberland \'alley 



Railroad, a position which he still holds. He 
is vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, a Freemason, an associate member 
of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
a member of the Kittochtinny Historical So- 
ciety, and of the Hamilton Library Associa- 
tion of Carlisle. Mr. Brereton married Dec. 
31, 1884. Frances Lindsay, daughter of 
William H. and Jane (Seton) Lindsay. Mrs. 
Brereton is descended from the family of 
Seton of the old Scotch nobility. She is a 
grand-niece of the late Archbishop Magee, 
of Dublin, and a cousin of the late Arch- 
bishop Magee, of York. Tln^mas J. and 
Frances Brereton have issue : 

1. Thomas^ born Dec. 2, 1885. 

2. Seton Lindsay, born ?klarch 5, 
1889. 

3. Francis Marshall, born Aug. 19, 
1890. 

4. O'Hara Denny, liorn Aug. 21, 
1892. 

5. Amelia, bom Nov. 29, 1900. 

HON. BENJAMIN F. A\ELTY, one of 
the leading citizens of Waynesboro, Pa., and 
an ex-memlier of the Pennsyhania Legisla- 
ture from Franklin county, was born Aug. 
II, 1848, in Washington county, Md., son 
of Samuel and Sarah (Good) Welty, both 
of whom are natives of Franklin county, Pa., 
and are still living, residing in Waynesboro. 
The mother is an aunt of D. AI. Good, Jr., 
of Waynesboro, a sketch of w-hom is given 
elsewhere. 

Hon. Benjamin F. Welty attended the 
common schools, and when atout twenty- 
one years of age, he went with an uncle John 
Welty to Washington county, Md., and 
learned the distilling business. In 1865 the 
family removed to Washington township, 
and kx-ated on a fann east of the present 
residence of our subject, and the site of his 




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distillery, and about one and one-half miles 
southeast of Waynesboro. 

In 1880 Mr. Welty began distilling, op- 
erating the old Downey distillery for two 
years, and he then purchased his present 
farm from his father, on which stnoil an old 
stone mill, over one huntlred years old, and 
consequently but poorly supplied with appli- 
ances. Mr. Welty immediately began to 
make improvements, introducing the latest 
machinery, including rolls and a gyrating 
system of bolting, he being the first man in 
the Cumberland Valley to introduce rolls. 
The mill has a daily capacity of fifty barrels, 
the brand which is very popular being "Our 
Pride," a strictly high class flour. In 1882 
Mr. Welty erected his present distillen-, ad- 
joining the mill, and began operating it in 
the spring of 1883, and runs the two in com- 
bination. The daily capacity of the distil- 
lery is about twenty-five bushels, or 300 bar- 
rels annually of the special brand, "\\'elty 
Whiskey." This celebrated whiskey is in 
great demand, and he sells both at wholesale 
and retail. Mr. Welty is the owner of a 
good farm of about eighty acres. 

In 1890 Mr. Welty was elected In- the 



Baptist Church, Oct. jy, 1901. Her father 
died in 1900, and her mother in 1902. The 
children bom to Mr. and Mrs. Welty were : 

1. Elsie May. 

2. John. 
David M. 
Samuel Chester. 
Stephen G. died aged nine months. 
Catherine D. 
Ethel G. 
Benjamin H. 
Cora Rachael. 



4- 

5- 
6. 

7- 
8. 



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REV. ISAIAH SPRENKLE, one of 
the best known and most respected citizens 
of Waynesboro, residing at No. 120 East 
Second street, was born Aug. 23, 1835, on a 
farm in Hamiltonban township, .'\dams 
county, son of William and Elizabeth 
(Gough) Sprenkle. The father was born 
in York count}' in 1803. and accompanied his 
parents to Adams county in childhood. Tiie 
mother was born in 1802, in Carroll county, 
Md., daughter of George Gough. 

(I) DANIEL SPRENKLE, the pater- 
nal grandfather of our esteemed subject, 
was a native of York countv. He married a 



Republican party of Franklin county to the member of the Slagle family, and then re- 
State Legislature, and he served during the 
session of 189 1-2. He was again elected to 
that body in 1900, and served during 1901-2. 
For many years he served upon the school 
board. Mr. Welty is one of the incorpora- 
tors of the People's National Bank of 
Waynesboro, and one of its directors, still 
holding that position : and is also a director 
of the Landis Machine Company. Mr. 
Welty is one of the enterprising and public 
spirited men of the city and has done much 
to increase its material prosperity. 

In 1874 Mr. Welty married Cora D., 

daughter of S. G. Martin, of Washington 

county, Aid. Mrs. Welty was born July 12, 

1848, and died in the faith of the German 

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moved to Adams county with his family in 
1820. There he followed farming the bal- 
ance of his life. The Sprenkles are of Swiss 
origin. The sons of Daniel Sprenkle were as 
follows : 

1. Charles. 

2. George. 

3. William (II). 

4. Daniel. 

There was one daughter who married a 
Stover, and others whose names have been 
lost sight of. 

(II) WILLIAM SPRENKLE (Ijorn 
in York county in 1803 — died in Octolier, 
1863) accompanied his parents to Adams 
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Gough (born in 1802, in Carroll county — 
died in 1878), daughter of George (iough, 
of English descent. They were both Luther- 
ans in religious belief. They had issue: 

1. IsA.'\c, deceased, married Catherine 
Straley. 

2. Caroline married John C. Creger, 
and resides at New Oxford, Adams Co.. 
Pennsylvania. 

3. CiEOKGE, deceased, married Sarah 
Sandberger. 

4. William, deceased, married Mar- 
garet Weyant. 

5. ISAIAII (III). 

6. Malinda married I. T. Riley, and 
they reside about three miles east of Waynes- 
boro, in W'ashington township. 

7. Anna married D. A. Carl, and re- 
■ sides at Cumberland, Maryland. 

8. Oscar F. married Miss Shulley, and 
they reside in Washington township. 

(Ill) REV. IS.MAH SPRENKLE 
was reared on the farm in Adams county, 
find secured a good, common school educa- 
tion. In the fall of 1854 he came to Frank- 
lin county and taught school at the Amster- 
dam school-house, east of Waynesboro, 
about four miles, in the Rouzerville neigh- 
borhood, teaching four consecutive winter 
terms, returning to his home and working 
on the farm during the summers. He then 
taught two sessions in .\dams county, and 
in the winter of 1860-61 he taught the male 
school at Emmitsburg. ]\Id. In 1861 he 
rented a farm in I'rederick county. Md., and 
Ijegan farming on a large scale, and was 
thus engaged and prospering, when the 
army, retreating from Gettysburg, camped 
in liis nei.ghborhood. and he was an unwill- 
ing cf)ntributor of four horses and sundry 
Other valuables to the Confederate forces. 

In 1864 Mr. Sprenkle removed to I-Vank- 
lin county, where he rented the farm now 
owned by Christian Good, in Washington 



township, and began to farm there, contin- 
uing a renter for two years, when he bought 
the Samuel Omwake farm of 114 acres, ad- 
joining Dr. Benjamin Frantz, near Road- 
side, in Washington township, to which he 
has since added enough more land to bring 
his acreage up to 140. I'rom 1866 to 1899 
he continued to operate that farm, a period 
of thirty-three years. Mr. Sprenkle then 
removed to .Waynesboro, and retired from 
active life. He owns other property, a farm 
of 134 acres known as the Frantz farm, 
originally a Bonebrake farm, about two 
miles east from Waynesboro. This farm 
he is now operating, having taken charge of 
it after the death of his son. In 1898 he 
erected the present handsome brick residence 
on East Second street, one of the pleasant- 
est homes in Waynesboro. 

In 1858 Mr. Sprenkle was united in 
marriage with Susan FVantz, born on a farm 
alx)ut two miles east of Waynesboro, in 
1838, daughter of Rev. Jacob FVantz. son 
of Bishop Christian Frantz. and brother of 
Dr. Benjamin F'rantz. Her mother was 
Fanny Huffman, daughter of Christian 
Huffman. The children burn to our sub- 
ject and wife were as follows: 

1. Minnie I'rances (born Aug. 6, 
1859) married Fred Frick, superintendent 
and patentee of the Frick Clock Company, 
and they have issue, Ruth and Naomi. 

2. Ida Virginia, torn Aug. 20, i860, 
fliefl .\ug. 29, 1870. 

3. Zaidee (born March 9, 1862) mar- 
ried ] larry Oiler, of Waynesboro, and they 
have issue : Alma, Lela, Herman, Ernest, 
Rollo and Edith. 

4. Lizzie Bertiia (born June 6, 1864) 
married Christian Nolt, of Lancaster county, 
and they have children : Frank, Edith, 
Mark and Ruth. 

5. Ella May, born May 8, 1866. 

6. Ernest Volney (born April 30, 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIN COUNTY. 



lo, 1869) 
of Washington 
Bvron and Or- 



1868 — died May 2. 1901) married Anna 
M. Eyler. of Adams county, and they had 
one son. Raymond. 

7. Gertrude (born .Aug 
married .Andrew Schailler, 
township ; they ha\e issue : 
man. 

8. Osc.\R (born March 15. 1871) un- 
married, resides on the old home place near 
Roadside. 

9. J.\coB Fr.\xtz (born July 26, 1872) 
married Alice Bonebrake, and has issue : 
Rhoda, Xoba, Ethel, Lula and Mark. 

10. Axx.\ B.\RBAR.\ (born Dec. 12. 
1874) is at home. 

11. Edith, born Aug. 26. 1877. 

12. Grace, born Oct. 19. 1878. 

13. Elam Ray (bom Oct. 5, 1879) 
married Grace Roons. and has issue : Char- 
lotte. 

Rev. Sprenkle is a minister of the Re- 
formed Mennonite Church. He was reared 
•in the Lutheran faith, his mother being par- 
ticularly zealous and using all her persuasion 
to induce her son to enter that religious 
body. From boyhood our subject has been 
of a pious and serious turn of mind, and 
he gave much thought to the most reveren- 
tial questions of life. He did not feel satis- 
fied with what he saw about him. and he 
could not find solutions for his questions in 
the Lutheran Church. When he came to 
Franklin county in his nineteenth year, he 
joined the Reformed Mennonites having 
been impressed by a sermon he heard by 
one of their ministers. This was in 1870. 
and so great was the religious impression 
that it never left him. and it was the means 
not only of his embracing the doctrines of 
this denomination, but of his preaching them 
to multitudes who have been likewise im- 
pressed. He was ordained a minister in 
1884. and since then has given voice to the 
word of God at Wa\Tiesboro. L'pton. Ring- 



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gold, Baltimore City and various places in 
Baltimore county, and he goes to Chambers- 
burg occasionally, and to any place where 
he believes he can carry the message of 
Great Joy. His congregation in Waynes- 
boro numbers one hundred, and the excel- 
lent results he accomplishes cannot be over- 
estimated. 

JOHN J. COFFMAN. M. D. The 
medical profession of Franklin county num- 
bers among its memljers some unusually 
bright and skillful physicians and surgeons, 
and not the least among these is Dr. John J. 
Coffman. of Scotland, Greene township. He 
was bom in \\'ashington county. Md., Nov. 
2^. 185 1, son of David and Caroline (Ham- 
mond) CoflFman. 

(I) JACOB COFFMAN. his grand- 
father, was born on the ocean while his pa- 
rents were voyaging from their old home in 
Germany to found a new home on the hos- 
pitable shores of the New World. They lo- 
cated in Lancaster county. Pa., and in his 
}-oung manhood Jacob went to Washington 
county. Md., and there he reared his family. 
The original spelling of the name was Kauff- 
man, and some of the family spelled it 
Cauffman. but all later adopted the present 
— Coffman. 

(II) DAVID COFFMAN, bom in 
Washington county, Md., in 1821, died at 
the home of his son, Dr. John J., in 1902, in 
the eighty-first year of his age. He married 
Ruthie Caroline Hammond, who was also a 
native of Washington county, Md., born in 
1824. and who died in 1895. They were the 
parents of six children, of whom four grew 
to maturity. 

1. Dr. John J. (III). 

2. Ch.\rles E. is employed as express 
messenger on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- 
road, between Hagerstown and Weaverton, 
Maryland. 



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3. David E. is agent at Derwood, ]Md., 
for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 

4. WiLLOUGHBY D. is general and ex- 
press agent at Keedysville, Md., for the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 

(Ill) DR. JOHN J. COFFMAN passed 
his early years on the home farm near 
Sharpsburg, Md., and received his prelimi- 
nary education in the district schools and a 
neighboring select school, later attending the 
State Normal school at Shippensburg, Pa. 
Returning home he engaged in teaching in 
his native county, a profession he followed 
with success for five years. Having a 
desire to enter the medical profession, and, 
feeling that in that line he could find success, 
he began the study of medicine under Dr, 
Charles F. Russell, of Sharpsburg. In 1877 
he entered the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., taking two 
courses, and in 1881 he took a finishing 
course in the Medical Department of Dart- 
mouth College, Hanover, N. H., where he 
was graduated in the class of 1882. He re- 
turned at once to his old home, and at Boyds, 
Montgomery Co., Md., he began the prac- 
tice of his profession. His careful and con- 
scientious work soon brought him a good 
practice, and he remained in his first loca- 
tion until June, 1885, when he came to 
Franklin county, and in Scotland, Greene 
township, opened an ofiice. By close appli- 
cation he has kept abreast of the rapid strides 
made in the medical science, and he has a 
large clientele that occupies almost all of his 
time. He is one of the most successful gen- 
eral practitioners in the county. 

On May 14, 1890, Dr. Coffman was mar- 
ried to Sallie E. Burns, daughter of Samuel 
R. and Margaret Ann (Renfrew) Burns. Of 
the three children born to them : 

1. Mary died at the age of six years. 

2. John H. died in childhood. 

3. David Rea was born Sept. zy, 1893. 



The Doctor is a Republican in politics, 
but the arduous duties of his profession leave 
him but little time for party work. He is a 
member of the Central Presbyterian Church 
of Chambersburg. Professionally he is a 
member, ex-president and secretary of the 
Medical Society of Franklin County; is a 
member of the State Medical Society : the 
American Medical Association ; and is a 
member and' secretary of the Cumberland 
\'alley Medical Association. Upon the or- 
ganization of the Soldiers' Orphans Indus- 
trial School in 1895. D''- Coffman was ap- 
pointed physician, in which capacity he 
served until January, 1900. In all the past 
twenty-three years he has devoted himself ta 
the general practice of his profession and he 
attributes his success to careful stuily and 
close application to business. His house was 
built by Samuel R. Burns, and descended to 
his daughters, Mrs. Coffman and her sister. 
It adjoins the Soldiers' Orphans Industrial 
School and is in close proximity to the Cum- 
berland Valley Railroad station. For sev- 
eral years the Doctor has done editorial 
work for the Charlotte "Medical Journal," 
of Charlotte, North Carolina. He has 
always taken an active interest, working 
whenever an opportunity presented itself, in 
the public improvements and welfare of his 
home section. He was one of the first to 
move in the interests of good roads — a move- 
ment that has taken a high position in his 
district. He was one of the original movers, 
and a member of the committee to divide 
Greene township into three instead of two 
election precincts. His only social order is 
the I. O. O. F., of which he has ceased to be 
an active member. 

BURNS. (I) The Burns family, to 
which I\Irs. Coffman belongs, was founded 
in America by Archibald Burns, who emi- 
grated from County Lanark. Scotland, to 
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town. Adams Co.. Pa., on a farm given his 
wife bv her brother. Jolm Cnthbertson. the 
first Covenanter minister sent to America, 
who settled in Lancaster county. Archibald 
Burns died leaving two sons : 

1. JOHX. 

2. James settled in Ohio. 

(II)" JOHX BURNS settled, in 1773. 
on the banks of Antietam Creek, Franklin 
countv, on propertv that is still owned by 
some of the family. Erecting a shop and 
mill, he engaged in the manufacture of 
sickles. In 1776 he was summoned for serv- 
ice in the war of the Revolution, and ser\-ed 
until its close, after which he was appointed 
a magistrate, and held that office until his 
death in 1809. He married Sarah, daughter 
of Jeremy Morrow, of Adams county, and 
they liad seven sons and four daughters. Of 
these children, James, the last survivor, who 
died in 1875, was a captain of a volunteer 
company in the war of 18 12, and at the close 
was given the title of "General" in honor of 
his distinguished services. John and Sarah 
Burns were both buried in the old Cove;^- 
anter graveyard, two miles down the Antie- 
tam from their home. Of their children the 
eldest was Jeremy (III). 

(Ill) JEREMY BURNS, eldest son of 
John and Sarah, remained in the old home, 
and followed the trade of sickle smith. He 
married Sarah, daughter of John Renfrew, 
Sr., in 181 1, and they had twelve children, 
among whom were : 

1 . Nancy. 

2. John F. 

3. Samuel R. (IV). 

4. Esther E. 

5. Jeremiah M. 

6. Sarah. 

7. James C. 

8. Hannah J. 

Jeremy Burns died in 1847, ^"^^ '^'^ 
•widow in 1855. 



(IV) SAMUEL R. BURNS, son of 
Jeremy and Sarah, continued on the old iionie 
farm until 1849, when he removed to Guil- 
ford township, and engaged there in farming 
until 1869, in that year locating in Scotland, 
where he for many years was occupied 
chiefly in the settling of estates, his high per- 
sonal integrity and good business methods 
giving him the confidence of the pul)lic. He 
died in 1887. I" 1844 he married Margaret 
Ann Renfrew, daughter of John Renfrew; 
she died in July, 1865, the mother of three 
sons and three daughters, of whom tJie sur- 
\ivors are : 

1. Jeremi.\h M. 

2. Sallie E. (V). 

3. M. Annie. 

Mr. Bums was an elder in the Coven- 
anter, and later in the United Presbyterian 
Church. 

(V) SALLIE E. BURNS, daughter of 
Samuel R. and Margaret Ann (Renfrew) 
Burns, married Dr. John J. CofFman, of 
Scotland. 

DANIEL WEBSTER GREENA- 
WALT. Some of the most progressive 
men of Franklin county are to be found 
within the ranks of the farmers, and among 
them is Daniel W. Greenawalt, of Lemast- 
ers, who was born July 20, 1852. in Peters 
township, Franklin county, a son of John 
and Susan (Swartz) Greenawalt. 

(I) JOHN GREENAWALT, the great- 
grandfather of D. W. Greenawalt. was a 
verv highlv respected man. 

'(II) JACOB GREENAWALT. son of 
Tohn. married Catherine Summers. By oc- 
cupation he was a farmer, and he became 
very successful. He is buried in Quincy 
township, this county. In religious mat- 
ters he was a member of the Lutheran 
Church. His issue was as follows : 

I. John (III). 



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2. Elizabeth married Leander Brin- 
del. 

3. Susan married Henry Hissong. 

4. Jacob married Henrietta Swigert. 

(III) JOHN GREEN AWALT, father 
of our subject, was a farmer of Peters town- 
ship, and became quite prominent in local 
matters, becoming a school director, assessor, 
etc. He was a consistent member of the 
Lutheran Church, and lived according to 
his religious creed. He died in the fall of 
1889 and was buried at Greencastle. His 
issue was as follows : 

1. Sarah never married. 

2. Catherine married Samuel Stauf- 
fer. 

3. Daniel Webster (IV). 

4. Elizabeth married Jacob O. Mar- 
tin. 

5. Susan married .\ppelton Berger. 

6. Rush married Florence Shelato. 

7. Luther married Susan Hollinger. 

8. John died in infancy. 

9. Margaret died in infancy. 

(IV) DANIEL WEBSTER 
GREEN A WALT, the subject proper of 
this sketch, attended school in his native 
township, was reared upon a farm, and 
adopted that calling for his life work. In 
1894 he began to come before the public, 
and was elected school director, and in 
1897 and 1900 was re-elected to the same 
office. In 1897 he was also honored l)y 
election to the office of treasurer of the 
township, and after serving two terms as 
such was. in the fall of 1902, elected county 
commissioner, and took that position in 
January, 1903. He has always been a very 
active Republican, and is recognized as one 
of the leaders in the party in his township. 

In the fall of 1872 Mr. Greenawalt mar- 
ried Charlotte Coble, daughter of George D. 
Coble, of St. Thomas township. The chil- 
dren born of this union were: 



1. Edward C. married Annie Hege, 
daughter of Jacob W. Hege. 

2. Nathan M. married Aviary Hawk, 
daughter of Aaron Hawk. 

3. One died in infancy unnamed. 

4. William W. married Rohanna 
Pittman. 

5. John F. married Geneva McKin- 
non. 

6. Geor<;e G. 

7. Paul R. 

8. Silas S. 

9. Daniel W. 

10. David R. 

1 1. Martin L. 

12. Mary. 

13. Martjia. 

Mr. Greenawalt is a popular member of 
the Royal Arcanum, taking a deep interest 
in the work of that organization. He is a 
consistent member of the Lutheran Church, 
and for the past quarter of a century has 
been a member of its official board, serving 
as deacon, elder or trustee. Few men are 
more popular than Mr. Greenawalt, for he 
not only is a man of pleasing personality 
and courteous manner, but he is one in whom 
implicit trust can always be placed. Whether 
it is as public official or private citizen, he 
always discharges the various duties laid 
upon him faithfully, honorably and ably, and 
his future is a very promising one. 

PETER ROUZER, one of the leading 
citizens of the village of Rouzer\ille, in 
Washington township, Franklin Co., Pa., 
was born June 19, 1837, in Frederick county, 
Md., son of Martin and Rosanna (Gernand) 
Rouzer, natives of Frederick count}'. Md., 
of English and German extraction. The 
father w'as a farmer and tanner by occupa- 
tion, and died in 1847. 

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ventured in business at Rouzerville, continu- 
ing for several years, and meeting witli 
marked success. He also farmed for some 
time, and then embarked in a flourishine 
lumber business, owning and operating a 
large sawmill at Rouzerville. Mr. Rouzer 
erected the first building at Pen Mar, on the 
mountain, which was used as a warehouse by 
him and Reuben Shover, after the Western 
Maryland railroad was built. In politics Mr. 
Rouzer is a Republican, and he has been hon- 
ored with the greater number of the town- 
ship offices, the duties of which he has dis- 
charged in a competent and satisfactory man- 
ner. He is justly regarded as a leading man 
in his community. Fraternally he is a mem- 
ber of the I. O. O. F,, and takes an active 
part in that organization. 

In 1859 Mr. Rouzer married Mary J. 
Hawk, of German extraction, and to their 
union children have been born as follows : 

1. Charles. 

2. Emma married John W. Hess. 

3. Clara. 

4. Kate. 

5. Rosa. 

6. Carrie. 

Religiously Mr. Rouzer is a member of 
the Lutheran Church, and is as active in that 
body as he is in everything else in which he 
is interested. 

SAMUEL HOOVER. Living in the 
midst of the fertile Cumberland Valley, in 
Cumberland county, Pa., Re\-. Samuel 
Hoover, a successful farmer and minister of 
the River Brethren, enjoys unqualified re- 
spect wherever known, and he is a native of 
the county, having been born here Dec. 4, 
1827. The family record reads as follows: 

(I) CHRISTIAN HOOVER was a na- 
tive of Germany, but came to Pennsylvania 
at an early date. His children were : 

I. John. 



2. Martin (II). 

3. Christian. 
4- Peter. 

5. Daniel 

6. David. 

7. Catherine married Abraham Mar- 
tin and moved to New York State. 

8. Magdalene Kries lived and died in 
Pennsylvania. 

(II) MARTIN HOOVER, of the 
above family, grandfather of Samuel, lived 
in Adams county. Pa., where he married 
Mary Graybill, of York county. In 1816 
he removed to Cumberland county, where 
he died on a homestead he had established, 
of a stroke of apople.xy, at the age of sixty- 
seven years. His widow .survived until 1854. 
They were the parents of eleven children : 

1. John (III). 

2. Christian. 

3. Joseph. 

4. David. 

5. Nancy. 

6. Fannie. 

7. Leah. 

8. Maria. 

9. Samuel. 

10. Joel. 

1 1. Benjamin. 

(III) JOHN HOOVER, the father of 
Samuel, moved to I'ranklin county in 1829, 
and survived until the spring of 1877. He 
was an excellent farmer and good business 
man. His religious affiliations were with the 
River Brethren, and he was a minister of 
that denomination. His wife bore the 
maiden name of Catherine Shullenburger, 
and she died in 1872. aged sixty-nine years. 
The children born to these parents were: 

1. Samuel (IV). 

2. Benjamin. 

3. Martin. 

4. Mary. 

5. Elizabeth. 



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(IV) SAMUEL HOOVER, the sub- 
ject of this sketch, received his education 
in Lurgan township, FrankHn county, and 
since then he has added to the foundations 
thus laid by wide observation and extensive 
knowledge of men. All his life he has been 
engaged in farming , and success has 
crowned his efforts ; he now owns two farms, 
one of i6i acres, and another fine one of 
147 acres. Mr. Hoover married ;Miss Fan- 
iiy, daughter of Jacob Brechbill. a native of 
Franklin county, in the vicinity of Cham- 
bersburg. The children born of this union 
are: 

1. Aaron B. 

2. Noah. 

3. John M. 

4. Samuel S. 

5. Levi T. 

6. Jacob H. 

7. Mary C. married Samuel Wenger. 
Mr. and Mrs. Hoover are consistent 

members of the River Brethren denomina- 
tion, of which he was ordained a minister 
in 1880. In politics Mr. Hoover is a Re- 
publican, and he liberally supports the prin- 
ciples of his party. 

WINGER FAMILY. (I) MICHAEL 
WINGER, a native of Berne, Switzerland, 
emigrated to Pennsylvania and before 1725 
settled in Lancaster county, where he was a 
farmer and land-owner. The family name 
of his wife was Rath or Root: they had, 
among other children, a son : 

I. Jacob (II). 

(II) JACOB WINGER, son of Michael 
Winger, was a farmer in Lancaster county. 
The family name of his wife was Mary 
Weaver; they had issue: 

1. Jacob. 

2. Christian. 

3. Joseph (HI) 



4. Eliza married John Stauffer. 

5. Anna married Joseph Gondur. 
(Ill) JOSEPH WINGER (born in 

Lancaster county March 13, 1807 — died at 
Claylick in 1892). son of Jacob and Mary 
(Weaver) Winger, came to Franklin county 
in 1839, and purchased a woolen mill in 
Montgomery township. A year later he 
lx)ught a farm near his mill. He afterward 
disposed of .these interests, and purchased a 
part of the Bradley farm, near the Mercers- 
burg turnpike, to which he removed. In 
1852 he bought a farm near Claylick. and 
removed to the village the next year where 
he engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which 
he continued until his death. He was one of 
the most enterprising men in his township, 
and besides his mercantile and farming in- 
terests was an extensive dealer in stock. 
Through his efforts a postoffice was estab- 
lished at Claylick in 1862, and his sons suc- 
ceeded each other as postmaster there until 
1886. In politics he was a W hig and Repub- 
lican, but on account of State pride he voted 
for James Buchanan for President in 1856. 
In 1862 he was made a prisoner by Stuart's 
Confederate Cavalry, and was carried to 
Richmond, where he was confined in Libby 
prison as a hostage for six weeks. Mr. 
Winger married Esther Buckwalter ( born in 
Lancaster county in 1812 — died Sept. 17, 
1868). daughter of Abraham and Nancy 
(\\"hitmer) Buckwalter. The Witmers and 
Buckwalters, as well as the \\'ingers. were 
early Swiss Mennonite settlers of Lancaster 
county. Joseph and Esther Winger had 
issue : 

1. Sarah married Henry Brindle. 

2. Elizabeth married Jacob Lewis, of 
Frederick, Maryland. 

3. Anna married John E. Stover, of 
California. 

4. Benjamin F. (IV). 

5. Elam B. was postmaster at Clay- 



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lick, 1862-66, but removed to Freeport, 111., 
and lived in Chicago until his death in Au- 
gust, 1904. He married Elizabeth Stover. 

6. Catharine married John Draper. 

7. Joseph W. served in Battery D, 2d 
Pennsylvania Artillery, and became captain. 
He was postmaster at Claylick, 1866-74, 
county auditor, 1868, but removed to Lin- 
coln, Nebraska. He married Margaret 
Irwin. 

8. LvDiA died young. 

9. Esther Amanda married John II. 
Angle. 

10. David died young. 

11. Emma C. married J. B. Seacrest. 

12. John N. died young. 

13. Lucy married Hon. W. R. Gillan. 
[Giilan Family]. 

14. Calvin W. died young. 

15. Jacob Melville was postmaster at 
Claylick, 1874-81, and 1885-86; he married 
Catharine Lesher. 

16. Albert C. was postmaster at Clay- 
lick, 1881-85, but went West, and is a rail- 
road contractor at Ogden, L'tah. 

(IV) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WIN- 
GER (born in Lancaster county, Nov. 27. 
1835), son of Joseph and Esther (Buck- 
waiter) Winger, was brought to Franklin 
county by his parents, and received his ele- 
mentary education in the public schools of 
Montgomery' township. At the age of fif- 
teen he became a clerk in a general- merchan- 
dise store at Mercersburg. While a clerk 
he took private instructions in various 
branches of English and mathematics. After 
a few years he returned to Claylick, and took 
charge of his father's store, where he re- 
mained until i860, when he became a travel- 
ling salesman for a wholesale bouse of Phil- 
adelphia, continuing on the road until 1862. 
He was appointed first lieutenant of Battery 
D, 2d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, .Vug. 
23, 1862, and promoted to be major, Jan. 



24, 1865, and lieutenant-colonel, May 18, 
1865. After he entered the service he was 
stationed at Washington, D. C, fur nearly 
two years in the defense of the capitol. In 
1864, 'le was transferred to the Army of the 
Potomac, took part in the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, 
Cold Harbor, and the sieges of Petersburg 
and Richnmnd. This regiment was under fire 
for fifty-three days previous to the surrender 
of General Lee. His regiment was also in 
the blowing up of the mines during this 
siege. After the war he was directed to take 
charge of the military District of Roanoke, • 
including nine counties. He also served as 
Military Governor of Petersburg for a short 
time. After his retirement from the service 
in 1866, he returned to Franklin county, and 
located on his farm at Welsh Run, known 
as the old Duflield farm. After one year he 
purchased the corner property in Greencastle, 
that he still owns. In the spring of 1867, 
he and his family located in Greencastle, 
where he engaged in the mercantile business. 
In the fall of 1867 he was nominated and 
elected on the Democratic ticket to the State 
Legislature, to represent the counties of 
Franklin and Perry. He began the study 
of law in 1868, under Judge Rowe, and was 
admitted to the Franklin County Bar March 
12, 1 87 1. He began practice at Greencastle. 
and has continued as one of the leading 
members of the Bar up to this time. He was 
a partner with Senator W. U. Brewer for 
fourteen years, and during this partnership 
they were very successful. He has always 
considered real estate a good investment, 
and he owns and manages eight fine farms 
in Franklin county. As one of the organ- 
izers and a director of the Crowell Manufact- 
uring Company, of Greencastle. he contin- 
ued interested in it until its liquidation. He 
is a Mason, and was a charter meml)er of 
Pisgah Lodge, of Greencastle. and made 



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Junior Warden upon its organization in 
1868. He also belongs to the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion. He is a director 
of the Citizens' National Bank of Greencas- 
tle, and has been identified with other lead- 
ing interests of that borough. Since the 
close of the Rebellion the Colonel has been 
active in the ranks of the Democratic party, 
and has twice (1868 and 1884) been the 
candidate of that party for the Legislature. 
Colonel Winger married (first). May 
20, 1857, Susan J. Dufiield (died February, 
1868), daughter of William and Elizabeth 
(Bowen) Duffield, of Welsh Run. They 
had issue : 

1. Bl.\nche married Ralph Ziegler. 

2. Elizabeth died aged sixteen years. 

3. Mary Bowen married Dr. Roljert 
B. Varden, and they have issue: Robert 
B., Frank Winger, Susan. James, Mary 
Bowen, Duffield and Blanche. 

4. Carrie died young. 

Colonel Winger married (second), June 
9, 1870, Margaret K. Byer (died March 7, 
1896), daughter of Dr. Frederick and Cath- 
arine (Ziegler) Byer, of Leitersburg, Md.. 
and they had issue : 

1. Margaret died young. 

2. Rose married Hugh P. Drysdale. of 
North Adams, Massachusetts. 

3. Fr.\nces marrieil V\'illiam R. Da- 
vison. 

GEHR. The Gehr family of Pennsyl- 
vania is believed to be of Huguenot extrac- 
tion, being driven from France into the 
Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, at the time 
of the religious wars. The first of the name 
to come to Pennsylvania were Henry. Chris- 
tian and George, who arrived on the ship 
"Pennsylvania Merchant," arriving at Phila- 
delphia, Sept. Ti, 1 73 1. They were 
under sixteen years of age, and are believed 
to have been brothers. .A.t a later jjeriod 



came Conrad, John, Peter, Philip and Jo- 
seph. John and Peter Gehr were brothers. 
Peter died in Lancaster county, in 1763, 
leaving his estate to the children of his 
brother John. John Gehr came to Penn- 
sylvania on the ship "Halifa.x," landing at 
Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1752. He settled in 
Earl township. Lancaster county. John 
Gehr and Catharine, his wife, had issue: 

1. Andrew (II)- 

2. John died in Lancaster county. 

3. Paul died in 1773, leaving a daugh- 
ter Elizabeth, who married Francis Brum- 
baugh. 

4. George was constable of Earl town- 
ship in 1763. 

5. Catharine. 

6. A daughter married a Ginter, or 
Guenther. 

7. Joseph (III). 

(II) ANDREW GEHR, son of John 
and Catharine Gehr. was executor of the 
estate of his uncle, Peter Gehr. He was 
constable of Earl township. Lancaster Co., 
in 1767, and he died in 1772. The name of 
his wife has not been ascertained. He had 
a son : 

I. Daniel (IV). 

(III) JOSEPH GEHR, son of John 
and Catharine Gehr. was constable of Earl 
township. Lancaster county, in 1768 and 
1770. During the Revolution he was cap- 
tain of the 5th company of Col. John Hu- 
ber's 9th Battalion, Lancaster County mili- 
tia, in 1777. and of the 4th Company, of 
Lieutenant Bower's 3d Battalion. Aug. 26, 
1780. He lived in Cocalico township, Lan- 
caster county, and was a member of the 
Lutheran Church at Scheafferstown. In 
1780, he removed to Somerset count}-, and 
later to Summit township, Crawford coun- 
tv, where the Gehrs purchased land from the 
Pennsylvania Population Company, in 
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Clipps, who died in 1830. He died in 179S. 
They had issue : 

1. Adam, born May 20, 1776, lived 
ni Crawford county. He had a son. Sol- 
omon, who married a daughter of John 
Gehr, son of Jacob Gehr. 

2. Baltzer, born in Lancaster County, 
in 1780, died about 1882. He was taken to 
Western Pennsylvania by his parents and 
li\ed in Crawford County. After he had 
passed the century mark he recovered an 
interest in the estate of Baltzer Gehr, his 
uncle, who was lieutenant-colonel of the 
4tii Battalion, Berks County militia, 1775- 
76. The name of his wife is vmknown. He 
had issue : Josiah, Samuel and Mary. 

3. Samuel lived in Crawford county; 
he had a daughter Ruth, who married a 
Trace. 

4. Jacob died in 1847; '''^ 'I'l'^ ^ son 
John, whose daughter married Solomon 
Gehr. 

5. John was a captain in the war of 
1 8 1 2 ; one of his sons, John, was a noted 
racer. 

6. Joseph lived in Crawford county. 

(IV) DANIEL GEHR (born Feb. 18, 
1763 — died Jan. 16, 1824), son of Andrew 
Gehr. married and had issue : 

I. George (V). 

(V) GEORGE GEHR, son of Daniel 
Gehr, born June 27, .1786 — died April 24, 
1 83 1, settled at Indian Spring, near Han- 
cock, Md. On Nov. 10, 181 1, he married 
Sarah Fisher (born March. 1780 — died 
July 2, 1831), and had issue: 

1. Daniel O. (VI). 

2. William M., born Dec. 29. 18 13. 
lived at Indian Spring. By his wife Sophia, 
he had issue : Denton George, William, Jo- 
seph Martin, Catharine Sarah. Daniel, Hen- 
ry Clay, Louisa, John Edward and 
Charles A. 

3. Denton, born Oct. 23, 1815, died 



July 14, 1881. He married Aug. 6. 1845, 
Sarah Ann Noel, born Nov. i, 1822, and 
they had issue: Catharine Noel, who mar- 
ried Edward Smith : Lizzie Hall, who mar- 
ried Frank Vinton; George Rine; Mary 
Emma; Denton Smith : Grace Hastings; and 
Gertrude. 

4. Mary .Ann, burn Oct. 20, 1817, 
died Oct. 4, 1838. She married John H. 
Steele. 

5. George Rine, born .Aug. 13, 1837,. 
died .April 30, 1828. 

(VI) DANIEL O. GEHR (born at 
Indian Spring, Md., .Aug. 19, 1812 — died 
Sept. 8. 1884), son of George and Sarah 
(Fisher) Gehr, went to Hagerstown as a 
young man, and afterward to Waynesboro,, 
where he kept a store for a number of years. 
In 1837, he settled at Chambersburg, where 
the rest of his life was spent. When Mr. 
Gehr came to Chambersburg the town was 
still the centre of a numlier of stage lines. 
.Although the Cumberland Valley Railroad 
had recently been completed and was in op- 
eration, there were still stage lines to Pitts- 
burg, Baltimore and the South. He engaged 
in the running of stages with Messrs. Calder 
and Peters, Slaymaker and others, and was 
one of the most successful stage managers 
that ever engaged in the business. For 
many years the Pittsburg line, in which he 
was interested, was an important feeder to 
the railroad, coaches, and railroad cars for 
Philadelphia and Baltimore, via Chambers- 
burg, being a standing Pitt.sburg advertise- 
ment in those days. Early in its history 
Mr. Gehr became a stockholder in the Cum- 
berland Valley Railroad, and became a di- 
rector of the company in 1852, serving con- 
tinuously until his death. He was not only 
an energetic and enterprising business man, 
taking part in most of the enterprises of his 
time, but he was active in public affairs. 
In politics he was a Whig and a Republican. 



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His first interest in politics was shown in 
his purchase of a sliare in the Repository 
and Whig, as a member of the firm of Den- 
ny. Gehr & Reynolds. Later he served 
both town and county in positions of trust. 
He was a member of the Chambersburg 
town council in 1849. ^nd was a director of 
the poor, 1853-56. He was appointed post- 
master of Chambersburg' by President 
Hayes, and was holding that office at the 
time of his death. He was prominent in 
Republican politics in both county and State, 
and enjoyed the friendship and confidence 
•of Gen. Simon Cameron, with whom he 
acted politically. He was for a long time 
•one of the vice-presidents of the Agricult- 
ural Society of Pennsylvania. Mr. Gehr 
married, in 1834, Harriet Berryhill (born 
March 5, 181 1 — died May 19, 1878), 
<laughter of John and Eliza Hastings 
(Hughes) Berryhill. The Berryhills were 
an old Dauphin county family, Mrs. Gehr's 
great-grandfather, .Andrew Berryhill, set- 
tling on part of the present site of Harris- 
burg, near the middle of the eighteenth 
century. His farm, which he obtained by 
warrant dated May 17. 1765, contained 150 
acres, and was situated nearly northeast of 
the present State Asylum at Harrisburg. 
Daniel O. and Harriet (Berryhill) Gehr had 
issue : 

1. M.\RY Louis.\ married George W. 
Brewer, a prominent member of the Frank- 
lin county Bar. and a State Senator, 1857- 
'60. They had one daughter, Harriet, who 
married Marshall C. Stoner. 

2. Eliza married Tench McDowell. 

3. Hastings (VII). 

4. Fannie married Dr. Edgar N. Sen- 
seny, deceased, son of Dr. Abraham H. and 
Jane K. (Davis) Senseny. 

5. Charles (liorn in 1849 — died 
Sept. 7, 18 — 2) married .Amelia J. Elder 
i(born June 10, 185 1 — died Dec. 28, 1872), 



daughter of Col. James G. and Mary E. 
(Brindle) Elder. 

6. F'ranklin died young. 

(VII) HASTINGS GEHR (born May 
10. 1839), son of Daniel O. and Harriet 
(Berryhill) Gehr, was educated at the 
Chambersburg Academy, Mount Washing- 
ton Academy, Md., and Dufif's Business 
College, Pittsburgh, .\fter leaving school he 
studied law, and was admitted to the Frank- 
Hn county Bar. .\pril 14, i860. He was a 
clerk in the War Department, W^ashington, 
D. C, 1861-64. In the latter year he re- 
signed, and began the practice of law in 
Chambersburg, for a while with Clen. Fred- 
erick S. Stumbaugh. and afterward with the 
Hon. George W. Brewer until Mr. Brewer's 
death in 1886. He was Register in Bank- 
ruptc}^ for the counties of .\dams, Frank- 
lin, Fulton, Bedford and Somerset. 1867-74, 
and a member of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives, 1875-77. He is now in the 
active practice of his profession in Cham- 
bersburg. Mr. Gehr married. Oct. 14, 1862, 
Mary Fisher Smith (born March 4, 1841), 
daughter of Frederick Smith, for many 
years a leader of the Franklin county Bar. 
Thev had issue : 

1. Mary died young. 

2. Daniel O. (born Sept. 24, 1865) 
was educated at the Chambersburg .Acad- 
emy and studied at Pennsylvania College, 
Gettysburg, 1883-85. He read law in the 
office of Brewer & Gehr, and was admitted 
to the Franklin county Bar, April 23, 1888. 
He is a member of the firm of Gehr & Gehr. 
He married Jan. 10, 1893, Isabel Shields 
Ramsey, of Pittsburg ; they have one daugh- 
ter: Ruth Hastings, bom Dec. 19, 1899. 

3. Garnet (born .A.ug. 14, 1868) was 
educated at the Chambersburg Academy, 
and was graduated at the Pennsylvania Col- 
lege, Gettysburg, in 1891. He studied law 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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tlie Franklin county Bar, Feb. 2;^^ 1893. 
He is a member of the firm of Gehr & Gehr. 
4. George Brewer died young. 

PETER EBY, a native of Lancaster 
county, Pa., born Feb. 18, 1755, came to 
Franklin county about 1780, and located 
some four miles west of Greencastle on the 
Conococheague Creek in the township of 
Antrim. There he secured a farm, and on 
it passed the remainder of his life. On Aug. 
i~, 1779, he married Anna Swartz, who 
was torn in Lebanon county Felx 20, 1759. 
They had issue : six daughters and two sons, 
one of the latter being Jacob (H). 

(II) JACOB EBY (born in I'ranklin 
county in 1791 — died in 1864) was the fa- 
ther of Samuel H. During the war of 181 2 
he was a soldier in Captain Gordon's Com- 
pany, and as such participated in the battles 
of Chippawa and Lundy's Lane and in the 
storming of Fort Erie. In local affairs he 
was enthusiastically affiliated with the Whig 
party. On ]\Iarch 9, 181 5, he married Cath- 
arine Baer (born Aug. 2, 1793, in Lan- 
caster county), daughter of George and 
Esther (Keller) Baer. She removed to 
Franklin county in 1807. Jacob Eby and 
his wife had four daughters and five sons of 
whom S.\MUEL H. (Ill) was the youngest. 

(III) SAMUEL H. EBY (born in An- 
trim township) began teaching school when 
about seventeen years of age, and that pro- 
fession he followed at intervals, as well as 
attending school, until February, 1864, 
when he enlisted in the United States Signal 
Corps, a branch of the regular service, for 
a period of three years. At the close of the 
war, in September, 1865, he was mustered 
out of service. He served in the Depart- 
ments of the Susquehanna and the Potomac. 
In the winter of 1865 he again entered the 
school room and taught continuously until 
the spring of 1875, when he was elected 



county superintendent of the public scliools 
of Franklin county. He was re-elected in 
1878, and served until 18S1, the expiration 
of his second term. The following two 
seasons were spent in teaching, and in 1883 
he entered the First National Bank of f Ireen- 
castle, as bookkeeper and teller, and there 
remained until I'ebruary, 190 1, when he re- 
tired. On July I, 1 90 1, the Citizens Na- 
tional Bank of Greencastle was organized, 
and is now one of the foremost banking es- 
tablishments of Franklin county, wnth a cap- 
ital stock of $25,000. Mr. Eby was elected 
cashier, which responsible position he still 
retains. In politics he is a Republican, and 
fraternally he is a member of Corporal Rihl 
Post, No. 438, Department of Pennsyl- 
vania, G. A. R. 

IVES. Arms : Argent, a chevron be- 
tween three Moors' heads, couped sable. 
Crest : "Blackamoor's Head." 

(I) William Ives, born in England. 
1607, saifed from London Sept. 19, 1635, 
in the ship "Truelove," and arrived in Bos- 
ton that year. He w'cnt with Eaton's Com- 
pany to Quinnipiac (New Haven) in 1639, 
and was enrolled a freeman, and was one 
of the proprietors of that place June 4. 1639. 
He w^as probably married in Boston, in 
1638, for no wife is recorded in the list of 
passengers in the ship in which he came, and 
there were but two members of the family, 
when he went to New Haven. At the time 
of his death, in 1648, his will which was 
made April 3. 1648, named four children. 
The name of his wife is not known; but it is 
known that after his death she married Will- 
iam Basset. The four children mentioned in 
the will were: 

1. Phoebe. 

2. John. 

3. Joseph (II). 

4. H.^NN.\lr. 



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(II) JOSEPH IVES, youngest son of 
William, was born in New Haven, in 1647. 
He received an allotment of land in Wall- 
ingford, with his brother John, in 1669, 
but never settled there, settling in North 
Haven, near his father-in-law's place in 
1674. He married Jan. 2, 1672-73. Mary 
Yale, daughter of Thomas and Mary 
(Turner) Yale, who was a sister of Elihu 
Yale, founder of Yale College, daughter of 
Thomas Yale, who was step-son of The- 
>ophilus Eaton. Through her father she was 
.descended from Thomas Morton, Bishop of 
Durham, and Edmond Bonner, Bishop of 
London, and on her mother's side, from Capt. 
Nathaniel Turner, of Lynn, Mass., 1630, 
who was in command in several expeditions 
•against the Pequot Indians 1636-37, and 
took an important part in the organization 
of the New Haven Colony, being one of 
the twelve who were to choose the "seven 
pillars" who were to begin the church. He 
also contributed, in 1633. towards the erec- 
tion of a fort for the defense of Boston 
Harbor. Joseph Ives died Nov. 17, 1694. 
having had eleven children, of whom seven 
survived him, the second son being Sam- 
uel (III). 

(III) SAMUEL IVES was born at 
North Haven. Nov. 6, 1677. He married 
Jan. 3, 1705-06. Ruth .\twater. daughter 
of Jonathan and Ruth (Peck) At water. 
He was one of the first two deacons of the 
"First Church of North Haven," and was 
made "Ensign" of the first military com- 
pany of North Haven, in 171 8. He died 
Nov. 24, 1726, leaving four sons (the third 
of whiMii was D.wiD (I\'), and four 
daughters. 

(IV) DAVID IVES was born at North 
Haven. Nov. 7. 1723, removed to Meriden 
in 1 741. and joined the Congregational 
Church there. He married, Feb. 28. 1745, 
Elizabeth Merriam, daughter of Capt. Na- 



thaniel Merriam, of Wallingford. He died 
May 20, 1753, leaving two little children — 
a son D.WID (V) and a daughter — (his wife 
having died previously), who were brought 
up and educated by their grandfather, Capt. 
Nathaniel Merriam, of Wallingford, one of 
the founders of that place, who was assigned 
land in recognition of his services in the 
Pequot war, and whose house was fortified 
at that period. 

(V) DAVID IVES was born in Meri- 
den, Conn., April 13, 1747, and married 
Dolly Hough, in 1777. He was a corporal 
in Capt. John Couch's Company in the Lex- 
ington .\larm. April, 1775, afterward lieu- 
tenant and captain in Col. Seth Warner's 
Regiment of Green Mountain Boys. With 
his sister, her husband, and one other fam- 
ily named Campbell, he settled the town of 
Southwick, Mass., which is 40 miles north 
of Meriden, Conn. He died Dec. 11. 1815, 
and was buried in Southwick. Chauncey 
(VI), his son, is the next in line. 

(VI) CHAUNCEY IVES was born at 
Southwick, Mass., April 17. 1785. and died 
at Lansingsburg. N. Y., Oct. 26. 1855. ^^^ 
was captain of Connecticut \'olunteers in 

1812. and was appointed captain of the 37th 
Infantry. United States Army. April 13, 

1 81 3, and commanded at Fort Trumbull, 
New London, Conn., during the war, be- 
ing honorably discharged from the army 
June 15, 1815. He was married, Jan. 7, 
1806, to Orpha Pelton, daughter of Stephen 
Pel ton and Alice Whitney, and their eldest 
son was Chauncey Pelton (VII). born 
May 3, 1807. Stephen Pelton was a Revo- 
lutionary soldier, who participated in the 
battles of Bemis Heights, Sept. 19. 1777; 
Saratoga, Oct. 8th. and was at the surrender 
of Burgoyne, Oct. 17, 1777. He descended 
from John Pelton, who came to Boston 1630 
and 1633. as his name and a description of 
his property appears in the "Book of Pos- 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



335 



sessions." the oldest land record of Boston, 
made by order of the General Court in 1634. 
Alice Whitney, wife of Stepiien Pelton, was 
fifth in descent from John Whitney, emi- 
grant in 1635. \\ho was great-grandson of 
Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney-on-the- 
Wye; also fifth in descent from ]\Iajor 
Simon Willard (1605-1676) one of the 
founders of Concord, Mass., Commissioner 
of boundary Ijetween Massachusetts and 
New Hampshire, 1652, Commander-in- 
chief of the expedition of the United Col- 
onies against Ninagret, sachem of the Nian- 
ticks, a tribe of the Xarragansetts, 1654. and 
commander of the MidiUesex (Mass.) Regi- 
ment in King Philip's war. In the rehef of 
Brookfield. during King Philip's war. to 
A\hich he went with 46 dragoons, the In- 
dians wounded two men and killed the Ma- 
jor's son's horse. Fiske thus describes the 
event: "King Philip, with the Nipmucks. 
on the night of .August 2d. 1675. made a 
fierce assault on Brookfield. Thirty or forty 
men with soiue fifty women and children, 
all the inhabitants of the hamlet, took refuge 
in a large house, where they were besieged 
l)y 300 savages. The fight was kept up for 
three days, while everv other house in the 
^•illage was destroyed. That noon the gal- 
lant Simon Willard, ancestor of two presi- 
dents of Harvard College, a man who had 
done so much in building up Concord and 
Lancaster, that he was known as 'the 
founder of towns,' was on his way from 
Lancaster to Groton, at the head of forty- 
seven horsemen, when he w?s overtaken 
by a courier with the news of Brookfield. 
The distance was thirty miles, the road 
scarcely fit to be called a bridle path, and 
Willard's years were more than three score 
and ten, but by an hour after sunset he had 
galloped into Brookfield and routed the In- 
dians, who tied to a swamp ten miles dis- 
tant." .Mice Whitney was also fifth in de- 



scent from Simon Whitcomb, one of tlie 
men to whom King Charles I issued tlie 
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Cul(jny, Nov. 
3, 1628. and who is named in the charter 
as one of the assistants to Governor Mat- 
thew Craddock. 

(VII) CHAUNCEY PELTON IVES 
was born at Otis, Mass., May 3. 1807, and 
he died in Lansingburg, N. Y., Jan. 2-j, 
1872. He was a merchant and largely in- 
terested in pine lands in Michigan, the town 
of Big Rapids in that State being founded 
by him. He married, Aug. 14, 1838, Char- 
lotte 15rownell Stewart, who was grand- 
daughter of Major TertuUus Dickinson, an 
officer of the Royal .Americans, and great- 
granddaughter of Dr. Peter Hungerford 
(grandson of Lord Hungerford and Lord 
Haywood, of E.xeter), who being a loyalist, 
retired to New York, when that place was 
occupied by the British Army, and his farm 
near Peekskill was confiscated. Ijeing subse- 
quently given by the government to John 
Paulding, one of the distinguished captors 
of Major Andre. Tiie eldest .son of Chaun- 
cey Pelton and Charlotte B. (Stewart) Ives 
was Chauncey (VIII). 

(VIII) CHAUNCEY IVES was bom 
at Lansingburg, X. Y. Sept. 10. 1841. and 
was educated at the academies of Lansing- 
burg and Ballston Springs, N. Y., and at the 
Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. 
Y. In 1863 he entered the service of the 
Mahoney & Broad Mountain Railroad. 
During the summer he luade the surveys for 
the defence of Philadelphia. He was assist- 
ant engineer for the Philadelphia & Read- 
ing Railroad, from 1863 to 1869. on its 
various branches, and became chief engin- 
eer of the Southern Pennsylvania Railroad 
in 1869. and built same from Marion to 
Richmond Furnace. He was engaged in 
the lumber business in Michigan, 1872-77; 
made the survev for the Mont .Mto exten- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



sion, 1877-78; was chief engineer of the 
Shenandoah Valley Railroad, 1878-79; was 
connected with the Missouri Central Rail- 
road 1879-80, and became permanently con- 
nected with the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
road as chief engineer in 1881. During 
his connection with the Cumberland V^alley, 
the road was laid its entire length with steel, 
the extension to Wincliester from ]\Iartins- 
burg was built, the Susquehanna Bridge 
changed from a wooden structure to one of 
iron, the Potomac bridge rebuilt, and the 
wooden bridges on the Southern Pennsyl- 
vania replaced with iron structures. He 
also designed and erected the warehouses. 
machine shops and roundhouses, as well as 
the passenger stations at Hagerstown and 
Carlisle. He became chief engineer of the 
Baltimore & Cumberland Railroad in 1893- 
94, since which time he has done much im- 
portant engineering work in different parts 
of the country. He is a member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, and 
the A. F. & A. M. Mr. Ives is a Republican 
in politics, is a trustee of Wilson College, 
Chambersburg, and a vestryman of Trinity 
Episcopal Church. 

On April 7, 1870, Mr. Ives married 
Sarah Mclntyre, daughter of Judge Peter 
Mclntyre, of York, Pa. She died in Feb- 
ruary, 1871. On Oct. 2, 1872, he married, 
second, Emma I. Culbertson. daughter of 
Dr. Edmund and Ellen H. (Kennedy) 
Gulbertson. They had the following child- 
ren : 

1. Ellen Culbertson. 

2. Charlotte Brownell married 
John Risley Putnam (son of Judge John 
and Mary S. (Shoemaker) Putnam, of Sar- 
atoga, N. Y.), who is connected with the 
Imperial Maritime Customs of China. 

3. Chauncey Pelton, Ixirn Dec. 8, 
1883. 



WITHERSPOON FAMILY. The 
W'itherspoon family of Franklin county is 
lineally descended "from Robert Bruce, one 
of the claimants to the throne of Scotland 
after the death of William the Lion, through 
his daughter Margaret, whose son Robert 
( 1 3 1 6- 1 390 ) , became the first of the Stuart 
sovereigns of Scotland. Robert (II) married 
Lady Isabel Mure. Their third son, Robert 
Stuart, Earl of Alenteith and Fife and Duke 
of Albany, by his first wife. Lady Margaret, 
had [Murdoch Stuart, who married Isabel, 
daughter of Duncan, Earl of Lennox : they 
had Sir James Stuart, who died in Ireland in 
145 1. His son, Walter Stuart, of Morphie, 
married Lady Elizabeth Arnot, and had An- 
drew Stuart, third Lord Evandale, who mar- 
ried Lady Margaret Kennedy, daughter of 
Sir John Kennedy. They had a son, An- 
drew Stuart, who exchanged the barony of 
Evandale for that of Ochiltrie, and died in 
1548: he married Margaret Hamilton, 
daughter of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, 
;'.nd their son, Aiiflrew Stuart, the second 
Lord Ochiltrie, married Agnes Cunning- 
ham, and had a daughter, Margaret Stuart, 
who married John Knox, the famous Scot- 
tish reformer. Margaret Stuart was Knox's 
second wife, whom he married in 1564; they 
had a daughter, Elizabeth Knox, who mar- 
ried Rev. John \\'elch. minister at Ayr. who 
was one of the first Presbyterian ministers 
to be banished by James I of England, 
through his zeal for episcopacy in Scotland. 
The Rev. John and Elizabeth (Knox) Welch 
had a daughter described as Daughter 
\\'elch, who married the Rev. James W'ith- 
erspoon. minister of Yester, Haddington- 
shire. He was a son of David Witherspoon. 
The name is said to have been orig- 
ally Wodderspoon. James and Daughter 
(Welch) Witherspoon had two sons: 

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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



15, 1794 j, who emigrated to America and 
was president of Princeton College and a 
signer of tlie Declaration of Independence. 
2. James (II). 

(II) JAMES WITHERSPOON (born 
at Giffard, Parish of Yester, near Edin- 
burgh, Scotland, in 1725 — died in Lancas- 
ter county in 1 760), son of James and 
Daughter (Welch) Witherspoon, emigrated 
to Pennsylvania about 1750, and settled in 
Lancaster county, where he was accidentally 
killed. He married in Scotland, but the 
name of his wife has not been ascertained. 
They had among other children, a second 
son: James (III). 

(III) JAMES WITHERSPOON 
(born in Lancaster county, Aug. 15, 1757 — 
died March iS, 1838), son of James Wither- 
spoon and grandson of the Rev. James and 
Daughter (Welch) Witherspoon, was a car- 
penter by trade. He came to Franklin 
county about 1780, and lived at Greencastle 
for two or three years, where he followed 
his trade. In 1782 or 1783 he bought a 
farm of 125 acres, partially improved, in 
Guilford township, near New Franklin, and 
was engaged in farming during the rest of 
his life. He married April 25, 1780, Mary 
Elliott (born in the West Intlies, in 1751 — 
died Nov. 25, 1838) ; her mother was a 
Hamilton, a cousin of Alexander Hamilton, 
the distinguished American statesman. Mr. 
Witherspoon and his wife are buried in the 
Brown's Alill graveyard. James and Mary 
(Elliott) Witherspoon had issue: 

1. John (IV). 

2. Mary, born Dec. 8, 1783, married 
Martin Hill : they had no issue. 

3. Margaret, born Feb. 22, 1787, mar- 
ried John Park (VI). 

4. James, born July 29, 1789, married 
Nancy Noble, and they had issue : William, 
Joseph, Mary Ann and Susanna. 



5. Rebecca, born Dec. 30, 1791, mar- 
ried Frank Curry ; they had no issue. 

6. Elizabeth (born Aug. 21, 1795 — 
died in 1864) married April 15, 1817, Sam- 
uel \Miite (born in Adams county April 9, 
1791— died in 1869), son of James and Eliz- 
abeth (Peden) White. They iiad issue: 
James, who married :\Iary Jane Scott, and 
went West; Mary, who married Andrew 
Reid ; Margaret and Susan, who died young ; 
Elizabeth, who married Robert Lott : Re- 
becca, who married John G. Neely; and 
John E., who married Clarissa J. Way- 
bright. 

7. D.\viD.(V). 

(IV) JOHN W ITHERSPOON (burn 
at Greencastle Sept. 9, 1781 — died April 26, 
i860), son of James and Mary (Elliott) 
Witherspoon, was, during the greater part 
of his life, a farmer in Montgomery town- 
ship, on the West Conococheague, a short 
distance below Hiester"s Mill. He was for 
twenty-seven years a ruling elder in the 
IMercersburg Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Witherspoon married Nancy Scott (born in 
1779— died March 16, 1862) ; they had is- 
sue : 

1. James (VII). 

2. Eliza died unmarried. 

3. ]\Iarv died unmarried. 

4. Margaret married Dec. 5, 1847, 
Thomas Clark Fitzgerald; they had issue: 
John, David and James. 

(V) DAVID WITHERSPOON (Ix)rn 
in Guilford township. July 19. 1798 — died 
Nov. 18, 1884). .son of James and Mary 
(Elliott) Witherspoon. was all his life a 
farmer on the old Witherspoon homestead. 
He learned the carpenter's trade from his 
father. In 1843 he built a new dwelling 
house on the farm, and in 1866. he replaced 
the old log bam, built Ijy his father, with a 
fine new structure. In politics he was a- 



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Whig and a Republican, but never held any 
office, except that of Justice of the Peace of 
Guilford township. For seventy years he 
was a member of Falling Spring Presbyte- 
rian Church. Mr. W'itherspoon married. 
May 1 8, 1830, Massie Ann Caruthers (died 
in October, 1876), of an old Cumberland 
county family ; they had issue : 

1. James Elliott, born April 4, 1831, 
is a farmer living at Sacramento, California. 

2. Mary Lucetta, born Feb. 28, 1833, 
married Rev. James D. Fitzgerald (born in 
183 1 ), a Presbyterian minister, who was 
graduated at Jefferson College in 1857, and 
at the Western Theological Seminary in 
i860. They had issue : David Bruce, born 
1862, a Presbyterian minister; and May and 
Lulu. 

3. Sarah Elizabeth, born Feb. 19, 
1835, married Rev. William R. Sibbet ; they 
had issue : Lowrie, Mary, William, Elliott, 
Ella, Knox and Grace. 

4. Dav^id Caruthers, born Jan. 21, 
1837, is a farmer of Greene township. He 
married Sarah Culbertson ; they have two 
children living : Andrew and Laura. 

5. Andrew H. (VIII). 

6. Ann Ellen, born July 19, 1841, 
married February, 1864, Mathias W. Ki- 
:Secker (born in 1839), son of John and 
Eliza (Walter) Kisecker. He is a retired 
farmer at Greencastle. They have issue : 
John, Mary, Elizabeth, Edgar, Andrew, 
Charles and Walter. 

7. John W. (IX). 

8. Emma Rebekah, born Aug. 29. 
1850, married William Sheaffer; they have 
mo issue. 

(VI) MARGARET WITHERSPOON 
(born in 1787), daughter of James and Mary 
(Elliott) Witherspoon, married in 1810. 
John Park (born near Waynesboro in 1783). 
who settled in Path Valley, and was a 
farmer ; thev had is.sue : 



1. Mary (born in 1811 — died May 6, 
1851) married Aug. 11, 1834, William A. 
Mackey; they had issue: James W., Wil- 
liam H. H., Margaret A., Rebecca Jane, 
Lsal)elle, Mary, and two that died in infancy. 

2. John (X). 

3. Is.vbella, Ijorn in 1816, died un- 
married. 

4. James W., burn in 1818. 

5. Margaret E. married William Mc- 
Cormick (XI). 

(VII) JAMES WITHERSPOON 
(born in Montgomery township, October, 
1809 — died Aug. 19, 1877), son of John and 
Xancy (Scott) Witherspoon, was a farmer 
on the farm that had belonged to his father- 
in-law, John Little ; it adjoined that of his 
father. In 1866 he purchased the old "Ir- 
winton Mills" property, to which he re- 
nio\-ed. This was the place where Elizabeth 
Irwin, the mother of President Benjamin 
Harrison, was born. He was a member of 
the Mercersburg Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Witherspoon married Mary Little (born in 
County Armagh. Ireland, in 1805 — died 
July 10, 1880), daughter of John Little, 
who came to America with his family in 
1824. Like the Witherspoons, the Littles 
were of Scotch-Irish stock and firm believers 
in the Presbyterian faith. James and Mary 
(Little) Witherspoon had issue: 

I. John Alexander (born in Mont- 
gomery township, June 28, 1842), was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at the Mer- 
cersburg Academy. After a year spent in 
the West, he returned to his native State to 
take up farming, which he followed until 
his removal to Mercersburg in 1891. In 
1866, when his father purchased the Irwin 
farm and mo\-ed to it, John A. went with 
him. and remained at home until his mar- 
riage, when he assumed the management of 
the place. Since moving to Mercersburg he 
has conducted a grain and commission busi- 




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iiess, proving himself an able business man, 
and ranking among the prosperous citizens in 
the place. In public affairs he has been ac- 
tive, and in various positions proved his 
trustworthiness. From 1884 to 1891 he 
served as director of the poor. In politics he 
is a Republican. He married Jan. 26, 1S74, 
Hettie E. Bradley (born July, 1843), daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Mary H. (Johnston) 
Bradley ; they had issue : Mary Gertrude, 
born Feb. 10, 1875, died in February, 1902; 
Samuel Bradley, born Jan. 4, 1877, is in 
Pittsburgh; John Edgar, born Dec. 10, 1878, 
is with Lutz & Schram, in Pittsburgh ; Wil- 
liam Frederick, born Oct. 27, 1880, is in the 
grain and commission business in Mercers- 
burg; and James Ralph, born May 5, 1883, 
is preparing for admission to the Bar. Mr. 
and Mrs. W'itherspoon are earnest suppor- 
ters of the Presbyterian faith, and active in 
all good works, religious and benevolent en- 
terprises of all kinds receiving their hearty 
encouragement. The Bradley family, to 
which Mrs. Witherspoon belongs, was 
founded in this country by Samuel Bradley, 
a native of Ireland, who, coming to America 
in the latter part of the eighteenth century, 
settled in Dauphin county. Pa. He was 
married there to Hetty Armstrong, and they 
had several children before their remo\al 
from that county to Franklin county. Of 
these, Samuel Bradley, the father of Mrs. 
Witherspoon, was born in 1802, and in 1804 
was brought by his parents to Montgomery 
township. Franklin county, the family set- 
tling on the farm later owned by Johnston 
Bradley. He married Maiy H. Johnston, 
daughter of John Johnston, of Mercerslnirg. 
and the present home of John A. \^'ither- 
spoon and family was the old Johnston home 
which John Johnston built in 1846; he died 
there about 1856-57. Samuel and Mary PI. 
(Johnston) Bradley became the parents of 
■seven children: Johnston, Van F., Hetty E. 



(.Mrs. Witherspoon), T. Oswald. Kerie A., 
Matthew 11. and S. Chalmers. Tiie last 
named is deceased. The others all made 
their home in Franklin county except Rev. 
Matthew H. Bradley, who became pastor of 
the church at Mount Pleasant, Westmore- 
land county, and is now located in Paines- 
ville, Ohio. He travels considerably in mi.s- 
sionary work in the state of Missouri. 

2. J.AMES William (born in Mont- 
gomery township, March 18. 1844), ^\a» ed- 
ucated in die public schools and at the Mer- 
cersburg Academy. He was reared on his 
father's farm, but has made Mercersburg 
his home for many years. In April, 1878, 
he was chosen cashier of the Farmers' Bank 
of Mercersburg, a position that he still fills. 
The Farmers' Bank has increased its capital 
stock from $12,000 to $36,000, from the 
earnings, since Mr. W'itherspoon assumed 
the duties of cashier, no stock having Ijeen 
put on the market. This bank is regarded as 
one of the sound financial institutions of the 
county, and under the careful, conservative 
])oliticy of its management it is destined to 
have a long and exceedingly prosperous ca- 
reer. ]\lr. Witherspoon has been closely 
identified with educational matters of hi.s 
town, and has served as a member and direc- 
tor of the school board, and as one 01 tiie 
board of regents of Mercersburg College. 
In politics he is a Republican, and in relig- 
ious belief a Presbyterian, as is also his wife. 
and he has been an elder for alx)ut twenty 
years. His interests are all centered in Mer- 
cersburg, he being not only a large stock- 
holder in the bank, but the owner of consid- 
erable realty, and he is one of the leading 
and representative business men of his local- 
ity. Mr. Witherspoon married Dec. 8. 1886, 
Caroline Hayes, daughter of Marriot Hayes, 
in his life time a leading farmer, contractor 
and millwright of Montgomery townsliip. 
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6, 1888; Richard Hayes, born Dec. 17, 1891 ; 
James William, Jr., born Sept. 18, 1893; and 
Alice Mildred, born May 8, 1898. 

(VIll) ANDREW HAMILTON 
WITHERSPOON (born Feb. 21, 1839), 
son of David and Massie Ann (Caruthers) 
Witherspoon, was reared on the old Wither- 
spoon homestead in Guilford township, and 
was educated in the public schools and at the 
Chambersburg Academy. As a young man. 
he went to Sacramento, Cal., by the Panama 
route, where he remained three years. After 
his return he farmed the home place for one 
year, and then went to Jefferson county. 
West Virginia, where he was engaged in 
farming for eighteen years. Returning to 
Franklin county he settled at Guilford 
Springs in 1889, where he was appointed 
postmaster by President Harrison, and made 
station agent by the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
road. He also conducts a general merchan- 
dising business. He is a life long Republi- 
can and a member of the Falling Spring 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Witherspoon 
married (first), at Sacramento, June 12, 
1869, Elizabeth Caruthers (died in West 
Virginia, Nov. 22, 1881), daughter of An- 
drew and Mary (Given) Caruthers; they 

had issue: 

1. Andrew C. was accidentally shot and 
killed by his cousin at Shippensburg, Pa., 
Aug. 6, 1886. 

2. John E., living at Sacramento, Cali- 
fornia. 

3. Emma E., living at Sacramento, Cal- 
ifornia. 

Mr. Witherspoon married (second) 
Mary H. Clapman. daughter of Samuel and 
Sarah Clapman, of Berkeley county. West 
Virginia. They had issue : 

1. Edith O. 

2. Samuel C. 

3. Andrew C. 

4. Robert H. 



5. Maurice M. 

(IX) JOHN WILLISON WITHER- 
SPOON (born in Guilford township. Oct. 
4, 1843), son of David and :\Iassie Ann 
(Caruthers) Witherspoon, was educated in 
the public schools and at the Chambersburg 
Academy. After leaving school he assisted 
his father, until, in 1864. he enlisted in the 
United States Signal Corps, serving in the 
valley of Virginia. He was on duty with 
the middle military division under Gens. 
Sigel, Hunter and Sheridan, and he partici- 
pated in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's 
Hill and Cedar Creek, and was mustered out 
at Winchester, Va., in August. 1865. After 
the Civil war, he was for three terms a 
teacher in the public schools. In 1868 he 
went to West Virginia, where he engaged in 
farming for six years. He returned to Guil- 
ford township in 1874. and has since been a 
farmer on the farm of his father and grand- 
father, which he owns. In politics he is a 
Republican, and he was for nine years a 
school director for Guilford township and 
a County Commissioner, 1887-90, and has 
also been assessor. On Nov. 8, 1904. he was 
elected to represent his district in the State 
Legislature. Honesty and fair dealing have 
ever characterized his dealings with his fel- 
lowmen. He is a member of Housum Post, 
No. 309, G. A. R.. and of the Falling Spring 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Witherspoon 
married. Jan. 28. 1875, Mary E. Mickey, 
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth ( McCul- 
• lough ) M ickey . of an old Cumberland county 
family. They have issue : 

I. Robert Ralph was killed by a fall 
fr<im a horse at the age of seventeen. 

_'. John W. is at Franklin College, irr 
Ohio. ]ireparing to enter the Presbyterian 
ministry. 

3. Mary E. married John S. Zarger 

[Zarger Family]. 

4. Florence L. is the wife of Claude 






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Wingerd, and has one son, Claude Witlier- 
spoon Wingerd. 

5. David Erskine is a teacher in the 
Guilford township schools. 

6. OuiNN M. 

7. Agnew Crawford. 
S. Lawrence Austin. 
9. Herbert Wayne. 

(X) JOHN PARK (born in Path Val- 
ley in 18 1 3 — died in 1885), son of John and 
Margaret ( W'itherspoon) Park, was a 
farmer on the old Park homestead in Metal 
township, that now belongs to his son, Wil- 
liam J. Park. He was a ruling elder in the 
Lower Path Valley Presbyterian Church, 
and a useful man in tlie community in which 
he lived. In politics he was a Whig and Re- 
publican. Mr. Park married in 1845, J^iie 
Watt, daughter of William Watt, of West- 
moreland county. They had issue : 

1. William J. (XII). 

2. Ortha B. died aged nineteen years. 

3. George W. was a leading florist for 
many years at Libonia. in Path Valley ; he 
is now of La Park, near Paradise, in Lan- 
caster county. He married Margaret Jane 
McAllen, daughter of John F. and Elizabeth 
M. (Nimmon) McAllen. 

4. Margaret W^ lives with her brother. 
George W., at La Park. 

5. James A. is a lawyer at Pueblo, Col- 
orado. 

6. Duff D. is postmaster at La Park, 
Lancaster Co. 

7. Oliver M. is a farmer in Metal 
township. 

(XI) MARGARET ELIZABETH 
PARK (born in 1825). daughter of John 
and Margaret (\\"itherspoon) Park, married 
William McCormick (born in 1830 — died in 
1890), son of Robert McCormick. who set- 
tled in Path Valley a century ago. Robert 
McCormick first married a Harvey (first 
name unknown), who died shortly after the 



birth of their son William. He married for 
his second wife a lady in the western part of 
the State. He was the father of nine chil- 
dren : William. Glenn, Denny, Mary, Eliz- 
abeth. Susan. Joanna, Ethelinda and Evelyn, 
all of Indiana county. William McCor- 
mick returned to the old Path Valley home 
in 1845. ''"cl remained there during the rest 
of his life. At the time of his death he 
owned a farm uf J40 acres in Path Valley, 
and also a good farm in Guilford township. 
He was a stanch Democrat, and a memljer of 
the Lower Path Valley Presbyterian Church. 
William and Margaret E. McCormick had 
issue: 

1. James W. (died in 1899) married 
Carrie B. McCormick, and they had issue: 
James and Harold. 

2. Robert Habvev, a farmer owned a 
large farm in Path Valley in partnership 
with his brother. William B. 

3. William B. (born in Path Valley, 
Nov. 10. 1865 — died Dec. 13, 1903, of tu- 
l)ercular pneumonia) was a farmer on the 
McCormick homestead in Path \'alley in 
partnership with his brother, Rol>ert H. He 
was reared on the farm and educated in the 
public schools. He was a Democrat, and a 
member of the Lower Path \alley Presbyte- 
rian Church. He married, in 1893. Laura 
Gordon, daughter of John Gordon, of Big 
Cove, Fulton county. The Gordons are an 
old Fulton county family of Scotch-Irish 
stock. \\'illiam B. and Laura McCormick 
had issue: Ethel, Frank. Frederick. Mar- 
garet, Glenn and Ro.se. 

(XII) WILLIAM J. PARK (born in 
Path Valley, Nov. 9. 1846), son of John and 
Jane (Watt) Park, was reared on the old 
Park homestead in Metal township, and edu- 
cated in the public schools. He is a farmer 
on the home farm. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat, and has served as township auditor and 
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is a member of the Lower Path Valley Pres- 
byterian Church. Mr. Park married (first). 
May 14, 1873, Susan Caroline Skinner (died 
Sept. 12, 1880), daughter of William \\". 
and Mary A. (Ramsey) Skinner. They had 
issue : 

1. Thomas C, a student at Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia. 

2. M.'^RY J. died in childhood. 

3. Ralph S. died in childhood. 

Mr. Park married (second), Feb. i, 
1882, Lucetta E. Mickey, daughter of Rob- 
ert Mickey, of Cumberland county. They 
have issue : 

1. Nellie E., an art student in Phila- 
delphia. 

2. Eunice L. 

3. James W. 

4. Robert W. died young. 

CHARLES A. HARTZELL, M. D. 
With the ever widening knowledge of the 
human frame and its attendant ills, the de- 
mands upon the skill of the physician in- 
crease, but there increases also in a tenfold 
degree his ability to check the ravages of 
disease and to mitigate suffering; and it is 
this sense of power and of being one of the 
beneficent forces in the world's life that more 
than compensates a doctor for the many 
personal sacrifices involved in his choice of 
a profession. Among the physicians of 
Franklin county who have made a permanent 
place for themselves by their untiring min- 
istrations to the sick, is Dr. Charles .\. 
Hartzell, a prominent practitioner of Fay- 
etteville. He was born on the old Hartzell 
homestead Feb. 28, 1864, son of Dr. Ezekiel 
and Mary (Bixler) Hartzell, Imtli now de- 
ceased. The Hartzell family is of Swiss 
extraction and the immigrant ancestor set- 
tled in Pennsylvania in 1732. 

(I) GEORGE HERTZELL, acconl- 
ing to the spelling of the name at that day, 



the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Charles 
A., lived and died in York county. 

(II) GEORGE HARTZELL, son of 
George, moved to Adams county and lived 
there on a farm until he died, aged si.xty- 
five years. His wife, whose maiden name 
was Bream, lived to be seventy-two, and 
they had issue: 

1. George J. (III). 

2. John Henry. 

3. Joseph Samuel, 

4. Elizabeth. 

5. Mary. 

6. Susan. 

7. Hannah. 

(III) GEORGE J. HARTZELL, old- 
est son of George, was a farmer in Menallen 
township, Adams county, where he lived to 
be sixty-five years of age. He was a mem- 
ber of the Reformed Church. His wife was 
]\lary, daughter of Frederick Gelivix, and 
he readied the age of sixty-three. Their 
children were as follows : 

1. Lebright E. 

2. Ezekiel Zephonia (IV). 

3. Ch.^rles a. 

4. George. 

5. Frederick was a physician. 

6. Leah. 

7. Matilda Ann. 

8. Rachel L. 

(IV) DR. EZEKIEL Z. HARTZELL 
was educated at the Pennsylvania College 
in Gettysburg, and after completing his 
course there entered upon his medical studies 
at the age of twenty-one, under the direc- 
tion of David Gilbert. Later he matricu- 
lated at the Philadelphia Medical College, 
and was graduated from it in 1S47. The 
following year he located at Taneytown, 
Md., but after aliout a twelvemonth in that 
State, the young doctor returned to Penn- 
sylvania and began practicing at Fayette- 
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practice and became one of the leading 
physicians in the county. He was at one 
time president of the County Medical So- 
ciety. He died in 1894, aged seventy-four. 
He was twice married : His first wife. Miss 
Matilda Hewitt, died wlien only twenty-five 
years of age, the motlier of two ciiildrcn : 

1. Clayton C, deceased. 

2. Levina, deceased. 

Dr. Hartzell afterward married Miss 
Mary A. Bixler, daughter of Jacob Bixler, 
deceased. To this union five children came : 

1. Milton B. , , 

2. George J. 

3. Alice (deceased). 

4. Charles A. (V). 

5. Mary E. 

Dr. and Mrs. Hartzell were members of 
the Reformed Church, and politically he 
was a lifelong Republican. 

(V) CHARLES A. HARTZELL was 
educated in the Fayetteville pulilic schools 
and the Chambersburg Academy, from 
which latter he graduated at the age of 
twenty. In 1884 he entered the Medical 
College of the University of Pennsylvania, 
and was given his degree three years later. 
Returning to Fayetteville, where he now 
owns the old home, he began to practice 
with his father, and soon became t)ne of 
the popular pliysicians of the place, witli 
his services in constant demand, and his 
clientele extending into Guilford and Greene 
townships. He is a member of the Frank- 
lin County Medical Society, and already has 
won a prominent place among his fellows. 
An enthusiast in his profession, he has de- 
voted his whole time and attention to that, 
so that while he supports the Republican 
party, he has never had opportunity to take 
part in political life. 

Dr. Hartzell abandoned the bachelor 
ranks Feb. 16, 1889, when he was married 
to Miss Ida Brindle, of Woodstock, Greene 



township, daughter of George and Eliza- 
beth (Keller) Brindle, of an old York coun- 
ty family. The doctor and his wife be- 
long to the Lutheran Church of Fayetteville. 
The children born to Charles A. and Ida 
Hartzell are ; 

1. Milton Brindle. 

2. PYorence. 

3. Miriam. 

4. Helen. 

5. George. 

HAWBECKER FAMILY. The fam- 
ily record of the Hawbecker family is as fol- 
lows : There were three brothers of the 
name, Peter, Henry and John, of whom 
Peter came to Greencastle from Ephrata, 
Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1810: Henry came 
from the same place in Lancaster county in- 
1813, locating at Upton; John also came: 
from Lancaster county, and located on 
Welsh Run, in 1813. l-'rom these three 
brothers have descended all those bearing 
the name of Hawbecker in I-^anklin county, 
although the early history of the family is 
connected with that of Lancaster county. 

HENRY M.\WBECKER, of the 
above mentioned brothers, was the grandfa- 
ther of our subject. S. Z. Hawbecker, of St. 
Thomas township. Franklin county, and his 
children were : 

1. Nancv married Michael Gordon, of 
Antrim townshiii. 

2. David married Lydia Zentmyers, of 
Antrim township, and they became the par- 
ents of S. Z. Hawbecker. 

3. Tacob married Catharine Kuhn, of 
Antrim township. 

4. John married Susan Lebernight, of 
St. Thomas township. 

5. Henry married Ruth Graham, of 
Antrim township. 

6. Peter married Nancy Mourer, of 
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7. Daniel married (first) Sarah Allen, 
of West Virginia, and (second) Susan 
Hunter, of Antrim township. 

8. Catharine married Mathias Bark- 
doll, of W^ashington township. 

9. Elizabeth married Samuel Rich- 
ards, of Peters township. 

10. Sarah married George Stuff, of 
Antrim township. 

11. Susan married Jacoh A. Stech, of 
Montgomery township. 

The maternal grandfather of S. Z. Haw- 
becker was John Zentmyers, a wagonmaker 
by trade, wlio, coming from Lancaster coun- 
ty, located near Upton, Franklin county, in 
1817, but later in life farmed in Antrim 
township, and still later worked at his trade 
in Peters township. He died about 1854. in 
Antrim township, and was interred in the 
old United Brethren cemetery at Green- 
castle, a man highly respected during life, 
and sincerely mourned at death. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Wingard, a niece of Jacob 
Wingard, the celebrated LInited Brethren 
minister. They hail issue : 

1. John. 

2. Jacob. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Sarah married Christian Hevel. 

5. MoLLiE was the first wife of Chris- 
tian Hevel. 

6. Lydia became the mother of our 
subject. 

7. Elizabeth married Samuel C. 
Stickeil. 

8. Susan married Daniel Stickeil, 
who died in i860 at Marion, and she then 
married Jacob Hockersmith. 

S. Z. HAWBECKER married for his 
first wife Miss Anna Mary Grove, daugh- 
ter of John Grove, of Strasburg, Pa. ; is- 
sue : 

I. Upton G. married Elizabeth Hoke, 
tdaughter of John Hoke, of Mercersburg. 



2. Florence died at the same time as 
the mother. 

Mr. Hawbecker's first wife dying in 
February, 1866, he later married Miss Mary 
E. Williamson, daughter of Jacob William- 
son, of Shepherdstown, W. Va. Their chil- 
dren were : 

1. LiDA married C. E. Kieffer. 

2. Nettie married Harry C. Croft. 

3. Carrie married Howard Lowman. 

4. Bess is unmarried. 

Mr. Hawbecker is a member of the Re- 
formed Church, has been a deacon and elder 
of the church for a number of years, and 
a ver}' prominent factor in that denomina- 
tion. He has also been prominent political- 
ly, having served as school director for over 
twelve years, and in 1902 he was again 
elected for a term of three years. In addi- 
tion to attending to his other interests Mr. 
Hawbecker serves as secretary of the Will- 
iamson Creamery Association. He is sta- 
tion agent and telegraph operator of Will- 
iamson for the Cumberland Valley Road, 
and is a very reliable, upright man, a trusted 
employe of a great railroad company, and 
an honored member of society and church. 

THEODORE B. WOOD (born in 
Philadelphia, Oct. 15, 1819 — died Dec. 30, 
1897) was the youngest son of Adna and 
Ann (Thome) Wood, of Philadelphia. His 
ancestors came from Leeds, England, and 
the family was one of the okl families of 
Philadelphia. At the age of si.xteen he com- 
menced an apprenticeship as a machinist at 
Newcastle, Del., and after the failure of the 
firm with which he served about 1837 he 
finished his trade with Richard Norris, the 
locomotive builder of Philadelphia. After 
completing his apprenticeship he worked at 
his trade as a journeyman in Piu'ladelphia 
and elsewhere. He came to Harrisljurg in 
1844, and in 1847 "settled in Chambcrsburg, 




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in the employ of the Cuml^erland \'alley Rail- 
road Company as a machinist. About 1850 
he was made master mechanic, and served 
in this position until May. 1857. when he 
d&a§'^d in business as a foundryman and 
machinist, at the present location of T. B. 
Wood's Sons, having as a partner Col. Peter 
B. Housum, who was fatally wounded at 
the battle of Stone River in December. 1862. 
In 1863 Mr. Wood became the sole owner of 
the plant, and conducted it alone until Janu- 
ary, 1868. when he took into the business as 
partners Levi D. C. Houser and his son 
George A. Wood, under the firm name of 
T. B. Wood & Co. This partnership lasted 
until Jan. i. 1884. when ]\Ir. Houser retired, 
and Theodore M. Wood was admitted as a 
member of the firm, the name of which was 
changed to T. B. Wood & Sons. Mr. Wood 
retired from active business Jan. 1. 1889. the 
business being continued by his two sons, 
George A. and Theodore M. Wood, under 
the firm name of T. B. Wood's Sons, until 
Jan. I, 1899. when Charles O. Wood, a son 
of the senior partner, George A. \\'ood, l)e- 
came a member of the firm. This partner- 
ship has continued up to the present time, 
and the business is one of the important in- 
dustries of Chambersburg. ^Ir. Wood was 
an old line Whig, and upon the organization 
of the Republican party he joined its ranks. 
He was a skillful mechanic and a thorough 
business man, and was held in high esteem 
in the community in which he lived. The 
business that he founded is in itself a monu- 
ment that commemorates his industry and 
enterprise. He was a member of the Central 
Presbyterian Church. For a number of 
years he was a director and vice-president of 
the National Bank of Chambersburg. Mr. 
^Vood married near Harrisburg. Jan. i. 
1845, -'^'i" Jane (Keller), daughter of 
George Keller, of Cumberland county. She 
survives her husband, and still lives in 



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L'hambersburg. Theodore 
( Keller) Wood had issue : 

1. George A. (II). 

2. Charles H. (born June 11. 1850) 
is a farmer in Kansas, where he married and 
has a family. 

3. Theodore M. (III). 

(II) GEORGE A. WOOD (Ijorn in 
Cuml^erland County. Oct. 9. 1845), son of 
Theodore B. and Ann Jane ( Keller) Wood, 
is the senior niemljer of the firm of T. B. 
Wood's Stjns. founders and machinists of 
Chambersburg. He is a practical machinist 
and has been connected with the business, of 
which he is now the head, since 1861. He is a 
member of Zion's Reformed Church. Cham- 
bersburg. of which he is an elder. In 1903 
he was chosen superintendent of the Sunday- 
school of Zion's Reformed Church, to 
succeed Jacob Ileyser. This school was 
founded in 1830. but Mr. Wood is 
only its fourth superintendent. his 
William Ileyser. Bar- 
Jacob Heyser. Mr. 
W'ood has served as a member of the Cham- 
Ijersburg town council from the Second ward. 
He is a member of the board of directors of 
the National Bank of Chambersburg, and a 
member of the Ixjard of regents of Mer- 
cersburg College. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. 

Mr. Wood married. Sept. i. 1870. Katli- 
erine M. Spangler, of Chambersburg, and 
they have had children : 

1. Charles O.. a member of the firm 
of T. B. Wood's Sons since 1899: lie m.ir- 
ried Katherine Sierer, of Chambersburg. 

2. Nellie died aged eight years. 
Theodore B.. 
George Herbert. 
Bertha K. 

Wood's three sons are graduates of 
University, and all of them are 

mechanical engineers. 



predecessors being 
nard Wolf and 



3- 

4- 

5- 

Mr. 
Lehigh 



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BIOGR.\PHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



(Ill) THEODORE M. WOOD (bom 
Sept. 2-j, 1857. at Cliambersburg, son of 
Theodore B. and Ann Jane (Keller) Wood, 
is a member of the firm of T. B. Wood's 
Sons, and an active and energetic business 
man. He is a member of Zion's Reformed 
Church, a director of the Children's Aid 
Society of Franklin county, the Chambers- 
burg Hospital and a member of the Art 
Club of Philadelphia. He is a Republican 
in politics. Mr. W^ood married, June 5, 
1877, Margaretta Hoke, daughter of David 
and Mary E. Hoke, of McConnellsburg, and 
they have had children : 

1. ISL-^RGARETTA, living at home. 

2. Charles M., a student at Cornell 
University. 

3. J. Harry died June 5, 1891, aged 
nineteen years. 

4. Helen B.. living at home. 

5. Theodore W.. at school. 

JOHN WHITE, who at one time was 
very prominently identified with the busi- 
ness interests of this portion of the State, 
was born in Franklin county. Pa., April 
21, 1818, son of Edward and Mary (Low- 
head) White. 

EDWARD WHITE was a native of 
Franklin county, having been born near 
Alercersburg, and he was a farmer liy oc- 
cupation, living in the vicinity of L'pton 
where he owned a farm. His religious con- 
nections were with the Presbyterian church. 

JOHN WHITE was reared and spent 
his entire life in Franklin county, and his 
death occurred in May, 1899, in Green- 
castle to which place he had retired after 
many years spent in farming. In 1858 he 
married Mary J. Beall. who survives him, 
and is a resident of Greencastle. She was 
the daughter of George M. and Margaret 
(Furgeson) Beall, of Adams county, where 
thev were married. \\'hen Mrs. White was 



but a small child, however, they came to 
Franklin county, and located in Antrim 
township near Greencastle, where the father 
farmed, he being one of the extensive farm- 
ers of that locality. He was a son of George 
and Hannah (Ramsey) Beall, of Adams 
county. Mr. and Mrs. Beall were consist- 
ent members of the Presbyterian Church. 
Mr. and Airs. John White have had issue; 

1. Anna M. married Frank Maxwell, 
of York, Pennsylvania. 

2. Edw.^rd M., of Washington county. 
Md., is a farmer, 

3. Elizabeth J. is unmarried. 

4. George B. is a farmer of Antrini 
township. 

5. Ida R. is unmarried and at home. 

6. William F. is a tailor of Bedford. 

7. Harriet K. married Rush Prather, 
of Greencastle. 

8. Hannah May married George F. 
Bloser, a jeweler of Greencastle, whose life 
is extensively treated of elsewhere. 

9. John F., of Bellmont, N. Y., is a 
machinist. 

10. Stella B. is unmarried and at 
home. 

Three others are deceased. 
The family are all members of the Pres- 
byterian Church, 

HOERNER FAMILY. ANDREW 
HOERNER (born in Switzerland. April 
19, 1743) emigrated to Pennsylvania, when 
he was only seven years old. It is probable 
he came over on the ship "Osgood," William 
Wilkie, master, landing at Philadelphia. 
Sept. 29, 1750, as among the four hundred 
and eighty passengers on this vessel were 
Nicholaus, Friederich and Heinrich Horner. 
.\s Andrew Hoerner was only a child, his 
name is not included in the passenger list 
printed in Rupp's "Thirty Thousand 
Names." Lie settled near Lebanon, but 



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about 1765, he purchased for £500 Pennsyl- 
vania currency, a homestead near Hummels- 
town, in what is now Dauphin county. He 
was a soldier of tlie Revolution. Mr. Hoer- 
ner was twice married, his wives being sis- 
ters, whose surname was Klick. By his wife 
Barbara Klick (born Oct. 20, 1759), there 
were ten children, one of whom was John 
(II). 

(11; JOHN HOERNER (born near 
Hummelstown, June 3, 1783 — died Nov. 8, 
1874), son of Andrew and Barbara (Klick) 
Hoerner, was a prominent citizen of Dauphin 
county. He was a Major in the war of 
1812-14. Mr. Hoerner married Dec. 27, 
1806, Magdalena Ebersole (born October, 
1788.) They had issue: 

1. Jacob, born April 23, 1808. 

2. Andrew, born Sept. 7, 1809. 

3. David (III). 

4. John, born April 17, 1813. 

5. Mary Louisa, born Dec. 30, 1814. 

6. Martha Magdalena, born Dec. 30, 
1814. 

7. Anna, born July 17, 181 7. 

8. Barbara, born Sept. 26, 18 19. 

9. Peter, born Sept. 10, 1822. 

10. Albert, born July 7, 1825. 

11. Eleanor, born Dec. 28, 1827. 

12. Cyrus, born Dec. 25, 1833. 
(Ill) DAVID HOERNER (bom in 

Dauphin county, May 24, 181 1 — died in 
Cumberland county), son of John and Mag- 
dalena (Ebersole) Hoerner, was educated in 
the schools of his native county. At the age 
of eighteen he entered a woolen mill to learn 
the trade, with a view of making the manu- 
facture of woolens the business of his life. 
In 1847, 'i^ purchased the woolen mil! in 
South Middleton township. Cumberland 
county, which he conducted successfully 
until 1874. when he retired in favor of his 
youngest son, Daniel B. During Lees in- 
vasion of Pennsylvania, in 1863, Mr. Hoer- 



ner went to Harrisburg to inform General 
Smith of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's advance down 
the valley. Upon his return journey he found 
General Lee sitting on a fence. Lee spoke 
to him saying "Come, let us have a talk."' 
He clambered up by the side of the General, 
and for half an hour they discussed e.xisting 
conditions. When he resumed his journey 
three Confederate soldiers accompanied him. 
as they said, to get something to eat. This 
made Mr. Hoerner uncomfortable, as at the 
time he had a pass from "Baldy" Smith in 
his pocket. He disarmed their suspicions 
by stopping at a farm-house near his home. 
He was a captain in the Cumberland County 
militia, and was promoted to be major of 
his battalion. Like his father and grand- 
father, he was a member of the Lutheran 
Church, but his wife was a member of the 
United Brethren in Christ. Mr. Hoerner 
married in 1831, Barbara Hoover (born 
Feb. 10, 1811), daughter of Frederick and 
Susanna (Miller) Hoover, of Dauphin 
County. They had issue: 

1. Mary E. (born Feb. 13, 1834) mar- 
ried Samuel Shelly. 

2. John H. (IV). 

3. Magdalene C. (born Feb. 21,. 
1838) married Rev. John P. Smith, a Meth- 
odist minister. 

4. Susanna B., bom May 21, 1840. 

5. Jacob, born March 7, 1842, died in^ 
infancy. 

6. David F., Ixjrn March 30, 1843, died 
of starvation in Andersonville prison during 
the Civil war. 

7. Thomas J., born June 14, 1845, 
killed in front of Petersburg, Virginia. 

8. William H.. born Jan. 9, 1848, 
lives in Central City, Colorado. 

9. Daniel B.. bom Oct. i, 185 1. now 
living in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. 

10. Barbara M. (born March 26, 
1855) married J. K. Graybill. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



(IV) JOHN HOOVER HOERNER 
(born near Hummelstown, Jan. i6, 1836), 
son of David and Barbara (Hoover) Hoer- 
ner, went with his parents to Cumberland 
■county, in J 847, where he worked for his 
father in the woolen mill. His early educa- 
tional advantages were meagre, consisting 
oi about three months schooling in the public 
schools each winter during his boyhood. He 
was graduated at Chamberlain Commercial 
■College, Baltimore, in 1856, in Double Entry 
Book-keeping, Commercial Calculation, etc. 
In September of the same year, he engaged 
with P. A. Ahl & Bro., as book-keeper and 
general clerk in their warehouse at Newville, 
with whom he remained about thirteen 
years. During the Civil war, the Ahls fur- 
nished supplies to the Go\'ernraent, such as 
horses, mules and forage in large cjuantities, 
of all of which Mr. Hoerner had charge. 
After the war he was sent to the Caledonia 
Iron Works, in Franklin county, in which 
the Ahls were interested with Thaddeus 
Stevens. From Caledonia, he went to 
Mount Pleasant Iron Works, now Rich- 
mond Furnace, where he was manager for 
the Ahls until 1868, when he retired from 
their service and removed to Fort Loudon. 
In 1870, he opened a general store in the vil- 
lage of Fort Loudon and conducted a mer- 
cantile business for twenty-three years. In 
1894 he went into the milling business with 
A\'. S. Hassler, in which he remained for five 
years. He is now li\-ing in retirement. He 
was elected a justice of the peace for Peters 
township in 1895. and again in 1900. He is 
a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. 
Hoerner married (first), Jan. 22, 1867, 
Martha A. Stenger (born Nov. 12, 1843 — 
died Aug. 17, 1868). daughter of Peter and 
■Christina (Shearer) Stenger. and grand- 
daughter of Conrad Stenger, a Revolution- 
ary soldier, who became one of the leading being: 



business men of Franklin County. Juhii H. 
and Martha A. Hoerner had issue : 

I. William S. (V). 

Mr. Hoerner married (second), Oct. 9, 
1884, Margaret A. Patton (born March 8, 
1852), daughter of Elias and Elizabeth 
(Carson) Patton, and a great-granddaugh- 
ter of Matthew Patton, who owned the 
ground 0:1 which Fort Loudon was built. 
This farm is now owned by Mr. Hoerner. 

(V) WILLIAM STENGER HOER- 
NER (born at Richmond Furnace, Dec. 4, 
1867), son of John H. and Martha A. 
(Stenger) Hoerner, attended the public 
schools at Fort Loudon until fourteen years 
of age, and was then prepared for the Sopho- 
more class of Franklin and Marshall College, 
at Mercersburg Academy. He was gradu- 
ated in 1888. After leaving college he was 
instructor in Greek and Mathematics for a 
year at Mercersburg Academy. He then 
studied law with Rowe & Stewart, Cham- 
bersburg, and was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar in May, 1890. Fie has since 
practiced his profession with success in 
Chambersburg. In 1894 he was elected sec- 
retary and treasurer of the Franklin County 
Mutual Insurance Company, a position that 
he still holds. He is a Mason, and a menilier 
of the Reformed Church. 

WILLIAM O. LANTZ, M. D., wlio has 
been actively engaged in the practice of 
medicine in Franklin county for the past 
twenty years, is a native of that county, born 
Jan. 15, 1856, at Marion. 

(I) GEORGE LANTZ (born in Wash- 
ington county, Md.) came to Franklin 
county and took up land in Antrim township. 
He was a farmer by occupation. He mar- 
ried Annie Wagaman. and they had a fam- 
ily of three sons and five daughters, the sons 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS (31- FKAXKLIX COUXTV. 



1. George^ who married and lived in 
Ohio. 

2. Christian. 

3. Samuel (II). 

(II) SAMUEL LANTZ, the Doctor's 
fatlier, was born and reared on tlie farm in 
Antrim township, and eventually took up 
farming, though he was a miller by trade. 
His death occurred in 1894. He was an 
active member of the U. B. Church, and 
served many years as one of the official 
board. He married Elizabeth Myers ( died 
in 1882), who was one of the tive children 
of Henry Myers, viz. : John, Henry, Eliza- 
beth, Mary (who married Christian 
Weaver) and Charlotte (who married 
George Working). Henry Myers was a 
blacksmith, and followed his trade in Frank- 
lin county. He was a member of the Luth- 
eran Church, and died in that faith at the 
advanced age of ninety-two years. Mr. and 
Mrs. Samuel Lantz had a family of eleven 
children, namely : 

1. SusAN^ who married Simon Hepfar. 

2. George W. 

3. Martin L., who married Martha 
Koser. 

4. Theodore H. 

5. Catherine, who married Michael 
Sloniker. 

6. William O. (III). 

7. Laura, deceased. 

8. Charlotte, who married Edward 
Wentling, and is deceased. 

9. Annie, deceased in infancy. 

10. John died in infancy. 

11. Henry died in infancy. 

(III) WILLIAM O. LANTZ received 
his early education in the public and select 
schools, and began life for himself as a 
teacher, following that profession in Frank- 
lin county. Meanwhile he commenced to 
read medicine under Dr. George R. Kauff- 
nian. in time entering Jefferson Medical Col- 



349' 

lege, Philadelphia, from which he was grad- 
uated in the spring of 1882. He was soon 
established at Lemasters, in his native 
county, in the active practice of his profes- 
sion, which he has continued there up to the 
present time. He has been successful in iiis 
chosen calling, and has become favorably 
known among his brother physicians as well 
as among his patrons, being a member of tjie 
Franklin County Medical Society (of whicli 
he has been president), and the Pennsyl- 
vania State Medical Society, to which latter 
he has been a delegate. His religious con- 
nection is with the Lutheran Church, and 
fraternally he is a member of the I. O. O. !•'. 
He is an active Republican in political faith. 
In December, 1882, Dr. Lantz married 
Anna Rebecca Shull, daughter of George S. 
and Anna (Nicklas) Shull, and four chil- 
dren have been born to this union : 

1. Bessie Shull. 

2. Esther Mary. 

3. Paul Lester. 

4. Helen Rebecca. 

FRANKLIN MILLER, one of the 
well-known citizens of Franklin county, ex- 
tensively engaged in the grain and elevator 
business at Waynecastle, was born July 23, 
1847, '" the Salem Church neighlwrliood, 
Washington township, h^ranklin ct)unty, on' 
the old Miller homestead. 

(I) HENRY MILLER, the great- 
grandfather of FrankliiL and the first of tlie 
family to settle in Franklin county, was 
one of the early German settlers in the coun- 
ty. He took up a tract of government land 
of 200 acres in the neighborhood nf Salenr 
Church. 

(II) HENRY MILLER, son of Henry, 
married Elizabeth Heilman, who was l)orn 
in Lancaster county, and they lived on the 
old Miller homestead, to which he suc- 
ceeded. Their children were as follows: 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



1. Henry. 

2. David. 

3. Samuel (HI). 

4. John. 

5. Martha married John Hess. 

The Millers were all of the German Re- 
formed Church, and the old Salem Church 
building stands on land taken from the 
Miller homestead. 

(Ill) SAMUEL MILLER, father of 
Franklin, was born on the old Miller home- 
stead, in Washington township, in 181 1, 
and died Dec. 24, 1848. He married (first) 
Martha Rummel, also a native of Wash- 
ington township, who died about a year 
afterward, and his second wife was Esther 
'Carbaugh, who was born close to the old 
Hoover place, a mile south of Waynesboro, 
Dec. 7, 1824, daughter of George Car- 
baugh. She is still living. Samuel Miller 
was a farmer, and passed his whole life on 
the old homestead. Afttr her husband's 
death the mother married David Fox, and 
to that union five children were born: 
Jacob, who resides near Five Forks, Quincy 
township, Franklin county, married a daugh- 
ter Fred Speck; William, who resides near 
Shady Grove, Antrim township, Franklin 
county, married Eirrma Dull; John D., who 
lives in Shady Grove, married Annie 
Ringer; Susan, wife of Henry Hess, resides 
near Marion, Franklin county ;• Daniel lives 
near Zullingei", and is married to Mary 
Shockey. To the parents of our subject 
four children were born, as follows : 

1. Annie, born in November, 1844, 
died in 1894, and is buried in Green Hill 
cemetery. 

2. George \\'. was born in 1845. 

3. Franklin (IV). 

4. Samuel was born Aug. 24, 1849, 
was reared on the old homestead, and was 
tor a time engaged in the dry-goods busi- 
ness in WayneslDoro, and later had the first 



business at the Mountain. * Then he went 
West and was engaged in gold mining, but 
is now in business at St. Louis, Mo. He has 
never married. 

(IV) FRANKLIN MILLER was 
reared on the old Miller homestead until he 
was ten years of age, when his mother 
bought a farm in the neighljorhood of 
Zullinger. He remained with her until he 
was about seventeen years of age, then went 
West to Ohio, and for fourteen months 
worked on a farm near Springfield. He 
then went on to Franklin Grove, 11!., where 
his brother then lived, and after remaining 
a few months there journeyed on to Tipton, 
Cedar Co., Iowa, and spent a month. Then 
he returned to Springfield and from there 
back home, where he began farming for 
himself in the spring of 1868 on what was 
known as the old Potter farm, where he 
worked two years. In 1870 he undertook 
the management of his mother's farm, where 
he spent a year, managing that place, the 
Potter farm, and his own place of sixty 
acres, known as the old Sumberger farm. 
This last he purchased in the spring of 1868, 
before he was of age, and the deed was held 
for him until he was twenty-one. He then 
held sales and disposed of everything, and 
for two years was employed on the old 
farm of his mother, then working for Jacob 
Potter, now steward of the Franklin county 
almshouse. He next went on the old Miller 
homestead where he was born, which was 
still owned by the heirs, and farmed there 
five years. He then moved for a year onto 
a piece of timber land of twenty-three acres, 
and rented a farm adjoining. He cut out 
the timber, made a sale, and returned to the 
old place, where he remained two years, 
and then removed to his own farm, the 
Sumberger place, two miles from Waynes- 
boro. He improved the buildings on this 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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there, but in 1886 he bought the Carbaugh 
farm of tifty-four acres, on the Greencastle 
pike, at what is now Waynecastle, which he 
farmed from that time on, in the spring of 
1 90 1 moving thither. 

Mr. Miller engaged in the grain and 
elevator business in 1900, that year building 
his warehouses at Waynecastle, one 30x50 
feet and another 35x30 feet. He handles 
about 20,000 bushels of wheat and 15,000 
bushels of corn, together with about 300 
tons of coal. His is a fine location for 
shipping, being a central point on the West- 
ern Maryland railroad. Mr. Miller was one 
of the incorporators of the Bank of Waynes- 
boro, and has been a director of same ever 
since. 

Mr. Miller married Araminta M., daugh- 
ter of Samuel Nickodemus, one of the old 
citizens of Washington township, and to this 
union three sons were born : 

1. Samuel Vernon, born Nov. 29, 
1875, is at home. 

2. Charles Franklin, born June 22, 
1879, is at home. 

3. Harry Nickodemus, born Aug. 29, 
1881, is a member of the grocery firm of 
Brown & Miller. Waynesboro. 

Mr. Miller and his family, like those of 
the earlier generations, belong to the Ger- 
man Reformed Church. 

REV. J. SMITH GORDON was for 
many years one of the leading ministers of 
the Presbyterian denomination in Franklin 
county, and had the unique record of more 
than forty-six years' sen-ice over a single 
church, the Lower Path Valley Presbyterian, 
the longest pastorate of any minister in the 
county at the time of his death. He was 
born in Greencastle, Pa., Aug. 29. 1829, a 
son of Alexander and Joanna (Fullerton) 
Gordon, (both of whom are deceased) : and 
died March 25, 1904. in Fannettsburg. 



ALEXANDER GORDON, fatiier of 
Rev. J. Smith, was born in 1803 and died in 
1886. He was a lifelong farmer. He was a 
leading spirit in the Presbyterian Church 
and an elder for many years. His wife, Jo- 
anna, bore him ten children, six of wiioni 
grew to maturity, namely : 

1. David Fullerton died in Frank- 
lin county, leaving five children, Robert, 
John, Elizabeth Cornelia, Martha and .\nnie. 

2. Matthew A. is a retired farmer in 
Colorado. 

3. Rev. J. Smith. 

4. Humphrey Fullerton is a resi- 
dent of Greencastle, Pennsylvania. 

5. John Calvin became a resident of 
Lyons, Colorado. 

6. Marth.\ J., deceased, was tiie wife 
of John Witherow. 

The paternal grandfather was .Alexander 
Gordon, Sr. The Gordons came to this 
country in its very early days from Scotland, 
George Gordon from whom the family de- 
scended, coming sometime between 1600 
and 1700. The maternal grandparents were 
David and Joanna (Lind) Fullerton. The 
former was a member of Congress at tiie 
time the Missouri Compromise was passed 
and was one of those who voted for it. He 
was a son of Humphrey I'uUerton. a judge 
of Franklin district in 1784. Mrs. Joanna 
(Lind) Fullerton, who was a daughter of 
Matthew Lind, a prominent Presbyterian 
minister, was the mother of four children, 
Humphrey, Matthew, Martha and Joanna. 

T. Smith Gordon was reared in Green- 
castle for the first four years of his life, and 
then his father moved a little out of the vil- 
lage onto a farm, where the boy remained 
till he was thirteen. The next four years he 
spent clerking in a store in Greencastle, but 
his purpose, meantime, had become firm to 
study for the ministry, and at the age of sev- 
enteen he entered the Greencastle .Academy 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FILA.NKLIN COUNTY. 



as the first step in his preparation. From 
tliere he went to the West Jersey Collegiate 
School, at Mt. Holly, N. J., and then spent 
three years at Princeton University, from 
which he was graduated in 1853. For six- 
teen months after graduation the young man 
taught in a private school, Ijut in 1854 he 
entered upon his course in the Princeton 
Theological Seminary and three years later 
was ordained for the ministry. Tlie same 
year, 1857, he received a call to the Lower 
Path Valley Presbyterian Church at Fan- 
nettsburg, and ministered to this charge and 
also to the Presbyterian Church at Burnt 
Cabins, Fulton county, until his death — a 
lifetime of service which bound him ever 
closer to those whose joys and sorrows he 
had shared so long. 

In i860 Rev. Mr. Gordon was married 
to Miss Mary Montgomery, a daughter of 
James Montgomery, M. D., of Fannetts- 
burg, but their happiness was of short dura- 
tion, brought to an untimely close Ijy the 
death of Mrs. Gordon in 1864. Two sons 
were born to them : 

1. James A. Gordon, D. D.. a promi- 
nent Presbyterian minister of Van Wert, 
Ohio, married Miss Alice Hill, of Michigan. 

2. Robert F. died in infancy. 

In 1867 Mr. Gordon was united to his 
second wife, Miss Margaret Beatty Kyle, 
daughter of David and Mary (Beatty) Kyle, 
of Fannettsburg. Six children were born to 
them, viz : 

1. Mary B. is at home in Fannetts- 
burg. 

2. Clarence M., Ph. D., is professor 
of physics in Central University. Danville, 
Kentucky. 

3. Clementine K. is at home. 

4. John K., M. D., is located in Phila- 
delphia. 

5. Donald Smith was drowned in 
Kentucky in 1899. 



6. Another child in this family lived 
only a short time. 

The Kyle family is one of the old and 
well-known ones of Franklin county. John 
Kyle, grandfather of Mrs. Gordon, with six 
brothers came to this country from the 
North of Ireland. Mrs. Gordon, with her 
daughters, continues to live in Fannetts- 
burg, she having been born and lived all her 
life on the same spot, the home of her father, 
during his life, as well as the home of her 
grandfather from the time of his coming to 
Franklin county. Mrs. Gordon was one of 
a family of four, namely : 

1. John B. is deceased. 

2. Clementine married William Mc- 
Allen, and both are deceased. 

3. Margaret Beatty is Mrs. Gordon. 

4. David W^vugh is deceased. 

WOLF FAMILY. ABRAHAM WOLF 
married Polly Mildeberger, and they had 
eleven children, two of whom died young. 
The others were : 

1. Angeline. 

2. Sar.\h. 

3. A. M. 

4. William H. 

5. Mackey. 

6. Harriet. 

7. George. 

8. Augustus (II). 

9. Am.\nd.\. 

(II) AUGUSTUS WOLF (born in 
Northampton county Jan. 26, 1851). son of 
Abraham and Polly, attended the public 
schools in Northampton county, and assisted 
on his father's farm, until he was sexenteen 
years old. He then worked for one _\ear on 
the New Jersey Central Railroad. At the 
age of eighteen, he began an apprenticeship 
at the millwright trade, at whkh he after- 
ward worked for many years. While living 
in Allentown, in 1871, having for his stock 




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351 



in trade a saw and plane, and for his capital pany keeps from ten to twelve traveling 
large experience as a millwright and a re- salesmen on the road, its trade e.\ten<iing all 

Large quantities of 



markable inventive genius, he applied hinr 
self to the invention of purifiers for flour 
mills. His genius and industry were re- 
warded by the completion of a machine that 
was jjatented in 1879. He subsequently 
formed a partnership with Mr. D. L. Hani- 
aker, of East Petersburg, Pa., under the firm 
name of Wolf & Hamaker, for the manu- 
facture of his invention. The purifier ga\e 
such general satisfaction that in 1884 the 
firm came to Chambersburg, and established 
a plant that has grown to very large propor- 
tions. Mr. Wolf subsequently bought out 
the interest of Mr. Hamaker, and conducted 
the business under the firm name of August 
Wolf & Co., until 1901, when arrangements 
were completed for the organization of a 
stock company, which is also known as The 
Wolf Company. The plant at Chambers- 
burg has a floor space of 250,000 feet. The 
buildings are all modern and cover about 
ten acres. In 1897, The Wolf Company built 
a model mill at Chambersburg as an experi- 
ment, to show the machinery manufactured 
by the plant and test some of the new and 
modern inventions in mill appliances in- 
vented by Augustus Wolf. This is said to 
be the finest flour mill of its kind in the L'ni- 
ted States. It has a capacity of two hun- 
dred barrels per day. The mill is now owned 
by The Lakeview Milling Company. The 
Wolf Company manufactures complete flour 
mills and power transmitting machinery. 
The main divisions of the factory are the 
foundry, employing 85 men; the machine 
shop. 102 men; the wood shop, 139 men. 
The sub-divisions are the corrugating de- 
partment, the dust collector department, the 
second floor machine shop and the bolting 
cloth department. Altogether the factory 
gives employment to three hundred and sixty 
skilled mechanics and workmen. The com- 

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over the United States, 
the machinery manufactured by The Wolf 
Company are shipped to Europe, and it has 
a large trade in Mexico. The company sends 
its own men to Mexico, and builds and 
c(|uips the mills complete. In 190J, it se- 
cured some of the largest and most import- 
ant contracts on the Pacific coast. 

Mr. Wolf is much interested in what is 
known as Wolf's Lake, on the Conocochea- 
gue, adjacent to the works of The Wolf Com- 
pany. The lake, which was constructed in 
1900, is one-half mile long and has cost Mr. 
Wolf, including the buildings and amuse- 
ment attractions, between $35,000 and 
$40,000. The buildings include a bath house 
with hot and cold water, bowling alley, shuf- 
fling board, dancing pavilion and dining 
room. A large water tower is building, and 
improvements will be added every year with 
a view of making it an attracti\e and popu- 
lar place of amusement. There is on the 
place, besides, a ball park and athletic field. 
Opposite the park are a number of inn'lding 
lots, on which only modern brick buildings 
will be pennitted. A new modern apartment 
house is contemplated. The Wolf property 
was outside of the limits of Chambersburg 
until May, 1903, when it was annexed to the 
Ijorough. Mr. Wolf manufactures his own 
light and power for the lake and park, and 
he will furnish light, heat and power for the 
houses that will be erected on the Wolf lots, 
w hich will have all the conveniences of city 
property. Mr. Wolf is also largely inter- 
ested in the manufacture of the H. S. Palmer 
Patent Hollow Concrete Building Blocks, 
having purchased the county rights of Frank- 
lin county. Pa., where he carries on their 
manufacture. He has erected a numl)er of 
ofiice buildings, factories and residences in 
Chambersburg. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Mr. Wolf is a thirty-second degree Ma- 
son, and Mystic Sliriner, and lie is a member 
of the I. O. O. F., the Knights of the Golden 
Eagle, the Red Men, the Royal Arcanum, 
and the Elks. He belongs to the Lutheran 
Church. In politics he is a Republican, and 
has served as councilman, and as light and 
water commissioner. He married, in 1870, 
;Sarah Kuntz, daughter of Peter Kuntz, of 
iehigh county ; they have three children : 
J. Harry G. (III). 
2. William E. P. (IV). 
I 3. Arthur S. (V). 

(HI) HARRY G. WOLF (born at 
Allentown, July 26. 1871) was educated in 
the public schools of Allentown and Cham- 
ibersburg, and at the State Normal School 
:at Shippensburg. \\diile attending school at 
.Allentown and Chambersburg he worked in 
i'his father's factory, and in this way gained 
ra general knowledge of die millwright's bus- 
iness, which enabled him to make himself 
useful in the plant at Chambersburg. At 
,the age of eighteen he was made office man- 
.-ager of the Wolf works, having charge of 
; aOl; the corresiwndence. and in a manner the 
'general management of the factory in his 
"father's absence, who was on the road the 
most of the time. In 1896 he was made 
manager of the plant, and after its organiza- 
tion he was elected president of The Wolf 
Company Jan. 15, 1902. He is a director 
jin The Wolf Company, in the Cranwell Com- 
pany of Baltimore, in the Pennsylvania 
'.•Graphite Company, Philadelphia, and the 
American Specialty iManufacturing Com- 
■•pany, Philadelphia. Mr. ^^'olf is a thirty- 
■second degree Mason and has passed the 
chairs in the Blue Lodge, the Chapter and 
Commandery. He is also a member of the 
I. O. O. F., the Knights of Pythias, the 
iKnights of the Golden Eagle, the Red "Men 
-and the Elks; and of the Chambersburg and 
'■Harrisburg clubs, the Manufacturers' Club, 



Philadelphia, and the New York Athletic 
Club. He is a member of tiie Lutheran 
Church. Mr. Wolf married in 1891, Martha 
E. Stoler, daughter of A. B. Stoler, of 
Waynesboro; they have three children: 

1. Julia E. 

2. Sarah C. 

3. H.\RRY A. 

(IV) WILLIAM E. p. WOLF (bom 
at ."Mlentown, July 24, 1875) was educated 
in the public schools of Allentown and Cham- 
bersl)urg, and was graduateil at the .Allen- 
town Business College in 1896. He has 
shown much natural talent as an architect and 
draftsman. When a mere boy he developed 
his talents by drafting in his father's mills, 
and sul)sequently went to Kansas City, where 
he made rapid progress in the knowledge and 
practice of his art, and became very profi- 
cient in the profession. Returning to Cham- 
bersburg, he was placed in charge of the 
drafting department of the W'olf works. 
Prior to this he had served an apprenticeship 
at the molding trade, but molding not being 
to his liking he abandoned it after complet- 
ing his apprenticeship. In 1902 he opened 
the Wolf store on ^Memorial Square. Cham- I 
bersburg, which he equipped with a fine line 
of ladies' and gentlemen's furnishing goods. 
On April i, 1904, he placed the manage- 
ment (if the Wolf store in other hands and 
returned to the drafting department of 
The Wolf Co., which occupation seems to be 
more to his liking, and on April i, 1905, he 
became chief draftsman and general mana- 
ger of the drafting department of The W'olf 
Co. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, 
and is also a member of the Shrine, the Mys- 
tic Circle, the Red Men, the Royal Arcanum, 
and the Elks. He belongs to Trinity Luth- 
eran Church. Mr. W'olf married, October, 
1896. Cora Rodgers, daughter of J(^hn and 
.Amanda Rogers, of Chnmbersliurg: they 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



1. Pauline A. 

2. Catherine E. 

(V) ARTHUR S. WOLF, born in 
Allentown. Pa., Aug. 29. 1883. was educated 
in the public schools and also at the Scranton 
Business College. He is now engaged with 
The Wolf Co., as a first-class draftsman. He 
was married April 2, 1905, to Birtha A. 
Leiter, daughter of Jerry B. and Harriet S. 
Leiter, of Williamsport. Pennsyhania. 

S T R E A L Y FAMILY. JOHN 
STREALY (born in Adams County — died 
in 1836), the ancestor of the Strealy family 
of Chambersburg, was a carpenter and 
farmer. He came to Franklin county as a 
young man and owned a farm in Guilford 
township, known in recent years as the Shull 
and Ferguson farms, on which he was living 
at the time of his death. He built and owned 
the house in North Main street, Chambers- 
burg, owned by Matthew P. Welsh at the 
time the town was destroyed by the Con- 
federates, in 1864. The principal room of 
this mansion was decorated with solid ma- 
hogany panels, elaborately and artistically 
carved, the carving being Mr. Strealy's own 
handiwork. He married Margaret Snider, 
daughter of Col. Jeremiah and Margaret 
(Roemer) Snider. Col. Snider was a son 
of Nicholas Snider, one of the first settlers 
and lot owners of Chambersburg. For many 
years he kept the hotel that is now the 
"Montgomery House." One of Mrs. 
Strealy's sisters, Rosanna Maria, married 
Peter Eyster, and another sister, Catharine, 
married John Noel. John and Margaret 
Strealy had issue : 

1. Andrew, a coach trimmer, died at 
Waynesboro ; he married Miss Gould. 

2. John (II). 

3. Jeremi.\h went to Kentucky. 

4. Jacob married Miss McKean. 

5. Nicholas died in Quincy township. 



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6. \\'iLLL\M lived in the l-"ork, abuve 
Mercersburg. 

7. Elizabeth (Betsy) married James 
Buchanan, a farmer; lie was a near ncighlwr 
of James Buchanan, tlie fattier of President 
Buchanan. They had issue: William and 
Catharine. 

(II) JOHN STREALY (.Iwrn at 
Chambersburg, June 20, 1795 — '''<^<l Oct. 23, 
1857), son of John and Margaret (Snider) 
Strealy, taught school as a young man and 
later was a book printer, working in the 
printing establishments of Chambersburg. 
He married Eliza Senseny (Ixirn in 1798 — 
died Oct. 31, 1882), daughter of Dr. .\bra- 
ham and Margaret (Huber) Senseny. Dr. 
Abraham Sen.seny was one of the first i)liysi- 
cians that settletl in Cliambersburg, and was 
the ancestor of three successive generations 
of Chambersburg doctors, all eminent in 
their profession. John and Eliza (Senseny) 
Strealy had issue : 

1. Senseny J. (born in 1820 — died in 
1898) went to Kentucky, but afterward re- 
mo\ed to Youngstown, Ohio, where he died. 
He married Martha Sieman, and they had 
issue: John, killed at Chattanooga; Char- 
lotte and Abraham, deceased ; and Lide, 
Jacob, Martha, Jennie, and Samuel. 

2. Catharine (born Sept. 2S, 1822 — 
died July 5, 1875) married Matthew P. 
Welsh (born June 18, 1815), living in 
Chambersburg. Thej' had issue : Eliza P. ; 
Laura married Edward S. Hoke; Jennie, 
born in 1857, died in 1876; and John died 
aged three years. 

3. Jacob (III). 

4. Margaret, born Nov. 14. 1832. 

5. .Abraha.m (born Octol)er, 1837). 
living in West \^irginia, married .Annie 
Lewis, and they had issue: William. Laura 
and John. 

(III) JACOB STREALY (born at 
Chambersburg, March 2. 1825). son of John 



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BIOGR.\PHICAL ANNALS OF FR.'\NKLIN COUNT\. 



and Eliza (Senseny) Strealy, was a car- 
penter and builder. He went to Alaysville, 
Ky., as a young man, but later returned to 
Chambersburg, where he followed his trade. 
He lived at Carlisle, 1857-66. He is a mem- 
ber of the I. O. O. F., and the American 
Mechanics. Mr. Strealy married Ann Cath- 
arine Kerr (born Nov. 28, 1820), daughter 
of James and Mary (Treher) Kerr. James 
Kerr was a son of John Kerr, a native of 
Ireland, who settled near Chambersburg be- 
fore the Revolution. He served in the First 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Line. He owned a 
large plantation adjacent to Chambersburg 
on which he built the fine stone mansion, still 
standing, on the Conococheague below the 
town. He also laid out the part of the bor- 
ough that was long known as Kerrstown 
(incorporated at first Johnstown). One of 
his daughters, Jane, married into the family 
to which the late President McKinley be- 
longed. Jacob and Ann C. Strealy had 
issue : 

1 . George died in infancy. 

2. Olive, twin sister of George, mar- 
ried Joseph Osterman, and they had issue : 
Alice, J. Herman, C. Leo, L. Catharine, Ed- 
gar, George Albert and Olive E. 

3. James Kerr died aged eighteen 
years. 

4. Flor.\ married Jacob Jarret, and 
they had issue: Mary A., Augustus and 
George, twins; Elizabeth, William Forrest 
and Mark A. 

5. Alfred Senseny died in infancy. 

6. Matthew Welsh (IV). 

7. George married Jennie Strealy, his 
cousin, daughter of Senseny Strealy. 

8. Herman, twin brother of George, 
died aged seven years. 

9. Sarah Musser, living at Cham- 
bersburg. 

(IV) MATTHEW WELSH 
STREALY (born at Chambersburg, Nov. 



8, 1855), son of Jacob and Ann Catharine 
(Kerr) Strealy, was educated in the public 
schools of Carlisle and Chambersburg, and 
was graduated at the Pennsylvania College 
of Dental Surgery, in 1878. He began the 
practice of his profession at Mercersburg, 
but soon afterward returned to Chambers- 
burg, where he has practiced ever since. He 
is the owner of a fine fruit farm in Greene 
township eight miles east of Chambersburg, 
known as Mount Cydonia, and he had the 
first quince orchard in Pennsylvania. Dr. 
Strealy is a member of the Sons of the Revo- 
lution, of the Knights of Pythias and the 
Royal Arcanum. In politics he is an active 
Republican. 

GELWICKS AND GELWIX FAMILY. 
FREDERICK GELWICKS, the ancestor 
of the Gelwicks and Gelwix families of 
Franklin county, was a native of Germany, 
and emigrated to Pennsvlvania with his 
brother John in 1748, settling in York 
county. The name of his wife is unknown. 
He had issue : 

1. Peter lived in Perry county. 

2. Philip (II). 

3. Daniel (III). 

4. John lived near Shippensburg. 

5. George lived near Karper's Church. 

6. Frederick (IV). 

(II) PHILIP GELWICKS (born in 
York county — died in June, 1844). son of 
Frederick Gelwicks, lived in Peters town- 
ship. By his wife Elizabeth he had issue : 

1. Frederick (V). 

2. Catharine. 

3. George (died Oct. 25, 1875) mar- 
ried Elizabeth , 

4. John. 

5. Susan. 

6. Nancy. 

(III) DANIEL GELWIX (born in- 
York county — died in 1S13), son of Freder- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



ick Gelwicks, married Catharine Shalla 
(born Sept. 17. 1 742-^died Jan. i, 1802). 
He was the ancestor of the branch of the 
family that speh the name Gehvix. Daniel 
and Catharine (ShaU^-,..GeI\vix had issue: 

1. Dewalt (VI). 

2. Mary. 

3. Susan. 

4. Magdalena. 

5. Andrew was a farmer in Adams 
county. 

6. Catharine. 

(IV) FREDERICK GELWICKS 
(born in York county IMarch 13, 1765 — died 
Jan. 23, 1842), son of Frederick Gelwicks, 
lived in Adams county, and was a cooper 
b)'^ trade. He came to Franklin county in 
18 1 2, and bought a farm in St. Thomas 
township that is still in the Gelwicks name. 
In 1819 he bought a tract of about 400 acres 
of land from Col. Joseph Armstrong, and 
settled on it. Of this large tract he re- 
tained 233 acres, which is still the home- 
stead farm in possession of his grandson. 
John F. Gelwicks. He married Catharine 
Heywiser (born Jan. 2. 1770 — died June 24, 
1851). They had issue: 

1. Mary married George Hartzel, of 
Adams county. 

2. Elizabeth (born Nov. 20, 1799 — 
died Dec. 12, 1868), married Jonathan 
Foltz. 

3. John (VII). 

4. Susan married Flenry Weist. 

5. Rachel married Dr. David Crouse. 

6. Frederick (\'III). 

7. Catharine died unmarried. 

8. Sally died unmarried. 
Two died in infancy. 

(V) FREDERICK GELWICKS (born 
Oct. 7, 1796 — died Jan. 30, 1891), son of 
Philip and Elizabeth Gelwicks, was a farmer 
in Ouincy and Guilford townships. In 
1850, he bought a large farm near New 



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Franklin, where he lived until his death. Me 
married Nancy Dick (torn Dec. 29. 1803 — 
died April 19, 1884), daughter of Jacob and 
Eve Dick. They had issue : 

1. Mary A., born Jan. 16, 1831, mar- 
ried Jan. 2, 1 85 1, James McCleary. 

2. John F. (born May 4, 1832 — died 
September, 1899) married (first) Matilda 
Catharine Miles (bom Nov. 17. 1839 — died 
Dec. 22, 1862). daughter of William Miles. 
They had issue : D. Harxey, unmarried : and 
Annie, who married (first) Howard Mc- 
Neal, and had Howard O. and Eva. and 
(second) William J. Goulding. He married 
( second) Katharine Skelly, daughter of 
George and Lydia (Cremer) Skelly, and 
thev had issue : John, who married Lavella 
Forney; Ida, who married Harry Poe; 
Emma, who married Wilford George; and 
George F., born Feb. 15. 1872, and died 
April 6, 1887. 

3. Anna Susan, born .\pril 16, 1834, 
married Hiram Smith. 

4. Nancy (born Jan. 26, 1836 — died 
July 18, 1896) married 1859, Levi Overcash 
(born Nov. 3, 1834 — died Nov. 10. 1888), 
son of George and Elizabetii (Lay ton) 
Overcash: they had issue: Ida, born i860, 
married August, 1880. John A. Grove; 
Sarah Alice, born Aug. 14, 1862. died Jan. 
8, 1864; Harvey Elmer, born Sept. 9. 1865, 
married Jan. 17, 1899, Mary E. Rummel ; 
William Sevrenius, born June 20, 1867, mar- 
ried August, 1891, Sarah Jane Nicklas; 
Howard Benton, born Dec. 11. 1869, mar- 
ried Feb. 2, 1892, Lydia Viola Shaffer: Levi 
Clayton, born Nov. 15, 187 1, married Oc- 
tober, 1896. Sadie Dansberger; Nancy 
Grace, born April 30, 1874. married May 8. 
1901, Charles Edgar Disert : and A. R. 
Pearl, bom Oct. 15, 1877. died Nov. 29, 
1879. 

5. Peter, born Aug. 15. 1837. 

6. Jacob, born March 8, 1839. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



7. Jeremiah, born Alar. 8, 1839, died 
Feb. 19, 1843. 

8. George, born Nov. 14, 1840. died 
Feb. 23, 1843. 

9. Catharine R., born June 20, 1842, 
died young. 

10. Sarah Lucinda (born Jan. 16, 
1844 — died May 5, 1899) married Jan. ij, 
1878, Jolin Zarger. 

11. Louisa (born Oct. 21, 1845) mar- 
ried (first) Cyrus Doscb, and bad issue: 
Carrie Edith, who married, August, 1893. 
Howard Shetter; Nannie Ahce, who mar- 
ried October. 1888. Oscar Cautman; Au- 
gtista Myrtle, who married March 17, 1890, 
Harvey Frederick ; Howard Gelwicks, un- 
married ; Sadie, wlio (bed young ; Xora 
Ann (born Marcii 20, 1873, died April 19, 
1902), who married Nov. i, 1894, S. F. 
Myers ; and Ida Salome, who died young. 
She married (second) Levi Heefner. and 
had. Lulu. 

12. Eva a., born July 13, 1847, '^'^'^ 
July 26, 1847. 

(VI) DEWALT GELWIX (born Oct. 
5- ^7^Z)' ■''O" of Daniel and Catharine 
(Shalla) Gelwix, married April 24. 1808. 
Esther Knopp (born Sept. 20, 1774 — died 
Nov. 24, 1857) ; they had issue: 

1. Samuel. 

2. Daniel (IX). 

3. Maria (born Sept. 7, 18 13 — died 
Sept. 12, 1852) married (first) Jacob 
Dunkle, and had issue: George; Mary; 
Amelia, (born January, 1840 — tlied Aug. 
29, 1903), married May 8, 1866, Martin 
Eyer, and had, Charles B., Alice, Grace, 
George, Harry, Florence and Nannie ; and 
Ann Maria died young. She married (sec- 
ond), Aug. I, 1850, Jacob N^usbaum. 

4. Charlotte married Walter Duey, 
lived in Ohio, and had one son, Oliver. 

(VII) JOHN GELWICKS (born Nov. 
I, 1797 — died Dec. 5. 1876), son of Freder- 



ick and Catharine (Heywiser) Gelwicks, 
was a farmer in St. Thomas township. He 
inherited the Armstrong-Gelwicks home- 
stead. He married Clara Schwartz (born 
June 12, 181 1 — died Nov. 14, 1893), and 
they had issue : 

1. Frederick. 

2. Catharine. 

3. Charlotte, born Nov. 22, 1830 — 
died unmarried Nov. 2, 1887. 

4. Susan married Mr. Shetron. 

5. Margaret married John A. Heck- 
man [Heckman Family]. 

6. Louisa married Mr. Brake. 

7. Elizabeth married a Strock. 

8. John F. (born Feb. 5, 1853) is a 
farmer on the old Armstrong Gelwicks home- 
stead in St. Thomas township. He was a 
county commissioner, 1900-03. He married 
Dec. 23, 1875, Emma Virginia Keefer (born 
Dec. 25, 1854), daughter of Henry and 
Elizabeth (Weist) Keefer. and they had 
issue: Carry May, Nellie Viola, Clyde, (de- 
ceased). John Keefer (deceased), Ruth 
Elizabeth and Paul Luther. 

(VIII) FREDERICK GELWICKS 
(born in Adams county, April 4, 1808 — died 
Oct. 21. 1883). son of Frederick and Cath- 
arine (Heywiser) Gelwicks, came to Frank- 
lin county with his father in 1812, and lived 
on the old Gelwicks homestead, near Eden- 
ville until 1837. when he bought the old 
Campbell homestead, near St. Thomas, from 
Gen. Charles T. Campbell. This is one of 
the historic farms of the county. It was or- 
iginally bought from a chief of the Tuscar- 
oras. and the title was perfected by a patent 
from Thomas and Richard Penn. It C(^m- 
prised 465 acres, and at the time of the In- 
dian purchase was called a "hide," that is as 
much land as a hide would stretch around 
when cut into a strip. Mr. Gelwicks mar- 
ried Nancy A. Brindle (born Nov. 18. 1819 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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Brindle, of St. Thomas township, a son of 
Melchior Brindle, the latter a native of Lan- 
caster county ; they had issue : 

1. Rachel Elizabeth (hum Aug. 
19, 1839 — died Dec. 7, 1899) married Jacuh 
S. Strock. 

2. Mary Catharine, horn Jan. 30, 
1 84 1, died March 7, 1843. 

3. Maria S. married Rev. S. A. 
Mowers. 

4. Leah Matild.\^ born Nov. 13, 1844, 
died Sept. 22, 1833. 

5. Laura F. married Albert P. Spes- 
sard. 

6. Cyrus C. (X). 

(IX) DANIEL GELWIX (born July 
26, 1809 — died Nov. 29, 1892), .son of De- 
walt and Esther (Knopp) Gelwix^ was a 
blacksmith and for many years a justice of 
the peace at Upper Strasburg. He was a 
county commissioner, 1876-79. He married 
Sarah Cormany (born Dec. 10, 1814 — died 
March 2, 1893), daughter of Anthony Cor- 
many, and they had issue : 

1. William H. (born April 17. 1837 
— died Aug. 28, 1864) served in Capt. Hol- 
linger's company and was accidentally killed 
by the discharge of a revolver, near Cliam- 
bersburg, while in service. 

2. Mary J. married Philip ]\1. Shoe- 
maker [Shoemaker Family]. 

3. Samuel (XI). 

4. James M. (born March 28, 1844) 
studied medicine and was graduated M. D., 
at Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia, 
in 1866. He began the practice of his pro- 
fession at L'pper Strasburg, in which he con- 
tinued until 1893, when he retired because of 
ill health. He married Dec. 3, 1868, Jennie 
Zullinger, daughter of Jeremiah Zullinger. 
and they have issue : Sarah and John. 

5. Annie E., born July i, 1846, mar- 
ried Abraham R. Miller, of York, and has a 
son, James G. 



6. Sarah C, liorii .\pri! 27. 1849. is' 
unniarrietl and lives in Kansas. 

7. George W. (torn Nov. 21, 1852) 
went West in 1876, and settled at Tliaycr, 
Kans., where he is engaged in mer-- 
caiuile pursuits, lie married Laura Cauf- 
man, a iiati\e of .Marxland, and they 
had issue: Edward (i.. .Mont, and a ■imr 
deceased. 

(X) CYRUS C. GELWTCKS (born in 
St. Thomas township, Feb. 7, 1851), son of 
Frederick and Nancy .\. (Brindle) Gelwicks, 
was educated in the public schools and at 
Mercersburg College. .At tlie age of twenty^ 
he began merchandising in St. Thomas, in 
which he was engaged for a quarter of a 
century. In 1901, he helped to establish the 
St. Thomas Bank, of which he is cashier. 
He has always been an active Democrat, and 
has been a delegate to the Democratic County 
and State Conventions nearly every year 
since he was of age. He never consented ta 
be a candidate for office except once, wiien he 
was nominated fcjr the State Legislature. He 
is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member' 
of George Washington Lodge, the Royal 
Arch Chapter, the Ct)ntinental Comniandery 
and the .Ancient Scottish Rite. Harrisburg^ 
Consistory. He is also a member of the- 
Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Gel- 
wicks married Feb. 21, 1878, Jennie M. Bos- 
sart (born Dec. 31, 1852), daughter of Will- 
iam and Martha ( Hege) Bossart. 

(XI) SAMUEL GELWIX (horn at 
Upper Strasburg. Dec. 20. 1841). son of 
Daniel and Sarah (Cormany) Gelwix, was 
educated in the public .schools of his native 
\illage, at the Chaml)ersl)urg .Academy antf 
at the Susquehanna University. He began 
teaching at Upper Strasburg in 1 858. before 
he was seventeen years old. He was County 
Superintendent of Schools for Franklin 
county, 1869-72. He afterward taught the 
graded school at L'pper Stra.sburg for two 



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years, and moved' to Chambersburg in 1874, 
where he has since been employed in the 
pubhc schools. He taught the West German 
Street Grammar School for two years, and 
the Boys' Grammar School for eight years ; 
and was afterward assistant in the Girls' 
High School for one year, principal of the 
Boys' High School for eight years, and prin- 
cipal of the consolidated High School for 
four years. He was elected superintendent 
of the public schools of the borough of 
Chambersburg in 1897, a position that he 
still fills. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., 
and the I. O. O. F. Encampment, the Knights 
oi Pythias, the Knights of Malta, and the 
Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the 
First Lutheran Church, and has ser\ed in 
the church council, and as superintendent of 
the Sunday School for twenty-four years. 
He received the degree of A. M.. from Sus- 
quehanna University, in 1893. Air. Gelwix 
married Sept. 22, 1864, Kate Snyder (born 
July 8, 1843), daughter of the Rev. Michael 
and Mary (Enos) Snyder. They have one 
daughter : 

I. LiLLiA CoR.\ (born July 25, 1865) 
married Oct. 24, 1889, George E. Reisner 
(born July 17, 1862), son of John and 
Frances (Baker) Reisner. He was educated 
in the public schools of Chambersburg, and 
learned the trade of a printer with the Daily 
Herald, and has been connected with the 
Valley Spirit since 1880. In 1903, he was 
made manager and editor of the J 'alley 
Spirit. He has always taken an active part 
in politics, serving as county committeeman 
from the Fourth ward, and as a member of 
the town council in 1902-04, the first Demo- 
cratic councilman from the ward in twenty 
years. He is a member of the Knights of 
Malta, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and 
the Heptasophs. They have one child : 
Emilie Frances, born July 4, tSqS- 



DAVID C. LONG, a well-known citi- 
zen of W^aynesboro, member of the city 
council, and manager of the stock depart- 
ment of the Geiser Mfg. Co., was born Dec. 
25, 1848, near Middletown. Frederick Co., 
Md., a son of Joseph and Maria (Buzzard) 
Long, both natives of Frederick county, Md. 
The father was born in 181 8, and died April 
12, 1895 ; ^^^^ mother born in 181 7, died Jan. 
27, 1892. .The paternal ancestors were of 
German extraction, while those on the ma- 
ternal side of the house came originally from 
England. The children born to these pa- 
rents were as follows : 

1. Mary E. married Eli Miller and re- 
sides at Farmersville, Ohio. 

2. John W. married Cornelia Miller, 
sister to Eli, and died in 1899. 

3. LvDi.\ married John Stiver, of 
Farmersville, Ohio, who is now deceased. 

4. Martha E. is unmarried. 

5. Frances married H. C. Remsburg, 
and resides at Farmersville. 

6. Oliver T. is deceased. 

7. David C. is our subject. 

David Calvin Long was reared near Mid- 
dletown, Md.. where he attended the public 
schools. After leaving school he served an 
apprenticeship at the harnessmaker's trade 
trade until 1869, when he located in \\^aynes- 
boro and worked at his trade until 1873. then 
returning to his old home in Maryland. From 
1874 to 1877 he was in business for himself 
in Middletown, and in May, 1889, at an elec- 
tion held by the patrons of the Middletown 
postoffice, to whom had been referred the 
selection of a man by the Congressman, Mr. 
Long was chosen over three competitors, and 
held the office for one full term of four years, 
and one month over. As postmaster he did 
much to improve the mail service, and was 
instrumental in securing for Middletown 
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one of the first towns of that size (800 pop- 
ulation) to have this service. Mr. Long ac- 
compHshed this by preparing and filing his 
petition with the post office department 
before Congress had even appropriated the 
money. The MiddlctozL'u Valley Register, 
under date of March 24, 1893, says relative 
to the matter : 

"Every patron of the Middletown post 
office must agree with the Register in saying 
that Postmaster Long has been one of the 
most efficient, obliging and enterprising post- 
masters Middletown has ever had. It was 
through his enterprise that experimental free 
delivery was secured for Middletown, and is 
through his desire to accommodate our citi- 
zens that he himself collects mail matter 
from two of the street letter boxes at five 
o'clock A. M. before making up the mail 
which leaves at 5 :i5." 

In January, 1892, Mr. Long was a dele- 
gate to the convention, held in Washington 
Jan. 14-15, of the National Association of 
fourth-class postmasters, and was chosen one 
of eight vice-presidents of the Association, 
he representing the State of Maryland. 

In 1893 Mr. Long came again to 
Waynesboro and took a position with the 
Geiser Mfg. Co., as manager of the stock 
department, which he still holds. In Febru- 
ary, 1902, he was elected a member of the 
city council for the Second ward of Waynes- 
boro for a term of three years and was 
elected president for the last year of his 
term ; he has also served as chairman of the 
committee on Finance and a member of the 
committee on Streets and Property. 

On Feb. 9, 1870, ^Ir. Long was married 
to Margaret Thompson, who was born in 
Ringgold, Aid., July 8, 1847, the daughter of 
Archibald and Mary (Schumaker) Thomp- 
son. The father was born in Trenton, X. J., 
in 1807, of Irish descent, and died in March, 
1864. The mother was born in Adams 



county, Pa., in 1822, of Pennsylvania- Dutcli 
extraction, and died in 1893. Mr. Long is 
a member of Catoctin Lodge, No. 1 13, L O. 
O. !•"., and Valley Encampment, No. 34, of 
the same fraternity, in Middletown, Md. 
Mr. and Mrs. Long are consistent members 
of Trinity Reformed Church, and Mrs. Long 
is very active in church work, while Mr. 
Long gives lil)erally toward the support <>{ 
that body. Both arc popular teachers in the 
Sunday-school, and Mrs. Long is president 
of the King's Daughters Society. They are 
very highly beloved by a large circle of ac- 
quaintances and warm personal friends, who 
know and appreciate their many excellent 
traits of character. 

I 

HON. JAMES H. CLAYTON (born 
Feb. 14, 1828. in Waynesboro), son of John 
and Sarah J. (Foster) Clayton, became one 
of the most prominent men of his native 
city. 

(I) JOHN CLAYTON (born in Frank- 
lin county in 1796) was a carpenter and con- 
tractor in early life, and later a farmer. For 
a number of years he and Alexander Hamil- 
ton were engaged in a real-estate business 
and they were intimate friends. Mr. Clay- 
ton was a man of more than ordinary ability 
and was very successful in business. His 
death took place in 1848. His wife, Sarah J. 
Foster, was a native of Ireland. 

(II) JAMES H. CLAYTON was only 
ten years of age when his father became an 
invalid, and the child attended to the man's 
affairs, including farm and real-estate l)u-^i- 
ness, and thus continued after his father's 
death. The education of the brave little fel- 
low was obtained in the common and high 
schools of Waynesboro, and he also received 
a commercial training. He clerked at Mer- 
cersburg, Waynesboro, Philadelphia. Pitts- 
burg. Westchester, Pa., and then returned 
to WavneslK>ro and resumed farming. He 



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held numerous offices of trust and honor in 
the township and county, serving as director 
of the poor of tlie county for three and 
one-half years. In 1883 he was elected to 
the Legislature to fill the unexpired term of 
Hon. J. McDowell Sharpe, deceased, and in 
1884 was re-elected for a full term. During 
his time of service he was instrumental in 
organizing the First National Bank of 
Waynesboro, of which he was a director for 
over twenty years, and he always took an 
active interest in the development of Waynes- 
boro, laying out several streets and building 
and selling a number of houses, and aiding 
in every way w'ithin his power to advance its 
material prosperity. Among other interests 
he was a heavy stockholder in the Frick and 
Geiser Companies, and at one time he served 
as treasurer of the htter. 

On Dec. 11, i860, Mr. Clayton married 
Sally J. Miley, daughter of John G. and 
Catherine (Wanner) Miley, natives of 
Franklin and Berks counties, respectively. 
Mrs. Clayton was born near St. Thomas, 
Franklin Co., Pa., Oct. 9, 1841, and died 
May II, 1878. Mr. Clayton died March 3, 
1892. Their children were: 

1. Mary Catherine, deceased. 

2. John, deceased. 

3. J. Harry, deceased. 

4. Charles Brotherton (III). 

5. Victor V. 

6. Sallie Phillips. 

7. Jacob Miley, deceased. 

8. Bessie Grace. 

9. Sadie May married H. M. Weaver, 
of Waynesboro. 

(Ill) CHARLES B. CLAYTON, en- 
gaged in the insurance business at Waynes- 
boro, was bom in that city March 29, 1867, 
and was educated in the public schools and 
business college. Leaving school he took a 
position as assistant bookkeeper in the First 
National Bank, which he held for three 



years, and then went into his father's office, 
assisting him in a general insurance busi- 
ness until 1892, when the young man as- 
sumed full charge, and has since then con- 
ducted what is now the largest general in- 
surance business in Franklin county. Mr. 
Clayton was appointed notary public by 
Gov. Stone. In addition to other interests 
Mr. Clayton is secretary and treasurer of 
the Waynesboro Ice and Cold Storage Com- 
pany, and secretary of the Burns Hill Cem- 
etery Association ; secretary of Acacia 
Lodge. No. 586, F. & A. M., and treasurer 
of Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 487, and a 
past district deputy grand chancellor. 

Mr. Clayton married Myrtle E.. daughter 
of G. Milton Beamer, of Baltimore. Mary- 
land. 

DUFFIELD FAMILY. WILLIAM 
DUFFIELD (born in Lancaster county. 
Pa., Nov. 24, 1 73 1 — died in Montgomery 
township. Franklin Co., I'a., in January, 
1799) was the second son of George anil 
Margaret Duffield, who emigrated from Ire- 
land in 1730 and settled at Pequea, Lancas- 
ter county. He was an elder brother of the 
Rev. George Duffield, D. D., the eminent 
Presbyterian preacher. The Duffields were 
of Huguenot origin, their forefathers having 
escaped from France on account of religious 
persecution. The name was originally 
Du Fielde, but became Anglicised after the 
family settled in England. From England 
the immediate ancestor of George Duffield, 
the American pioneer, went to the North of 
Ireland. William Duffield came to the Cum- 
berland Valley about 1760 and settled on the 
west Conococheague creek, near Mercers- 
burg. He served with Col. Bouquet's ex- 
pedition against the Indians in 1763-64, and 
in 1765 he was at the head of the men of 
Conococheague who were opposed to the 
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for tlie Indians, but he refrained from xio- 
lence and his place was taken by James 
Smith, the famous captain of tlie "iM.ic . 
Boys." Mr. Dufifield was a member of tlie 
Pennsylvania Convention of 1776, and of the 
Assembly, 1776-77. The name of his wife, 
who died in 1804, was Susanna, but her sur- 
name has not been ascertained ; tliev had 
issue : 

1. William (II). 

2. John. 

3. Samuel married Eleanor Elliott, 
daughter of Johnston Elliott, and had issue : 
Johnston and William. 

4. Daviu married Jvme 13, 1791, Re- 
becca Elliott, daughter of Johnston Elliott, 
and had a son, Johnston. 

5. James (born April i, 1767 — died 
April 19, 1822) was a farmer at Welsh 
Run. He married Elizabeth (born in 1772 
— died March 24, 1832), whose surname 
has not been ascertained ; they had issue : 
William, George, James, John D., Jane and 
Susan. 

(II) WILLIAM DUFFIELD, son of 
William and Susanna Duffield, was a farmer 
in Guilford township. He married Rebecca 
Wallace, daughter of William and Ann Wal- 
lace ; they had issue : 

1. JosiAH served in the war of 181 2. 
He married Martha Crawford, (born May, 
1790), daughter of John Crawford; they 
had issue: John, William, and Rebecca. 

2. William (died Dec. 11, 1841) 
went to Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio, where 
he died of consumption. He married and 
had issue: Melinda married an Ilginfritz, 
with whom she removed to Missouri. 

3. Philip was living in Lancaster in 
1815: he died before 1838. 

4. James (born in 1794 — died Jan. 21, 
1878), married Mary Wallace (born in 1810 
— died Jan. 21. 1867), daughter of Isaac 



and Sarah (Graham) Wallace; they had n.j 
issue. 

5. Simon (III). 

6. Ann married Thomas Means; they 
had issue: Josejih, 'Ihomas, Martha (mar- 
ried A. L. Irwin), Margaret and Rel)ecca. 

7. Sarah^ born in 1790, died Sej)!. 
1872, unmarried. 

(III) SIMON DUFFIELD (born in 
1780 — died Jan. 29. 1856), son of William 
and Rebecca (Wallace) Dutitield, was a 
farmer in Guilford township, and owned the 
old Duffield homestead near the village of 
Duffield, now in the possession of his grand- 
son, Cassius W. Duffield. In politics he was 
a Democrat. His remains are in the Asso- 
ciate Presbyterian graxeyard at Chambers- 
burg. The name of his wife has not been 
ascertained, but it is believed that it was 
Chariton; they had issue: 

1. Arthur removed to Preble county, 
Ohio. He married Barbara P'ence ; they had 
issue: Sarah R., James F., Malinda C. and 
William S. 

2. Ph.\rez (IV). 

(IV) PHAREZ DUFFIELD (born in 
Guilford township, Oct. 2, 1812 — died 
March 22, 1880), son of Simon Duffield, 
was a farmer and lived on the old Duffield 
homestead in Guilford township, near tlie 
village of Duffield. Mr. Duffield married, 
in 1849. Sarah Jane Cook (born June 12, 
1827 — died July 2, 1892). daughter of 
George Cook, Esq., of Quincy township; 
thev had issue: 

'i. C.X.SSIUS W. (V). 

2. Simon Jefferson (died in 1902) 
married Sarah Horn ; they had issue : Carrie, 
Bessie. Charles, Olive, Mary. Bertha, .\nnie 
and Helen. 

3. Marshall Cook removed to Prel)le 
county. Ohio. He married Malinda Chari- 
ton Duffield, daughter of Arthur and Bar- 



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bara (Pence) Duffield; they had issue: Bes- 
sie, Arthur and Jane. 

4. Sarah Emma married John V. 
Small, of Guilford township, they had issue : 
Harvey, Nellie, Blanche, Olive, Elgin, Edith 
and John. 

5. Ida Jane married Milton S. Her- 
man, of Guilford township; they have three 
children : John, George and Irvin. 

6. George Pharez, born Aug. 31. 
1858, died unmarried Dec. 30, 1887. 

(V) CASSIUS WASHINGTON 
DUFFIELD (born on the old Duffield 
homestead in Guilford township, May 29, 
1849), son of Pharez and Sarah J. (Cook) 
Duffield, is a farmer on the Duffield farm, 
which descended from his great-grand- 
mother, Rebecca Wallace Duffield, by whom 
the dwelling-house, still standing, was built 
in the spring of 1820. The house is of logs 
and weather-boarded, with a brick addition 
built in 1856. The Duffield homestead was 
originally granted to Richard Cowden in 
1762, and by him was sold to William Wal- 
lace, and was conveyed to Rebecca W. Duf- 
field by her brother, Josiah, and her sister, 
Margaret Wallace, in 1819. The original 
farm buildings were of stone and logs and 
were replaced by the present structures. In 
politics Mr. Duffield is a Democrat and has 
■served as school director of Guilford town- 
ship. Both he and his wife are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church of Fay- 
etteville, of which he is a trustee, as well as 
class-leader, having served in the latter posi- 
tion for some years. He is a close student 
of the Bible, and is an entertaining and in- 
structive talker on Biblical subjects. Mr. 
Duffield married (first) Alary Rohrer Leh- 
man (born Oct. 5, 1849 — died June 23, 
1877), daughter of John Lehman, of Lan- 
caster county: they had one child, that died 
in infancy. He married (second) Frances 
'Greenwood Taylor, daughter of John and 



Barbara Taylor, natives of Virginia. She 
is the eldest of a family of six children, 
the others being as follows : Laura, who 
married Harry Greenawalt, of Fayetteville ; 
George, of Montana; Dora E., married to 
Brown B. Weldy, living in Montana : John, 
of York county; and Mary, living at Fay- 
etteville. The Taylors come from an old 
and aristocratic Virginia family and Mrs. 
Duffield is proud of her Southern birth and 
ancestry. Cassius W. and Frances G. Duf- 
field have issue : 

1. Nellie Jane. 

2. Grace Taylor. 

3. Frances Elgin. 

4. Minor Stanley. 

5. Laura Alcesta. 

6. Cassius Leslie. 

WALTER S. MENTZER, president of 
the Waynesboro Ice and Cold Storage Co., 
and foreman of the mounting and pipe de- 
partment of the Frick Manufacturing Co., 
was born in Leitersburg District, Washing- 
ton Co., Md., Oct. 22, 1857, a son of Joseph 
S. and Susanna (Walter) Mentzer. 

(I) JOHN MENTZER, the great- 
grandfather of our subject, was born March 
4. 1765. He was of German origin, and 
went from Lancaster, Pa., to Leitersburg 
District, Washington Co., Md., about 1790. 
There he married Catherine, daughter of 
Henry Solmes, who owned the farms 'east 
of Leitersburg, now the property of Henry 
Martin and L^pton Clapper. Mr. Solmes 
died in 1799. and by the division of his estate 
John and Catherine ]\Ientzer received the 
farm now owned by Henry Martin. Here 
John Mentzer died .\ug. 20, 1822. and he 
was buried in a small enclosure on the north 
line of the farm. About sixty years later 
his remains and those of his son Da\id were 
exhumed and interred at Jacob's Church, 
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one of its members, and throughout its his- 
tory his family has been prominently identi- 
fied with its affairs. John and Catherine 
Mentzer were the parents of these children : 

1. Margaret married Samuel Gilbert. 

2. John (II). 

3. Elizabeth married Abraham Strite. 

4. Catherine died unmarried. 

5. David died unmarried. 

6. Samuel removed to Kenton, Hardin 
Co., Ohio, in 1834. 

(H) JOHN MENTZER (2), grand- 
father of our subject, was born ]\Iarch 8, 
1795, in Leitersburg District, was reared on 
his father's farm, and succeeded to the prop- 
erty after the latter's death. There he re- 
sided several years and then removed to 
the farm now owned by the heirs of Joseph 
S. Mentzer, in the same district, which be- 
came his propert)', as did also considerable 
adjacent land. Realizing the importance of 
educational advantages for his children, he 
appropriated a small but sufficient plot of 
ground for school purposes, and, with the 
co-operation of his neighbors, erected a 
school-house thereon. For many years he 
served as an otificer of Jacob's Lutheran 
Church. He married Catherine, daughter 
of Jacob and Dorothy (Piper) Beaver, of 
Washington township, Franklin Co., Pa., 
and they were the parents of these chil- 
dren : 

1 . Daniel. 

2. Sarah married Jacob Tritle. 

3. Samuel. 

4. John W. 

5. Christian. 

6. Joseph S. (HI). 

7. Jacob B. 

8. Catherine married John N. New- 
comer. 

9. Lewis L. 

10. Ruh.'Vmah Elizabeth married 
Cvrus Schriver. 



The fatlier of the above family (iie<i l-'eb. 
I-, 1^74. and his widow survived until N<jv. 
7, 1 881. 

(HI) JOSEPH S. MENTZER, father 
of our subject, was born Sept. 11, 1826, in 
Leitersburg District. In early maniiood he 
taught school on his father's farm and also 
at Ringgold, Md. In 1849 'le was a student 
at Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio, 
after which he tauglit for several years at 
Jacob's Church, in Maryland, at Harrison. 
in Washington township, Franklin Co., Pa.. 
and at Pleasant Hill, in Maryland. In 1850 
he married Barbara (daughter of Henry) 
Jacobs, who died in 1852, the issue of this 
marriage being one child that died in in- 
fancy. In 1852 he rented the farm of his 
father-in-law at Jacob's Church, but owing 
to the death of his wife he relinquished farm- 
ing the same year. Several years later he 
resumed as a tenant on his father's home 
farm, which he subsequently purchased, and 
there resided until his death, Jan. 20, 1881. 
In 1856 Mr. Mentzer married (second) 
Susanna, daughter of John and Catherine 
(Besore) Walter, and the issue of this union 
was as follows : 

1. Walter S. (IV). 

2. E. Keller, of Leitersburg District, 
Maryland. 

3. Elvah C. married William Middle- 
kauff. 

4. Mary J. married Harry L. Har- 
baugh. 

5. H.'VRLAN J., of Waynesboro. 

6. L. BuHRMAN, of Baltimore. 

7. Toiix E. died in infancy. 

8. Sadie B. is living in Waynesboro^, 
Pennsylvania. 

9. Howard F. died in infancy. 

Mr. Mentzer was an elder, deacon and 
Sunday-school superintendait of Jacob's 
Church for manv years. 



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(IV) WALTER S. MENTZER was 
.educated in tlie public schools of his nati\e 
locality and at the Washington county liigh 
school. In 1876 he conducted a summer 
school at Harrison, in \\'ashington township, 
Franklin Co., Pa. In 1877 he entered the 
employ of Garver, Foltz & Co., at 
Rock Forge, where he served an ap- 
Ijrenticeship of three years at the trade 
of machinist, and this was supple- 
mented with eighteen months in the ma- 
chine department of the Frick Manufactur- 
ing Co., at Waynesboro, by which company 
he has been continuously employed since 
April 5, 1880. In 1884 he was promoted 
foreman of the mounting and pipe depart- 
ment and has continued as such. Mr. Ment- 
zer has been active in business circles in 
Waynesboro and has been instrumental in 
the organization of several of its leading 
industries. He was one of the original 
•stockholders of the Waynesboro Ice and 
•Cold Storage Co.. of which he is now presi- 
dent; also an original stockholder in the 
'Waynesboro Electric Light and Power Co., 
and is a director of the same ; and is a stock- 
holder in the Erick Co. and the Smith Manu- 
facturing Co. 

While a resident of Leitersburg District 
Mr. Mentzer was assistant Sunday-school 
superintendent of Jacob's Church and he has 
held a similar position in the Lutheran 
Church of W^aynesboro, off and on, for the 
past ten or twelve years. He has been secre- 
tary of the building committee for the erec- 
tion of the new Evangelical Lutheran Church 
of W^aynesboro, which is nearly completed, 
and which was expected to be dedicated 
about the ist of July, 1905. This building 
is of Hummelstown brown stone, of Roman- 
esque design, and, complete with all its 
furnishings, will cost $45,000. 

In 1886 Mr. Mentzer married .\nnie M., 
daughter of Christian D. Miller, and two 



children have been born to this union, 
namely : 

1. Edna C. 

2. Enola S. 

JOHN LLEWELLYN LAWRENCE', 
one of the leading men of Chambersburg, 
Pa., and a man who stands high in the 
confidence of the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
road Company, was born Dec. 31, 1855, 
on Picktoh street, Bristol, England, the 
youngest son of William and Mary 
Lawrence. 

WILLIAM LAWRENCE, his paternal 
grandfather, was a saddler by trade, entered 
the English army, and later became saddler- 
sergeant of the regiment with which he 
was connected. About 1825 the forces were 
ordered to India, and the father of our sub- 
ject was then about four years of age. Later 
on, when he was old enough, the younger 
William enlisted in the English army, 
stationed in India, but subsequently returned 
to England, and married. L'pon the break- 
ing out of the Crimean war his regiment, 
the 13th Light Dragoons, with other English 
forces, was ordered to the front, and after 
hard service, including the battles of Alma 
and Inkerman, he returned once more to 
England, and was stationed at the Aldershot 
Barracks for the remainder of his military 
service, which extended over twenty-eight 
years; he was retired on a pension which 
was continued until his death. 

On the maternal side ^Ir. Lawrence's 
grandparents were William and Lucy 
(Harding) Llewellyn, and his mother, Mary 
Llewellyn, was born on Llameth street, 
Caermarthen, Whales, June 24, 181 8. Her 
father. William Llewellyn, served with dis- 
tinction in the marine service of the British 
navy, and while young and in active service 
on the coast of Spain and Portugal was 
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firmity later developing into total blindness, 
on account of which he was retired on a pen- 
sion for life. 

In 1869 John L. Lawrence, the subject 
proper of this sketch, was apprenticed to 
the firm of Fox. Walker & Co., of St. 
Georges, Bristol, England, as locomotive ma- 
chinist, and after completing his apprentice- 
ship, and serving two years as journeyman, 
he came to the United States. After his 
arrival here he commenced work in the 
Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, 
Pa., but preferring railroad work he entered 
the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company in 1881. at the Alto;M:a shops. 
About two years later he engaged as a ma- 
chinist with the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy Railroad Co., at Creston, Iowa, but 
later on returned t(.) the Pennsyh-ania road. 
After about two years more he took charge 
of the shops of the Danbury & Norwalk 
Railroad Company, at Danbury, Conn., and 
in 1888 again entered the employ of the 
Pennsylvania Company at Altoona. In 
April, 1890, he was sent by them to take en- 
tire charge of the moti\-e power department 
of the Cumberland Valley railroad at Cham- 
bersburg, and he has continued ever since 
to hold that responsible position. 

On Sept. 9, 1885, Mr. Lawrence married 
Miss Margaret Jennings Maxwell, daughter 
of Archibald Hamilton and Anna Barbara 
(Hoover) Maxwell, of Lancaster county. 
Four children have been born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Lawrence : 

1. John Llewellyn. 

2. Norman Maxwell. 

3. Archibald Hamilton Maxwell. 

4. Margaret Frances. 

Mr. Lawrence is a member of the I. O. 
O. F. and has been for twenty years, and 
for the last twelve years he has been a mem- 
ber of the Royal Arcanum. He is a mem- 



ber of Trinity Episcopal Church and has 
been treasurer of the church and a member 
of the vestry and choir for a number of 
years. 

WILL1.\M BLAIR (deceased), who 
for many years was editor and publisher of 
the I 'Mage Record of Waynesboro, and one 
of the best-known newspaper men in the 
Cumberland \'alley, was born in I-'ranklin 
county, Pa., May 31, 1824, son of John and 
Sarah (Belle) Blair, and was of Scotch- 
Irish descent. 

The late William Blair was reared upon 
his father's farm, near Welsh Run, Frank- 
lin county, and he was educated in the com- 
mon schools, but the boy was ambitious and 
not content with farm life, and so, when 
only seventeen, he went to Hagerstown, Md., 
and learned the trade of a printer. In 1847 
he located in Waynesboro as an assistant 
to Dr. David O. Blair, the editor and pub- 
lished of the Village Record. In 1851 he 
was able to buy the entire establishment, 
and continued to conduct the paper until his 
death, which occurred Jan. 26, 1891. 

In 1854 Mr. Blair married Mary Jane, 
daughter of William Greer, of Englisli de- 
scent. ]\Irs. Blair survives and resides in 
Waynesboro. To Mr. and Mrs. Blair were 
born children as follows: 

1. .Asbury G. is a successful printer of 
St. Louis. 

2. Willie H. is a successful printer 
of Waynesboro. 

3. Edwin O. is mentioned below. 

4. Henry G. is with the Landis Tool 
Co., of Waynestoro. 

5. Mary B. 

6. Charles died at the age of eighteen 
years. 

7. Stanley is foreman of the Record 
and Zephyr, of Waynesboro. 



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8. Percy McClaine is a machinist at 
Omaha, Nebraska. 

9. Keith is a machinist. 

10. Mabel is deceased. 

Several other children died young. 

EDWIN OGLE BLAIR, one of 
Waynesboro's prominent citizens, was born 
in that city Aug. 23, 1861, son of the late 
William Blair. He was reared in the city 
of his birth and educated in its public schools. 
Leaving school at the age of eighteen he en- 
tered the office of the Waynesboro J'illagc 
Record, and served a regular apprenticeship 
to the printing trade. Subsequently he was 
made local editor of the paper and had 
charge of it until the death of his father, 
in 1891. For two years after that sad event 
he continued the paper, and then it was sold, 
Mr. Blair retaining the job printing depart- 
ment, which he carried on in conjunction 
with the handling of real estate and corporate 
stocks. On Dec. 13, 1898, Mr. Blair was 
elected a director in the Frick Mfg. Co., 
and served in that capacity for a number of 
years. Owing to his varied interests, and 
thorough grasp of financial and business con- 
ditions and methods, he was one of the most 
valued members of the board. In addition 
he has served as director of the Waynesboro 
Gas Light Co. since 1899, and is also a 
director of the Decarbonated Lime & Stone 
Co. Mr. Blair is also largely interested in 
the Waynesboro Ice and Cold Storage Co., 
and is justly regarded as one of the most 
representative men in the city. In politics 
he is a Republican, and takes a deep interest 
in the party and public affairs in general, 
frequently representing his ward in the 
county conventions. Fraternally he is a 
charter member of the Fraternal Mystic 
Circle, organized in Waynesboro about fif- 
teen years ago. Religiously he is a member 
of the Methodist Church, and gives liberally 
toward its support. 



On Aug. 19, 1896, Mr. Blair married 
Annie Blanche Ervin, who was born east 
of Waynesboro, near the Linden mill 
(Frantz mill), in Washington township, 
daughter of Washington Ervin, deceased. 

ZIEGLER FAMILY. FREDERICK 
ZIEGLER (born in Germany, Dec. 30, 
173c — died Nov. 21, 1791), the ancestor of 
the Ziegler family of Greencastle and Lei- 
tersburg, Md., emigrated to Pennslvania and 
settled in Lancaster county. He married 
Magdalena Hochlander. Besides four daugh- 
ters, whose married names were Fehl, Resh, 
Detrick and Kendig, they had issue: 

1. Frederick (II). 

2. Lewis (born in 1787 — died March 
2, 1863) was a member of the ]\laryland 
Legislature. He married, in 1809, Catharine 
Lantz, daughter of George and Barbara 
( Ziegler) Lantz ; they had issue : George L., 
]\lagdalena M., Barbara, Lewis, Frederick, 
Elizabeth, Samuel, Charles, James and 
Mary C. 

(II) FREDERICK ZIEGLER (born 
in Lancaster county, Jan. 19, 1778 — died 
May 30, 1857), son of Frederick and ]Mag- 
dalena (Hochlander) Ziegler, was a fanner, 
miller and distiller in the Leitersburg dis- 
trict, Washington county, Md. He married 
Rose Ann Elizabeth Lantz, daughter of 
George and Barbara (Ziegler) Lantz, and 
they had issue : 

1. George W. (III). 

2. Sophia. 

3. Frederick K. (born Oct. 28, 181 5 
— died Oct. 30, 1887) was a member of the 
Maryland House of Delegates and sheriff of 
Washington county. He married Louisa 
Swailes; they had issue: F. Scott, Charles 
C, Lewis F., Robert, Annie S., George H., 
Catharine, David A.. Margaret and Sam- 
uel J. 

4. Lewis. 




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5. Barbara. 

6. Elizabeth married Charles A. 
Fletcher [Fletcher Family]. 

7. Catharine married Dr. Frederick 
Byer, and they had issue:. ^Margaret K., 
who married Col. B. F. Winger-: Elizabeth 
v., who married Charles E. Ways; and 
Helen. 

8. Anna married Rev. John Heck 
(born Dec. 11, 1809 — died March 11. 1861 ), 
son of Ludwig Heck, of Chambersburg. 
They had issue: Frederick Z., Lewis D., 
John M., George S. and David J. 

9. David, born July 4, 1824, is deceased. 

10. Lydi.\ married James AL Leiter. 

11. Henry. 

(HI) GEORGE W. ZIEGLER (born 
near Leitersburg, Aid., April 30, 18 10 — 
died Nov. 16, 1897), son of Frederick and 
Rose Ann Elizabeth Lantz, daughter of 
George and Barbara (Ziegler) Lantz, was 
educated in the schools of the Leitersburg 
district, and at the age of nineteen he entered 
the store of Charles A. Fletcher, at Leiters- 
burg, where he remained two and one-half 
years. He was subsequently in a similar 
capacity in Hagerstown for eighteen months. 
In 1833, he bought the interest of John G. 
Miller in the general store of Stonebraker 
& Miller at Greencastle, and became the 
junior member of the firm of Stonebraker & 
Ziegler. This partnership lasted five years, 
when Mr. Ziegler bought the interest of his 
partner and conducted the business alone 
until 1850. In the latter year he associated 
with him his brother, David Ziegler. Mr. 
Ziegler continuing to be a partner until his 
death. During the entire si.xty-four years 
that he was in business in Greencastle the 
store was at the north-east corner of the 
Public Square in that place. He was for 
many years a director of the Greencastle, 
Waynesboro & Mercersburg Turnpike Road 
Company, and he was one of the founders 

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of the First National Bank uf Greencastle, 
sen-ing as a member of the board of direc- 
tors from its foundation until his death. Be- 
fore the Civil war he was an ardent anti- 
slavery man, and took an active part in the 
organization of the Republican party. He 
was a delegate to the Republican .National 
Convention that nominated Fremont in 
1856. Air. Ziegler married, in 1842, Maria 
Fatzinger, daughter of Gecjrge and Catha- 
rine (.\yres) Fatzinger, of Greencastle. 
George Fatzinger (born near .Mlentown, 
Sept. 14. 1784 — died at Greencastle. Jan. 16, 
1880) was a son of Valentine and Barbara 
( Lowry) Fatzinger. Valentine Fatzinger 
(born in Upper Pfalz, Germany, in 1739 — 
died in Lehigh county in 1807), son of 
George Fatzinger, was brought to Pennsyl- 
vania by his parents when only three years 
old. He served in the Revolution and was 
in the battles of Brandywine and German- 
town. Barbara (Lowry) Fatzinger was a 
daughter of Aiichael Lowry, also a Revolu- 
tionary soldier. George Fatzinger, the 
younger, married in 181 3, Catharine .Ayres 
( bom in 1790 — died Sept. 20, 1870). daugh- 
ter of Samuel .Ayres, an Englishman. He 
came to Antrim township shortly before his 
marriage. For a number of years he kept 
an inn in Greencastle, where the "National 
Hotel" now stands : in the later years of his 
life he was gate-keeper at the toll-gate east 
of Greencastle. George W. and Alaria 
(Fatzinger) Ziegler had issue: 

1. George Frederick (IV). 

2. AIaria E. died aged seventeen years. 

3. Theodore F. died in childhood. 

(IV) GEORGE FREDERICK ZIEG- 
LER (born at Greencastle Feb. 2, 1843), 
son of George W. and AIaria (Fatzinger) 
Ziegler, received his preparatory education 
in the local schools and from private tutors. 
He entered .Amherst College in 1862. and 
was graduated in 1866. .At .Amherst he was 



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a member of the Alexandria Literary Society 
and the Psi L'psilon Fraternity. Kis studies 
were interrupted by his enHstment in Com- 
pany K, 126th P. V. I., Aug. 7, 1862. He 
was promoted to Sergeant-Major Aug. 18, 
1862, and served with his regiment until it 
was mustered out, May 20, 1863, participat- 
ing in the battles of Fredericksburg and 
Chancellorsville. After leaving the service 
he at once resumed his studies. In 1866 he 
entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, 
and was graduated in 1869, after which he 
spent two years in England and on the Con- 
tinent. He was a student of the Universi- 
ties of Berlin and Heidelberg. Returning to 
Greencastle in 1872, he opened a select 
school, which he conducted with success until 
1886, when he was elected Professor of 
English Literature and French at Wilson 
College, at Chambersburg. He resigned his 
professorship in 1888, and resumed his resi- 
dence at Greencastle, wliere he devoted him- 
self to the large business interests of his 
father, and there he has since resided. He 
served as president of the Waynesboro, 
(Greencastle & Mercersburg Turnpike Com- 
pany, and as president of the Enoch Brown 
Park Association, in the formation of which 
his father was one of the active spirits. In 
the spring of 1903 he was elected a director 
of the First National Bank of Greencastle. 
-He gives most of his time to the manage- 
ment of his farms in Franklin county, Pa., 
and Washington county, Md. He is an 
elder in the Presbyterian Church of Green- 
castle. In politics he is affiliated with the 
IRepubhcan party. Mr. Ziegler married 
Anna C. Robinson, daughter of Dr. Robert 
K. and Abigail (Alurphy) Robinson, of 
Sharon. Harford Co.. Md. : they have one 
gpn: 

I. George Frederick, born Dec. 26, 
•I 901. 



ROBINSON. DR. ROBERT KIRK- 
WOOD ROBINSON, father of Mrs. Zieg- 
ler, was born near Shawsville, Harford Co., 
Md., Feb. 28, 1832, son of William and 
Mary (Kirkwood) Robinson. He graduated 
from the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Maryland, and during the Civil 
war served as surgeon of the 7th Md. V. I. 
From 1879 to 1899 ^^^ ^^'^^ ^ bailiff in the 
City Court, of Baltimore. He now resides 
at Sharon, Harford Co., Md. On Nov. 13 
1867, he married Miss Abigail Matilda Mur- 
phy, daughter of John and Nancy (Clark- 
son) Murphy, born in Chanceford township, 
York county. Pa. They had issue : 

1. Ann.a. Clarkson (Ziegler) (II). 

2. William Kirkwood. 

3. John Andrew. 

4. Mary Louise Staton. 

5. Grace Irwin McAllister. 

(II) ANNA CLARKSON (ROBIN- 
SON) ZIEGLER was bom at Gatchellville, 
York Co., Pa., Jan. 16, 1869. She attended 
the public schools in Baltimore, Md., and in 
1885 was graduated from the Eastern Fe- 
male High School. In 1886 she studied at 
Bryn Mawr Preparatory School, Baltimore, 
for admission to Wilson College, Chambers- 
burg, Pa., entering the latter college in 1887, 
and graduating therefrom in 1889. For one 
year she taught in the Kindergarten Schcxil 
of Miss Laura Beatty, in Baltimore, and the 
following year in the private schools of Mrs. 
Adams and the Misses Bond, Baltimore. 
Subsequently she taught in Nottingham 
seminary. Cecil county, Md., and in 1892 
was appointed instructor in Latin in Wilson 
College: in 1897 she was elected Adjunct 
Professor in Latin in the same college, but 
after two years resigned. From 1893 to 
1903 she served as president of the Alum- 
nae Association of Wilson College. On June 
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Zicgler. and that summer and fall were S[)ent 
in Europe. 

DETRICH FAMILY. L E W I S 
DETRICH, a native of Germany was a 
drummer in the Revolutionary war in the 
Colonial army, and at the termination of that 
struggle he settled in Lancaster county, Pa., 
where some of his children were born. He 
came to Franklin county some time prior to 
1800, and settled about a mile north of 
■Greencastle. His wife bore the maiden name 
of Julia Anne Gushard, and by her he had 
thirteen children. For many years he lived 
about halfway between Greencastle and St. 
Thomas on Back creek, where he died in 
18 1 9, while his widow died in 1832. Being 
a remarkably resolute woman, when eighty 
years of age she walked nine miles to visit 
Tier children, wading the creeks on the way. 
The Detrich family of Franklin county, 
with few exceptions, spring from this couple. 
Lewis Detrich was a thoroughly well- 
«ducated German scholar, and while not a 
member of any church, being very liberal 
in his religious views, and so influencing his 
family tliat until after his death none of 
then: joined with a religious body, he was a 
very upright and honorable gentleman. 
Afterward they nearly all became members 
of the Reformed Church. Lewis and Julia 
Anne Detrich had issue : 

1. David. 

2. Christi.\n (II). 

3. George. I 

4. Lewis. 

5. Emanuel. 

6. Samuel. 

7. Catherixe married John Lesher. of 
Antrim township. 

8. Elizabeth married .\braham Byers, 
•of Antrim tow-nship. 

9. Ellen married George Clapsaddle, 
of Antrim township. 



10. Sarah married George Shaffer, of 
Antrim township. 

11. Susan died young. 

(II) CHRISTIAN DETRICH, born 
in 1781, in Lancaster county, I'a.. came to 
Franklin county with his parents when quite 
young. By occupation he was a farmer, and 
lived four miles northwest of Greencastle 
on Conococheague creek, and in 1833 or 
1834 moved to Greencastle where he died in 
1855. In 1806 he married (first) Susanna 
Statler, who died in 1824, leaving nine chil- 
dren. He then married a Mrs. Byers, by 
whom he had no children. He was for many 
3-ears a member of the Reformed Church, 
served as captain of a militia company for 
seven ye;irs, and for about the same length 
of time was lieutenant, and he was also 
justice of the peace for several years. His 
children were: 

1. D.WID (III). 

2. John. 

3. Samuel S. 

4. Lewis. 

5. Jeremiah S. (IV). 

6. Hettie married Samuel Dhiel, of 
Antrim township. 

7. N.-vNCY married Samuel Steel, of 
Antrim township. 

8. Julia Ann married William 
Young, of Antrim township, and has at- 
tained the age of eighty-five years. 

9. Catherine is uinnarried. and is now 
eighty-two years of age. 

(III) GEN. D.-\VID DETRICH, 
eldest child of the above family, was liorn 
Aug. 26, 1807, in Antrim township, and 
when young he learned the trade of a cabi- 
netmaker and undertaker. After completing 
his apprenticeship, he began business, in 
1829. at Greencastle, and there remained for 
fiftv-three years, during which time he as- 
sisted in making coffins for 3.838 persons. 
He began with but small capital, but accum- 



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ulated means during his long business 
career. Early in life he became identified 
with the State militia, and when twenty- 
eight years old was commissioned first 
lieutenant of the 6th Company, 36th Regi- 
ment, Pennsylvania Militia. Two years 
afterward he was appointed adjutant of the 
6th Regiment and a short time thereafter 
was promoted to be major of the 2nd Bat- 
talion of the 6th Regiment for seven years. 
In 1835 he was commissioned colonel of the 
6th Regiment for seven 3'ears more, and in 
1842 was made brigade inspector of the 
2nd Brigade, nth Division of Pennsylvania 
Militia for seven years. In 1849 he was 
commissioned Brigadier-General of the 
Pennsylvania volunteers of Franklin county, 
serving for five years. In 1854 he was re- 
elected for five years more. For three years 
he was a member of Gov. Johnson's staff, 
and closed his connection with the militia 
in 1859, having been identified with it with- 
out intermission for thirty-one years. 

In 1871 he was elected director of the 
poor of Franklin county by 600 majority, 
on the Republican ticket. As long as his 
health permitted, he was very active in local 
politics, having served his community in 
various positions of trust and honor, such as 
burgess, councilman, school director, etc. He 
became connected with the Presbyterian 
Church, and served as elder for twenty- 
eight years, was a leader of the choir for 
forty years, superintendent of the Sunday 
School in the township for thirty years, and 
was superintendent of the Sunday School 
connected with his own church in town twen- 
ty-seven years, and an attendant at twenty- 
two meetings of the Synod. He was also 
elected a member of the General .\ssembly 
of the church, which met at Baltimore, ^Id., 
in 1873. H^ became afflicted with cataracts, 
and was almost blind at the time of his 
death, Oct. 22, 1887. Gen. Detrich was 



married to Margaret Cornman in 1S31, and 
she died in 1839, leaving three children: 

1. Ellex married Charles Ruthrauff. 

2. Eliott Buchanan died aged 
twenty-two years. 

3. Margaret died young. 

Gen. Detrich married again, in 1841, his 
choice being ^largaret Davison, by whom 
he had children as follows : 

1. M.\RTHA married William G. Davi- 
son. 

2. Marshall, a soldier in the Civil 
war, enlisted as a private when but seven- 
teen, for nine months, was wounded at tr 
battle of Fredericksburg, and when his time 
was out he re-enlisted, and served until tlv. 
close of the war, being then mustered out as 
a lieutenant of cavalry. He became a clerk 
in the ofiice of the surveyor general of Penn- 
sylvania for some time, and during the riots 
at W'illiamsport he was sent on active duty 
as the Governor's aid, ranking as colonel 
and while discharging his duties he con- 
tracted a cold from the effects of which he 
died in 1874. 

3. William D. resides in Chambers- 
burg. 

4. A daughter died aged twenty years, 
(IV) JEREMIAH S. DETRICH. the 

youngest of the sons of Christian and 
Susanna Detrich, was born on the old home- 
stead in Antrim township some four miles 
northwest of Greencastle, Aug. 24. 1822. 
He was reared upon the farm with his father 
until he was twelve years of age, and in 
April, 1838. he began to learn the trade of 
cabinetmaking and undertaking with his 
brother, the firm being Crawford &: Detrich. 
He completed a four-years' apprenticeship, 
after which he worked for two years at St. 
Thomas, at journeyman work. After three 
years he went to Harrisonville, Bedford 
county, and then went to Greencastle, where 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANx\'ALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



witli whom he remained until 1851. The 
two formed a partnership in 1851. under 
the style of D. & J. Detrich, cabinetmakers 
and undertakers, and this was continued until 
1 88 1, covering a period of thirty years, hut 
in that year Da\id withdrew, and our sub- 
ject took sole charge, conducting same for 
nine years. In 1890 he took his son into 
partnership and the firm now stands J. 
Detrich & Son, and the business is now con- 
fined to undertaking. This is the only un- 
dertaking establishment in Greencastle. It 
was established in 1829 and has continued 
ever since. During the long life of this 
house, the several proprietors have made 
and furnished coffins and caskets to upward 
of 6,100 people. Although a man past 
eighty, Jeremiah Detrich is hale and hearty, 
and carries his years with a grace and dignity 
which would do credit to many men his 
junior by several decades. He has always 
been an active Odd Fellow, and has taken 
a deep interest in all things calculated t(T 
prove of public benefit. He has served as 
a member of the council and upon the board 
of education, although never seeking ixiliti- 
cal preferment, his inclinations lying in the 
direction of his home and business affairs. 
On Nov. 9. 1848. Mr. Detrich was mar- 
ried to Miss Sarah Bowman, daughter of 
George and Sarah Bowman, natives of 
""Adams county. Pa., who came to .\ntrim 
township, Franklin county, in 181 1, engaged 
in farming but later located in Greencasde 
in April, 1837, where they made their home 
until their daughter's marriage. He died 
when about seventy-four years of age, while 
she died aged eighty-two years. After com- 
ing to Greencastle ^Ir. Bowman engaged in 
a feed business. George and Sarah Bowman 
had children as follows : ^lai^yjiTarried Abra- 
ham Bowman ; John and Da\id were twins ; 
Jonathan was killed in the battle of Uie 
Wilderness; and Sarah became Mrs. Detrich. 



The following family has been born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Detrich: 

1. George Melville died March 27, 
'863. aged about thirteen. 

2. M.\Rv Fllex. 

3. Id.\ C. married C. C. Kauffman, a 
grocer at Greencastle. 

4- W'lLLI.V.M S. (V). 

5. One that died in infancy unnamed. 

Mr. and Mrs. Detrich are members of 
the Lutheran Church, in whicii he has filled 
the office of elder for many years. 

(V) WILLIAM S. DETRICH (born 
June 7, i860) was educated in the public 
schools of Greencastle, afterward learning 
the undertaking business very thoroughly 
with his father, and, as before stated, in 
1890 he was admitted to partnership. On 
Dec. 4, 1889, he married Martha F. Hollin- 
ger, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth 
(Funk) Hollinger. Mr. HoUinger died in 
December, 1876. aged fifty-si.x years, while 
the mother is still living making her home 
at L'pton, Franklin Co., Pa. Both Mr. and 
Mrs. Detrich are consistent members of the 
Lutheran Church. He is a very prominent 
man in Greencastle, and has also served upon 
the city council for two terms. Mr. and 
Mrs. \\'. S. Detrich have had issue: 

1. Mary Eliz.\betii, born June 6, 
1892. 

2. S.\R.\H Ruth, born Dec. 21, 1894, 
died Dec. 2, 1898. 

The Detrich family is long lived, and 
Jeremiah S. Detrich and his two surviving 
sisters. Mrs. Young and Catharine, of the 
large family born to their parents, are very 
tenderly attached. Back through the many 
years they can look to their childhood days 
when father and mother and brothers and 
sisters were part of the family circle. Wiiat 
changes their eyes have seen, not only in 
their family life, but in the conditions of the 
human race ! Men have been born, achieved 



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greatness and passed away, and are now al- 
most forgotten within tlieir memory. Cities 
have sprung into existence, Hved a good Hfe 
and been deserted, and still they can look 
back and beyond them. Political parties have 
waged their conflict of ideas, perished, ami 
from their ashes have sprung up new ones 
to renew the strife, and yet these three have 
pursued their peaceful lives. The soldiers 
of the War of 1812 had scarcely doffed 
their uniforms and turned their weapons into 
instruments of everyday life, when they came 
into the world, and yet since then three 
bloody conflicts have held the country cap- 
tive, and thousands have been killed to up- 
hold the glory of the Union. In\entions 
without number have made changes almost 
beyond belief during these more than four 
score years they have lived, and the world 
is just that much older and better or worse 
as things are regarded since the day when 
two loving young people joined their lives 
nearly a century ago. 

PHILIP M. SHOEMAKER, a retired 
lumber merchant of Letterkenny townshi]j, 
Franklin county, was born Sept. 25, iSj8, 
in Lurgan township, this county, son of 
Jacob and Susan (Aliller) Shoemaker. 

(I) ADAM SHOEMAKER, the 
paternal grandfather was a farmer and 
wagoner. He married Xancv Zonvers. In 
religious matters he was a member of the 
German Baptist church. His brothers and 
sisters were as follows : John ; David, who 
married Elizabeth Eisenhower; Catherine, 
who married Samuel Shoemaker ; Mary, who 
married Christian Henzel ; Elizabeth, who 
married .\dam Shullenberger ; and Daniel, 
who married Elizabeth Baker. Adam Shoe- 
maker had issue as follows : 

1 . D.WID. 

2. John. 

3. Eliz.abeth married DT\id Paxton. 



4. Catherine married David Long. 

5. N.-^NCY died unmarried. 

6. Mary married Joseph Mower. 

7. Jane married Samuel Huffman. 

8. Jacob (II). 

Both Adam Shoemaker and his wife are 
buried in Horch's graveyard, Lurgan town- 
ship. 

(II) JACOB SHOEMAKER (died 
-April 5, 1839), father of our subject, was a 
farmer in Lurgan township, and at one time 
was captain of a company of militia in that 
township. He married Susan Miller (died 
in 1874), and both were very worthy and 
highly esteemed people. They had issue : 

1. Nancy married Samuel Holtry. 

2. Eliz.\beth married Jacob Gipe. 

3. Philip M. (III). 

4. Mary married IMichael Smith. 

5. Catherine married Samuel Bean. 

6. Susan married (first) Henry Stay- 
man, who was killed in the Battle of the 
Wilderness; (second) McGinley Stake, and 
(third) Adam Aukabrand. 

(III) PHILIP :\l. SHOEMAKER 
had the educational advantages offered by 
the public schools of his native township, 
and Milnwood academy, Huntingdon county. 
Pa. After completing his course, he taught 
school six years, and was finally elected coun- 
ty superintendent of Franklin county, being 
first elected in 1857, and re-elected in i860. 
From 1863 to 1866, he taught school, when 
once more he was elected to the office of 
county superintendent, and served for three 
years more. For the following four years, 
he then engaged in farming, and then em- 
barked in a lumber business, and continued 
in it until his retirement in 1896. In addi- 
tion to being honored by election to the office 
of county superintendent, Mr. Shoemaker 
has also been inspector and judge of election 
se\'eral times, was assessor of the township, 
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being peculiarly fitted for the latter office. 
On Dec. 2, 1856, he was married to Alar- 
garetta Znllinger, and their children were: 

1. Eldora V. married William W. 
Keefer of Idaho Falls. 

2. Minnie B. married Rev. Samuel .\. 
Garns, a Lutheran minister. 

3. Luther C. married Lilly Kearns, of 
Martinsburg, West Virginia. 

4. Millie J. is unmarried. 

5. Margaret S. married Dr. B. A. 
Hoover, Wrightsville. 

6. John Victor married Susan 
Dunkle. 

Mrs. Shoemaker died Nov. 19, 1881. On 
Nov. 23, 1882, Mr. Shoemaker married 
Mary Jane Gelwix, daughter of Daniel and 
Sarah (Carmany) Gelwix. Mr. and Mrs. 
Shoemaker are consistent members of the 
Lutheran Church. Fraternally Mr. Shoe- 
maker is a member of the I. O. O. F., of 
which he is Past Grand, and he has served 
as representative to the Grand Lodge. Mr. 
Shoemaker is a man of prominence in his 
community, and the success which has 
crowned his efforts has been deservedly 
earned by hard work and intelligent thrift. 

GERBIG FAMILY. NICHOLAS 
GERBIG (born in Germany, July 12. 181 3 
— died Jan. i, 1883), son of Bernhart Ger- 
big, emigrated to the United States in 1849. 
and after tarrying in New York and Phila- 
delphia, settled in Chambersburg in 1850. 
He was a soap manufacturer, and established 
a factory in that year that is now owned 
by his son, Capt. John C. Gerbig. He con- 
tinued in the business until his death. He 
was a member of the Lutheran Church. . He 
married Elizabeth Werner (born May i, 
1807 — died Nov. 26, 1873), daughter of 
Christian Werner, a brewer in Germany. 
They had issue : 

I. Sophia (died 1856) married Peter 



Meinsinger. Tiiey iiad one daughter, Catlia- 
rine Elizabeth (born April 9, 1856), who 
married, April i, 1877. William Sonnik 
(born June 5, 1853), son of William and 
Margaret (Goltman) Sonnik, and they have 
had issue: Charles (born Oct. 25, 1878 — 
died 1879), John (born July 27. 1882 — died 
1890), Robert E. (born Dec. 26, 1883) and 
Harry Edward (born Sept. 28, 1893 — died 
March 14, 1894). 

2. John C. (II). 

(II) JOHN C. GERBIG (born in 
Germany, Nov. 22, 1841), son of Nicholas 
and Elizaljeth (Werner) Gerbig, was 
brought to the United States by his parents 
when only eight years old, and was educated 
in the public schools of Chambersburg. 
Upon the first call for troops in 1861, he 
enlisted in Company .-X. 2d P. \'. I. and 
served with his regiment until its term of 
enlistment expired. In 1862. he entered the 
Quartermaster's Department of the .\rmy of 
the Potomac, under Gen. Rufus Ingalls, 
where he remained three years. In 1865 he 
became a partner with his father in the soap 
manufacturing business, and has continued 
the business since his father's death. In 
1889 he admitted his son Harry as a part- 
ner under the firm name of Gerbig & Son. 
The firm makes a specialty of laundry soap, 
its trade extending over Franklin and the 
adjoining counties and through Marylaml. 
He also deals extensively in hides, the busi- 
ness being exclusively wholesale and jobbing. 
He also has an interest in the butchering 
firm of C. C. Gerbig. In 1882 he joined 
Company C. 8th P. N. G.. as second lieu- 
tenant : the following year he was promoted 
to be first lieutenant and was elected captain 
in 1885. He resigned the captaincy in 1897, 
and was placed on the roll of honor. He was 
elected a member of the town council in 1872. 
and was re-elected five times, serving twelve 
vears. He was sheriff of Franklin county 



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1890-93. He is now treasurer of the borough 
of Chambersburg ; of both branches of the 
Order of Odd Fellows, of the Bkie Lodge 
of Masons, and of Company C. 8th regi- 
ment. He has been a director in tlie National 
Bank of Chambersburg, and is now a 
director of the Chambersburg Trust Com- 
pany. Captain Gerbig was conspicuous in 
preserving the peace at the time of the strike 
riot at Homesstead, in 1892. He is a Knight 
Templar Mason, and has served as Eminent 
Commander of the Chambersburg Com- 
mandery ; he is also a member of the Royal 
Arcanum, the Knights of Pythias, and the 
'G. A. R. He is past commander of Housum 
Post, No. 309, and was an aid on the staff 
of General Stewart, Commander-in-Chief of 
the Grand Army in 1902. For over thirty 
years he has been a worker in and for the 
Democratic party, and it was (m that party's 
ticket he was elected sheriff, although tlie 
county is largely Republican. He and his 
family all belong to the First Lutheran 
Church at Chambersburg. Captain Gerbig 
married, in 1863. Mary Yeager, daughter of 
Leonard and Elizabeth Yeager, of Cham- 
bersburg. They have issue : 

1. Annie (born Sept. 20, 1865) mar- 
ried Jan. 29, 1896, Charles Dixon Gillan 
(born July 5, 1866), son of Samuel H. and 
Susan C. (Sherman) Gillan. They have 
issue: John, born May 9, 1896; Ruth, bom 
Aug. 15, 1897: and Mildred, born Aug. 16, 
1899. 

2. Harry (born Sept. 18, 1867) mar- 
ried Jennie Gable, daughter of Michael 
Gable, and they have one daughter, Rita, 
born April, 1895. 

3. Charles (born Nov. 21, 1869) 
married Dec. 7, 1886, Minnie Flack (born 
Jan. 21, 1870), daughter of Alexander and 
Margaret (Fennel) Flack. They have is- 
sue: Charles Russell, b(M-n .\pril 18, 1888: 
Nellie Margaret, born .\ug. 5. 1889: John 



Alexander, born Sept. 7,' 1892; Mary Ruth, 
born Nov. 6, 1894. and Donald Flack, born 
July 29, 1898. 

4. John Albert (born Oct. 13. 1873) 
married Jan. 17. 1900, Minta Zullinger 
(born Nov. 19, 1874), daughter of George 
and Amanda (Ashway) Zullinger. They 
have had issue: Rose, died young; and 
John Albert, born July 24, 1902. 

ISAAC WINGERT. In the death of 
Isaac Wingert Fayetteviile and Franklin 
county lost a man of the highest Christian 
character, and an upright citizen whose place 
it will be hard to fill. He was born Nov. 
13, 1826, on the old Wingert homestead 
in Guilford township, a son of Jacob B. and 
Hannah (Lowery) Wingert. 
/'^ (I) JOHN WINGERT, the grand- 
father of Isaac was a very early settler in 
Franklin county, where he took up a home- 
stead and lived many years in a log cabin, 
among the other pioneers, when his daily 
visitors were wandering bands of Indians. 
He was the father of these children : 

1. Jacob B. (II). 

2. John. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Martin B. 

5. Abraham. 

6. Annie. 1 

7. Maria. 

8. Barbar.\. 

(II) JACOB B. WIXGERT was born 
in 1790, followed farming in Guilford town- 
ship, and died at the age of si.xty-three years. 
He married Hannah Lowery and was the 
father of these children : 

1. John. 

2. is.^.^c (III). 

3. Jacob. 

4. Elias. 

5. Rachel married Aaron Wingert, of 
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6. Elizabeth who married Abraham 
Deardoff. 

7. Hannah married Noah Myers. 

8. Judith became the wife of Rev. 
Benjamin Boyer, a minister of tlie River 
Brethren Church. 

(HI) ISAAC WINGERT was reared 
on the old farm in Guilford townsliip and 
was educated in the subscription schools of 
his day. On Oct. 14, 1852, he married 
Sarah Myers, of Guilford township, a 
daughter of Michael and Mary (BearJ 
Mj'ers, and a member of an old settled fam- 
ily of Franklin county. They had one 
daughter : 

I. Judith M. is a very talented woman, 
a graduate of Wilson College, and one of 
the earnest workers and leading members of 
the Christian Science Church at Fayette- 
^■ille. To the e.xtension of the principles of 
this body she has devoted her time and 
brilliant intellect. On Aug. 18, 1904. she 
became the wife of Williams Hayes Brecken- 
ridge, of Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. 

The late Mr. Wingert was a very suc- 
cessful farmer for many years and left a 
well improved and very valuable farm of 
160 acres in Guilford township and the fine 
family residence in Fayetteville, occupied by 
his widow and her daughter and son-in- 
law. While Mr. Wingert was never a poli- 
tician he cast his \-ote regularly in support of 
the principles of the Republican party. For 
many years a consistent member of the 
River Brethren Church, he was always noted 
for his piety and e.xeni])lary character. When 
his talented daughter became interested in 
the doctrines of the Christian Science 
Church as taught by the Mother Church, in 
Boston, Mass., he was also led into taking 
an interest, which later resulted in his also 
embracing this faith, in which he died. In 
all the walks of life, and under all circum- 
stances, he was a man who commanded re- 



spect and esteem and enjoyed the affection 
of family and friends. 

Mrs. Wingert, widow of Isaac Wingert, 
also belongs to a prominent ulil family of 
the county, its meml)ers being noted for high 
standing as agriculturists and stability of 
character. 

(I) FIENRY MYERS, her grand- 
father, was born in Adams county and was 
a pioneer settler in Franklin county. 

(II) MICHAEL MYERS, father of 
Mrs. Wingert, married Mary Bear, of an- 
other prominent and numerous family of this 
section, and they had these children : 

1. Henry. 

2. Samuel. 

3. Noah. 

4. Leah married Joseph Bitner. 

5. x\nnie died unmarried. 

6. Elizabeth married Joseph Wegley. 

7. Sarah, born Dec. 7. 1833. in Guil- 
ford township, is the widow of Isaac Win- 
gert. 

8. Nancy. 

BENJAMIN R. SUMMER, a promi- 
nent merchant of Quincy, Franklin Co., Pa., 
was born Aug. 31, 1858, near Williamsport, 
Washington Co., Md., son of John and .\nn 
M. E. (Bachtel) Summer. 

JOHN SUMMER was born July 9, 
1834, and was a son of John and Sarah 
(Rowland) Summer, and grandson of An- 
drew Summer, who removed from Lancas- 
ter county Pa., and located in Washington 
County, Md., west of Hagerstown. John 
Summer, father of Benjamin R.. began 
farming in 1859 in the Williamsport district, 
and in 1862 purchased the farm of fifty-si.K 
acres near Leitersburg where he has since 
resided. In 1857 he married .Ann M. E. 
Bachtel, daughter of George and Barbara 
(Stephey) Bachtel; she is a member of the 
Lutheran Church. They had issue: 



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1. Benjamin R. 

2. Alvey B. is deceased. 

3. Emma J. married Albert Stoner. 

4. Charles C. is deceased. 

5. Barbara E. married Barry O. 
Shank. 

6. Sarah E. is deceased. 

7. John G. is deceased. 

8. William J. is deceased. 

9. Edward C. is deceased. 

10. Thomas H. 

11. Anna M. married William Hartel. 

12. Mary M. married William S. Rine- 
hart. 

BENJAMIN R. SUMMER was reared 
in Leitersburg district, Washington Co., Md. 
and attended the schools of the locality. 
In 1880-81 he was a student at Eston & 
Burnett's Business College, Baltimore. 
Later he clerked for a time at Hagerstown, 
and then opened a store at Leitersburg. 
Very soon thereafter, however, he removed 
to Quincy, Pa., where he has since conducted 
a general mercantile business. In 1882 he 
married Ida May, daughter of John S. and 
Mary (Dumbaugh) Duey. Issue: 

1. Almeda V. 

2. Walter C. 

3. Harris N. 

4. Ruth is deceased. 

5. Mary is deceased. 

6. Ralph. 

The annual business transacted by Mr. 
Summer amounts to about $20,000, and he 
is one of the substantial men of the com- 
munity, with interests in other concerns, as 
he became a member of the board of directors 
of the Bank of Waynesboro in about 1899. 
He was one of the promoters of the Met- 
calf Mfg. Co., of Quincy, which was sold to 
the Geiser Mfg. Co., of Waynesboro. From 
1884 to 1888 Mr. Summer was postmaster 
at Quincy, and he discharged the duties of 
that office verv efficiently. He is a verv con- 



sistent member of the Lutheran Church, in 
which lie is deacon. Few men of Quincy 
stand as high in the confidence of the com- 
munity and the business world generally as 
does Mr. Summer, and his success is cer- 
tainly well merited. 

SHANK FAMILY. The Shank family 
of Chambersburg was descended from An- 
drew Shank, who lived at Smithburg, 
Md., and who was of German origin. He 
was a farmer by occupation. His immi- 
grant ancestor settled in Maryland at an 
early day. Andrew Shank had three sons 
and four daughters : 

1. John A. (II). 

2. Daniel. 

3. Andrew. 

4. Sarah. 

5. Elizabeth. 

6. Mary. 

7. Mrs. Hoover. 

(II) JOHN A. SHANK (born in 
Maryland — died in 1864), son of Andrew 
Shank, came to Franklin county, in 1826, 
and settled near Greencastle, where he re- 
mained five years, when he remo\ed to the 
neighborhood of Five Forks, Quincy town- 
ship. Later in life he removed to Ohio. Mr. 
Shank married Catharine Royer, daughter of 
John Royer, and they had issue : 

1. Susanna married Charles Wilson. 

2. Samuel (HI). 

3. Andrew S. (born at Smithburg, 
Md., in 1825) was brought to Franklin 
county, by his parents when only a year old. 
He was a farmer in Guilford township, near 
Chambersburg. and in the hotel business at 
Alto Dale. He married Jan. 18, 1847, 
Catharine McCumsey (born in Frederick 
county, Md. — died Oct. 13, 1884), daugh- 
ter of William and Hannah (Co\-el) Mc- 
Cumsey. They had issue: Margaret, An- 
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4. John married Miss Detwiler and 
lives in Ohio. 

5. Hezekiah married Ann Royer, 
daughter of Daniel Royer. 

6. Sarah married Christian Stover, of 
near Shady Grove. 

7. Isaac married Miss Stover, a sister 
of Christian Stover. 

8. Kate married Isaac Philipy. 

9. Elizabeth married Luther Greene- 
wait, son of George Greenewalt. 

10. Benjamin married Ellen Stouffer. 

1 1. Ephriam S. (IV). 

(III) SAMUEL SHANK (born at 
Smithburg, Md., April, 1824), son of John 
A. and Catharine (Royer) Shank, is a suc- 
cessful farmer in Guilford township. He 
owns two of the finest farms in the town- 
ship, near the head of the Falling Spring. 
He is a man of character and prominence in 
the community in which he lives, but he has 
never taken an active part in politics, pre- 
ferring to give his undivided attention to his 
farm. Mr. Shank married Lydia Whit- 
more (born in 1833), daughter of Jacob and 
Nancy (Summers) Whitmore; they have 
no children. 

(IV) EPHRAIM S. SHANK (born 
in Antrim township, Jan. 30, 1830 — died 
Nov. 6, 1883), son of John A. and Catharine 
(Royer) Shank, was educated in the public 
schools of Antrim township, and assisted on 
his father's farm until his marriage. He 
afterward engaged in the butchering business 
at Mercersburg. which he conducted until 
the beginning of the Civil war. He en- 
listed in Company G, 17th Pa. Cav., Oct. 
2. 1862, and was appointed Quartermaster 
Sergeant, a position that he held until the 
close of the war. After the war he engaged 
in the hotel business at Mont Alto, where he 
remained four years. He removed to Cham- 
bersburg, Feb. 15, 1870, and was the proprie- 
tor of the "Hotel Alontgomery" for eighteen 



months. On March 12, 1872, he bought 
the "Washington House," which he greatly 
improved, and in which he conducted a suc- 
cessful business until his death. He married 
Nov. 27, 1851, Sabina A. Kreps (born 
April 30, 1832 — died 1894), daughter of 
William and Charlotte (Ziegler) Kreps. 
They had issue : 

1. Cath.\rine B., married Ezekiel 
Foreman, they have issue;: Mary E., Wil- 
liam H. and Bessie (who died in infancy). 

2. William H. (V). 

3. Arimenta married (first) Robert 
Tolbert, and had Herbert and Harriet. She 
married (second) Thomas Henning and has 
a son, Edward. 

4. Theodore, bom Nov. 27, 1858,. 
died April 14, 1861. 

5. Lydia B. (bom June 20, 1868) 
married Walter \\'hite, and has a son, viz : 
Walter W., Jr. 

6. George W. (twin to Lydia B., born 
June 20, 1868 — died June 30, 1891) mar- 
ried Irene Bonbrake. daughter of Dr. Henry 
X. and Agnes (Fouke) Bonbrake, and they 
had one daughter, Jessie. 

7. Bessie, born Dec. 11, 1870, died' 
July 16, 1 87 1. 

8. Bertie^ twin to Bessie, born Dec. 
II, 1870, died July 18, 1871. 

(V) WILLIAM HENRY SHANK 
(born near Funckstown Dec. 20, 1854), s^n 
of Ephraim S. and Sabina (Kreps) Shank, 
was educated at the public school at Mont 
Alto and at the Chambersburg Academy. 
After leaving school he became clerk under 
his father at the "Washington Hotel," in 
Chambersburg, in 1873. Thus it will be 
seen that at his father's death he was thor- 
oughly equipped, both by experience and in- 
heritance, to take charge of the business. 
His maternal grandfather, as well as his 
father, was a successful hotel man. Since 
Mr. Shank became proprietor of the "Hotel 



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\\'ashington" he has made many marked im- 
provements in the property. Wlien he took 
charge of the hotel on Nov. 13, 1883, the 
house was two and a half stories in height. 
He purchased the adjoining lot on Second 
street, and made the house four stories. It 
has a front of 85 feet on Market street, and 
124 feet on Second street. In Market street 
it has a plate glass front, and with its 
modern equipment it is an up-to-date com- 
mercial hotel. The "Hotel Washington," 
with its beautifully equipped office and writ- 
ing room, is the finest hotel in Chambers- 
burg, and it ranks as one of the leading 
hotels of the Cumberland Valley. He bought 
Dec. 10, 1900, the fine country seat known 
as "Hawthorne," two miles east of Cham- 
bersburg, one of the most beautiful summer 
homes in the Cumberland Valley. Mr. 
Shank is a member of the K. of P. of Cham- 
bersburg, the Heptasophs, the Elks and the 
Redmen. Mr. Shank has given his entire 
time and attention to the hotel business, and 
is one of the board of directors of the Nor- 
land Land Company, and a stockholder in 
the National Bank of Chambersburg. He 
has never solicited public office, but is a life 
long Republican. ]\Ir. Shank is a self made 
man, and attributes his success to close appli- 
cation to his business. He married Aug. 22. 
1895, I"^2 Nell Hargleroad, daughter of 
Courtney R. Hargleroad. They have issue : 
Dorothy Katharine and William Hargle- 
road. 

THOMAS J. KENNEDY, born on the 
old family homestead in Antrim township, 
Franklin Co., Pa., May 9, i860, is one of the 
prominent men of \\'aynesboro, and he re- 
cei\ed his education in the common school, a 
select school at Greencastle. Pa., and in 
Northwood college, near Bellefontaine, 
Ohio, and in 1881, he took a commercial 
course at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1883 he 



entered the office of the Frick Manufacturing 
Company, Waynesboro, and there continued 
uiitil 1889, when lie entered the employ of 
the Geiser Manufacturing Company as book- 
keeper, and remained with them until Sep- 
tember, 1896, when he was elected register 
and recorder of Franklin county, and thus 
served from Jan. i, 1897, to January, 1900. 
Retiring from the above office, he em- 
barked in a real estate and insurance busi- 
ness in Waynesboro. 

On May 24, 1890, Mr. Kennedy married 
Miss Bertha Geiser (born in 1863 — died in 
1897, daughter of Martin and Ellen Geiser 
of Waynesboro. They had one daughter, 
Lulu B. Mr. Kennedy is a member of 
Acacia Lodge No. 586, A. F. & A. M. ; 
Waynesboro Lodge No. 219, I. O. O. F. ; 
Waynesboro Lodge No. 731, B. P. O. E. 
Religiously he is a member of the Lutheran 
Church. Mr. Kennedy is one of the pros- 
perous and public spirited young men of 
Waynesboro, whose success in life is largely 
due to his own efforts, backed by grit and 
ability. 

JOHN A. ZULLINGER, now retired 
from active business, comes of an industrious 
family, resident for several generations in 
this part of Pennsylvania. He was born 
Dec. 26, 1842, near Upper Strasburg, son of 
Jeremiah and Susan (Grove) Zullinger. 

(I) NICHOLAS ZULLINGh:R, his 
great-grandfather, was born in Dauphin 
county, where he owned a farm, and lived 
for some years, finally moving to Frank- 
lin county. His wife's maiden name was 
Miller. 

(II) FREDERICK ZULLINGER, son 
of Nicholas, was a farmer in Letterkenny 
township. He married Margaret Shea (now 
spelled Shay), daughter of Edward and 
(Foster) Shea, the former a black- 
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tlieir chiUlreii, all now deceased except 
Cieorge K., we have the following record : 

1. The eldest died in infancy. 

2. Nicholas married Maria Gilbert. 

3. Jeremiah married Susan Grove 

(HI). 

4. John married a lady from Freder- 
icksburg, Virginia. 

5. Frederick married Mary Ann Wil- 
son. 

6. Eli.\s married Mary A. Shearer. 

7. George K. married Mary Britten. 

8. David married Maria Forney. 

9. AIarg.\ret married P. M. Shoe- 
maker. 

(Ill) JEREMIAH ZULLINGER, son 
of Frederick, followed farming as an occu- 
pation, and also for several years kept a 
hotel in Upper Strasburg. He married 
Susan Grove, daughter of Michael and Susan 
(Cramer) Grove, the latter a daughter of 
John Cramer, a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. 
and Mrs. Zullinger became the parents of 
the following family : 

1. John A. (IV). 

2. I-"rederick L., who married Sarah 
Reigner, died in 1885. 

3. Sarah J. married Dr. J. M. Gelivi.x, 
of Strasburg. 

4. Jeremiah F. married Ida Ramsey. 

5. Almed.\ I. married John Minter. 

6. William B. married Maria Britton, 
a daughter of Squire Britton. 

The father died in June, 1893, and the 
mother in February, 1895, and both were 
laid to rest in the Lutheran cemetery in 
Upper Strasburg. They were both active 
workers in, and consistent members of, the 
Lutheran Church. 

Michael Grove, father of Mrs. Susan 
(Grove) Zullinger, was a farmer and hotel- 
keeper of Strasburg. He was the father of 
the following children : 

I. Eliza married Jacob Minehart. 



Rebecca married Salisbury Sher- 



man. 



3. John married Rebecca Hershberger. 

4- George married a Miss McFarland. 

5. Susan became Mrs. Zullinger. 

6. Michael .M. married Charlotte 
Wei St. 

(IV) JOHN .\. ZULLINGER at- 
tended the public schools of Strasburg and 
applied himself so diligently to his studies 
that he was, when comparatively young in 
years, well qualified for the teacher's pro- 
fession. For several winters he was success- 
fully engaged in teaching near his home, and 
then he entered the mercantile world as a 
partner of Philip M. Shoemaker, at Stras- 
burg, a partnership, however, that lasted 
only a few months, when Mr. Zullinger be- 
came a partner of Chambers Flickinger. In 
a short time he severed his relations with Mr. 
Flickinger, and in the fall of 1867 asso- 
ciated himself with S. K. Lehman in business 
at Strasburg, under the firm name of Leh- 
man & Zullinger. The firm continued suc- 
cessfully in business for eight years. In the 
spring of 1876 John A. and his brother Jere- 
miah F. Zullinger went into blisiness at Hus- 
tontown, Fulton Co., Pa., continuing thus 
for several years. In June, 1878. John A. 
Zullinger located in Orrstown, purchasing 
the general merchandise store of David Ken- 
dig & Bro. In 1880 he became the owner of 
the John Orr farm, which he cared for in con- 
nection with his store until January, 1901,. 
when he retired. In all his afifairs he has- 
prospered, and is to-day the owner of four 
valuable farms, besides considerable personal 
property. He is one of the directors in the 
People's National Bank at Shippensburg, 
and was one of the promoters and a director 
in the Cumberland Valley Telephone Co. 
During both administrations of President 
Cleveland he served as postmaster at Orrs- 
town. Local affairs have ahvavs interested^ 



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him, and he has long been an iniiuential 
worker for the principles of the Democratic 
party. Progressive and public-spirited, he 
is ever willing to give time and means for 
the advancement of his town, especially hi 
matters pertaining to the schools, and he has 
been a most efficient director. 

In 1873 Mr. Zullinger was united in mar- 
riage with Emaline Kell, daughter of James 
and Eliza Kell, of Strasburg. This union 
was blessed with an interesting family of 
^children, namely : 

1. James W., who married Miss Moh- 
Jer, of Orrstown, is connected with the 
Adams Express Co., and is stationed at Har- 
risburg. 

2. John K., born in 1878, is now en- 
gaged in the general merchandise business in 
Orrstown, Pa., as a member of the hrm of 
Zullinger & Minter. 

3. Jere. E. is a graduate of Shippens- 
burg State Normal School, and also gradu- 
ated in the fall of 1904 at State College, Pa., 
as a mining engineer, and is now following 
liis profession in West Virginia. 

4. Thomas A., the youngest of the 
family, is married to Beulah Smith, and is 
living in Harrisburg, Pa., where he is man- 
ager of the T. D. Nelson, Jr., Shoe Com- 
pany of tliat place. 

GEORGE W. MYERS, who is num- 
bered among the successful and highly re- 
spected farmers of Guilford township, 
Franklin Co., Pa., was born in this town- 
ship, on the old Myers homestead, Sept. 28, 
1840, a son of Jacob and Mary (Miller) 
Myers, deceased. 

(I) JOHN MYERS, his grandfather, 
was born in Carroll county, Md., and came 
to Franklin county, settling on the Myers 
farm in 1814. His first wife was a Miss 
Zinn, and he was the father of eight chil- 
dren: 



Jacob (H). 

Mary. 

Mattie. 

Annie. 

Rebecca. 

John C. 

POLLIE. 

Sarah. 

(H) JACOB MYERS, the father of 
George W., was born in 18 10 and was only 
four years of age when his parents removed 
to Franklin county. He became one of the 
leading farmers of Guilford township, and 
died in 1891. He was a stanch Republican, 
while in religious matters he was a con- 
sistent member of the United Brethren 
Church. He married Mary Miller, and they 
had eight children, some of whom died in 
childhood. 

1. John. 

2. Jacob. 

3. Catharine married Jacob Keefer. 

4. Daniel is a resident of Sterling, Il- 
linois. 

5. George W. (III). 

(Ill) GEORGE W. MYERS was 
reared upon a farm, and educated in the 
common schools. On Jan. 8, 1884, he mar- 
ried Rachel C. Croft, of St. Tlionias, a 
daughter of John C. and Martha (Wertz) 
Croft, of St. Thomas, deceased. Mrs. 
Mvers was one of the following familv : 



I. 



Samuel is a grocer and merchant of 



Pennsylvania. 

2. David is deceased. 

3. John, of St. Thomas is a farmer. 

4. George is a farmer of Wa^'nesboro. 

5. Mary married John S. Zell, of 
Kansas. 

6. Rachel C. is Mrs. Myers. 

7. Lettie married William Clark, of 
St. Thomas township, a farmer. 

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The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Myers, all at home, and very promising, 
bright young people, are as follows : 

1. Homer W. 

2. Ethel. 

3. Janet. 

4. John C. 

5. Martha. 

In politics Mr. Myers is a true Republi- 
can. In his religious affiliations he is a Lu- 
theran, and he is a member of that church at 
Marion. He has been a school director for 
six years, township auditor for the same 
period, and served on various election boards. 
He ow ns two fine farms, one of ninety acres, 
and the other of sixty acres, all well culti- 
vated, and he has devoted his life to farming, 
although since 1900 he has lived somewhat 
retired. The Myers family is one of the old- 
est in Maryland, representatives of it having 
been prominent in Maryland history for the 
past 150 years. Mr. Myers is one of the 
substantial, reliable men of the township, and 
the success which has come to him is cer- 
tainly well merited. 

THOMAS ALEXANDER WAD- 
DELL is one of the most familiar figures in 
Mercersburg. He has practically passed all 
his life there, having been born on a farm not 
far from the town to which he came when a 
youth to finish his education, and where he 
has been engaged in business from young 
manhood. His active participation in all en- 
terprises looking toward the good of the 
town has entitled him to an honorable place 
among her substantial citizens, and he comes 
from one of the old settled families of Frank- 
lin county. 

The first of the \\'addell family to reside 
in Franklin county was the great-grand- 
father of Thomas A. He came to this coun- 
try with his brother, who went South, and, 
taking up his home in this section in the 



early part of the last century, passed the re- 
mainder of his life here. 

(II) THOMAS WADDELL, son of 
the settler, and grandfather of Thomas A., 
settled on a farm about four miles from Mer- 
cersburg. His death occurred about 1852- 
53. He married a lady named Long, and 
children as follows were born Id their union : 

1. William (HI). 

2. John married and left a family. 

3. Alexander also married (he has 
one son living, who is married and has a 
family). 

4. Archie, who died in Mercersburg; 
he married, but had no family. 

5. James, of McConnellsburg, married 
and had a large family. 

6. Eliza married Robert McKinnie, of 
Peters township, and had a large family. 

(III) WILLIAM WADDELL was 
born on his father's farm, was reared to ag- 
ricultural life, and always followed farming, 
settling in Peters township. However, he 
was taken from his family in his early prime, 
dying at the age of thirty-two years. He 
married Ruth Grubb, daughter of Joseph 
and Jane (McLelland) Grubl). and two chil- 
dren came to this union : 

1. Thomas Alexander (IV). 

2. Jane M., born June 30, 1831, mar- 
ried William A. West, a Presbyterian min- 
ister, who is still preaching, in McConnells- 
burg. They had a family of six children, 
four of whom still survive, and of w hom we 
ha\e the following record: William (de- 
ceased) married and had one daughter, 
Ruth ; Frank is deceased ; Belle married Mr. 
William Jennings, of Harrisburg; Robert is 
engaged in teaching in Syria ; Annie is a 
Presbyterian missionary in Japan : Ella was 
married in 1902 to R. Sharpe Patterson, of 
Fulton County, Pa. ; Charles was killed on 
the railroad. 

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many years, reaching the advanced age 
of eighty-seven. She died in Cariisle. 
and is buried in Fairview cemetery, ^Mer- 
cersburg. 

(IV) THOMAS ALEXANDER 
WADDELL (born Feb. 26, 1829, on the 
home farm in Peters township) received his 
education in the pubhc schools in Mercers- 
burg. Wlien lie commenced business for 
himself he embarked in the line to which he 
has ever since given his attention — cabinet- 
making and undertaking. 'Sir. W'addell has 
come to do business over a wide extent of 
territory, and has gained an extensive patron- 
age by honorable business methods, and it is 
no exaggeration to say that his face is known 
to everyone in Mercersburg and vicinity. 
Though now advancing in years he is still as 
active as ever, and looks after the needs of 
his large business with the care it demands, 
and which he has always exercised in the 
conduct of his affairs. 

Though business has claimed a large 
share of his time, Mr. \\'addell has ever been 
interested in the welfare of the community, 
and he has lent his voice and given substan- 
tial aid in the support of all worthy objects. 
He has served in various official positions, 
having served three years as burgess of ]^Ier- 
cersburg. and about twelve years as a mem- 
ber of the town council. He was originally a 
Whig in political sentiment, and has been a 
stanch Republican since the organization of 
the party. 

Mr. Waddell's first marriage was to 
Elizabeth Brewer, daughter of Jacob Brewer, 
a farmer of Montgomery township, and they 
had two children : 

I. William (born in 1861) lives in 
California, where he is engaged in the lum- 
ber business; he married Miss .\nnie Angle, 
of Welsh Run, Franklin county, and they 
have two children, Mary Creigh and Thomas 
Brainard. 



2. George (born in 1863) is also in the 
lumber business in California, where he lives; 
there he married Emma Frances Adams; 
they have had no children. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Waddell died in 1872, 
and in 1874 Mr. Waddell wedded Anna M. 
Shields, daughter of Maxwell Shields, of 
Adams county ; no children have come to this 
union. She died January, 1883. ^Ir. Wad- 
dell is a Presbyterian in religious connection, 
and has been a deacon for more than forty 
years. 

THOMAS Z. MIXEHART. Franklin 
county has given its quota of representatives 
of the legal profession belonging to the State 
of Pennsylvania, and one of those who has, 
perhaps, gained distinction as rapidly as any, 
although a young man, is Thomas Z. ^Mine- 
hart, who was born Sept. 18. 1867, near 
Orrstown, Pa., son of Jacob Sherman and 
Catherine (Wise) ^^linehart. 

(I) JACOB MIXEHART, grand- 
father of Thomas Z., was a manufacturer of 
woolen goods and a weaver near Roxbury, 
Pa., until 1866, when he moved to Pleasant 
Hill, Pa., and there continued his weaving 
operations until 1885. when he retired. His 
children were : 

1. ^I.\RV married John Diffenbaugh, of 
^Manchester, Kansas. 

2. Sls.\n married Solomon Cramer, of 
Manchester, Kansas. 

3. Rebecca, married William Kuhn. of 
Pleasant Hall, Pennsylvania. 

4. M.\GGiE married John G. Cramer, de- 
ceased, of Abilene, Kansas. 

5. Emma married George Funk, of Pea- 
body, Kansas. 

6. Naomi married John \\\ Cramer, of 
Pleasant Hall. Pennsylvania. 

7. Jacob Sherman (II). 

On March 10. 1890. Jacob Minehart 
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man. Tlie J 'alley Spirit, under date March man took sick on the way, and had to be 
26, 1890, said: left at Siiippensljurg, where he died soon 
"An empty chair; a vacant room; a miss- alter. Jac(jb, then but thirteen years old, 
ing face; sad and lonely hearts! His pew in came on home with the team. His grand- 
church unoccupied; his familiar voice silent; father had taken a great interest in him; but 
at the table, at the fireside, about the house, after his death Jacob was roughly treated at 



home. At one time the abuse arose to such 
a degree that the Ijoy bunilled up and threat- 
ened to leave. At the age of eighteen, he 
was bound as apprentice to a weaver in 
Upper Strasburg. During his service here. 



on liis journeys of charity no longer seen ; 
and at the bedside of the sick, lie is missing, 
for over the grave of what was once "Grand- 
pap" JMinehart. in the silent city of the dead, 
through which he so often traveled as if 
communing with the speechless lips there he was sent to help open the old road over 
entombed, blow the gentle March winds like the mountain west of Strasburg. He was 
spirits of light, whispering 'Peace to thy not very kindly treated by his master while 
rest !' learning his trade ; and when free at twenty- 
"Jacob Minehart, Sr., died at the resi- one, he went to work in the fulling mill now 
dence of his son-in-law, John W. Cramer, owned by Daniel Reed in Lurgan township, 
near Pleasant Hall, ^Monday morning, March The loom on which he worked bears his ini- 
loth, at the age of 86 years, 4 months, 23 tials, nicely carved in 1825. While here he 
days. His remains were interred in the Pleas- also learned the fulling. Here he stayed 
ant Hall graveyard on Wednesday follow- until about 1826, from which time to 1830, 
ing, at II A. M. At his funeral were gath- he was a journeyman weaver working at 
ered about 340 people, who thus came to pay various places throughout the county. In 
their last respects to this honored man. This 1830 he returned to the mill, and stayed 
was one of the largest funerals ever held at there until 1835, when he moved to Ship- 
Pleasant Hall church. The services were pensburg. It was while working at the mill 
conducted by the Rev. Letterman, existing this second time that he was married, in 
pastor, and the Rev. J. Kisler of Carlisle, 1832, to Miss Eliza Grove of Upper Stras- 
for many years pastor of the same charge, burg. The officiating minister. Rev. Nicho- 
After services this venei-able form was laid las Sthroe, is still living, near Peoria, 111., 
to rest amid the tears and heart-aches of his and is the oldest minister in the Lutheran 
friends who witnessed the solemn ceremony. Church, being over 90 years of age. 



"Mr. Minehart was born in Lancaster 



"About 1846-50, Mr. Minehart re- 



county, Oct. 17, 1803. The family came to turned from Shippensburg, where he had 

this county when Jacob was but a boy. The lived since 1835, to the mill; and this time 

family lived for some years on the farm now bought it. Here he conducted the business 

owned by S. P. Shields in Lurgan town.ship, of weaving, fulling and carding largely until 

near Orrstown. From there they moved to 1866 when he sold the mill to Daniel Reed, 

the farm now owned by Simon Zearfoss at and in the spring of 1867 moved to Pleasant 

Herr's Mill in Southampton township. It Hall. At this place he carried on weaving 

was while living at one of these places that till 1882. Here on April 7, 1881, died his 

Jacob's grandfather. Howard, died. He exemplary wife wdio had been to him a true 

and Jacob were on their way home from helpmate for so many years. After the 

Philadelphia with the team, when the old death (jf his wife, he went to live with his 

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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



youngest daughter, Mrs. Naomi Cramer, 
with whom he stayed tlie remainder of his 
life. 

"He was the father of eleven children, 
seven of whom survive liim. Four are in 
Kansas — Mrs. Mary Deifenbach, wife of 
John Deifenbach; Airs. Susan Cramer, wife 
of Solomon Cramer; Mrs. Emma Funk, wife 
of George Funk, and Mrs. Maggie Cramer, 
wife of John G. Cramer. Two of his daugh- 
ters live at Pleasant Hall, Naomi, above 
mentioned, and Rebecca, who is married to 
William Kuhn, of Pleasant Hall. His only 
son, J. S. Minehart, lives in Lurgan town- 
ship, owning and operating largely the mill 
formerly known as Zimmerman's mill. 
Twenty-five grandcliildren are still living 
and six great-grandchildren. 

"His religious life was so earnest and 
-peculiar that it is well worth recording, in- 
deed it was striking, and the strongest trait 
in his character, making him an object of 
universal wonder ami admiration ; and it 
might be truly said of him : 'God does not 
send into this world many such men as 
Father Minehart.' He was received in the 
Pleasant Hall church about the year 1830 
by Rev. Hall, the existing pastor, as a mem- 
ber by confirmation. But this did not sat- 
isfy him. He did not feel himself a Chris- 
tian. His was one of those deep natures 
that rise up in religious life into the regions 
of holy experiences ; that possess an interior- 
ness, as Beecher puts it, 'which enables them 
to rise into a spiritual realm where they walk 
.•and talk with God and interpret His de- 
jcrees.' He used to say in reference to the 
'time after he joined the church, 'the preacher 
•told me I ought to have family worship. 
"But I asked him. "How can I pray when 1 
have no religion ?' " 

"Thus he lived unsatisfied till 1841. 
\while living in Shippen.sburg. One night he 
<ame forward as a seeker. His fellow 



church members tried to persuade him from 
it ; but he heeded them not. He knew there 
were higher joys than he then knew, 
and he wanted them. The next morn- 
ing while at work he became rest- 
less for peace and was on the point of 
kneeling to pray when he thought of the 
passage : 'Behold he prayeth !' and at that in- 
stant a sudden, overwhelming light and joy 
took possession of him, and as he said. 'God 
did not give me a chance to pray.' '.\fter 
that.' he said, 'no one needed to tell me I 
ought to have family worship.' It was that 
morning that he held such worship. The 
first chapter of the Bible he thus read was 
the 1st John. 

"It was then that his religious life began. 
He took part in the church work and in 
other ways displayed the spirit of his Mas- 
ter. He was called to help others to the 
light he had found. He \-isited the poor and 
the sick and helped them wherever he could. 
He worked in the Sunday schools and 
prayer meetings, wherever opportunity of- 
fered. He, in connection with Rev. Adam 
Hyte, the existing pastor, established the 
first Sabbath school at Pleasant Hall in 
1847, ^""^^ li^ continued its Superintendent 
for ten or twelve years. He was known to 
walk from Shippensburg to the Hall to 
preaching on more than one occasion, so 
eager was he to attend church worship, and 
once he walked from Shippensburg to Upper 
Strasburg to a camp meeting, a distance of 
ten miles. He was a great revivalist and 
God used him as the instrument of many 
conversions. 

".\n example of his faith in this line may 
be cited. It was when he lived in Shippens- 
burg. .\ minister was holding a revival at 
that ])lace and there seemed to be no progress, 
c\'en the church memjjers were dilatory and 
languid. One night, Mr. Minehart and two 
or three other men orsjanized themselves into 



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a 'band of prayer,' agreeing to pray for an 
awakening, and a successful revival. In a 
few days a wonderful power was manifested 
and a great change took place. Dozens came 
forward to become Christians and among 
them some of the members of the church. 
When the fervor was at its highest one even- 
ing, one of his associates in prayer ap- 
proached Mr. Minehart all in excitement 
and said, 'I never expected this, did you?" 
Mr. Minehart calmly replied, 'Yes, we were 
praying for this.' It was on this occasion 
that, when some of the converts shouted on 
the streets and the more decorous members 
tried to keep them quiet, Mr. Minehart said, 
'Let them shout. The wicked carouse and 
make more noise than they do.' In relating 
this, he used to add with a half merry twinkle 
of his eye, 'I always was about half Meth- 
odist.' 

"He was always a conspicuous figure at 
the bedside of the sick. And in his visits 
to these places, he seldom went without first 
going to the store and taking with him some 
article of need. To the poor he often sent 
when he did not go — here a sack of flour, 
there some groceries, and elsewhere what- 
e\-er might help, all coming to the needy like 
blessings from heaven. He was often de- 
rided and buffeted in his work but still he 
kejit on. Often, too, he was deserted by his 
Christian associates. One instance of this 
kintl is the following, which will also show 
faithfulness at the dying bed. It was during 
his residence in Shippensburg. One David 
Pague had been run over by a train of cars 
on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, the 
first man ever hurt on that road, and had one 
of his legs cut off and was otherwise injured. 
Mr. Minehart and some others were sent 
for to pray for the dying man. When there 
and all deeply affected for the man's condi- 
tion, he asked one of the men to pray but he 
refused promptly, and Mr. Minehart was 



left to lal)or alone with the dying man, which 
he did all night. 

"As life advanced he grew more and 
more heavenly minded, and during the last 
)ear cared not to talk of .secular things. He 
seemed like one just waiting for his call, 
until at last he heard the call and followed. 
Thus lived this righteous man, who, though 
his sphere of work was not so wide, did the 
world more good than many whose xleeds 
have become the records of history and 
whose virtues are commemorated upon pil- 
lars of stone towering far toward the skies. 
But his face and his counsel are now missed 
in the Sabbath school and the church serv- 
ices. His prayers and pleadings now move 
our hearts only through echoes of recollec- 
tion; yet if angels do so plead and pray, we 
know they do still reach the Throne in our 
behalf! The echo of his voice still lingers in 
our ears and we almost see him in his custo- 
mary place, but we know he is not there; 
his work here is finished. The Master look- 
ing on in silent, smiling approval has said, 
'It is enough; come up higher!' .\nd the 
imprisoned spirit leaving its frail and aged 
tenement has crossed the dark river and en- 
tered the Land of Light, where flowers al- 
ways bloom, where the tree of sorrow 
spreads not its branches to shadow the 
goodly fields, and 'no night comethl' - 

"And while his friends here gathered 
about him at his departure with tearful eyes, 
those over yonder gatheretl around him upon 
his arrival with shouts of joy. The world 
is better that he lived!" 

(II) JACOB SHERMAN MINE- 
H.\RT (born in Shippensburg May 25, 
,842 — died in Lurgan township May 24, 
1890) was a miller by occupation, and was 
a man of keen business ability, occupying a 
very prominent position in his township. He 
married Catherine Wise, granddaughter of 
Jacob ^^'ise, a farmer who came from Cum- 



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berland county and was of Swiss descent, 
and a daughter of Jacob Wise, a farmer of 
Franklin county, whose other children were : 
Mary, wlio married H. L. Gloss ; Isaac, who 
married Catharine Ulrich ; John, who left 
home after maturity, went West, and has 
not been heard of for many years; Adeline, 
who married David Spencer, and after his 
death, Reuben Shearer, of Shippensburg, 
Pa. ; Nancy, deceased, who married Isaac 
Kuhn, deceased, of Orrstown, Pa. ; Jacob B., 
of Kansas, unmarried ; Samuel B., who mar- 
ried Katie Ankerbrand, and is a farmer in 
Rooks county, Kans. ; Caroline, who mar- 
ried David H. Martin; and Martha, de- 
ceased. To Jacob Sherman and Catherine 
(Wise) Minehart were born four children: 

1. Thomas Zeno (II). 

2. Charles Dutt married Ida B. 
Britton, and is a miller actively engaged in 
operating a large mill on the site formerly 
owned by his father. 

3. Mary E. died when three years of 
age. 

4. John Roy was educated in the public 
schools, Chambersburg Academy, and grad- 
uated from the Medico-Chirurgical College, 
of Philadelphia in 1903. In 1904 he was 
commissioned surgeon on board the Turk- 
ish war vessel "Medijia," sailing March ist, 
and visiting the West Indies, Cape Verde 
Islands, Algeria, and finally delixxring the 
vessel in Constantinople. Since his return he 
has been registrar of the Pharmacy Depart- 
ment and instnictor in Materia ]\Iedica in 
his alma mater, and he practices his profes- 
sion in Germantown, Pennsylvania. 

Under date, May 28, 1890, the J 'alley 
Spirit said : 

"It is but little over two months since 
we recorded the death of Jacob Minehart. Sr., 
of Pleasant Hall. Little did any one then 
think that his son. J. S. Minehart, of Lur- 
gan township, would follow so soon. He 



seemed to be at that time so healthy and vig- 
orous. But it is said, 'Death likes a fair 
mark," and so the dread destroyer has cut 
down this prominent and useful man right 
in the prime of life. 

"Jacob S. Minehart, the well known 
miller of Lurgan township, died on Satur- 
day evening. May 24th, after an illness of 
only two weeks. The cause of his death was 
kidney affection coupled with paralysis of 
the brain. He received a hard fall several 
years ago, which injured his brain, and 
when this last sickness attacked him, it at 
once settled at the brain. He was uncon- 
scious much of the time during the last week 
i)f his illness. 

"Mr. Minehart was a kind husband and 
father, a splendid neightor, a good citizen, 
and an upright and fervent Christian. Only 
we who have lived near him many years and 
known him well, can fully estimate the loss 
of him. 

"He came to the mill, which he managed 
up to his death, about 1868 and conducted 
it with success ever since, having a large 
custom. The last two years, his son C. D. 
Minehart, has been associated with him in 
the mill, the work being too much for one 
person. His son will continue the manage- 
ment of the mill and has employed Cyrus- 
Bowman, of Mongul, to assist him. 

"^Ir. Alinehart's remains were interred 
at Pleasant Hall on Tuesday at 10 o'clock. 
He was about 48 years of age. He leaves 
a wife and three sons. The oldest, Thomas, 
is a student in Gettysburg College, and will 
return to his studies sometime this week. 
The family have the sympathy of the com- 
munity, all of whom deeply uKiurn with 
them the death of this good man." 

(Ill) THOMAS Z. MINEHART re- 
ceived his preliminary education in the pub- 
lic schools, and so well did he apply his time 
there that for a few vears he was a success- 



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fill teacher in the Franklin county schools. 
He then attended the Normal School at Val- 
paraiso, Ind.. graduating therefrom in 1889, 
and later Gettysburg College, hut did not 
complete the course in the latter institution 
as his father's death compelled him to leave, 
and take up the burden of life for himself. 
He began the study of law with the Hon. 
\V. Rush Gillan in March, 189J, and on 
Jan. I, 1893, took charge of the practice of 
the Hon. W. U. Brewer, who was then Sen- 
ator, representing the 33rd Senatorial Dis- 
trict of Pennsylvania, and now in the con- 
sular service in England. He was admitted 
to the Franklin County Bar Feb. 26, 1894, 
and shortly thereafter to the Superior and 
Supreme courts of Pennsylvania. In a very 
short time he began to make himself felt 
in Democratic politics, and from August, 
1896, to August, 1901, he was a member 
of the Democratic State central committee, 
and from 1901 to 1904 a member of the 
Democratic State executi\e committee. He 
was a delegate to the National Democratic 
Convention at Kansas City in 1900, and has 
been a delegate to many state conventions, 
doing valiant service for his party and ad- 
vancing the cause of true democracy. His 
practice is a large and successful one, and in 
aildition to his professional interests he is a 
stockholder in the Chambersburg Trust Com- 
pany, and in the \'alley National Bank of 
Chambersburg. 

In 1895 Mr. Minehart married Miss 
Myrtle M. Hartzel. of Chambersburg, 
daughter of Charles Hartzel, late of New- 
ville, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Mine- 
hart are consistent members of the Lutheran 
Church. Fraternally he belongs to the I. O. 
O. F., the I. O. R. M., the M. W. A. and 
the Heptasophs, and is very active and popu- 
lar in all these organizations. 

Coming as he does of an old and honored 
family on both sides of the house, Mr. Mine- 



hart has reason to be proud of his ancestors, 
and of his own efforts to maintain the family 
name at its present high standard. A young 
man, he has proved himself a learned, elo- 
quent and forcible attorney, while as a poli- 
tician he has a brilliant future before him. 
As a private citizen he enjoys the esteem and 
confidence of a wide circle of warm personal 
friends. It is to such men as Mr. Minehart 
that the Keystone State owes so much of her 
greatness, and she is proud when she can 
claim them as her native sons. 

SMITH FAMILY. (I) JACOB 
SMITH (died in 1856), the grandfather of 
E. M. Smith, undertaker, of Chambersburg, 
was a farmer in Carroll county, Md. The 
name of his wife was Lantz. They had seven 
children : 

1. Joel (H). 

2. William. 

3. Uriah. 

4. Jeremiah. 

5. Sarah married Albinas Poole. 

6. Rachel married Amos Calor. 

7. Catharine married Dennis Cook- 
son. 

(II) JOEL SMITH (died .\pril 7, 
1859), son of Jacob Smith, was like his 
father a farmer in Carroll county, Md. He 
married Julia Ann Morelock (died May 30, 
1883), daughter of Michael and Anna 
(Weaver) Morelock. Michael Morelock 
(died in 1876) was a son of Jacob More- 
lock, who came from Scotland to Carroll 
county, Md., when a boy, was a farmer, and 
kept a hotel near \\'estminster. He had five 
children : Michael, Jacob. John. Joseph, and 
a daughter who married Jacob Marker. By 
a second marriage he had (korge, Augustus 
and David. Michael and Anna (Weaver) 
Morelock had issue : Henry, Julia Ann (mar- 
ried Joel Smith), William, Josiah, Anna M. 
(married David Byers), and Ellen (married 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Hiram Converse). Joel and Julia Ann 
(Morelock) Smith had these children: 

1. Missouri married John Routson, of 
Carroll county, Maryland. 

2. Martha E. married J. Hamilton 
Singer, of Carroll County, Maryland. 

3. E. M. (III). 

4. William H. is deceased. 

5. J. Augustus is of South Dakota. 

6. Mary C. is deceased. 

(Ill) E. M. SMITH (born in Carroll 
county, Maryland, Jan. i, 1850), son of Joel 
and Julia Ann (Morelock) Smith, attended 
public and private schools in his native 
county until he was ten years old, when lie 
began working to help his mother, his father 
having died. He remained on the farm until 
eighteen years of age. After clerking in a 
store for a few months he began as an ap- 
prentice at the cabinetmaking and undertak- 
ing business, and finished an apprenticeship 
of three years. Soon after completing his 
trade he began business for himself at Tluir- 
mont, Frederick Co.. Md., in the furniture 
and undertaking business. In 1883 he came 
to Chambersburg and engaged in the under- 
taking business. He subsequently added th-^ 
manufacture of the Franklin foiding-bed. 
bedsprings and cots, which he invented in 
1887. He has shipped these beds as far west 
as Omaha, Neb., and one was sent to India. 
They find a ready market in Philadelphia, 
Baltimore and the South. Blair's Academy 
at Blairsville. N. J., has 175 of these beds 
and recommends them. The first bed manu- 
factured by Mr. Smith was made for Wilson 
College. He manufactures about two-thirds 
of the caskets and coffins he uses in his trade 
and affords employment to five hands. He 
has served as a director of the C. \^ Tele- 
phone Company, and has been a director in 
the Mechanics Building & Loan Association 
for ten years. He was also one of the found- 
ers and directors in the Chaml)ersburg Trust 



Company. He is treasurer of a number of 
fraternal organizations of which he is a 
member, being an active worker in the I. O. 
O. F., the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Ar- 
canum, the Heptasophs and the Alystic Cir- 
cle. He is also a member of the First Lu- 
theran Church, Chambersburg, and has been 
a member of the Lutheran Church since 

1872. Mr. Smith married (first) Jan. 16, 

1873, Alice Rouzer (died 1880) daughter 
of Henry Rouzer, of Frederick county, Md., 
whose father was one of the early settlers 
in that part of Maryland. They had issue : 

1. Henry Rouzer graduated at Penn- 
sylvania College, Gettysburg, in 1897, and 
died while preparing for the ministry at the 
Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1897. 

2. Mattie J. 

3. Edgar M. died in infancy. 

Mr. Smith married (second) April 29, 
1884, Lucy L. Eyster. daughter of Lewis B. 
and Elvina (Leonard) Eyster. Mr. Eyster 
(bom March 15. 1828 — died December, 
1900) was a son of Peter and Rosanna M. 
(Snider) Eyster, and a grandson of Chris- 
tian Eyster, who settled in Chambersburg 
soon after the Revolution. E. M. and Lucy 
L. (Eyster) Smith have issue: 

1. Roy Eyster. 

2. Lewis Earl. 

WILLIAM G. REED, deceased. Among 
the men who are numbered as pioneers of 
Chambersburg. Pa., and who were instru- 
mental in securing its present commercial 
and industrial prosperity, should be men- 
tioned one, now deceased, who bore a very 
prominent part in the public-spirited life of 
his community for many years, the late \\'ill- 
iam G. Reed. Mr. Reed was born in Xew- 
ville. Pa., July 26, 1821, and died at his 
home on East Market street, Chambersburg, 
Dec. 21, 1903. The Repository of Cham- 
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"Williani Gilmore Reed died at his home 
on East Market street on Monday at 2:10 
A. M., after a few weeks' illness with pneu- 
monia. On Sunday he sank into an uncon- 
scious condition and gently slept away, sur- 
rounded by his afflicted family, wliich was 
but recently called upon to lay to rest his 
youngest daughter, Mrs. C. E. Hoke. 

"While not unexpected the sad news of 
Mr. Reed's death has shocked the community 
in which he was so generally esteemed and 
venerated and in which he has spent prac- 
tically all his life in good works. Mr. Reed 
w as a man to whom the term Christian gen- 
tleman is aptly applied. He was an earnest, 
aggressive, and w'ithal a genial and warm- 
hearted worker in the cause of his Master, 
and was always in the forefront of any char- 
itable movement. The good he did is known 
to nobody here below, for Mr. Reed was one 
who let not his right hand know what his left 
was doing. As a citizen he was a model 
man, fearless and upright in what he thought 
to be proper, and even those whose path he 
countered respected and upheld his motives. 
As a husband and father he was gentle, af- 
fectionate and attentive, and his family life 
has always been one admired by all who 
knew the home. 

"Since 1843 Mr. Reed has been a mem- 
ber of the Falling Spring Church, and for 
many years has been its oldest Ruling Elder. 
In every branch of church work he took an 
active part; he had a fine voice and lent his 
voice and time to the church and all religious 
meetings. He organized and for many years 
conducted a colored mission school here, 
whicli did good work among that race. 

"His fondness for music, especially of a 
religious character, was great. When Edi- 
son first invented the phonograph Mr. Reed 
was in his laboratory and sang into the ma- 
chine a sacred hymn, 'Jesus, Lover of My 
Soul.' 



"Mr. Reed was born in Xew\ille on July 
26, 1 82 1, and came to this place when about 
si.xteen years of age. For a time he clerked 
in a dry-goods store which was in the Gil- 
more block, on the southwest corner of Me- 
morial Square. 

"He then learned telegraphy and was- 
one of the first operators in the county, and 
when married to Miss Rebecca Lindsay he 
was engaged in that profession. Later he 
became a florist and nurseryman and for 
some years was engaged in the extensive 
business which is now carried on by his son,, 
William B. Reed. Of late years Mr. Reed 
has beeu_agent for several fire insurance com- 
panies, and did a large business. He waS' 
also treasurer of the Falling Spring Presby- 
terian Church, and for years was secretary 
of the Board of Trustees of Wilson College. 

"He is survived by bis aged wife, by 
one daughter, Mrs. Fannie, wife of Rev. 
F^rank J. Newton, a missionary in Ferozepur, 
India, who will not learn of the death of her 
father and sister for a month or more ; three 
sons, William B.. J. Lindsay, Fred B., all of 
town, and two l)rothers, John, aged eighty- 
six, of this place and James, aged eighty- 
four, of Greensburg. 

"Tlie funeral services for Mr. William G. 
Reed will be held at his late residence at 3 
p. M. on Wednesday. .\t the conclusion of 
those services, to which all friends are in- 
vited, the body will be taken to Falling 
Spring Presbyterian Church, where services 
will also be held, giving an opportunity to 
those who may find the latter place more con- 
venient to attend. The services in the church 
was requested by the Session of the Church 
and the family acceded thereto. Interment 
will be made in Falling Spring Church cem- 
etery." 

HUGH REED, father of William G., 
was a mechanic by trade, dying when a 
young man in Cumberland county. lie 



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came of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He married 
Jane Gilmore, and at his death left his widow 
with three small children : 

1. John H., now of Chambersburg. is 
eighty-seven years of age. 

2. James AI., of Greensburg is eighty- 
five years of age. 

3. William G. 

In November, 1847. William G. Reed 
married Miss Rebecca Lindsay, of Cham- 
bersburg. a daughter of John and Frances 
(Crawford) Lindsay, old settlers of Frank- 
lin county. Eight children were born to Mr. 
and Mrs. William G. Reed : 

1. Frances Crawford married Rev. 
F. J. Newton, a missionary of Ferozepur, 
India. 

2. Mary Gilmore, deceased, was Mrs. 
A. L. Gardner, of Baltimore, Maryland. 

3. William B. is a successful florist 
of Chambersburg. 

4. John Lindsay is a conductor on the 
Cumberland Valley railroad. 

5. Fred B. is a teller in the Valley Na- 
tional Bank of Chambersburg. 

6. Sarah A. married Charles Hoke, of 
Chambersburg, and died in December, 1903. 

7. Hugh died in infancy. 

8. Janie died in infancy. 

Mrs. Reed, who survives her husband, re- 
sides at Chambersburg, and is a venerable 
lady, having been born in 1825. In politics 
Mr. Reed was an active Prohil)itionist, and 
for sixty years he was a very active and hon- 
ored member of Falling Spring Presbyterian 
Church. 

To the encomiums above quoted there is 
little to be added. The life of a man like ^Ir. 
Reed requires but little comment, for his 
deeds live after him and beautify the lives 
of many others, their influence extending 
into the future almost indefinitely. To those 
who scoff at the influence and power of the 
church the life of Mr. Reed offers an un- 



answerable demonstration of the fact that 
it is perfectlv practicable and possible to 
carry the teachings of Christ into every-day 
life, and still make a success of business en- 
terprises. It will he long before those who 
knew and appreciated the genial, earnest, 
kindly man so suddenly taken from their 
midst, will cease to miss his wise counsel, his 
friendly advice, and his wholesome influence, 
while his immediate family have suffered a 
loss only tempered by the remembrance of 
his godly and beautiful life, and the fact that 
death found him prepared for the change. 

SIMON G. HOLLINGER. one of the 
well-known citizens of Waynesboro, and a 
member of the board of directors of the 
Frick Mfg. Co., was born on the old home- 
stead, three miles northeast of the city, Nov. 
23. 1852, a son of Daniel and Hannah 
(Singer) Hollinger. The father was also 
born on the old homestead in 1S27, the son 
of John Hollinger. The first of the family 
to come to America was 

(I) JACOB HOLLINGER, who was 
born in Germany about 1696, and emigrated 
about 1736. settling in Lancaster county. Pa. 
He is said to have been married two or three 
times, and to have been the father of twenty- 
four children. 

(II) NICHOLAS HOLLINGER. one 
of his sons, and the direct ancestor of Simon 
G.. was born in Lancaster county, probably 
prior to 1740. and died in 1785. He served 
as a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. 
He pre-empted no acres in Donegal town- 
ship. Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1765. The 
maiden name of his wife was Catherine 
Elizabeth, and they had nine children. 

(III) PHILIP HOLLINGER. the eld- 
est son of the above, was born in Donegal 
township prior to 1762. His name appears 
in the tax list of that township in 1782. He 
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tied in Washington township, estahlisliing 
tlie Holhnger liomestead. 

(IV) JOHN HOLLINGER. son of 
PhiHp, was born on the old homestead, 
wliere he died Dec. 6, 1866. He married a 
member of tlie Grove family, probably Eliza- 
beth, and their children were as follows : 

1. Samuel G. is deceased. 

2. Mary married John S. Myers. 

3. Ann married John S. Oiler. 

4. Daniel (V). 

(V) DANIEL HOLLINGER married 
Hannah Singer and their children were: 

1. Simon G. (VI). 

2. Jacob R. is living in Kansas. 

3. John S. was murdered h\ thieves in 
1885. 

4. Abraham S. is deceased. 

5. Lizzie A. married Jacob S. Lesher. 

6. Ida May is deceased. 

7. Laura A. married D. Frank Kipe, 
and resides on the old homestead. 

8. Hannah Alice married Murray 
Koffman. and resides in Scotland. 

The father followed farming on the old 
homestead all his life. He was one of the 
original incorporators of the Frick Mfg. 
Co., for many years was a director, and at 
one time was the heaviest stockholder. In 
addition he was a director in the First Na- 
tional Bank of Waynesboro, and a stock- 
holder in the Geiser Mfg. Co., as well as 
other enterprises. In politics he was a Re- 
publican, while religiously he was a member 
of the River Baptist Church. His untimely 
death occurred in 1893, his widow surviving 
until 1897, when she passed away aged 
sixty-six years. She was born three miles 
east of Waynesboro, near Rouzerville. 

(VI) SIMON G. HOLLINGER was 
reared upon the homestead and attended the 
common schools during boyhood, and later, 
in 1872-73, he attended the Millersville 
(Pa.) Normal School. In 1872 he began 



teaching in Washington township, and in 
the summer of 1874 he attended the National 
Normal at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he 
was graduated in the business course. Alto- 
gether he taught twelve seasons. In 1882 he 
entered the office of the Frick Mfg. Co., at 
Waynesboro, and continued there two years. 
On account of failing health he was obliged 
to leave the office late in 1883, and return to 
the farm, and there he continued until the 
spring of 1901, farming and raising stock. 
During his stock experiments he introduced 
registered Guernsey cattle and was the first 
man of the county to do so, winning many 
premiums with same at State and county 
fairs. In the spring of 1901 he removed 
to Waynesboro, and, purchasing his hand- 
some brick residence on South Potomac 
avenue and Sixth street, has since made that 
city his home. His home occupies one of the 
best sites in Waynesboro, and to it come 
his many friends, who are received with gen- 
erous hospitality. In 1900 Mr. HoUinger 
was elected a niemi^er of the board of direc- 
tors of the P>ick Mfg. Co., now serving his 
fifth year. In politics he is a Republican, and 
he has served upon the school board, his edu- 
cational experiences and the adx'antages he 
enjoyed for acquiring the higher branches of 
learning making him specially fitted for his 
work upon the school board. 

On Dec. 20, 1877, Mr. HoUinger mar- 
ried Alice S. Middour, who was bom two 
miles north of Waynesboro, daughter of 
Jacob and Mary (Shank) Middour. Mr. 
Middour is now deceased, but at one time 
served ably as one of the commissioners of 
Franklin county. The children I)om to Mr. 
and Mrs. HoUinger are : 

I. Dessie M., born Sept. 13, 1879, is 
an honor graduate of the Shippensburg State 
Normal School and now a leading teacher of 
this county, ha\in.g been recently appointed 
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struction, one of a committee of three to ex- 
amine applicants for State certificates. 

2. L. Bertha was born Aug. 25, 1891. 

■\ 

JOHN DOWNIN (deceased). Among 
the names connected with the early history 
of Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pa., is that of 
John Downin, now deceased, who was born 
in July, 1828, a son of John Downin, of 
Franklin county, and died in November, 

1875- 

(I) JOHN DOWNIN, the father, had a 
large family, as follows : 

1. William. 

2. Joseph. 

3. Amos. 

4. John (II). 

5. Jane married John Snyder. 

(II) JOHN DOWNIN,' the subject 
proper of this sketch, was but a poor boy 
when he started out in life, but through hard 
work, industry and thrift he became a man 
of substance. For a number of years he 
was a distiller and farmer, and was inter- 
ested in a nvnnber of business enterprises in 
Waynesboro, whither he intended to move 
had he lived. Being kindly of heart, he was 
always ready to respond to calls made upon 
his generosity, and he was mourned by a 
large circle outside his immediate family. 

In 1850 John Downin was united in 
marriage with Miss Susan Barkdoll, of 
Washington township, Franklin Co., Pa., 
and they had children as follows : 

1. John, of Maryland. 

2. Ann Elizabeth. 

3. Christie married William Weag- 
ley. 

4. Flor.\ married David Hoover. 

5. Ida married Edward Oiler. 

6. Ella May is at home. 

John Downin had the following grand- 
children : 

I. John L. 



2. 


Ida E. 


3- 


Clara. 


4- 


Anna. 


5- 


Maud. 


6. 


Mary. 



7. Amos. 

8. Walter. 

9. Alma. 

ID. M. D. Weagley. 

11. Edna F. Hoover. 

12. J. Edgar Oller. 

Mrs. John Downin was a daughter of 
John and Christie (Heall) Barkdoll, of 
Franklin county, who descended from old 
German stock. John Barkdoll was a son of 
Peter Barkdoll, one of the early settlers of 
Washington county. 

Not only is the late Mr. John Downin 
remembered in commercial and social cir- 
cles, but he was also a good Republican, and 
always supported the candidates of his party, 
although he did not himself seek for office. 
His sons and grandsons are worthy repre- 
sentatives of his many excellent qualities, 
and sustain the credit of the family name 
wherever found. 

ORR FAMILY. The Orr family of 
Franklin county is of Scotch-Irish origin. 
The name is a common one in the North of 
Ireland, but it was brought to Ulster from 
Scotland. James Orr (died in 1627) and 
Jane Clement, his wife (died in 1636),^ went 
to Ireland with Sir Hugh Montgomery in 
1606. There are still many representatives 
of this stock in Down and Antrim. One of 
the family, as a member of the firm of 
McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Belfast, published 
Hill's "Plantation of L'lster." One branch 
of the family was allied with the Boucicaults, 
to whom Dion Boucicault. the eminent actor 
and dramatist, belonged. The Orrs have been 
prominent in the ministry of the Presbyte- 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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century. Peter Orr was minister at Clough, 
County Antrim, 1673- 1705, '"'"^ Thomas 
Orr at Cumber, County Down, from 1695 
until his death. Jan. i, 1721-22. Among 
their successors in the eighteentli century 
were Alexander, James, John and Robert. 
The first of the name to come to this country 
was Robert Orr. a Presliyterian minister in 
New Jersey, 171 5-19. and he was followed 
in 1730 by Rev. William Orr, the ancestor 
of the Orrs of South Carolina. The first 
determinate ancestor in Ireland of the Orrs- 
town Orrs was John Orr ; he had two sons 
wlio emigrated to the United States : 

1. Thomas (II). 

2. James (born in Ireland in 1779 — 
died in West Virginia, in January, 1871) 
visited his brother's family in "Culbertson's 
Row" after the death of Thomas, and sub- 
sequently li\-ed at Cunningham's Cross 
Roads, Md., and finally settled in Berkeley 
county, W. Va. His first wife died in Ire- 
land. He married (second) Jane \'ance 
(born in 1792 — died Oct. 30. 1887), of Vir- 
ginia ; they had a daughter : Mary, who mar- 
ried Tillotson Evans, of Martinsburg, West 
Virginia. 

(II) THOMAS ORR (born in Ireland. 
Sept. 13, 1770 — died March 29, 1815), son 
of John Orr, emigrated to the United States 
as a young man and settled near Buckles- 
town, now Darkesville, W. Va. He was a 
weaver. Not satisfied with the prospects 
offered him in that locality he determined to 
remove to Pennsylvania, and made the jour- 
ney on horseback, with his small stock of 
goods packed in his ample saddle-bags. After 
a tedious and wearisome journey he reached 
Lancaster county, but he subsequently re- 
traced his steps westward until he reached 
Franklin county. Here he became a tenant 
-farmer on "Red Hill Farm," along the Cum- 
berland Valley Railroad, owned by George 
Johnston, and ultimatelv chose a tract of 



land in "Culbertson's Row," that was part 
of the Row Mill property which he purchased 
and made his home until liis death. In poli- 
tics he was a Democrat of the Jefferson. 
school, and was a delegate at a meeting of 
the Democratic Republicans of F'ranklin- 
county, held in Chambersburg Aug. 26,, 
1808. His associates from Southampton 
township in that convention were John Iler- 
ron and Samuel Cox. He was generally 
known as Capt. Thomas Orr, having earned 
his title in the militia service. Mr. Orr mar- 
ried in September. 1796, Martha Breckin- 
ridge (born Nov. 11, 1779 — died Sept. 25, 
1852), daughter of Samuel and Mary (Cul- 
bertson) Breckinridge; they had issue: 

1. John (III). 

2. Margaret (born Sept. 13, 1799 — 
died Jan. 9, 1872) married Oct. 19, 1822, 
James Bard (born Aug. i, 1795 — died Oct. 
18, 1862), son of William and Jane (Mar- 
tin) Bard; they had issue: Samuel M., Will- 
iam Strong, John Orr, Thomas Orr, David. 
James, Jane Orr (married (first) James 
Breckinridge, and (second) John Quigley),- 
and Isabella (died Oct. 22, 1899). 

3. William (IV). 

4. James B.(V). 

5. Martha (born Feb. 11, 1808 — died 
at Fairfield, Adams county, Sept. 14. 1879) 
married Jan. 19, 1830, James Breckinridge,, 
son of John (born Nov. 18, 1805 — died 
Sept. 5/1838). 

(Ill) JOHN ORR (bom July 18, 1797 
— died Sept. 5, 1870), son of Thomas and 
Martha (Breckinridge) Orr, began life as a 
clerk in the store of John Breckinridge, at 
Shippensburg, and afterward farmed and 
operated a di.stillery. In 1830 he removed to 
what is now Orrstown, of which he was one 
of the founders. He was for forty years a- 
member of the firm of J. & W. Orr and J. 
Orr & Bros. He was active in politics as a 
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offices. He was a director of the poor of 
Franklin county, 1834-37; Associate Judge 
of Franklin county by appointment of Gov. 
Shunk, 1849-50, and by election, 1857-62. 
He was pleasant in manner, quick in temper^ 
and a man of good judgment and foresight. 
Judge Orr married June 23, 1825, Mary 
Breckinridge (born March 8, 1797 — died 
Feb. II, i860), daughter of James and 
Elizabeth (Culbertson) Breckinridge; they 
Tiad issue : 

1. William married Feb. 27, 185 1, 
Agnes Ouigley ; they had issue : Isaac Hayes^ 
Mary Bell and Ella. 

2. Elizabeth B. married Jan. 18, 
1854, William A. Kerr; they had issue; 
Mary and William (married Miss Bratton, 
•of Newville). 

3. Martha. 

4. LUCINDA. 

5. Thomas X. is a Presbyterian min- 
ister. He was graduated at Jefiferson Col- 
lege in 1857, and was admitted to the Frank- 
lin County Bar April 14, 1859. He was 
graduated at the Western Theological Sem- 
inary in 1863, and served congregations in 
Allegheny, Philadelphia and Peoria, 111. He 
married (first) May 14, 1863, Virginia 
Reilly, daughter of the Hon. Wilson Reilly, 
(second) Aug. 26, 1879, Nevina Hatfield, of 
Philadelphia. 

6. John W. 

(IV) WILLIAM ORR (born in "Cul- 
bertson's Row," April 20, 1802 — died Jan. 
31, 1881), son of Thomas and Martha 
(Breckinridge) Orr, was sent to Virginia 
after his father's death to live with a grand- 
uncle, Init remained there only two years, 
when he returned to the maternal home. He 
afterward attended a private school in "Cul- 
bertson's Row," but in 1820, he began an 
apprenticeship to the trade of a tanner in the 
tannery of James Finley, at Chambersburg. 
After completing his apprenticeship, with his 



meagre effects in a bundle carried on his 
shoulder, he journeyed to New Market, Va., 
where he was promised work. His stay at 
New Market was short. Believing that 
Washington presented a more inviting field 
for a journeyman tanner, he walked from 
New Market to Fredericksburg, and then 
traveled by stage to the mouth of Cedar 
creek. Among his fellow passengers in tlv 
stag'e coach was Gen. Andrew Jackson. At 
the mouth of Cedar creek he saw a steam- 
boat for the first time, on which he took pass- 
age for Washington. Disappointed with his 
expectations at the capital he started for 
home, which he finally reached after another 
long and wearisome journey. In 1830 the 
real business of his life began. In that year, 
in partnership with his brother John, he 
rented the tannery at Orrstown. the broth- 
ers forming the firm of J. & W. Orr. In 
1 83 1 the Orrs bought the tannery and the 
farm connected with it, which then embraced 
the ground upon which Orrstown was after- 
ward built. The town was laid out in 1833, 
by John and William Orr. It was the wish 
of the founders that it should be called 
Southampton, but wlien their application for 
a post office was granted the name of Orrs- 
town was given it by the Postmaster Gen- 
eral, at the sugestion of Hon. George Cham- 
bers. When Orrstown became an incor- 
porated borough, in 1847, Mr. Orr was 
chosen its first burgess. During the exis- 
tence of this long partnership of forty years 
no dissensions ever arose between the broth- 
ers, who were always kind, generous and 
forbearing in their treatment of each other. 
Mr. Orr was a member of the F. & A. M., 
and one of the founders of the Orrstown 
Lodge. In politics he was a Democrat, and 
an active Democratic worker. He was a 
delegate to the county convention in 1833, 
but never aspired to public office, and only 
filled such township positions as assessor. 



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judge of tlie election and school direct' >r. 
J'hysically he was tall and well formed, 
with an elastic step and graceful presence. 

Mr. Orr married, May 9, 1839, Mary A. 
Gish (born Aug. 27, 1818), daughter of 
David Gish ; they had issue : 

1. John G. (VI). 

2. Martha E. 

3. Narcissa. 

4. James P. married Margaret Reilly, 
daughter of Hon. Wilson Reilly ; they had 
issue : William R., Gertrude, Aimer H. and 
Annie. 

5. William B. married Florence 
Owen, of St. Joseph, Mo. ; they had issue : 
Owen and Robert. 

6. Robert A. 

7. David A. was engaged in journalism 
for many years as editor of the Valley Spirit, 
Chambersburg, and the Patriot, Harrisburg. 
He married Lillie Black, of Pittsburg; 
they had issue : Barclay. 

8. Laura Bell. 

9. Thomas E. 

10. ]\L\RY Nettie. 

1 1. Charles E. 

12. Thomas A. 

(V) JAMES B. ORR (born Aug. i, 
1805 — died in Junction City, Kans., Sept. 
9, 1887), son of Thomas and Martha 
(Breckinridge) Orr, learned the trade of a 
fuller with John Noel, in Chambersburg, and 
afterward conducted the Green Spring- 
Woolen Mill for a brief period, and later the 
Frazer Woolen Mill, near Shippensburg, 
known as the ]\Iiddle Spring Factory. In 
1835 he was elected colonel of the 50th Reg- 
iment Pennsylvania Militia, and was a can- 
didate for brigadier-general of the 2d Bri- 
gade, of the nth Division, in 1842, but was 
beaten through the treachery of some of his 
friends. He was an active Democratic poli- 
tician and was frequently a member of 
Countv and State Conventions. He was a 



justice of the peace for Southampton town- 
.ship, and a member of the Pennsylvania Leg- 
islature, in 1855-56. He at one time kept a 
tavern at Orrst<j\vn and for many years was- 
engaged in merchandising with his brothers. 
He was a member of the Reformed Church 
and one of the trustees of Marshall College,, 
at Mercersburg, but afterward returned to 
the Presbyterian Church, in which he was 
born and raised. Col. Orr married, April 12, 
1831, Hetty Ritchey (born Oct. 3, 1809 — 
died Feb. 12, 1871), and they had issue: 
John R., Martha (married Dr. Maxwell 
Kennedy), Mary (married J. H. Wilson),. 
Rebecca (deceased), and Frances (married 
Rev. J. W. Miller). 

(VI) JOHN G. ORR (born in 1839) 
son of William and Mary Ann (Gish) Orr, 
was educated in the public schools and ac- 
quired his business training from his- 
father. In 1857 he became a general clerk 
in one of the stores of the borough of Orrs- 
town and continued in this occupation until 
1865, when he was appointed teller of the 
First National Bank of Carlisle, a position 
that he filled until 1873. He also served 
part of the time as a member of the board of 
directors of the bank. In 1874 he returned 
to Orrstown and was engaged in merchan- 
dising until 1879, when he removed to Cham- 
bersburg, becoming one of the editors and 
proprietors of the I 'alley Spirit, as a mem- 
ber of the firm of Jo)in G. & D. A. Orr. He 
retained his interest in the newspaper until 
1903, when lie retired. He was also asso- 
ciated with his brother, D. A. Orr, in the 
ownership and control of the Harrisburg 
Patriot. He is a man of scholarly tastes and 
is a noted historian, as a member of the Kit- 
tochtinny Historical Society, I)efore which 
he has read a number of valuable papers re- 
lating to the early history of the county, and 
of which he was elected president in 1904, 
a position that he now holds. In religion he 



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is a Presbyterian, and served as a ruling elder 
of the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church 
before coming to Chanibersburg, and since 
1885 he has been a ruling elder of the Falling 
Spring Presbyterian Church. He has rep- 
resented the Presbytery of Carlisle in tiie 
General Assembly. He was one of the found- 
-ers of The Children's Aid Society of Frank- 
Jin county and has been officially connected 
with it from its incorporation in 1884. He 
has been its president since 1893 and the 
leading spirit in all its forward movements 
in its works of charity. It is largely due to 
his counsel, foresight and efforts that the 
Society opened a hospital for the sick and 
injured in 1894, which was the first of its 
kind in the Cumberland \"alley and has been 
in successful operation since. 

Mr. Orr married. Dec. 12, 1871, Martha 
M. Hayes, daughter of David Hayes, of 
Middle Spring; they had issue: Nancy Col- 
well and William Thomas, both deceased. 

SEIBERT FAMILY. PHILIP SEI- 
BERT (born in 1 761— died Aug. 24, 1826), 
the ancestor of the Seibert family of Chani- 
bersburg, was a carpenter by occupation. He 
came from Baltimore in 1800. He married 
Ann Miller, who, tradition says, was one of 
the first three Methodists that came to the 
town. Philip and .'Xnn Seibert had issue : 

1. William (II). 

2. Samuel (HI). 

3. Philip Wesley (IV). 

4. ]\Iary (died Sept. 26. 1827) mar- 
ried John Denig. and they had issue: Ann, 
who married (first) Mr. Foster, had one 
son, John, and (second) William G. Mitchell, 
Clerk of the Courts, 1860-66: Kate, who 
married Charles Williams ; and Soiihronia. 
who married John Bechtel. 

5. Rebecca (born Aug. 14, 1803 — 
died Sept. 14, 1868) married Sept. 4. 1827, 
James Ross Kirby (born Feb. 10, 1803 — 



died Dec. 21, 1862), son of Thomas and 
Jean (Withney) Kirby, was a noted school 
teacher in Chanibersburg. They had issue : 
Thomas Coke; Ann Jemima died Sept. 9, 
1859; Mary Jane; David Brainerd (born 
Oct. 23, 1833, died March 26, 1899) mar- 
ried Cordelia Forbes (born Feb. 4, 1835 — 
died Jan. 22, 1901), daughter of John and 
Nancy Forbes, and had John Forbes and 
Nancy ; Martha ; William ; Ellen ; John ; Kate 
M. married Nov. 18, 1869, Henry S. Gilbert, 
and had Grace K., Rebecca S., Daniel B., and 
Ross K. ; and Jennie Withney lives in Chani- 
bersburg. 

(II) WILLIAM SEIBERT (born in 
1797 — died Aug. 21, 1862), son of Philip 
and Ann (Aliller) Seibert, was an iron 
founder in Chanibersburg and a prominent 
citizen. He was an active Methodist. He 
married Margaret Durboraw (born April 
24, 1796 — died July 10, 1872). daughter of 
David Durboraw. They had issue : 

1. John Fletcher married Nov. 28, 
1848. Susan Seibert (born Feb. 12. 183 1 — ■ 
died Dec. 4, 1874), daughter of Philip W. 
and Catherine (Hummel) Seibert, and they 
had issue: William H., born Nov. 8, 1849; 
Ella G., born Aug. 17, 1850; Catherine H., 
born Oct. 19, 1853; Margaret D., born Oct. 
18, 1855; Mary E., born Jan. 21, 1857; and 
Wilson R., born Nov. 26, 1861. 

2. William Clark married Elizabeth 
Durboraw, and they had issue : William, 
Minnie and Charles, all deceased. 

3. Thomas Benson, born June 28, 
1830, died Nov. 9, 1861. 

4. Sarah Jane married D. W. Mit- 
chell, and they had issue : Helen and Charles, 
living in Indiana. 

5. Anna Mary married Rev. A, W. 
Gibson, and they had issue : William, Anna 
and Florence. 

6. Helen married Charles Aughin- 
baugh, and they had one son, William. 



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(III) SAMUEL SEIBERT (born in 
Baltimore Oct. 2, 1800 — died April 15, 
1S74) was a contractor and builder, the 
most prominent of his time in Chambers- 
burg. He rebuilt the courthouse after it was 
destroyed by the Confederates in 1864. As a 
young man he was a Whig, and represented 
liis county in the State Legislature, in 1848, 
and again in 1849. He was a strong Union 
man and an ardent Republican. He married 
April 19, 1828, Agnes Welsh Grove (born 
Oct. 19. 1809 — died May i. 1892), and 
they had issue : 

1. Elizabeth CiRovE, born April 5, 
1829, died young. 

2. Ann Miller (born June 25, 1831) 
married in 1849. Thomas M. Carlisle 
(born May 23, 1828 — died May 9, 
1875), son of Thomas Carlisle, a member of 
the Franklin County Bar. They had issue : 
Charles died in infancy: Luc}-, born in 1852, 
married James C. Wilson, and had Alex- 
ander, James Craig and Anna Carlisle ; Sam- 
uel, born March, 1854, died in 1856; Will- 
iam, born in 1856, died in 1867; Amelia 
Grove, born October. 1858, died in 1865; 
Sarah Ann, born April, 1861, died in 1901 ; 
Alexander McClure, born July, 1866; and 
Mary Catherine, born in 1869, married Dr. 
A. Barr Snively, and have Dorothy, A. Barr, 
Louise, and Alice. 

3. Joseph Warren (born Aug. i, 
1833) married Sept. 21. 1852, Louisa Little 
(born April 30, 1837), daughter of Andrew 
and Mary (Grier). Little. They had issue: 
Barnard, born Sept. 13, 1856, died Sept. 23, 
1856; Mary Virginia married Howard B. 
McNulty; Charles Fremont, born Nov. 24, 
i860, died July 19, 1861 : Rebecca Louisa, 
born Aug. 29, 1862: and Edward G., born 
Aug. 28, 1865. 

4. Jane Elizabeth (born Aug. 11, 
1835, ^i^d May 16, 1901), married Theo- 



tlore I'ell, of Wilkesbarre, and they hatl four 
children. 

5- Mary Rebecca married John I*. 
Keefer [Keefer Family]. 

6. William^ born Oct. 25. 1839, died 
unmarried. 

7. Margaret Welsh (born July 25, 
1841) married Oct. 22, 1868, Nathan 
Pearse Grove, (born July 21, 1840 — died 
April II, 1895), and they had issue: Anna 
Carlisle married William D. Elder; Harry 
Seibert, born Aug. 11, 1873 — died Nov. 25, 
1876; G. Alexander, born April 26, 1874, 
married Eliza Pogue, who died Sept. 28, 
1901 ; Nellie, born in 1877 — died in 1878; 
Frank N., born Feb. 2^, 1879, married 
Martha Monn; and Margaret, born Oct. 18, 
1 88 1, married Dr. James H. Black. 

8. George Grove (born May 26, 
1843) niarried Mary Hull, and they have 
one daughter, Emma. 

9. LucRETiA Clay, born April 5, 1845, 
died Nov. 11, 1850. 

10. Henry Clay (born Feb. 11, 
1847) niarried Emma Snider, and died May 
3, 1900. 

11. Samuel, born March 13, 1850. 

12. John Philip (V). 

(IV) PHILIP WESLEY SEIBERT 
(born Sept. 9, 1809 — died May 31, 1874), 
son of Philip and Ann (Miller) Seibert, was 
a respected citizen of Chamhersburg. He 
married April 27, 1830, Catherine Hummel 
(bom Feb. 17, 1809 — died April 27, 1889), 
and they had issue : 

1. Susan H. married John Fletcher 
Seibert (III). 

2. David H., born June 3, 1833, died 
young. 

3. Annie E. (born April 27, 1834 — 
died May 9, 1885) married Jacob Spangler, 
and they had issue : Louise, Charles, Kath- 
erine. Helen, Mary and Daniel. 



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4. Mary (born Sept. 20, 1835) mar- 
ried John J. Rebman) and they had issue: 
Watson, Wesley Seibert, Jolm J., Albert and 
Catherine. 

5. David H. (born April 28, 1839) 
married Ella Martin, of Pottsville, and they 
liad one son, Albert Ashmead, who married 
Bessie Cake. 

6. Rebecca (born Jan. 27, 1842) mar- 
ried Jan. 7, 1870, Samuel Maxwell (born 
March 15, 1842 — died Nov. 4, 1885), and 
they had issue : William H., born Aug. 7, 
1870, married Edna Scheurman; Wesley 
Seibert, born April 13, 1872, died in 1872; 
Solomon Z., born Nov. 11, 1873; Nellie 
Houser, born Jan. 17, 1878, died April 21, 
1880; Catherine Seibert, born May 6. 1880; 
and Levi Houser, born June 19, 1882. 

7. Emma C. (born Oct. 9, 1844 — died 
in 1868) married John R. Paxton, and they 
had one son, William, who married Florence 
Anderson. 

8. Helen, born July 2. 1847. died 
April I, 1870. 

9. John Miller (born Aug. 18. 1850) 
married Emma Kohler, of Harrisburg, and 
they had one daughter Helen, who married. 
April, 1903, Dr. Edwin Nicodenius. 

(V) JOHN PHILIP SEIBERT (born 
in Chambersburg, June 3, 1853), son of 
Samuel and Agnes W. (Grove) Seibert, was 
educated at the public schools and at the 
Chambersburg Academy. He studied medi- 
cine with Dr. John C. Richards, of Cham- 
bersburg, and was graduated at Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 
1875. He has since practiced his profession 
in his native town. In 1876. he began to 
make a specialty of vaccination. He pro- 
pagated vaccine from the cow for several 
years, the business being known as the 
Franklin Vaccine Farm. He supplied \ac- 
cine to the profession and was well known to 
physicians all over the country in this line. 



He was physician to the Franklin County 
jail, 1877-80, and to the Almshouse, 1883- 
90. He has been Health Officer of Cham- 
bersburg since 1896, and was a school di- 
rector for Chambersburg for eighteen con- 
secutive years. He is an active and ardent 
Republican. Professionally he is a member 
of the Franklin County Medical Society. He 
is a member of the First Lutheran Church, 
and has been one of the officers of the 
church for twelve years. Dr. Seibert mar- 
ried Oct. 23, 1879, Marian Welsh, (born 
July I, 1854— died Dec. 19, 1887), of Phil- 
adelphia, and they had issue : 

I. Kathleen Welsh (born j\Iarch 
24, 1881 ), a graduate of the Chambersburg 
High School, and a teacher of the public 
schools. 

CRA\\'FORD FAMILY. EDWARD 
CRAWFORD (born in County Donegal, 
Ireland — died in Guilford township in 
1792), the ancestor of a noted Cumberland 
\'alley family, emigrated to Pennsylvania 
about 1740, and settled on the land in Guil- 
ford township on which he died. The orig- 
inal tract of 640 acres was part of a Proprie- 
tary Manor that the Penns determined not 
to reserve. This land is still in the possession 
of his descendants. Mr. Crawford married 
Elizabeth Sterritt, and they had issue : 

1. James died near Mercersburg in 
1798; he was married but had no issue. 

2. John (II). 

3. Edward (III). 

4. Joseph was killed by Indians. , 

5. Martha (born in 1743 — died in | 
1837) married Edward Cook (born in the 
Conococheague Valley in 1738 — died Nov. 

28, 1808), and removed to the "Forks of 
the Yough." now Fayette county, in 1772. 
He was a member of the Pennsylvania Con- 
vention in 1776, from \\'estmoreland county: 
was lieutenant of the county, and com- 



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manded a battalion of rangers for frontier 
defense in 1781. He became an Associate 
Judge of Fayette county in 1791. His sym- 
pathies were with those who complained of 
excise grievances in 1794. and he presided 
over the Mingo Creek meeting, but counseled 
moderation and was active in preventing 
outrages during the Whiskey Insurrection. 
Edward and Martha (Crawford) Cook had 
a son: James Crawford, born 1772, died 
1848. 

6. Elizabeth married John Fulton. 

7. Sar.\h (born in 1753 — died Sept. 
10, 1833) married Henry Work (died 
March 6, 1819), a prominent farmer in 
Peters township. They had issue : Andrew, 
James Crawford, Henry, Isabella, Martha 
and Sarah. 

8. Ruth married Elliott. 

9. Mary married Dunlevy. 

(II) JOHN CRAWFORD (born in 

Guilford township in 1746 — died Feb. 13, 
1827), son of Edward and Elizabeth ( Ster- 
ritt) Crawford, was first lieutenant of Capt. 
Conrad Snider's company of Ci>l. Frederick 
Watt's battalion of the "Flying Camp" in 
1776. He was captured with Colonel Ma- 
gaw's command at Fort Washington, Nov. 
16, 1776. and was held as a prisoner of war 
in New York and Long Island until 1778, 
when he was exchanged. Early in his cap- 
tivitv he wrote the following letter to his 
parents, which is still preserved by his de- 
scendants : 

\e\v York, November 21, 1776. 
Honored Father and Mother: 

I am a prisoner here, and without clothes or hard 
money, only what was on me when I was taken. I 
left clothes with Eddy on the other side of the river ; 
expect to get them again. I would be glad if yon 
could send me some hard money, as no other will 
pass here. I have the liberty of walking the streets. 
You need not be uneasy about me. I am well at pres- 
ent and live in hopes to see you. I am your dutiful 
son and humble servant. 

Lieut. John Cr.^wforo. 

P. S. I was taken November 16. at Fort Wash- 
ington, with 2.300 more. 
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After his exchange Lieut. Crawford re- 
turned to the homestead where he spent his 
life as a farmer. On his monument at Fall- 
ing Spring cemetery is this simple memorial : 
■'.\ soldier of the Revolution rests here." 
Mr. Crawford married Anne Holmes (born 
in 1765 — died Dec. 10, 1810), a native of 
Ireland ; they had issue : 

1. Holmes (born in 1791 — died Feb. 
15, 1874) was for many years cashier of 
the Chambersburg Savings Fund. 

2. James (IV). 

3. John (V). 

4. Joseph Cook (\T). 

5. Edward died young. 

6. Sarah (born June 17, 1795 — died 
Dec. 28, 1849) married March 12, 1835, 
John S. Brown (born March 18, 1799 — died 
Nov. 5, 1871), son of Conrad and Magda- 
lena (Snyder) Brown; they had no issue. 

7. Martha (born May 8, 1788) was 
educated at the Moravian Seminary for 
Young Ladies at Bethlehem ; she married 
Feb. 24, 1826, Josiah Duffield. 

8. Elizabeth married April 30, 181 2, 
Hugh Crawford. 

9. Rebecca married Sept. 17, 1833, 
Matthew McKee. 

10. Nancy died single. 

(Ill) EDWARD CRAWFORD (bom 
in Guilford township, Jan. 10, 1757 — died 
March 6, 1833), .son of Edward and Eliza- 
beth (Sterritt) Crawford, became an officer 
of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolution 
at the age of nineteen. He was appointed 
an ensign in the First Continental Infantry 
(First Pennsylvania) March 7, 1776; was 
promoted to be second lieutenant March 23, 
1777. and first lieutenant, March 23, 1778; 
and was paymaster of the regiment, 1779- 
80. Lieutenant Crawford was wounded at 
Bull's Ferry, July 21, 1780. He was trans- 
ferred to the Third Pennsylvania, Jan. 17, 
1781, and served until June, 1783. After 



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the Revolution Lieutenant Crawford settled 
in Chambersburg. Upon the organization 
of Franklin county he was appointed a jus- 
tice of the peace, his commission being dated 
Sept. II, 1784. He filled nearly all the 
court-house offices for many years, being 
prothonotary, clerk of the courts and regis- 
ter and recorder, 1784- 1809. The county 
offices were in a small building in East Mar- 
ket street, erected by Mr. Crawford, the 
walls of which are still standing. Mr. Craw- 
ford was an extensive owner of real estate in 
and around Chambersburg. He was one of 
the founders of the Bank of Chambersburg, 
of which he was the first president, 1807-33. 
He was a trustee of the Falling Spring Pres- 
byterian Church, and a manager of the 
Franklin County Bible Society. He was a 
member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
Mr. Crawford married (first) Elizabeth 
Holsinger (born in 1762 — died Dec. 3, 
1792), a native of York county, and they 
had issue: 

1. Thom.-\s H.\rtley (VH). 

2. Catharine Holsinger (born July 
4, 1789) was educated at the Moravian 
Seminary for Young Ladies at Bethlehem ; 
she married Nov. 24, 18 17, Robert H. Mun- 
roe, of Georgetown, D. C. 

- Mr. Crawford married (second) Re- 
becca Colhoun (born in 1777 — died May 21, 
1839), daughter of Dr. John and Ruhamah 
(Chambers) Colhoun, and they had issue: 

1. Ruhamah Chambers, born June 
11, 1799. (lied Dec. 14, 1813. 

2. Elizabeth married Nov. 5, 1818, 
Read Washington, a prominent lawyer of 
Chambersburg. They had issue: S. Craw- 
ford and Morris Fairfax. 

3. Benjamin, born June 17, 1809, died 
Nov. 16. 1810. 

(IV) JAMES CRAWFORD (b.un in 
Guilford township in 1800 — died Jan. 18. 
1872), son of John and Anna (Holmes) 



Crawford, was all his life a farmer on the 
old Crawford homestead in Guilford town- 
ship. In politics he was a Whig and Repub- 
lican. He was a member of the Presbyte- 
rian Church. He married Catharine Byers 
(bom Oct. 15, 1805 — died Dec. 11, 1892), 
daughter of Frederick and Anna (Eby) 
Byers, and they had issue : 

1. John E. (born Feb. 22, 1827 — died 
April 2, 1896) married Oct. 24, 1867, Ellen 
Stabler, and had issue: Mary E., who mar- 
ried D. Edward Long, district attorney of 
Franklin county. 

2. Frederick B. (VIII). 

3. Milton (IX). 

(V) JOHN CRAWFORD, son of 
John and Anna (Holmes) Crawford, was a 
farmer on the old Crawford homestead in 
Guilford township. He married Dec. 25, 
1828, Margaret Black (born Jan. 26, 1805 — 
died Nov. 12, 1871), and they had issue: 

1. Jane Ann married April 22, 185 1, 
Dr. Henry K. Byers. 

2. M,\rth.v married Henry C. Greene- 
wait (X). 

3. Walter Beattv (XT). 

(VI) JOSEPH CR-\WFORD (born 
on the old homestead in Gtiilford township 
in 1806 — died there Aug. 23. 1888) was a 
lifelong farmer, owning a part of the orig- 
inal Crawford homestead, which was one of 
the first grants made in the county. He was 
a member of the Presbyterian Church, and 
originally a Whig in politics, later sympathiz- 
ing with the Republican party. He married 
in 1 84 1 Man,' Kirkpatrick (born in Ireland 
— died in 1890), who came to Franklin 
county with her parents when but four 
years of age. and they had children : 

1. John H. (XH). 

2. Annie Maria (born Sept. 2, 1843) 
married Ralph Kirkpatrick. 

3. .\gnes M. ( born September 1.1845,) 
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4. Edward M., born June 26, 1847, 
died Aug. 19, 1850. 

5. James A. (born July 10, 1848 — died 
April 16, 1886) married Lucretia Logan. 

6. Alice M. ( born July 28, 1850) is 
unmarried and lives in Fayetteville, Penn- 
sylvania. 

(VII) THOMAS HARTLEY CRAW- 
FORD (born Nov. 14, 1786— died Jan. 27. 
1863), son of Edward and Catharine (Hol- 
■singer) Crawford, was graduated at Prince- 
ton College in 1804. He afterward studied 
law and was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar. Nov. 10, 1S07. He practiced 
liis profession at Chambersburg and rose to 
eminence at the Bar. He was a representa- 
tive in Congress, 1829-33, and a member of 
the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1833-34. In 
1836 he was appointed a commissioner to 
investigate alleged frauds in the purchase of 
the Reservation of the land of the Creek In- 
dians. In 1838 he was appointed Commis- 
sioner of Indian affairs, a position that he 
held until the accession of President Polk in 
1845, ^y whom he was appointed Judge of 
the Criminal Court of the District of Co- 
lumbia. Judge Crawford retained this posi- 
tion until his death. He married Oct. 13, 
1808, Sallie Ross, daughter of Maj. David 
and Henrietta Maria (Bordley) Ross, of 
Biadensburg, Md. They had issue : 

1. Sarah Bordley, torn Dec. 8, 1809, 
•died Jan. 7, 1836. 

2. David Ross, an officer in the United 
'States Navy, married March 15, 1838, Mary 
Thompson. 

3. Edw.^rd Bordley. 

4. Eulalia. born in 1825. 

5. Clementine M. (born in 1827 — 
died June 21, 1845), married June 6, 1844, 
Lieut. Delosier Davidson. United States 
Army. 

(VIII) FREDERICK BYERS CR.WV- 
FORD (died in 1896). son of James and 



Catharine (Byers) Crawford, lived on the 
old Crawford homestead until 1865, when 
he removed to Reading where he became 
superintendent of the Bushong farms of 600 
acres, remaining twenty years. He then re- 
turned to the old Crawford homestead in 
Guilford township. He was a stanch Repub- 
lican, but never aspired to political office, 
being content to look after his farm. He 
was a member of the Falling Spring Pres- 
byterian Church, Chambersburg. Mr. Craw- 
ford married Maria Markley, of Franklin 
county, and they had issue : 

1. K.\THARiNE M. (Iwrn .\ug. 28, 1856 
— died Dec. 2, 1903) studied medicine with 
Dr. B. Bowman, in Chambersburg, and was 
graduated at the Hahnemann College, Chi- 
cago. She practiced her profession in Cham- 
bersburg 1882-94, fifteen years in partner- 
ship with Dr. Julia T. Hill, who marrie<l iier 
brother, Frederick M. Crawford. In 1901 
Dr. Crawford went to York, where she prac- 
ticed until her death. 

2. Holmes E., born in 1859, died May 
15, 1877. 

3. Frederick M. (XIII). 

(IX) MILTON CRAWFORD (b..rn 
Sept. I, 1844), son of James and Catharine 
(Bvers) Crawford, was reared on the old 
Crawford homestead and educated at the 
Fayetteville Academy. While a student at 
the age of nineteen, he enlisted, Feb. 2, 1864, 
in Company D, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
and served until the close of the war. being 
mustered out July 17. 1865. He partici- 
pated in the battles of Five Forks, Sailor's 
Creek and Appomattox Court House, and 
served with General Sheridan's staff carry- 
ing dispatches. After his return to civil life, 
he entered a business college at Pittsl)urgli, 
from which he was graduated in 1866, and 
then engaged in business at Reading, re- 
turning to the old homestead farm in 1872, 
which he farmed for eight years. In 1880 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



lie removed to Fayetteville. where he now 
lives. He owns a fine farm near the old 
homestead in Guilford township. He served 
as a school director for many years, and was 
a county commissioner of Franklin county, 
1897-1900. He has been superintendent of 
the Chambersburg and Gettysburg Turnpike 
Company for twenty years, and for twice 
that long has been considered a leading citi- 
zen of Fayetteville. In politics he is a Re- 
jjublican. He is an active member of the 
Knights of Pythias and of Captain Stevens 
Post, No. 317, G. A. R. With his wife he 
is a member of the Lutheran Church, Fay- 
etteville, in which he has been an officer since 
1879. He married Oct. 20, 1868, Rebecca 
Harmony, daughter of John Hamiony, of 
Guilford township. 

(X) MARTHA L. CRAWFORD, 
daughter of John and Margaret (Black) 
Crawford, married in November, 1857, 
Henry Clay Greenewalt (born in Quincy 
township, May 25, 1830), son of David and 
Elizabeth (Stall) Greenewalt. Mr. Greene- 
wait had two brothers : John, who died 
young; and Capt. David B., who commanded 
Company K, 87th P. V. I., which he re- 
cruited (he married Anna C. Harmony, 
daughter of John Harmony). His sister 
Charlotte D., married Harris J. Renfrew. 
David Greenewalt, the father, was a son of 
John Greenewalt ( born in Dauphin county 
— died in 1845), '^^''"'o settled in York county, 
as a young man, but later removed to Frank- 
lin county, where he was a blacksmith and 
owned a farm of 300 acres in Peters town- 
ship. Henry C. Greenewalt studied at Penn- 
sylvania College, Gettysburg, 1849-52. and 
was graduated at Princeton College in 1855. 
He was a member of the Pennsylvania Leg- 
islature, 1877-80, and in May, 1880, was 
appointed assistant cashier in the office of 
State Treasurer. He became cashier in 



1884. He has held important positions under 
every State administration at Harrisburg 
until the present time. He has been an active 
Republican since the organization of the 
party, and was originally on old line \\"hig, 
and voted ' for Gen. Scott in 1852. Mr. 
Greenewalt has made Fayetteville his home 
since 1843. He belongs to the Falling- 
Spring Presbyterian Church of Chambers- 
burg, and ■ fraternally is connected with 
Washington Lodge. No. 143. F. & A. M., 
Chambersburg. Henry C. and Martha L. 
(Crawford) Greenewalt had issue: 

1. John Crawford (XIV). 

2. Harry Lee, a farmer and lumber- 
man, of Fayetteville, married Laura Taylor, 
and has children: Edward C, Bessie T., 
Frank L., Henry C. and Jane. 

3. Frank Lindsay, of Philadelphia, 
graduated from the Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania ; was resi- 
dent physician of Presbyterian Hospital and 
resident physician of Girard College of Phil- 
adelphia for five years. He married Mary 
Hallock and has one son, Crawford. 

4. Nannie Crawford lives in Fayette- 
ville wnth her father. 

5. Jane Renfrew married Rev. W. 
Frank Reber, Presbyterian minister at Ur- 
bana, Ohio, and has one daughter, Mar- 
garet. 

6. Margaret Black married Thomas 
H. Craw'ford, of Fayetteville, and has one 
daughter, Martha. 

(XI) WALTER BE ATT Y CRAW- 
FORD (born in Guilford township in 1831 
— died in 1900), son of John and Margaret 
( Black) Crawford, was a farmer and served 
in the Civil war in Company A, 2d P. V. I., 
and reenlisted in the 15th Pennsylvania cav- 
alry, serving until the close of the war. He 
married Mary E. Benedict, daughter of John. 
Benedict ; they had issue : 



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405 



1. John B. (XV). 

2. Martha L. married J. H. Breckin- 
ridge. 

3. Walter B. (born Oct. 11, 1861 — 
died unmarried, March 11, 1903) was grad- 
uated at the Philadelphia College of Phar- 
macy. 

4. Thomas H. married Margaret B. 
CJreenewalt. daughter of Henry C. and Mar- 
tha (Crawford) Greenewalt. 

5. Mary E. married W. G. Long. 

6. Margaret married Charles C. Reber. 
(XII) JOHN H. CRAWFORD (born 

Feb. 28. 1842) was reared on the farm and 
received his education in the public schools. 
He chose farming for his life work and made 
a success of it. acquiring the fine fanu of 
125 acres in Greene township which he still 
owns, though he has now retired from active 
labor, living in a comfortable home of his 
own in Fayetteville. Mr. Crawford has been 
one of the active citizens of his community 
for the past forty years and occupies a sub- 
stantial position among his fellow citizens. 
He is a member and earnest worker in the 
Presbyterian Church, in which he has served 
as deacon for several years, and in politics, 
like his father, is a stanch Republican. So- 
cially he is connected with Lodge No. 235, 
K. P., and Stevens Post, G. A. R., both of 
Fayetteville, and for thirty-six years he was 
one of the leading members of the Fayette- 
ville Brass Band. As implied by his member- 
ship in the G. A. R., he served on the Union 
side during the Civil war, having enlisted in 
July, 1863, as bugler in Company D. 21st 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, Capt. J. C. Hollinger ; 
he saw service in the Shenandoah \'alley, 
and was mustered out Feb. 20, 1864. 

In 1 861 Mr. Crawford married Sarah 
J. Mentzer, daughter of David and Susanna 
Mentzer, of Guilford township, Franklin 
Co., Pa. This union has been ijlessed with 
four children : 



1. Carrie Bell (i)nrn Jan. 3. 1862) is 
unmarried. 

2. Holmes (born June 16, 1865) mar- 
ried Ella Kurtz and they have four 
children, Sallie J., Nellie M., Ji.hn 11. and 
Milton. 

3. Mary Jane (born Aug. 10, 1867) 
is unmarried. 

4. Charles E. (born May 13, 1870) 
married Bertie Ebersole, and they have had 
five children: Edna M., Blanche M., Nancy 
E.. Mary A. and Carrie Bell. 

(XIII) FREDERICK MARKLEY 
CRAWFORD (born in Guilford township, 
June 3, 1861, son of Frederick B. and Maria 
(Markley) Crawford, was taken by his par- 
ents when only two years old to Reading, 
where he grew to manhood. He was edu- 
cated in select schools there, and has fol- 
lowed farming since his return to Frank- 
lin county. He li\es on the old Craw- 
ford homestead in Guilford township. 
Mr. Crawford married in 1893, Julia 
T. Hill. M. D.. daughter of M. T. and 
Flora (Bierce) Hill, of Dayton, Ohio, now 
residing at Nevada, Mo. She was graduated 
at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio: the Hah- 
nemann College, of Chicago, and the 
Woman's College, of Baltimore. She was 
for a time at the Moody Dispensary of Chi- 
cago, and from there went to Fox Lake, 
\Vis., where she was the resident physician 
of the Female College at that place. From 
Fox Lake, Dr. Hill came to Chambersburg, 
where she practiced for fifteen years, in ])art- 
nership with Miss Katharine M. Crawford, 
M. D. During this period she took post 
graduate courses in New York and at Johns 
Hopkins University, Baltimore. She has 
also visited abroad for medical study. Mrs. 
Crawford has a brother. Rev. Alfred Hill, 
at the Cathedral, Faribault, Minn., and two 
sisters. Agnes and Mary Hill. Y. W. C. A. 
secretaries in India. 



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. (XIV) JOHN CRAWFORD GREEN- 
EWALT (born in Fayetteville, Feb. 2j, 
i860), son of Henry C. and Alartlia ( Craw- 
ford) Greenewalt, was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and at tiie Chambersburg Acad- 
emy. He studied medicine with Dr. Samuel 
G. Lane, of Chambersburg, and was grad- 
uated M. D. at the Aledical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania, Alay i, 1884. 
After receiving his degree he was appointed 
resident physician of the Presbyterian Hos- 
pital, Philadelphia, and later of the Brock- 
ley Hospital. He was medical examiner and 
surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad at 
Camden, N. J., 1886-89. He then engaged 
in private practice in partnership with Dr. 
C. F. Palmer, of Chambersburg, for one 
year. In October, 1890, he began practice 
on his own account, and continued until Au- 
gust, 1898, when he entered the United 
States Military service as acting assistant 
surgeon. He served at Chickamauga Park, 
Ga., and Santiago de Cuba until Jan. i, 
1899, when he was appointed Assistant Sur- 
geon, 5th U. S. V. I., with the rank of ist 
Lieutenant. The regiment was mustered 
out May 30, 1899, at Camp Meade, Pa. He 
was appointed July 25, 1899, Assistant Sur- 
geon of the 33d U. S. V. I., organized at San 
Antonio, Texas, and destined for service in 
the Philippines. This regiment was the first 
to land at Manila, and took part in the im- 
portant expeditions in pursuit of Aguinaldo 
and the rescue of Lieutenant Gilmore, U. S. 
N., and party. He received the rank of Cap- 
tain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. V., March 
30, 1901, and Major and Surgeon. October, 
1901. He resigned from the army Oct. 31, 
1901, as Major. He was twice mentioned 
for distinguished service on the firing line. 
After his return to the United States he re- 
sumed his private practice in Chamber.sburg, 
in which he is still engaged. He is one of 
the most ]«:)])ular and skillful physicians in 



the county. He is examiner for several in- 
surance companies, surgeon of the Cumber- 
land Valley Railroad, and a member of the 
staff of the Chambersburg Hospital. He is 
a member of the Falling Spring Presbyterian 
Church, the Masonic Order, the Royal Ar- 
canum, and the County and State Medical 
societies. Dr. Greenewalt married April 16, 
1890, Mary M. Davidson, daughter of Wil- 
liam and Margaret (Sharpe) Davidson, of 
Newville. They have issue : 

1. Marg.^ret Sharpe. 

2. Martha Crawford. 

(XV) JOHN BENEDICT CR.\W- 
FORD (born in Guilford township, June 4, 
1858), son of Walter B. and Mary E. (Ben- 
edict) Crawford, was educated in the public 
schools and at the Chambersburg Academy, 
and is now engaged in farming. He is a 
Republican, and has served as a school direc- 
tor of Guilford township. He is a member 
of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 
Fayetteville, serving as deacon and elder for 
a number of years. Mr. Crawford married 
Feb. 12, 1885, Ida L. Etter, daughter of 
Samuel and Eliza (Flack) Etter, of Greene 
township. 

J. M. WILHEL.M. Throughout Penn- 
sylvania the old families have handed down i 
their lands from father to son, so that the \ 
stock is firmlv rooted in its native locality, 
and generation after generation passes its 
life in the midst of the familiar scenes. One 
such resident of Metal township, Franklin 
county, is J. M. Wilhelm, whose infancy, 
j'outh and manhood have been spent on the 
farm first owned by his paternal grandfather. 
He was born Feb. 5, 1838, son, of Jacob and 
Hannah (Witherow) Wilhelm. 

(I) JACOB WILHELM, Sr.. was horn- 
in Bucks county, of German origin, and his 
parents were among the earliest settlers 
there. His children were : 



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1. John. 

2. Barnabas. 

3. Jacob (11). 

4. Mary died unmarried. 

5. Cath.\rine married A. Leaper. 

6. Sus.\N never married. 

Jacob Wilhelm came to Franklin county 
in his youth, lived near Greencastle first, and 
then, more than 100 years ago, settled 
on the old farm home at Path Valley. 
where he lived to be over ninety-three years 
of age. 

(II) JACOB WILHELM, Jr., was born 
in Path Valley, Jan. 5, 1807, and died there 
Feb. 15, 1898. He was a Republican and a 
member of the Presbyterian Church of 
Lower Path \'alley. He was married in 
1833 to Miss Hannah Witherow, daughter 
of Hon. John Witherow, of Scotch ances- 
try, thus uniting two of the old families of 
the Valley. Their children luimbered eight 
and were : 

1. Rev. John C, a minister of the M. 
E. Church, lives at Delano, Schuylkill Co., 
Pennsylvania. 

2. Emm.\ Jane (deceased) was the 
widow of John Rosenburry, of Fort Loudon. 

3- J- M. (111). 

4. Am.-vnd.^, unmarried, is at the old 
home. 



3- 

6. 



M.'XRY is also on the old homestead. 
Narcissa married James T. Mc- 
Ilhinny. of Path Valley. 

7. Hannah S. died young. 

8. Thom.\s C. died in childhood. 
(Ill) J. M. WILHELM. during the 

boyhood days spent on his father's farm, 
attended the public schools and there re- 
ceived a good practical education, \\'hen the 
war days came he volunteered in the spring 
of 1 86 1 for three months' service, and in 
August, of the. same year, re-enlisted in the 
126th P, V. I., under Capt. John H. Walker, 
of Fannettsburg. .After nine months of 



service in Virginia, where he took part in 
the battles of Frederick.sburg and Chancel 
lorsville, he returned iiome, but enlisted 
again, for the third time in August, 1864, in 
Company B, 203d P. V. I., under Capt. Ben- 
jamin Brook. He was at I'ort Fisher, N. C. 
at Petersburg, joined Sherman at (joldsboro, 
X. C, and was finally mustered out in 1865. 
Returning home, he again resumed the du- 
ties of a farmer and has been .so occupied 
ever since. His farm includes 150 acres and 
is well-improved. On Oct. 11, 1871, he was 
married to Miss Mary E. Flickinger, by 
whom he became the father of si.x children, 
as follows : 

1. John E. is a resident of Path 
Valley. 

2. Annie F. is at home. ' 

3. Emma B. is also unmarried. 

4. Mary L. 

5. Helen W. 

6. Harrison B. 

Mrs. J. M. Wilhelm was a daughter of 
Jacob Flickinger and granddaughter of John. 
The latter, like his two brothers, .\lexandcr 
and Henry, was one of the large landowners 
of that region in the early days of the Valley. 
His son Jacob grew up on a farm, but on 
starting out in life for himself ran a hotel in 
F"annettsburg for four years and kept a store 
there for four more before he settled down 
permanently as a fanner, on a place of 160 
acres. He died Nov. 11, 1884. In 1839 he 
married Miss Lavina Klippinger, and their 
children were : 

1. Edgar M., of Fannett township. 

2. Mary E., Mrs. Wilhelm. 

3. William, fo Kansas. 

4. .\nna M., wife of George W. 
Shearer. 

5. -Vlbert a., a merchant of ^^'illow 
Flill, Path Valley. 

6. Clara S.. wife of John Burk, of 
Fannett township. 



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J. M. Wilhelm is a Republican and lias 
always been a very active one, serving in a 
variety of capacities. He has been school 
director for the township 12 years, assessor, 
auditor, supervisor, also judge and inspec- 
tor of elections, and has filled each position 
most capably and faithfully; he was elected 
justice of the peace, but declined the office. 
In his church, the Lower Path Valley Pres- 
byterian at Fannettsburg, he is also a lead- 
ing spirit and holds the honorable office of 
elder. Always a man of sober and temper- 
ate habits, he has the confidence of every one 
and is one of the esteemed citizens of Metal 
township. 

JACOB R. FUNK, a well-known 
farmer of Washington township, Franklin 
Co., Pa., was bom in the edge of Waynes- 
boro, back of the Frick Manufacturing 
Company's plant, Dec. 13, 1851, son of John 
Funk. [The genealogy of the Funk family 
may be found elsewhere.] 

JOHN FUNK was born Feb. 8. 1807. 
and died April 10, 1885. Nancy, his wife, 
was born July 24, 181 1, and passed from this 
world Jan. 4, 1887. Theirs was a large 
family, consisting of five sons and seven 
daughters, as follows : 

1. Lizzie Middour, born April 9, 
1834. 

2. A.^RON born April 29, 1835, died 
Sept. 4, 1886. 

3. Mary Frick, born Sept. 11, 1836. 

4. Amanda Stoner, born March 4, 
1839. 

5. Barbara Lecron born Dec. 29, 
1840. 

6. Henry, born Dec. 24, 1842. died 
June 10, 1886. 

7. Benjamin F. 

8. John S., born Oct. 2, 1844. 

9. Malinda Frantz, born May 3. 
1846. 



10. Julia, born February 18, 1848, died 
at the age of eighteen years. 

11. IsADOR.\, born July 4, 1850, died 
Aug. 3, 1850. 

12. Jacob R., born Dec. 13. 1851. 
JACOB R. FUNK was reared on his 

father's farm and attended the public schools. 
He remained with his father until April, 
1874, when he left home and went to farming 
for himself near Leitersburg, Washington 
Co., Md. He remained there six years, next 
went to Waynesboro for one year, and then 
in 1881 settled on his present farm, which 
was originally owned by George Winters, 
but which he bought from John Price. It 
embraced 132 acres, with a large brick resi- 
dence, barn, etc., already there when he 
bought it. He left the farm in 1892 and lived 
in W^aynesboro two years, returning then to 
the farm. 

Mr. Funk was married Feb. 24, 1874, 
to Clara Mickley, who was born Aug. 16, 
1854, near Greencastle, Franklin Co., Pa., 
the daughter of Peter Mickley. She died 
April 13, 1893, at the age of thirty-eight 
years, seven months, twenty-seven days, 
leaving two children, as follows : 

1. Charles Daniel, born May 23, 
1877. 

2. Clara May, born Feb. 20, 1893. 
Mr. Funk was married again Dec. 19, 

1896, to Rebecca, daughter of Peter and 
Annie (Wagaman) Corbettv- She was born 
in Quincy, Franklin Co.. Pa., Aug. 22. 1871. 
Her father is a native of Maryland, and now 
lives in Waynesboro, on Penn street. To 
Jacob R. and Rebecca Funk have been born 
four children : 

1. Roy Corbett, bom Nov. 8. 1897. 

2. Hazel Azetta, born Dec. 3, 1899. 

3. Harry Clay, born Sept. i, 1902. 

4. Isadora, born March 4. 1905. 
Mrs. Funk is a member of St. Paul's Re- 
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is a member of the Junior Order of Amer- 
ican Mechanics. He is interested in city 
building lots in Waynesboro with his brother 
Benjamin F., and also owns a strip of moun- 
tain land. In his political views, he is a 
Republican. 

DAVISON FAMILY. The progenitors 
of this old Franklin county (Pa.) family 
were of Scotch-Irish extraction, with a mix- 
ture of Welsh blood. The first of the fam- 
ily, William Davidson, settled in Antrim 
township, Franklin Co., Pa., about 1757. 
He had a son : 

Joseph (II). 

(II) JOSEPH DAVISON was born 
in Adams county. Pa., in 1754, and was only 
three years old when brought to Franklin 
county, where he spent the remainder of his 
life. He engaged in farming. His death 
occurred May 13, 1842. His first wife was 
Miss Margaret Brown, and after her death 
he married Margaret Robinson. By his first 
marriage he had nine children, as follows : 

1. William (III). 

2. Hugh (born Oct. 19, 1781 — died in 
Antrim township, March 22, 1820) served 
as colonel in the \\'a.v of 1812. being actively 
engaged all through that struggle. He never 
married. 

3. John (born Feb. 2, 1784 — died at 
Stoystovvn, Pa., 1827) was a farmer and 
married Mary Lindsey, of Franklin county. 

4. Joseph, born June 18, 1786, died 
Feb. 27, 181 2. 

5. James (born April i, 1789 — died 
Aug. 22, 1869) was twice married, first to 
Elizabeth Pattan, and after her death to 
Margaret Mills. He spent his active life 
as a farmer on the old homestead in .'\ntrim 
township. He was a man of powerful 
physique and was not averse to enforcing 
his opinions when they met with opposition. 
He was a stanch supporter of the Whig party 



and was always working for the party's 
welfare. 

6. Jean (born Nov. 13, 1791) became 
the wife of Andrew Lindsey; they removed 
to Peoria, 111., where she died leaving a large 
family. 

7. Margaret (born July 17, 1794 — 
(lied Oct. 8, 1820) married William Patton, 
of Franklin county. 

8. Elizabeth (born Feb. 22, 1797) 
married Jesse Craig, of Welsh Run, Frank- 
lin county, where she died. 

9- 

The children by the second marriage 
were : 

1. Andrew (born Sept. 4, 1799 — died 
about 1869) removed to Greensburg, Ind., 
in 1823, after having been admitted to the 
Bar at Chambersburg, Pa. He became one 
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of In- 
diana, receiving his appointment from Presi- 
dent Lincoln. 

2. Abraham Smith (torn March 5, 
1802 — died 1854) married Sarah Latta. was 
a farmer on a portion of the old homestead 
in Antrim township, was prominent as a 
farmer and politician, and was a candidate 
for sheriff. 

(Ill) WILLIAM D.WISON, the 
eldest child of Joseph and Margaret 
(Brown) Davison, was born Nov. 8, 1779, 
and his death occurred Sept. 3, 1831. His 
marriage took place April 3, 1804, to Miss 
Jean Robinson, born Feb. 27, 1782, and their 
children were as follows: 

1. Joseph (born May 29. 1805) re- 
moved to Dayton, Ohio, was a merchant, 
and died unmarried. 

2. Andrew (born Jan. 5, 1807) was 
married Jan. 7, 1836. to Miss Sarah T. 
Brown, by Rev. Robert Kennedy (IV). 

3. Margaretta (born Dec. 14. 1808) 
was married to Col. David Detrich, of Green- 



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castle, May 12, 1841, by Rev. F. T. :Mar- 
shall Davie. 

4. James (born March 27, 181 1) was 
a hatter at Chambersburg, then removed to 
Cincinnati and engaged in mercantile pur- 
suits, then went to Covington, Ky. He was 
married Jan. i, 1834, to Mary Ann Hall, 
by Rev. Tobias Riley. 

5. Hugh Brown (born Sept. 26. 
1813) became a merchant at Chambersburg, 
and later served as justice of the peace. 
He was married May 25, 1841, to Esther 
Schaubel, by Rev. G. W. Glessner. 

6. William Robinson (born July 13, 
1816) married Eliza Walker, removed to 
Bloomington. 111., where he engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits, and there died. 

7. Hadassah, born March 5, 18 19, 
died unmarried in 1895. 

8. Rebecca Jane, born March 29, 
1 82 1, lived at Greencastle, where she died 
April 2, 1905, unmarried. 

9. John Smith (born Jan. 29, 1825) 
was a printer. He removed to Dayton, Ohio, 
where he married and resided until his death. 

(IV) ANDREW DAVISON, the sec- 
ond child of William and Jean (Robinson) 
Davison, was reared to farm life and fol- 
lowed the calling of a farmer all his days, 
on a portion of the old Da\-ison homestead 
in Antrim township. Later he retired, re- 
moving to Greencastle, where he died in 
1872. He served as school director and 
director of the poor, and was a very active 
Republican. His wife was Sarah T. Brown 
prior to her marriage, and they had a family 
of seven children : 

1. William H. (V). 

2. Mary Agnes, unmarried, is now a 
resident of Greencastle. 

3. Rebecca J. died unmarried. 

4. John B. is deceased (VI). 

5. Joseph R. is now a resident of 
Greencastle, Pa. (VII). 



6. James Andrew is now a resident of 
Springfield, 111. (VIII). 

7. Catherine B. married Dr. Schram 
and is now deceased. 

(V) WILLIAM H. DAVISON, son 
of Andrew^ and Sarah T. (Brown) Davison, 
was born Nov. 2, 1836, in Antrim town- 
ship, Franklin Co., Pa. He raised a por- 
tion of Company B, 126th P. V. I. and upon 
the company being mustered in at Harris- 
burg he was commissioned captain, and 
served nine months, participating in the en- 
gagements at Fredericksburg and Chancel- 
lorsville ; a portion of the time he was in- 
specting officer of Tyler's brigade. He came 
home in poor health, and died Sept. 8. 1875. 
After the close of the war he engaged in the 
manufacturing business and, together with 
J. B. Crowell, established the large plant at 
the southern end of Greencastle now ow'ned 
and operated by the Geiser Mfg. Co., of 
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. 

Capt. Davison was twice married, his 
first wife having been Sarah Patton. who 
bore him one child : 

I. Edward E. (IX). 

The second wife of Capt. Davison was 
Florence Rowe, daughter of Major John 
Row e, of Greencastle, and she bore him five 
children : 

1. Elizabeth is deceased, 

2. Jane Robinson is now living in 
Waynesboro, Pa., with her brother, Wat- 
son R. 

3. Watson Rowe (born Oct. 15, 1870, 
at Greencastle, Pa.) received his education 
in Greencastle high school and Chambers- 
burg Academy, graduating in 1889. He 
was editor of the "Greencastle Press" from 
1890 to 1893. studied law with Judge D. 
Watson Rowe. his uncle, and was admitted 
to Franklin County Bar in 1893, and prac- 
ticed in Greencastle as a member of the law 
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^ which time he has been practicing his [iro- 
fession in Waynesboro, Pa. In 1898 he 

^narried Mary CHppinger, daugliter of 

Hamsher CHppinger, and they have had 
three children, Florence (deceased), EHza- 
betli and Mary. 

4. Sarah Agnes is deceased. 

5. Nellie is deceased. 

(VI) JOHN B. DAVISON (born in 
Antrim township, FrankHn Co., Pa., in 
Augnst. 1841 — died in March, 1882), son 
of Andrew and Sarah T. (Brown) Davison, 
eah'sted in August, 1862, in Company K, 
126th P. V. I., and served nine months. He 
participated in the celebrated charge of 
Tyler's brigade at Fredericksburg, and was 
also at Chancellorsville. He married Martha 
Young. Children : 

1. Rebbecca Jane married R. M. 
Rhodes; children: Charles, Anna, Mary 
Agnes, John Davison and Richard. 

2. Emma, unmarried, is living with her 
mother in Greencastle. 

3. Ella married Charles W. Bert, of 
Martinsburg, W. Va., a prosperous manu- 
facturer. Children : Margaret and Charles 
W., Jr. 

4. Anna Bell married John F. White, 
of Belmont, New York. 

5. Charles Ruttruff is a resident of 
Martinsburg, W. Va., engaged as a cutter in 
a garment factory. In June, 1903, he mar- 
ried Rose Edna McKinnie, daughter of 
Squire W. A. McKinnie, of Greencastle. 

6. John G. is a student at Lebanon 
Business College. 

The above named children of John B. 
Davison are in the sixth generation reared 
on the old homestead in Antrim township. 
Franklin Co., Pennsylvania. 

(VII) JOSEPH R. DAVISON, promi- 
nent in the commercial circles of Green- 
castle and the principal subject of this 
sketch, is a successful dealer in coal, lumber, 



grain and feed. He was born Nov. 9, 1843, 
on the old Davison homestead so often men- 
tioned heretofore, son of Andrew and Sarah 
T. (Brown) Davison and a member of the 
distinguished Davison family whose history 
has been interwoven with that of h'ranklin 
county for many gcneratinns. He acquired 
his early education in the schools of Antrim 
township, and he afterward spent a year 
at Fayetteville .Vcademy, in Franklin county, 
finishing with a course at the Iron City Com- 
mercial College. When only nineteen, in 
August, 1863, he enlisted in an independent 
cavalry company commanded by Lieut. C. 
L. Mercereau, and he was mustered intO' 
the United States service in August, 1863. 
This service lasted six months, or until Feb. 
23, 1864, when he was honorably discharged, 
but re-enlisted Sept. 2, 1864, in Company 
D, 2 1 St Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving 
until the close of the war, when he 
was mustered out. July 8, 1865. During 
all this time he participated in the 
engagements at Poplar Grove Church. Vir- 
ginia ; Hatcher's Run : Boydton Plank Road ; 
Five Forks ; and was present at Appomat- 
tox Court House when Gen. Lee surrendered. 
Mr. Davison was dispatch bearer for Lieut.- 
Gen. Sheridan throughout the campaign, 
and at Five Forks, while our troops were 
making a charge, he saw (ien. Sheridan 
.snatch the falling colors and lead the charge 
himself. When Gen. Gordon came to ar- 
range for a suspension of hostilities pend- 
ing the surrender of Gen. Lee ^Ir. Davison 
was the only person who accompanied Gen. 
Sheridan across the field to meet the Con- 
federate general. Mr. Davison was also on 
duty only a hundred yards away from Gen. 
(jrant and Gen. Lee when the famous sur- 
render took place. 

On leaving the service Mr. Davison re- 
turned home, and in 1879 established his 
present business of dealing in grain, lumber. 



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coal, fertilizers and like commodities, doing 
a business amounting to from $40,000 to 
$50,000 per year. In fraternal circles Mr. 
Davison has been very prominent, having 
served as deputy grand commander, L. of 
H. ; is a member of the K. of H. and of the 
■G. A. R. ; has been past commander of 
Corporal Rihl Post, No. 438; and is very 
popular in all organizations, where his kindly 
manner and genial sociable nature win many 
friends for him. He is a valuable and gen- 
erous member of the Presbyterian Church, 
now serving as one of the official board of 
elders. Politically he is a stanch Republican 
and has officiated in both borough and town- 
ship positions. 

On May 23, 1871, Mr. Davison was mar- 
ried to Miss Laura V. Wampler, of Cham- 
bersburg, a daughter of Lewis Wampler. 
They have two children : 

1. Guy W. (X). 

2. William R. (XI). 

(VIII) JAMES ANDREW DAVI- 
SON, youngest son of Andrew and Sarah 
T. (Brown) Davison, married Margaret 
Maxwell, a daughter of Dr. Maxwell. He 
mo\ed to Springfield, 111., and holds an of- 
fice under the State government. 

(IX) EDWARD E. DAVISON (died 
April 16, 1904) eldest son of William H. 
Davison, was a lifelong resident of Green- 
castle, and was engaged principally in the 
agricultural implement business. He mar- 
ried Mary E. Null, and their children were: 

1. Nina is a graduate of the Hahne- 
mann School for Nurses, in Philadelphia, 
and is now engaged at her profession in 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

2. William H. is a resident of Green- 
castle. 

3. Watson is a student at Pennsyl- 
vania College, Gettysburg, PennsyKania. 

4. Mary died in November, 1904. 



(X) GUY WAMPLER DAVISON, 
elder son of Joseph R. and Laura V. 
( Wampler j Davison, was born Dec. 6, 1874, 
and was educated in the public schools of 
Greencastle and in the University of Mary- 
land, at Baltimore. After this he took a 
two years' course at the Baltimore Medical 
College, and a course at the Medico- 
Chirurgical College, of Philadelphia, from 
which he was graduated with the class of 
1903, making a specialty of surgery. He 
is a very brilliant young man and skillful 
surgeon, and the future is one of brightest 
promise. 

Dr. Davison enlisted at Harrisburg, Pa., 
at the beginning of the Spanish-American 
war, as a corporal in Company I, 4th Pa. 
Vols, and served throughout the war, ac- 
companying the regiment to Porto Rico. 
He was mustered out at Harrisburg. 

(XI) WILLIAM RICHARDSON 
DAVISON, the younger child of Joseph R. 
and Laura V. (Wampler) Davison, was 
torn March 31, 1876, attended the public 
and high schools at Greencastle, and was 
graduated from the Chambersburg Academy 
in 1894. He was graduated with honors 
from Lafayette College, at Easton. in 1898, 
with the degree of A. B., receiving the de- 
gree of A. M. in 1901 from the same institu- 
tion. After completing his academic course 
the young man entered the law office of 
Watson R. Davison, then of Greencastle, 
now of Waynesboro, and on April 30. 1900, 
after a course of study extending over two 
years, he was admitted to the Bar. and im- 
mediately thereafter commenced the practice 
of his profession in Greencastle. He has 
proved his merit and attainments by his 
masterly conduct of the cases committed to 
him. Fraternally he is a member of the 
Theta Delta Chi. 

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Winger, a daughter of Col. Benjamin ]'. 
Winger. 

No record of Franklin county would be 
complete without a history, howe\er meager, 
of the Davison family. Prominent alike in 
military and business life, the representatives 
of this family, which was transplanted to 
American soil so many years ago, are to be 
found ever upholding the highest principles 
of liberty and purity of living; supporting 
tlie government of state and church, and 
rendering up their lives if necessary that 
right prevail. \\'ithout such men as sprung 
from William Davidson, the emigrant, the 
United States of America would not stand 
as it does to-day, foremost among the nations 
of the world. 

ALBERT L. ROGERS, one of the 
prosperous business men and fruit growers 
of Chambersburg, Pa. was born in 1853, 
in Washington county, Pa., son of James 
R. and Sarah (McLain) Rogers. 

(I) JEREMIAH ROGERS, his 
paternal grandfather, was born in Harford 
county, Md., but about 18 15 located in 
Washington county. Pa., and when his son. 
James R. w'as about ten years old he settled 
near Bealsville, that county. He was a 
Quaker, and was a most excellent and up- 
right man. By occupation he was a farmer, 
and his death occurred in 1868. His chil- 
dren were as follows : 

1. James R. (II). 

2. Samuel W. 

3. Mary married John Mcjunkin, of 
Washington Co., Pa. 

(II) JAMES R. ROGERS was a 
builder and contractor of Washington coun- 
ty. Pa., and was reared in the Quaker faith, 
but after his marriage to Sarah McLain, he 
became a member of the Methodist Church. 
Children as follows were born to them : 

I. ToHN H. 



2. Priscilla married Richard Craw- 
ford. 

3. Samuel. 

4- Thomas W. 

5. Albert L. (III). 

His first wife dying, James R. Rogers 
married (second) Edith Price, of Baltimore, 
and by her he had two children : 

1. Jessie A. 

2. Sarah Catherine. 

In 1892. the father died, but is survived 
by his widow, and he was deeply mourned 
by a wide circle of friends. 

(Ill) ALBERT L. ROGERS attended 
the public schools in Washington county. 
Pa., and when sixteen years of age, he be- 
gan to learn photography, at Waynesburg-, 
Greene Co., Pa., with his brother Samuel, 
who was established in business there. Mr. 
Rogers made a specialty of re-touching, 
which was new at that time he being, in fact, 
one of the pioneers of that art, and soon 
was offered a good position in Wheeling, 
W. Va., as an expert along that line. He 
remained with this photographer, George W. 
Robinson, for some time, and then in 1877, 
entered the employ as expert re-toucher with 
the leading photographic firm of Baltimore, 
Kuhn & Cummins, with whom he remained 
two years. His next work was as operator 
for Richard W'alzal, of Baltimore, but after 
a year, in 1880, he embarked in business for 
himself in that city. There he remained for 
about seven years, w-hen he sold his business, 
and engaged in the same line at Hagerstown, 
Md., but after nearly four years, during 
which time he almost monopolized the photo- 
graphic business of the town, failing health 
necessitated his abandoning his calling, and 
he therefore sold his business, and bought a 
farm in the South Mountain peach belt of 
Washington Co., Md.. where he spends his 
summers. Later he bought the Buscy Studio 
on Charles street, Baltimore, but after a vear. 



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:sold his business and came to Chambersburg, 
and bought his present studio in this city. 
Mr. Rogers is very much interested in his 
fruit farm, which is planted in apples, peaches 
and pears, and he also .owns a one half inter- 
est in a valuable apple and peach farm in 
Franklin county, Pa. It was owing to these 
agricultural interests that he decided to leave 
the city and make Chambersburg his home. 
In 1878. Mr. Rogers married Miss 
Elizabeth Eugenia Jonas, daughter of the 
late Jacob Jonas, of Baltimore. Fraternally, 
Mr. Rogers is a member of the Royal Ar- 
canum, the K. of P. and the order of Elks. 
He is popular in these organizations, and is 
a man who commands the respect and con- 
fidence of the business community, as well 
as the friendship of a wide circle, who ap- 
preciate his many excellent traits of char- 
acter 

DR. J. C. CRISWELL, a popular and 
progressive dentist of Waynesboro, was born 
in Scotland, Pa., March 24, 1864, a son of 
J. H. and Susan rimmell) Criswell. 

(I) JOHN CRISWELL, the grand- 
father of Dr. Criswell, emigrated from 
Ireland, settling in Maryland, and became 
the father of these children : 

1. Andrew. 

2. J. H. (II). 

3. Robert. 

4. J.\NE married Robert Wallace. 

5. Eliza married Rev. James Mc- 
Ginnes. 

(II) J. H. CRISWELL was born in 
1825, and died in Waynesboro in 1890. Pie 
married Susan Immell, born in 1837, who 
died in Waynesboro June i, 1903. J. H. 
Criswell was quite a prominent man, being 
director of the poor of Franklin county for 
some years, and also served on the school 
board of Waynesboro. In politics he was 
a Republican. His religious l)elief was that 



of the Presbyterian Church. The following 
children were born to himself and wife: 

1. H. C. is a merchant of W'aynesboro. 

2. Mary C. married H. A. Deisert. 

3. J. C. (HI). 

4. A. L. is a clothing merchant of 
Waynesboro. 

5. F. I. is proprietor of the Waynes- 
boro Laundry. 

6. T. T. is a machinist of Waynes- 
boro. 

7. E. O. is a druggist of Philadelphia. 
(Ill) DR. J. C. CRISWELL was 

reared in Scotland. Pa., where he learned 
the trade of a machinist. But he early 
showed an inclination for the dental pro- 
fession, and as soon as possible began study- 
ing that science, graduating in 1894 from the 
University of Maryland. Settling at 
Waynesboro, he began the practice of his 
profession, and has met with marked success. 
In politics he is a Republican, and in 1897 
he was a candidate for the Legislature. He 
has served very acceptably as chief burgess 
of Waynesboro, and is one of the public- 
spirited men of the city. 

In 1902 Dr. Criswell married Miss Bell 
Snyder, of Waynesboro, and one child has 
been born to them : 

I. Carmer. 

Mrs. Criswell is a very charming lady, 
a daughter of W'illiam and Sarah Snyder. 
Both Dr. and Mrs. Criswell are active 
socially, and fraternally Dr. Criswell is a 
Mason and a member of the Order of Elks. 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FUNK, one 
of the leading citizens and successful farm- 
ers of W'ashington township, Franklin coun- 
ty, residing on what is known as the Willow 
Spring farm, one mile west from Waynes- 
boro, on the Greenville Pike, was born on 
the hill back of the Frick Alfg. Co., Waynes- 
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(I) JOHN FUNK, his great-grand- 
father, was born in Lancaster, Pa., and was 
the founder of the family in Frankhn 
county. 

(II) HENRY FUNK, his grandfather, 
was born in 1784 on a farm near the Mary- 
land line, near the Ringgold road, north- 
west of Ringgold, Md. He married Eliza- 
beth Good, daughter of Christian Good, and 
a sister of the grandfather of Jacob F. Good, 
of Midvale. Franklin county. The Funk 
homestead is still intact, and consists of 160 
acres which were purchased from a Mr. Mc- 
Coy. At the time of purchase it was all 
wild land. These McCoys owned great 
tracts of land in this section, having bought 
up land warrants. There were few- improve- 
ments upon the land, the old log house be- 
ing the principal one, and here the founder 
of the family died. To the 160 acres John 
Funk added until he had 190 acres, and 
when he died his son Henry succeeded 
to the property. Later the place was sold 
at sale and was purchased by Jacob Lebanon, 
who married Barbara Funk, and from him 
passed to John Funk, the father of our sub- 
ject. The children of Henry Funk were as 
follows : 

1. John (III). 

2. B.\RB.\R.\ married Jacob Lebanon. 

3. Another daughter married Jonah 
Emmet. 

4. Eliz.\beth married Joseph Rohrer, 
a Dunkard minister. 

5. Christi.\n married Matilda Smith. 

6. Sus.\x married William Hager. of 
the old Hager family of Maryland. 

7. Catherine married William Storer. 

8. One son died young. 

(Ill) JOHN FUNK was borti in 
1807, in an old log house on the site of 
the present home of his son Jacob, and with- 
in a stone's throw of the home of his son 
Benjamin. The logs are now used in a 



stable on the latter's place. After he came 
into possession of the Funk homestead John 
b'unk bought what is now the residence of 
our subject, and moved into it. When 
John Funk took charge of the property 
there was a large tannery on it, wiiich 
he oi)erated very successfully in conjunc- 
tion with a distillery, and also carried on 
his farming operations. About 1831 John 
Funk married Nancy Shank, and soon after- 
ward moved to the birthplace of Benjamin, 
on the edge of Waynesboro, and there lived 
until about 1866, when he returned to the 
old farm, and continued his farming until 
his death, in 1885. His wife w-as born in 
Washington county, Md., in 1810, daughter 
of Jacob Shank, and died in 1887. To Mr. 
and Mrs. John Funk were born children as 
follows : 

1. Eliz.\beth married John Middour, 
and after his death removed to North Churcli 
street, Waynesboro, where she now resides. 

2. Aaron married Elizabeth Frick, who 
died fifteen years ago. 

3. Mary married Jacob Frick, of 
Waynesboro. 

4. Benjamin F. (IV). 

5. Amanda married David Stoner, 
and resides in northern Kansas. 

6. Barbar.\ married Louis Lecron, of 
Maryland. 

7. Henry C. married Rebecca Shank, 
sister of John Shank, and is now deceased. 

8. John S. married a Morgal. 

9. Malixda married John l-'rantz, and 
is now deceased. 

10. Elizabeth died at the age of 
eighteen years. 

11. Jacob R. married Clara Michley.. 

12. Ann.\ Isadore died when about 
eight years of age. 

(IV) BENJAMIN F. FUNK was 
reared on the farm of his father near the 
Frick Mfg. Co. works, and attended the 



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common schools, acquiring an excellent edu- 
cation. Continuing on the farm until 1859, 
lie married and then came to his present 
proi>erty, then owned by his uncle, Jacob 
Lebanon. He farmed 300 acres belonging 
to his uncle the first year, residing with 
him. The next year he lived in a small 
brick house near his present home, which 
is still standing. Later the property passed 
into the possession of John Funk, as above 
stated, and in 188 1 our subject purchased 
it from his father, and now owns 200 acres 
of the farm. He also owns another tract 
of fifteen or eighteen acres in Washington 
township, not far from his home place. The 
farm of forty acres which his brother oc- 
cupies, where our subject was born in 
Waynesboro, belongs to him and to his 
brother Jacob. This property is very de- 
sirable for building purposes, and they have 
been gradually platting it, and if desired 
erecting houses upon the lots, Benjamin F. 
Funk alone has built eighteen houses, the 
greater number on North street, sixteen brick 
and two frame — very substantial modern 
residences. He finds this property one of 
his most remunerative investments. About 
sixteen years ago he built two l)rick houses 
on North Potomac street. ^Nlr. Funk has 
also very large farming interests. He al- 
ways enters into everything with his whole 
heart, never resting satisfied until he has 
made the undertaking a complete success. 

On Feb. 15. 1859, :Mr. Funk married 
Susan E. Miller, who was born in Franklin 
township, Franklin Co., Pa., near the farm 
of Morton S. Funk, in June, 1839, daughter 
of John and Eva (Carbaugh) Miller. :\Irs. 
Funk died Nov. 28, 1888, a devout member 
of the Salem Reformed Church. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Funk children were born as fol- 
lows : 

I. John died of diphtheria at six in 
the evening of Jan. 17, 1866. 



2. McClellan died of the same 
disease on Jan. 2, 1866. 

3. Erie died of that disease at seven 
in the evening of the day his brother John 
died. 

4. Jacob M. married Rebecca Om- 
wake, cousin of W. T. Omwake. 

5. Arminta, unmarried, is at home. 

6. Iv'.\ Myrtle died when about three 
years old.. 

7. Elizabeth died at the age of twenty 
years. 

8. Benjamin Franklin, Jr., is now 
of Philadelphia. 

ZARGER FAMILY. The Zarger fam- 
ily of Franklin county is descended from Ul- 
rich Zerger (born in Germany — died in 
Dauphin county), who emigrated to Penn- 
sylvania from Rotterdam, on the ship "St. 
Andrew,"' Capt. James Abercrombie, land- 
ing at Philadelphia, Sept. 2;^. 1752. The 
name is variously spelled as Zarger, Zerger, 
Zorger, Zarcher. Zarker and Zerker. Ulrich 
Zerger settled near Derry Church, in what is 
now Dauphin county. He married and had 
issue, among others : 

I. Jacob (II). 

(II) JACOB ZERGER (died about 
1815), son of Ulrich Zerger, was enrolled 
in Capt. John Herkenrider's company, in 
Lieut. Col. John Roger's battalion, Lancas- 
ter County Associators, and served all his 
tours of duty when called into service with 
the militia, except once when he was not 
notified. In consequence he refused to pay 
the fine imposed upon him, whereupon 
George Bell, one of the deputies for collect- 
ing fines, seized a horse belonging to his 
father, Ulrich. which he sold for upwards of 
eighteen pounds. He applied the money to 
the payment of Jacob's fine. In 1783 he 
purchased the John Teas farm containing 
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private graveyard on the farm, in wliicli 
Jacob and other members of the Zerger fam- 
ily are buried. Mr. Zerger married Marga- 
ret (born July 13, 1757 — died May 25, 
1850), surname not ascertained. They had 
issue : 

1. John (III). 

2. Benj.^min (born Dec. 11, 1788 — 
died Aug. 19, 1872) was a lieutenant of 
cavalry in the war of 181 2. He was twice 
married. By his first wife he had issue : 
Jacob, David, Catharine, Simon, Elizabeth, 
Benjamin and Alargaret. He married (sec- 
ond) Catharine Fohler, and they had issue: 
Henry, Susan, Rebecca, Lucy, Lydia, .Sarah, 
John and Andrew U. (president of the East 
End Bank, Harrisburg). 

3. Daniel married and had issue : 
Harry, Benjamin, Leah and Katie. 

4. Rebecc.\ married Dr. Buck. 

5. Le.'Slh married Wendell Minnich. 

6. Jacob. 

7. Christiana married Mr. Siders. 

8. Elizabeth married John Siders. 
(Ill) JOHN ZARGER (born June 

24, 1784 — died April 12, 1871), son of Ja- 
cob and Margaret Zerger, was a farmer in 
Dauphin county, having purchased his 
father's farm April 28, 1806. He removed 
to Franklin county in 1824. He married 
Elizabeth Buck (born April 6, 1786 — died 
Jan. 30, 1873), and had issue: 

1. Benjamin (born Feb. 18, 1808 — 
died Dec. 4, 1887) married Sarah Bear; 
they had issue : Benjamin, Susan, Sarah and 
Mary. 

2. Margaret (born March 7, 18 10 — 
died Sept. 29, 1892) married Mr. Lehman. 

3. Catharine (born Aug. 15, 1812 — 
died April 3, 1883) married Jan. 17, 1833, 
George Kuhn, of Antrim township. They 
had issue : Elizabeth, Jesse, Adam. Samuel, 
Martha, Laban, Catharine. Julia, John, 
Jacob. Russel Streeter and Anna Maria. 

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4. John (IV). 

5. Elizabeth (born March 17, 181 7) 
married Samuel .Small, of Ouincy township. 
They had issue: Aaron, Mary .Ann and 
Elizabeth. 

6. Adam (born Dec; 24, 1819 — died 
April 18, 1882) was a farmer. He married 
Matilda Carbaugh (Ixirn .Aug. 16, 1829 — 
died July 19, 1864), and had issue: John, 
Elizabeth, Abram L., Mary and Adam B. 
The last named served as Register and Re- 
corder of Franklin county 190x5-1903. 

7. Jacob (bom Dec. 13, 1823 — died in 
Illinois) married Frances Sheller (born 
March 25. 1826 — died Sept. 18, 1902), and 
had is.sue: Daniel, John. Elizabeth, Jacob, 
Lydia, Emma, George W., Christian and 
Samuel B. 

(IV) JOHN ZARGER (born Nov. 
13 1813 — died Oct. 2, 1890), son of John 
and Elizabeth (Buck) Zarger, was a farmer. 
He was supervisor of Guilford township in 
1 859- 1 860, and filled' other township offices. 
-At the time of Lee's invasion of Pennsylva- 
nia he was living in Antrim township. His 
crops were destroyed by the Confederates 
and his horses taken. His son, Thomas G. 
Zarger, has in his possession a certificate 
declaring that John Zarger, Jr., has on file 
in the office of the auditor general a duly 
approved and registered claim for the sum 
of $1,003.60 as adjudicated under the act 
entitled "An Act to authorize the liquidation 
of damages sustained by citizens of Penn- 
sylvania during the late rebellion." signed 
January, 1872, by Governor John W, Geary, 
the State treasurer and auditor general of 
Pennsylvania. Mr. Zarger married (first) 
Jan. 5, 1843, Mary Catharine Goltman 
(born May 7, 1822 — died March 11, 1872), 
daughter of Thomas and Anna Maria 
(Beck) Goltman. They had issue: 

1. Thomas G. (V). 

2. Elizabeth Frances . Arabella . 



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(born Aug. 29, 1845) married Dec. 6, 1870. 
Jacon Coble (born Jan. 13, 1845), ^ farmer 
on the old Coble homestead, in Hamilton 
township. They had issue : William Emer- 
_-son, John Dallas, Philip Clinton, Jacob Al- 
vin, Charlotte Elsie, Minnie K. and David 
Roy. 

3. Mary Catharine married David 
VV. Faust [Faust Family]. 

4. John Franklin (born Aug. 14, 
1856) settled near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and 
ten years later removed to Mitchell, S. Dak., 
where he engaged in the farm implement 
business. He subsequently made his head- 

- quarters at Nashville, Tenn., and Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, but is now in the real estate busi- 
ness in Los Angeles, Cal. He married Dec. 
24, 1879, Lelia Marie Feezer (born Feb. 
26. 1856), daughter of David and Mary M. 
Feezer; they have no children. 

Mr. Zarger married (second) Sarah Lu- 

-cinda Gel wicks (born May 30, 1844 — died 

May 5, 1899, daughter of Frederick and 

Elizabeth (Dick) Gelwicks. They had no 

issue. 

(V) THOMAS GOLTMAN ZAR- 
•GER (born May 21. 1844), son of John and 
Mary Catharine (Goltman) Zarger, was 
-educated in the public schools of Antrim and 
Guilford townships. He served his country 
in the war for the Union as a member of 
"Company I, 98th P. V. I., and was mustered 
-out with his company June 29, 1865. After 
the war IMr. Zarger engaged in farming, 
and he was at the same time a farmer and a 
school teacher. In early life he taught in the 
public schools of St. Thomas and Antrim 
townships, and later for many years in the 
Guilford township schools, the entire period 
of his services as a teacher embracing 
twenty-nine years. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, and he has always been one of the 
most active and successful Republican work- 
ers in the county. For many years he served 



as a member of the Republican county com- 
mittee. He ser\'ed as supervisor and in 
other township offices, and for ten years he 
tilled the office of justice of the peace. He 
was a county commissioner of Franklin 
county, 1900-03, and was president of the 
toard. During the period that Mr. Zarger 
served as a teacher and justice of the peace 
his skill as a farmer was shown by the pro- 
ductiveness of his farm, and his capacity as 
a business man has long been recognized by 
Jiis neighbors in the settlement of estates 
and the management of property. He gives 
much attention to fruit raising, and his 
apples, especially, have always received rec- 
ognition when exhibited at the agricultural 
fairs of the Cumberland Valley. Mr. and 
Mrs. Zarger are members of the Reformed 
Church, and for many years he has served 
as an elder and trustee of the church at 
Grindstone Hill. He served as superintend- 
ent of the Grindstone Hill Reformed Sun- 
day School, and also served as president of 
the Franklin County Christian Endeavor 
LInion for two terms. He has represented 
his church at many of the meetings of Mer- 
cersburg Classis, the Synod of the Potomac 
and the Genera! Synod. Socially he is a 
member of Chambersliurg Lodge, Xo. 175. 
I. O. O. F., and the Knights of ]\Ialta at 
Chambersburg. Mr. Zarger married Dec. 
29, 1868, Mary Amanda Seilhamer (born 
near Middle Spring, Aug. 15, 1845), daugh- 
ter of John and Elizabeth (Oberkirsh) Seil- 
hamer : they had issue : 

I. John Seilhamer (born April 26, 
1874) was educated in the public schools. 
He farmed his father's farm, near the head 
of the Falling Spring, for a few years, and 
then went into the grain and coal business, 
with Coyle & Diehl, at Richmond Furnace, 
in which he is still engaged. He is an elder 
in the Reformed Church of Richmond, and 
one of the ]irinci])al workers in establishing 




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the congregation and Sunday School at tliat 
place. He maiTied No\-. 7, 1901, Mary E. 
Witherspoon (torn July 12, 1879), daugh- 
ter of Hon. John W. and Mary E. (Mickey) 
Witherspoon. 

2. D.wiD Herbert (born July 2~. 
1876) was educated in the public schools: 
and worked on his father's farm and for the 
C. V. Creamery & Dairy Company, until 
December, 1901, when he was appointed one 
of the R. F. D. mail carriers. His religious 
connection is with the Reformed Church, 
and socially he belongs to the Knights of 
Malta. He evinces unusual musical talent. 
He married April 17. 1902. Lulu Elletta 
Wallburn, daughter of William and Marga- 
ret (Peiffer) Wallburn, of Guilford town- 
ship. 

3. James Shirley (born May 7, 1881) 
was educated in the public schools and 
at Mercersburg Academy. After leaving 
school he engaged in journalism, and is now 
■editor of the Gettysburg Daily Times. 

DANIEL WOLFF, a leading merchant 
of Spring Run. and formerly a farmer in 
the township, is one of the well-known and 
influential citizens of the place, where his 
word carries weight on either business or 
political matters. He was born in Amber- 
son's Valley, Jan. 22. 1846, son of David 
and Elizabeth (Reed) Wolfif, deceased. 

(I) DAVID WOLFF (born in Lancas- 
ter county about 1780 — died in xA.mberson 
Valley, Franklin county, Jan. 14, 1866) 
moved from Lancaster county to Franklin 
county, in 1800. He married Miss Martha 
Kirkpatrick (born Feb. 13, 1781 — died in 
August, 1853) and they had issue ten chil- 
dren, those who lived to outgrow childhood 
being: 

1. JOPTN. 

2. Daniel. 

3. William. 



4. Mary, wife of Joseph Elder. 

5. Martha, wife of William Sheiier, 
of Amberson's Valley. 

6. D.WID (II). 

7. George, who was killed by a horse. 

8. Martha Jane, who died unmar- 
ried. 

(II) DAVID WOLFF (born in Am- 
berson's Valley Sept. 10, 182 1 — died in 
1846) was a lifelong farmer. He married 
Miss Elizabeth Reed, daughter of David 
Reed, of Franklin county. She passed away 
in 1859. The Wolffs, as a family, are strong 
Presbyterians, and equally ardent Demo- 
crats. David and Elizabeth (Reed) Wolff 
had issue : 

1. Martha, who married Noah Biin- 
ley, of Spring Run. 

2. George, who lived near Strasburg. 

3. Daniel (III). 

(III) DANIEL WOLFF was reared 
on his father's farm and sent to the public 
schools. When eighteen years of age he 
enlisted in Company A, i88th P. V. I., under 
Capt. Lippy, and served with the .\rmy of 
the Potomac. He was wounded at I't. 
Darling, near Richmond, and was confined to 
the hospital for two years. Returning home 
in 1868, he married and settled down as a 
farmer for about fourteen years, but in 
1880 he opened the general merchandise 
business at Spring Run, which he conducted 
for twenty-two years following. During 
that period he also served as postmaster for 
twelve years. True to the family traditions, 
Mr. Wolff is a member of the Upper Path 
\'alley Presbyterian Church, while politically 
he has always been an active worker for the 
Democratic party, and for thirty years has 
been a recognized power in the councils of 
the local politicians. For several years he 
was one of the board of school directors of 
the township. A self-made man. his suc- 
cess attests the admirable qualities of his 



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character, which have won him not only 
material advantages, but also the more 
valuable returns of the respect and confi- 
dence of those about him. 

Mr. Wolff was married Sept. 26, 1868, 
to Miss Susan A. Shearer, daughter of Wil- 
liam and Emma (Neil) Shearer, of Path 
Valley, both now deceased. Mrs. Wolff was 
born in 1848. Seven children have been 
born to this couple, of whom the parents 
may feel proud for their sterling character. 
They are : 

1. Dr. W. E. Wolff, who married 
(first) Miss Mazy Skinner (died June 19, 
1902), and had one daughter, Lola Althea, 
who died in infancy. He married (second) 
Oct. 27, 1904, Miss Douglas Newcomer, of 
Harney, Maryland. 

2. Elizabeth H. is a teacher in the 
Huntingdon High School. 

3. John S. a minister, married Miss 
Erma Dobbin, of New York and has one 
son, Thomas D. 

4. Mary E. is a teacher in Spring Run. 

5. Edith M. lives at home. 

6. Daniel O. is a chemist. 

7. Bruce M. is in college. 

SOLOMON MILLER, a prosperous re- 
tired farmer of Guilford township, Franklin 
Co., Pa., was born upon the farm he now 
owns Nov. I, 1824, a son of Solomon and 
Mary (Sheary) Miller, who are now de- 
ceased. 

(I) PETER MILLER, the original 
American settler, came from Hesse-Darm- 
stadt, Germany, and located in Lancaster 
county. Pa., about 140 years ago. later mov- 
ing to Franklin county, in the early days of 
its settlement. 

(II) SOLOMON MILLER, the father 
of our subject, was a son of Peter Miller. He 
settled on the old Miller farm in Franklin 
countv about one hundred vears ago. In 



time he became one of the leading men of 
the town, was made justice of the peace, and 
upon the formation of the Republican party 
joined its ranks. In religious matters he 
was a member of the Reformed Church. The 
following children were born to himself and 
w'ife: 

1. Elizabeth. 

2. Susan. 

3. Mary. 

4. Catharine. 

5. Christian. 

6. Charlotte. 

7. Rebecca. 

8. John. 

9. Solomon (III). 

10. Henry. 

11. Anne. 

(Ill) SOLOMON MILLER, our sub- 
ject, received the usual education of a farmer 
boy, and decided to engage in farming for 
his life work. In 1850 he bought the Miller 
homestead of 125 acres, which farm is one 
of the choicest in Franklin county, and has 
been in the Miller name for over a hundred 
years. Mr. Miller ranked among the enter- 
prising and progressive farmers of the town- 
ship. He married Miss Barbara Miller, of 
Lancaster county, who passed away in 1900, 
a devoted mother and wife, and a beloved 
woman, renowned for her many deeds of 
charity. The following children were born 
of this marriage : 

1. Samuel (IV). 

2. Calvin. 

3. Jefferson. 

4. Lutitia. 

5. Emma. 

6. Ella. 

• 7. Franklin. 

8. Solomon. 

In politics Mr. Miller is a Republican, 
and very strong in his support of the prin- 
ciples of the party. He has served his town- 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANxNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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ship very ably as school director and trustee. 
In religious matters, like his parents, he early 
joined the Reformed Church. Althoug-h he 
has reached his eightieth milestone our ven- 
erable subject is active and energetic, and 
well informed upon current matters, and sets 
a worthy example for the younger genera- 
tions to follow of what is meant by the term 
an honest tiller of the soil. 



ViRGixi.v married Harry 
liveryman in Westminster, 



1. Lauk.v 
Thompson, a 
Maryland. 

2. M.VRv Agnes married Charles 
iMsher, who resides near Westminster. 

3- John William (III). 

4- Harry Wilton, of Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania. 

(Ill) JOHN WILLIAM WARE- 



(IV) SAMUEL MILLER, born July HIME spent his early life upon the 'farm. 



15, 1854. now conducts the home farm prev 
iously mentioned. He married Miss Annie 
Herchelrod, who was born in Guilford town- 
ship, Nov. I, 1858, and the following chil- 
dren have been born to them : 

1. Harry B. 

2. B. H. 
3- Roy S. 

4. LURETTA. 

5. Franklin W. 

6. Samuel S. 

7. John W. 

8. Blanch. 
9- Pearl. 
10. Mary. 



where he worked until he attained to matur 
ity, and he attended the common scIkxdIs 
of the neighborhood. When he was 
twenty-one he went to York, Pa., and 
worked as a carpenter. Eleven years 
ago he located in Waynesboro, where 
he commenced work as a journeyman, in 
October. 1898, engaging as a contractor. 
He has built the Inn, the United Baptist 
Church building, and a number of elegant 
residences throughout the city and vicinity.' 
Two years ago he embarked in a new line of 
business, building houses to sell. Along 
Second street he erected ten houses in 1902, 
and as many on Cleveland avenue. Mr. 
Warehime owns a number of houses which 
JOHN WILLIAM WAREHIME, con- he rents, is the possessor of considerable 
tractor and builder, and a memljer of the stock in the Frick Mfg. Co., and is a chrec- 
council, of Waynesboro, Franklin county, tor in the Ice & Cold Storage Co., and in the 



was born on a farm near Westminster, Car 
roll Co., Md., July 19, 1871. 

(I) GEORGE WILLIAM WARE- 
HIME, his paternal grandfather, was born 
in .America, of German ancestry, and was 
ninety-four years of age at the time of his 
death, which occurred in Carroll county, 
Maryland. 

(II) WILLIAM GEORGE WARE- 
HIME, father of John William, was a na- 
tive of Carroll county, born in 1841, and 
married Lydia Stre\ig, who was bom there 
m 1845. They are now residing in West- 
minster, Md. Their children were as fol- 
lows : 



Waynesboro Water Co. He is also a stock- 
holder in the Bank of Waynesboro and the 
Citizens Bank, the Smith Mfg. Co., and a 
director in the Construction Line Co. His 
business as a contractor and builder is a 
very large one and is constantly increasing 
in volume. In 1902 he was elected to the 
city council for a term of two years, by the 
Democratic party, in which he is an im- 
portant factor. 

Mr. ^^'arehime was married to Miss 
Jenny Feezer, who was born in Carroll 
county. Md.. a daughter of Edward Feezer. 
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ware- 
hime are: 



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1. Lareau May. 

2. Madaline Feezer. 

Fraternally Mr. Wareheime is a mem- 
ber of the K. of P., the I. O. O. ¥., and the 
Elks, and is very popular in these organi- 
zations. Both he and his wife are mem- 
bers of St. Paul's Reformed Church, and 
are highly esteemed in that body as well as 
throughout the community. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN SOLEN- 
BERGER, a very prominent business man 
and resident of Chambersburg, Pa., comes 
of an old and honored family, and is a son 
of Noah W. and Barbara A. (Stouffer) 
Solenberger, and grandson of John W. Sol- 
enberger. 

(I) JOHN W. SOLENBERGER was 
a farmer, and a prominent man of his day. 
He married Elizabeth Wingert. by whom he 
had three children : 

1. Noah W. is a resident of \Vinches- 
ter, Va. (II). 

2. Solomon W. (first) married Lizzie 
Wingert and ( second ) Lizzie Deardorff. 

3. Joseph W. married Elizabeth 
Grove. 

(II) NOAH W. SOLENBERGER 
was formerly a farmer of Franklin county, 
and in 1866 went to \\'^inchester, A'a., to 
engage in a grain and warehouse business. 
After several years he sold his warehouses 
and engaged in real-estate dealing at Win- 
chester. Later he became a farmer once 
more, and is now one of the extensive farm- 
ers of Winchester, and also one of the most 
extensive fruit growers of the \alley. He 
married Barbara A. Stouffer, daughter of 
John Stouffer and granddaughter of Jacob 
Stouffer, who was probably a farmer of 
Franklin county, and one of the early settlers 
of Guilford township. John Stouffer was a 
farmer, manufacturer of strawboard and 
miller of Franklin coiintv. and a verv prom- 



inent and wealthy man. He marrieil Nancy 
Keefer, and they had children as follows : 

1 . Mary married Joseph Strickler. 

2. Barb.\ra a. married Noah W. Sol- 
enberger and became the mother of our sub- 
ject. 

3. Leah married Christian Good. 

4. Daniel K. married Emma Belle 
Coover and (second) Mary Ferguson. 

5. Abraham is deceased. 

6. Anna is deceased. 

7. Jacob H. married Miss Brunk. 

8. C.\th.\rine married Christian Mc- 
Laughlin. 

Noah W. and Barbara A. (Stouffer) Sol- 
enberger have had six children : 

1. John S. married Catherine Metz. 

2. Abraham L. 

3. Benjamin F. married Miss Stamey. 

4. Annie E. married Charles Brown. 

5. Ch.-^rles M. married Ruth ^letz. 

6. Jennie ]\I. married Ralph Steel. 

(Ill) ABRAHAM LINCOLN SOL- 
ENBERGER, the subject proper of this 
sketch attended the public schools of Win- 
chester, having been taken there when in 
infancy by his father, and there he resided 
until 1886, when he was twenty-one years 
of age. In addition to working upon his 
father's farm he taught school one term in 
Frederick county, Va., but in 1886 he re- 
turned to Chambersburg and began farming 
his grandfather's farm in Guilford town- 
ship. After five years, in the spring of 1891, 
he moved to Chambersburg, and embarked 
in a hardware business on the corner of 
Queen and Main streets, under the firm name 
of Sherk & Solenberger, which partnership 
continued until September, 1897, when it 
was dissolved, Mr. Solenberger having pur- 
chased the stock of W. H. Walker & Co., on 
North Main street, where he is still carry- 
ing on the business. He has a full line of 
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harness, and has a good assortment of paints, 
blankets and similar goods, doing a large 
and constantly increasing business. In poli- 
tics Mr. Solenberger is a Republican, and 
he was elected assessor of Guilford township 
in 1898, but resigned the office at the ex- 
piration of a year. 

On Aug. 12, 1886, he married Miss 
Myra F. Lockwood, daughter of Douglas 
Lockwood, of New York, and the following 
children have been born to them : 

1. Edna M. 

2. Charles William. 

3. Harry F. 

4. Barbar.\ is deceased. 

5. Noah Warriner. 

Mr. Solenberger is quite prominent fra- 
ternally, belonging to the I. O. O. F. and En- 
campment, K. of P., Redmen, Heptasophs 
and Elks, and has passed the chairs of the 
Redmen and represented the order at the 
Grand Council. He is a man widely and 
favorably known throughout the count}-, and 
recognized as an excellent business man, a 
patriotic citizen and a faithful friend. 

WILLL\M B. SMITH, a retired 
farmer, and for many years one of the prom- 
inent residents of Southampton township. 
Franklin county, was born Oct. 27. 1S33, ''^ 
Letterkenny township, Franklin county, son 
of William L. and Mary A. (Bigler) Smith. 

The ancestry of our subject extends to 
England, Wales and Germany. (I) Lemuel 
Smith, his grandfather, married Nancy Jones ; 
they were of English and Welsh extraction, 
respectively. On the maternal side, our sub- 
ject's ancestry was entirely German. The 
Bigler family has long been one of great 
prominence in Pennsylvania, giving a gov- 
ernor to the State. 

(U) WILLIAM L. SMITH was born 
in 1803, near Litchfield, Conn., was a 
farmer, merchant and general business man. 



He married Mary A. Bigler, born in 1809, 
near Newville, Cumberland county, a daugh- 
ter of Christian and a cousin of Governor 
William Bigler. Christian Bigler located at 
Strasburg where he conducted a hotel and 
mill and also owned several farms in Let- 
terkenn\' townshij), Franklin county. In 
the fall of 1842 William L. Smith located in 
Orrstown where he conducted a general store 
and farm until the time of his death, in 
March, 1872. His wife survived until 1890, 
dying in her eighty-third year. In politics 
he was an old line Whig. They had five chil- 
dren, namely : 

1. Nancy J., deceased, married Will- 
iam Blair. 

2. William B. (III). 

3. Ann Eliza, widow of John Kinter. 

4. Miranda L., wife of William D. 
Means, resides near Middle Spirng. 

5. Jennie A., wife of John Siiarpe, of 
Chambersburg. 

(Ill) WILLIAM B. SMITH was edu- 
cated in the village school at Orrstown, 
where he received a good, common school 
education and later had the advantages of 
an academic cour.se at Milnwood Academy, 
at Shade Gap, Pa. On leaving school Mr. 
Smith entered his father's store and assisted 
him until his marriage, when he settled at 
Middle Spring, where he remained eight 
years engaged in farming, removing then to 
Roxbury, and conducting a store for four 
years. Mr. Smith then returned to Middle 
Spring. He entered into a partnership in 
the hardware business, at Shippensburg with 
J. Stevick, the firm name being Stevick & 
Smith. This association continued three 
years when both partners sold their interests 
to William A. Cox, who continued the 
business 

.After spending some time looking after 
the business connected with the settling of 
his father's estate, Mr. Smith bought the 



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interests of the other heirs in the farm. He 
continued to reside in Shippensburg- until 
the spring of 1873, when he moved to Orrs- 
town, where he has resided ever since. He 
owns a fine farm of 106 acres adjoining the 
village and operates the same with hired 
help, retaining its management. It is under 
fine cultivation, and is improved with sub- 
stantial buildings. 

In 1857 Mr. Smith married Lizzie M. 
Means of Newburg, a daughter of Joseph 
and Jane (Woods) Means of Cumberland 
County. Eight children were born to this 
marriage, three of whom died in infancy : 

1. C. Minerva married William Dear- 
doff of Chambersburg. 

2. Annie E. died in 1900, wife of Jo- 
seph E. Johnston of Orrstown. 

3. J. Means is an attorney at Chicago. 

4. George Lewis^ a graduate of the 
Philadelphia Medical College, is a practicing 
physician at Germantown, Pennsylvania. 

5. Jennie A. is at home. 

Mrs. Smith died Jan. 16, 1902, and was 
buried at Shippensburg. She was a woman 
of Christian character and loving disposition 
which endeared her to her family and a large 
circle of friends. She was a consistent mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, to which 
Mr. Smith has belonged for many years. In 
politics Mr. Smith is a Republican and has 
taken an active interest in public affairs ever 
since locating at Orrstown, where he 
served continuously as Justice of the Peace 
for twelve years. He is one of the directors 
of the First National Bank at Sliippensliurg, 
and is considered one of the leading citizens 
of this locality. 

HENRY SLEICHTER, deceased. 
Among the honorable and prosperous farm- 
ers of Greene township, who helped to make 
this portion of Franklin county what it is to- 
day, and who have already passed to their 



last repose, may be appropriately mentioned 
the late Henry Sleichter, who was born in 
the township, near the present village of 
Scotland, May 21, 1836, and died at his 
home in the above mentioned village, Dec. 
26, 1897. 

(I) HENRY SLEICHTER, his grand- 
father, was an early settler of Franklin 
county, although but little is known of him. 
He had a large family, of whom John be- 
came the father of his namesake Henry. 

(II) JOHN SLEICHTER had children 
as follows : 

1. B.\RB.\RA married Samuel Bixler. 

2. C.\Tii-\Ri\E married Nicholas Zeller. 

3. Samuel, deceased. 

4. John, deceased. 

5. Solomon. 

6. Henry (III). 

7. Elizabeth. 

8. Rebecca. 

(III) HENRY SLEICHTER was 
reared upon the farm and learned the busi- 
ness of milling from his father, who was a 
farmer and miller of Scotland for many 
years. His education was received in the 
public schools of his township. For many 
years he was one of the leading men of his 
community. In politics he was a stanch Re- 
publican, although he did not aspire to pub- 
lic office; he was a consistent member of and 
liberal contributor to the United Brethren 
Church, and he will be long missed from its 
ranks. About 1870 Mr. Sleichter was mar- 
ried to Miss Catherine Winger of Greene 
township, a daughter of Henry and Cath- 
erine (Zook) Winger, substantial people of 
Lancaster county. The issue of this mar- 
riage was : 

1. Mary E., a popular teacher of the 
high school at \\'est Pittston, Luzerne 
county, was graduated from Wilson Col- 
lege in 1891. 

2. Charles H., also a teacher in the 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



4^5 



high school at West Pittston. Luzerne 
county, was graduated from tlie Cliambers- 
burg- Academy and tlie Lebanon Valley Col- 
lege. In 1897 he married Miss F,lla Sterner, 
of Scotland, and they have two children, 
Leona Marie and Mildred. 

JAMES SHIREY, proprietor of the 
"Franklin House," Greencastle, Pa., was 
born at that place Oct. 14, 1842, a son of 
David and Joanna (Fame) Shirey, the latter 
of Scotch-Irish and the former of German 
descent. 

DAVID SHIREY was born in Green- 
castle, as was also his wife, who is still living 
at the advanced age of eighty-six. He died 
when seventy-eight years of age. By occu- 
pation he was a cabinetmaker and under- 
taker in Greencastle, and our subject has in 
his possession some of the furniture his 
father made. Three children were born to 
David and Joanna Shirey : 

1. Elizabeth (deceased) married Jo- 
seph Martin of Greencastle. Pa., and had 
children : Annie. McClain, Flawl and Em- 
mie. 

2. James was married in 1872 to Clara 
Donaldson, of Middleburg. Pennsylvania. 

3. Rebecca married Emory Houser, of 
Reading, Pa., and has children : James 
Houser, Wilf and Victor. 

The early life of James Shirey was spent 
in Greencastle. In May, 1862, he enlisted 
in Company K. 126th P. V. I., and was mus- 
tered in at Harrisburg. The regiment was 
soon afterward ordered to Washington 
where it remained some time, and was then 
attached to Tyler's Brigade, which was the 
1st Brigade, 2d Division, 5th Army Corps. 
This famous lirigade was ordered to Fred- 
erick Junction, Md.. and participated in the 
hottest of the fight at Antietam. It was then 
ordered to the- front, but under a flag of 
truce from Gen. Lee to bring back the Union 



dead the enemy escaped and retreated. The 
]26th broke camp in September, 1862, and 
took up a position in front of Fredericks- 
burg, and Dec. 13, 1862, participated in the 
last charge of the Union troops on the for- 
tifications of that place. Mr. Shirey was 
with his company in the 5th Battery, and 
also in that upon the enemy's works. His 
company charged within ninety feet of the 
works, and lost twenty-eight men, killed and 
wounded, out of the one hundred. The 
L'nion troops were repulsed, fell back, and 
crossed the Rappahannock in the night. Soon 
thereafter our subject was injured and sent 
to the hospital, and did not rejoin his com- 
pany until the day of the battle of Chancel- 
lorsville. His time had expired two days 
previous to the battle, and a few days later 
the regiment was ordered to Harrisburg, 
where it was mustered out, having done gal- 
lant service for about ten months. Worn 
out with the hard service and illness, Mr. 
Shirey returned home. When Lee's army 
coming into Pennsylvania so upset the entire 
State Mr. Shirey was among those who took 
active measures for the protection of life and 
property. When this army passed through 
Greencastle Mr. Shirey was sent with a mes- 
sage to Gen. Couch, at Chambersburg, that 
the Confederates were on a northern raid. 
His message produced the company of which 
private Rihl was a member, to protect Green- 
castle. The gallant Corporal Rihl was killed 
half a mile north of Greencastle. A fact 
worthy of record in relation to this message 
of Mr. Shirey's is that Gen. Couch then had 
headquarters in the old "Franklin House" at 
Chambersburg. which stood on the present 
site of the Central Presbyterian church of 
that city. 

In 1879 Mr. Shirey began operating a 
hotel in partnership with H. R. GafF, in the 
old frame "Franklin House." which that 
same vear was torn down, a neat brick build- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



ing — known as the "Crowell House" — being 
erected in its place, at a cost (including the 
land) of $18,000. In 1884 Mr. Shirey sold 
his interest in this hotel, and on March 16, 
1885, he took charge of the "Nat Hotel," 
which he conducted until 1886. At that time 
he again took charge of the "Crowell 
House," which he has since conducted. In 
1902 Mr. Shirey and his son purchased the 
"Crowell House" from the Crowell estate. 
In 1905 they remodeled it, bringing the place 
up to the standard of a first-class hotel and 
changed the name back to the "Hotel Frank- 
lin," as it was known when first built. The 
change met with hearty approval from the 
public. Fraternally Mr. Shirey is a mem- 
ber of the G. A. R., Rihl Post, No. 438, and 
was a member of the committee which 
erected a monument to the brave soldier 
after whom the post was named. Mr. Shirey 
was married in 1872 to Clara, daughter of 
Abraham Donaldson, of Washington county, 
Md. ; she died Feb. 10, 1887. after a short 
illness. Their children were; 

1. Emma was born in August, 1873. 

2. David, born May 8, 1875, married 
Mary Sensheimer, of Chambersburg, born 
March 5, 1876, and they have two children: 
James J., born Aug. 14, 1895, ^"'^ Charles 
D., born Dec. 29 1899. David Shirey as- 
sists his father in the hotel business, and his 
wife acts as hostess. Both are very enter- 
prising, and do much to make the hotel at- 
tractive and homelike. 

James Shirey, our subject, has always 
been a public-spirited man, and has served 
as a member of the council of the borough. 
Aside from his hotel property Mr. Shirey has 
a fine residence on \\'est Baltimore street, 
which he has remodeled and improved. Prior 
to entering the hotel business he was a brick 
manufacturer, and was successful in that 
as he has been in his other undertakings, as 
he pursues with all the same straightfor- 



ward, honorable jxjlicy which has won him 
so excellent a standing in the community, 
and made his name good for whatever credit 
he desired. 

AGNEW FAMILY. JAMES AG- 
NEW (born in Ireland, July 31, 171 1 — 
died on the Manor of Masque, Adams 
county, Oct. 2, 1770) emigrated to Penn- 
sylvania and settled in Donegal. Lancaster 
county, with Arthur Patterson in 1 729. Both 
Agnew and Patterson were blacksmiths, and 
both were then single men. The Agnew 
family traces its ancestry to the Clan Colla. 
The father of Gen. James Agnew, a British 
officer killed in the battle of Germantown, 
was a brother of the pioneer. Mr. Agnew 
was one of the first squatters on the Manor 
of Masque. He asked for a warrant for his 
land on Marsh Creek in 1738, and settled on 
it in 1739. This tract was situated in what 
is now Highland township, Adams county. 
He had not yet obtained a title for it in 1762, 
and the question was not finally determined 
until 1802. He was captain of an Associated 
Company of York county, in 1756, and as- 
sisted in the defense of the frontier against 
the French and Indians. Mr. Agniew mar- 
ried (first) in Donegal, in 1731. Init the 
name of his wife is unknown ; she died about 
1735, leaving issue: 

1. John (born in Donegal. Lancaster 
county, March 4, 1732 — died in Hamilton- 
ban township, Adams county, June 6, 181 4) 
was a member of the York county Commit- 
tee of Observation in 1775, and one of the 
first Associate Judges of Adams county. 

2. Jannet (born Aug. 13. 1735 — died 
Oct. 9, 1814) married in 1754, Hugh Scott 
(born in 1726 — died Oct. 11, 1819), a left- 
handed blacksmith, near Fairfield. In 1774. 
he went with his brother Josiah to Washing- 
ton county. Hugh and Jannet Scott had 
issue: Rebecca. Abraham. Tames. Hugh- 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



4-V 



John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret and 
Josiah. 

Mr. Agnew married (second) in 1737, 
Rebecca Scott (born Dec. 17, 1707 — died 
Dec. 22, 1789), daughter of Abraham 
Scott, of Donegal. She was a sister of the 
wife of Arthur Patterson. James and Re- 
becca Agnew had issue : 

1. Samuel (born Jan. 29, 1738) mar- 
ried Elizabeth Johnston. 

2. James (II). 

3. David (III). 

4. Abraham, born Dec. 23, 1750, died 

1753- 

5. Martha married Samuel Patterson. 

6. Margaret married James Patterson. 

7. Rebecca married John McLanahan 
[McLanahan Family]. 

8. Sarah married Archibald Douglass. 

9. Ann married Rev. John Smith. 
(II) JAMES AGNEW (born in Adams 

county, May i, 1742 — died in 1799), lived 
near what is now the village of Fairfiekl, or- 
iginally called Millersville, in Hamiltonban 
township. He was a captain in the 2d Bat- 
talion, York county Militia, Col. Robert 
McPherson, 1775-6, and was wounded in the 
New Jersey campaign. In 1778, he was 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 7th Battalion of 
the York County Associators. After the 
Revolution he devoted himself to business, 
and became one of the wealthiest men in 
Hamiltonban. He owned a number of 
slaves. Colonel Agnew married (first) in 
1768, Mary Ramsey, daughter of James and 
Mary (O'Caine) Ramsey, who was his 
father's ward. James Ramsey was an early 
settler in the Conococheague Valley, but ow- 
ing to the Indian incursions, he removed to 
the Marsh Creek settlement where he died 
April 15, 1757. There is a story that, in 
1764, Mary Ramsey was living with her 
brother James, in Franklin county, for the 
purpose of attending Enoch Brown's school 



at Brown's Mill, and that on the day of the 
massacre of the school children by the In- 
dians she felt a repugnance to going to the 
schoolhouse so strong that she determined to 
remain at home. If there is any foundation 
for this tale she must have been living with 
some one else than her brother, for at that 
time James Ramsey was only thirteen years 
old. James and Mary Agnew had issue : 

1. James (IV). 

2. Samuel (V). 

3. DAvao. 

4. John. 

5. Andrew. 

6. Jane married James McCreary. 

7. , married Hunter. 

Colonel Agnew's second wife, Martha,. 

died April 13, 1808. 

(III) DAVID AGNEW (born July 17, 
1743), son of James and Rebecca (Scott)' 
Agnew, lived in Antrim township. He mar- 
ried Mary Erwin, and they had issue: 

1. Ann. 

2. James. 

3. John. 

4. David. 

5. Rebecca. 

6. Mary. 

7. Robert (VI). 

8. Samuel. 

9. Martha. 

10. Smith (VII). 

1 1. James (2). 

12. Gibson. 

(IV) JAMES AGNEW (born in 
Adams county, July 31, 1769 — died at Mc- 
Connellsburg, Sept. 9. 1855), son of James 
and Mary (Ramsey) Agnew, was a type of 
the hardy Scotch-Irish pioneers that con- 
quered the wilderness of western Pennsyl- 
vania. After obtaining an education suffi- 
cient to fit him for business, young Agnew 
went to live with his maternal uncle. James 
Ramsev. In Ramsey's service he acquired 



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tlie business habits that made him eminently 
successful in later years. At that time emi- 
gration to the western counties passed 
through the Cove Gap, along the Packer's 
Path, and an active trade was carried on 
between Pittsburgh and the Cumberland Val- 
ley by means of pack horses. On this Path, 
where the town of McConnellsburg now 
stands, seven miles west of Stony Batter. 
Mr. Agnew established a trading post at the 
age of twenty. To his business as a mer- 
chant he afterward added a farm and tan- 
nery, and in a few years he amassed a con- 
siderable fortune. His skill and foresight 
as a merchant were unusual, and to these his 
success was chiefly owing. When the Con- 
estoga wagon took the place of the pack- 
horse, Agnew's store was favorably situated 
for an extensive trade with the wild wagon- 
ers of the Alleghenies, and he found it very 
profitable, but he was such a consistent ad- 
vocate of temperance that, although all the 
stores at that time sold liquor, he banished it 
from his own. When he went to the Big 
Cove it was a wilderness. He lived to see 
great changes, and was active in promoting 
public improvements. The Packer's Path 
gave way to the great State Road, and the 
State Road to the macadamized turnpike; 
and before his death McConnellsburg ceased 
to be on the line of traffic, the State Canals 
and the Pennsylvania Railroad superseding 
the Conestoga wagons. Before his demise 
the new county of Fulton had been detached 
from Bedford, with McConnellsburg as the 
■county seat. He built the stone mansion in 
which he lived as early as 1793. Colonel 
Agnew was originally a member of the .As- 
sociate Reformed Congregation at McCon- 
nellsburg, but when that body united with 
the General Assembly, in 1825, he came cor- 
dially into the Union. At the time of the 
separation, in 1838, he took strong ground 
witli the Old Schoiil. He was for manv 



years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian 
Church at McConnellsburg, and because of 
the hospitality with which clerg\'men of all 
denominations w-ere received and entertained 
by him, his house became known as the 
"Ministers' Hotel." His place in the church 
and prayer meeting was never vacant until 
the illness that ended his life. Colonel Ag- 
new married (first) Mrs. Elizabeth (Finley) 
Ochiltree, ■ of Virginia, a native of "Car- 
roll's Delight." He sought her hand before 
her first marriage, but came too late. She 
became a widow a year later, when he re- 
newed his suit and was accepted. James 
and Elizabeth Agnew had issue: 

1. James Finley. 

2. John Robison (born at McCon- 
nellsburg, Pa., June 8, 1810 — died at War- 
ren, Feb. 3, 1888), was graduated at Dickin- 
son College, and afterward studied one year 
at LTnion Theological Seminary, Prince Ed- 
ward, Va., and one year at Princeton. He 
was licensed to preach the Gospel by the 
Presbytery of East Hanover, in 1834. His 
first service was that of a missionary to the 
Choctaw Indians on Red River, near the 
Te.xas border. In 1837 he accepted a pas- 
torate in Venango county. Pa., which failing 
health compelled him to relinquish in 1864. 
He subsequently held such positions as agent 
for Lafayette College, agent of the Board of 
Colportage at Pittsburgh, agent of Lincoln 
L'niversity, professor in Steubenville Female 
Seminary, and Chaplain of the Missouri 
Penitentiary. While Professor of Astron- 
omy at Steubenville he invented an ingenious 
set of sectional globes. In 1872 he settled at 
Greencastle, Pa., where he lived during the 
rest of his life, and whither his remains 
were brought for interment in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery. Mr. Agnew married his cousin, 
Harriet J. Agnew, youngest daughter of Dr. 
Samuel Agnew, of Ilarrisburg, and they had 
issue, one daughter, Jane. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, 



3. David CVIII). 

4. William died young. 

5. Samuel. 

6. Sarah married James Patterson. 

7. Elizabeth married James AI. 
Brown (born 1805 — died Jan. 27, 1872), of 
Brown's Mill. 

8. Mary died unmarried. 
Colonel Agnew married (second) Airs. 

Rebecca (Patterson) Scott (born in Lan- 
caster county — died at McConnellsburg, 
Jan. 27, 1827), daughter of Arthur Patter- 
son, and widow of James Scott, of Gettys- 
burg. Her father was the son of James, and 
the grandson of Arthur Patterson, of 
Donegal. 

(V) SAMUEL AGNEW (born near 
Fairfield, Adams county, Aug. 10, 1777 — 
died at Harrisburg, Nov. 23, 1849), son of 
James and Mary (Ramsey ) Agnew, was a 
distinguished physician. He received his pre- 
paratory education under the Rev. Alexan- 
der Dobbin, at Gettysburg, and was gradu- 
ated at Dickinson College, in 1798. He stud- 
ied medicine under Dr. John McClellan, at 
Greencastle, and received the degree of M. 
D. from the Aledical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1800. He began 
the practice of his profession at Gettysburg, 
but removed to Harrisburg in 1807. During 
the war of 1812, he served as surgeon with 
the army. He acquired a large and lucrative 
practice and rose to unusual eminence in his 
profession. "If I had an only son danger- 
ously ill," said Prof. Samuel Jackson, of 
Philadelphia, "there is no physician between 
Philadelphia and New Orleans whose serv- 
ices I would sooner have than Dr. Agnew." 
His paper on the "Intermittents of the Sus- 
quehanna Region" is one of great merit, and 
attracted wide attention. Dr. Agnew was 
for fifteen years a ruling elder in the First 
Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg. Dr. 
Agnew married in 1803, Jane Grier, daugh- 



429. 

ter of John Grier, killed by the Indians in 
Beaver county. Mrs. Grier was a Holmes of 
tlie Holmes family of Carlisle. Samuel 
and Jane Agnew had issue : 

1- Joji.v Holmes (born at Gettysburg,. 
May 9, 1804— died at Peekskill, N. Y., Oct. 
II, 1865) was graduated at Dickinson Col- 
lege and at tiie Princeton Theological Sem- 
mary. He was licensed by the Presbytery of 
Carlisle, in 1827. He was pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Uniontown for a 
brief period, and was afterward Professor- 
of Languages in Washington College, Pa. ; 
the Reformed Institution at Y'ork ; in Marion 
College, AIo. : in Newark College, Del. ; and 
the University of Michigan. Later he con- 
ducted the Maplewood Female Seminary, 
Pittsfield, Mass., and was editor of the 
"Eclectic Magazine" and the "Biblical Re- 
pertory." He received the degree of D. D. 
from Washington College in 1852. Dr.- 
Agnew married May 15, 1829. Sarah E. 
Taylor, daughter of John Tavlor, of New- 
ark, N. J. 

2. James C. 

3. AIary Ann. 

4- H.A.RRIET J. married John R. Agnew. . 
(VI) ROBERT AGNEW^ son of 

David and Alary (Erwin) Agnew, was a 
physician of Sadsburg township, Lancaster 
county. He was a member of the State 
Legislature, 1828-29. Dr. Agnew mar- 
ried Agnes Henderson, widow of the 
Rev. Ebenezer Henderson and they had' 
issue : 

I. David Hayes (born in Lancaster 
county, in 1818 — died March 22, 1888), 
was educated at Moscow Academy and at 
Jefferson and Newark Colleges. He began 
the practice of his profession at Upton, 
Franklin county, but subsequently removed 
to Philadelphia, where he took high rank 
as a physician and surgeon. He lectured in 
the Philadelphia Sdiool of Anatomy, and" 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



established the Scliool of Operative Surgery. 
In 1854 he was chosen one of the physicians 
of the Philadelphia Hospital, and founded 
its Pathological Museum. In 1863 he be- 
came Demonstrator of Anatomy in the 
Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and in 1870 he was chosen to 
fill the chair of Operative Surgery. 

(VII) SMITH AGNEW, son of David 
and Mary (Erwin) Agnew, married Maria 
Mayes, and they had issue: 

I. Benjamin Lashells (born at 
Apollo, Armstrong county, Oct. 2, 1833), 
was graduated at Washington College in 
1854, and at the Western Theological Semin- 
ary in 1857. He was pastor of the Presby- 
terian Church of Johnston, 1858-67: of the 
Westminster Church, Philadelphia, 1868-70; 
of the North Church, Philadelphia, 1870-82: 
and of East Liberty Church, Pittsburgh, 
1882. 

(VIII) DAVID AGNEW (born at 
McConnellsburg — died in 1893), son of Col. 
James and Elizabeth (Finley) .Agnew, was 
a farmer in Fulton county ; later he removed 
to Lancaster county, where he was also en- 
gaged in farming. In 1866, he came to 
Mercersburg. Mr. .Agnew married Rebecca 
Sample, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel W. 
Sample, of Strasburg, Lancaster county. Dr. 
Sample, a son of the Rev. Nathaniel W. and 
Elizabeth (Cowan) Sample, studied medi- 
cine with Dr. DufSeld. His children were 
Walton Newton ; Nathaniel Samuel : Eliza- 
beth married Dr. E. Duffield : Harriet mar- 
ried Capt. David Leach, killed at Peters- 
burg; and Rebecca married David Agnew. 
David and Rebecca Agnew had issue : 

1. James (IX). 

2. N.iiTHANIEL. 

3. W'lLLIAM C. 

(IX) JAMES AGNEW (born in Ful- 
ton county. May 6, 1841), son of David and 
Rebecca (Sample) Agnew, was educated 



in the public schools of McConnellsburg, 
and the Academies at Strasburg and Mount 
Joy, Lancaster county. After leaving school 
he began farming, but Oct. 3, 1862 at Phila- 
delphia, he enlisted in Company K, 15th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry ; he was promoted to 
be corporal, March i, 1863, and sergeant, 
May 15, 1863. His regiment was assigned 
to the Army of the Cumberland under Gen. 
Rosecrans, participating in the battle of 
Stone River, the campaign of 1863 to Chatta- 
nooga, thence to Chickamauga, and back 
again to Chattanooga. Under the command 
of Gen. George H. Thomas he took part in 
the battles of Lookout Mountain, and Mis- I 
sionary Ridge. His regiment was then as- 
signed to Sherman's Army, for the Georgia 
campaign, including Atlanta. They then 
proceeded to Decatur, Ala., and joined in 
the pursuit after Johnston's army, and also 
after Jefferson Davis. Mr. .\gnew was mus-- 
tered out with the company at Nashville, 
Tenn., June 21, 1865. He then returned to 
Lancaster county and came to Mercersburg 
with his father in 1866, where he was en- 
gaged in farming for twenty years. In poli- 
tics he has always been a Republican, and 
he worked for that party in the Fremont 
campaign, although then under age. He 
was appointed postmaster of Mercersburg by 
President McKinley in June, 1898, and was 
re-appointed by President Roosevelt in June, 
1903. He served as a school director for 
six years, and has also served as assessor of 
Montgomery township. He is a member of 
the Mercersburg Post, G. A. R. and he is a 
deacon in the Mercersburg Presbyterian 
Church. 

Mr. Agnew married, Dec. 21. 1865, Har- 
riet E. Rhea, daughter of John L. and Maria 
(Rankin) Rhea. They have issue : 

I. John Riiea, born Feb. 19, 1867, 
married Nettie Ha}-, of Newcastle, Pennsyl- 
vania. 



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Rebecca Sample, bom Dec. 6, 



OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



431 



3. Harriet Witherow, horn I-'eh. u 
1872, married Thomas C. McDowell. 

4- David Finley, born Oct. 4, 1878. 

5- James Kenworthy, born Oct. 20, 
1881, died Dec. 10, 1884. 



JAMES MARSHALL MAIN, one of 
tlie suh.stantial farmers and very higlily re- 
spected citizens of Southampton townsliip, 
Franklin Co., Pa., was horn Oct. 13, 1836, 
in Cumljerland county, tliis State, a son of 
William M. and Sarah H. (Patterson) 
Main. 

(I) MARSHALL MAIN, the grand- 
father of James Marshall Main, was born in 
Scotland, and when he emigrated to Amer- 
ica settled on the farms now owned by his 
grandchildren. He bought some 800 acres 
of land from the Government, which is still 
in the possession of the family, divided into 
four farms. He died at the age of si.xty 
years. He was a member of the Presbyte- 
rian Church. The father of our subject was 
the oldest of his children, and the others were 
formerly residents of the county. 

(II) WILLIAM M. MAIN followed an 
agricultural life and died Sept. 27, 1882, in 
the house now occupied by James Marshall 
Main, aged seventy-two years. He was an 
elder in the Llnited Presbyterian Church of 
Newville. He married Sarah H. Patterson, 
daughter of Obediah Patterson, of an old 
and honored family of this section, and she 
died Aug. 15. 1881, aged seventy-eight 
years, two months, nineteen days. They had 
a family of three children. 

I- James M. (III). 

2. Ann Mary is a resident of New- 
ville. 

3- Sarah PL, who died in March, 
1904. vvas also a resident of Newville. 



(HI) J.KMES M. MAIN was reared on 
the tarm and was educated in the local dis- 
trict school, and at Carlisle. After the clos- 
"ig "t his school days he conducted a store 
which his father opened for him at Mains- 
ville, where he also erected many dwellings 
and busine.ss houses. The town of Mains- 
ville was named in honor of this family. Our 
subject continued in the store from June 
1866, until a month before his father's death' 
when he sold out and came to the farm where 
he now resides, consisting of 136 acres of 
very fine land. Mr. Main owns also timber 
land on the mountain, and residence prop- 
erty in Mainsville. 

Mr. Main married Anna M., daughter of 
fhomas and Catherine (Ryan) Sil.bet, the 
former a native of the North of Ireland and 
the latter of Cumberland county, a dauo-h- 
ter of Timothy and Rachel (Williamson) 
Ryan, natives of Ireland. The family be- 
longs to the Presbyterian Church. In poli- 
tics Mr. Main is a strong Republican. Mr. 
and Mrs. Main have three sons : 

I- William Thomas. 

2. W^ILSON L. 

3- Harper P. 

4- Sarah Roberta died at the age of 
ten years. 

Two children died in infancy. 
The sons conduct a dairv farm which is 
regar.led as a model in its line in the 
county. They keep Jersey cows and pro- 
duce a fine grade of butter which com- 
mands the highest market price. The 
accommodations for their cattle are first- 
class and sanitary, while all the dairy equip- 
ments are of modern construction, insuring 
absolute cleanliness. They are all fine busi- 
ness men, industrious and intelligent, and 
reflect credit not only upon their home train- 
ing, but upon the community, and worthily 
uphold an old and honorable name in this 
section. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRAXKLLX COUNT Y. 

TOSEPH J OLLER, one of the leading tered the firm, beu.g one of the original n. 

ctizens ofwaynesboro president of the corporators of the Ge.er Manufacturmg 

citizens oi w-^y ' A.r^^^uvev nl the Company, successors to Geiser, Price & Co., 

Bank of Waynesboro ^^J^'^j\^ ,„, 'J,,,, ^,, secretary and treasurer of 

Geiser ^a- --ring Com^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^_ ,,,,„ ,, ,.,, 
March 2, i8,„ on a farm ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^.^.^^ .^^^^^ ^^^^,^.^ 1,,, 

T^'bF^Ole: Ti; father was one of the for about ten years. In x88. he retire 

Jacob F. Oiler, ine ^^\ ^ from the office of treasurer, being succeeded 

-''r^Zlr:^^^^^on by Joseph J. Oiler, and had been elected 

^as b°™ J^"- ;' J -'; ^3„„„f Joseph president of the company, but resigned be- 

township, Frankhn ^o-' P^^" ^;°' ;' \^ f^,.^ ^,,,i^ a year. Mr. Oiler was one of 

and Rebecca /f -^^/^ ;> "^p " ,e- the organizers of the People's National Bank 

Maryland and Franklin count), i a.. ^^_ ^^^^^.,,,,^oro. and was a member of its 

specti^vely ^^^^^.^ ^^^^ ,^,^^^^^1 „, j^-ectors, and was also one of 

(I) JOSEPH OLLLR^^ as the organizers of the Bank of Waynesboro, 
and worked at his ^-^e ". ear^ • bn .^^ . ^ ^^^^ .^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ .^^^^^^ 

followed farming ^^f -■ J^J™! so until his death, being succeeded by his 

wife were born the following childien. ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^.^^^^^^^ 

;• r.r F'rh:r-of our subiect (11). member of the German Baptist Church, of 
- JA^"**"-' which he was bishop. 

Joseph A., deceased ^ ^^^^^_ ^^^^^^^.^j_ j^,,^ ,q^ ^848, 

DANiE., of WaynesW ^^.^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ j^^^, 3„, Susan 

Abraham, of Waynesboro. (Hollincer) Bonebrake, and their children 

Samuel, of Waynesboro. ( noinn 

■ 1 Tnc^iph Buro-er of were as follows : 
7. Susan married Josiah Burner. ^ R.p.rrA 

Wavnesboro. . 

8 Rebecca, deceased, married Rev. 
Joseph Wentz, of Franklin county. 

(II) J \COB F. OLLER received his 

education in the common schools, and 
worked upon the farm until he was twenty 
years of age, when for a short time he 
tau-ht school during the winter, and con- 
tinued his fam. work during the summen 
Later he clerked in a dry-goods store, and 



3- 
4- 

5- 
6. 



1. Rebecca married C. C. Stull. 

2. Susan married Joseph E. Roher. 

3. Joseph J. (HI). 

4. Jesse R., a sketch of whom appears 

elsewhere. 

5. Anna married S. E. Dubbal. 

6. May married D. IsL Wertz. 

7. John B. 
Mr. Oiler died in 1897, and is deeply 

mourned bv a wide circle of admiring 

Later he clerked in a ^O'-goo^s stoie <.- ,,.|,iie i„ his home circle his place can 

following that engaged in general mere an fnend.^.^ ^^^^^^ 

dising in Waynesboro, m ^°"^P^';> .jj^. yOSEPH T- OLLER was seven 

John Phillips, thus continuing ^o -° > ; J^ J ^^ ,,,en his parents moved to 

At that time he sold his interest m the us. > e . ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^. ^^^. 

ness, and returned to the farm, and ned ^-" ' ,^^^^- ^e received his edu- 

there for ten years, farming --- ^^^ ^^ J \ ; .^ common schools and several 
He then again engaged ma general re _ - _^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ neighborhoods 

cUse business with success, m Q-" > J^^) . ,^ ,.^,i,,d. and at the age of twelve 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



433 



Co., and served an apprenticesliip di tlirec 
years, for his father believed in giving his 
sons trades. He then spent a year and a 
half under instruction at the I'rick shops. 
In 1875 ^^ was given the advantage of a 
course at the Baltimore Commercial College. 
Returning to Pennsylvania, he settled in 
Waynesboro, and worked at his trade for a 
time, and then entered the office f>f the Geiser 
Manufacturing Company as assistant book- 
keeper, and was later made assistant treas- 
urer of the company. Later he became 
treasurer and general manager, the latter 
place being created for him. Mr. Oiler was 
one of the incorporators of the People's Na- 
tional Bank of Waynesboro, and a director 
of the same, but later withdrew, and suc- 
ceeded his father to the presidency of the 
Bank of Waynesboro. Mr. Oiler is one of 
the sterling, substantial business men and 
financiers of Waynesboro, and is closely iden- 
tified with the best interests of the city's pros- 
perity. He was one of twenty that built the 
C. G. & W. Street Railway. Although 
deeply engaged in business affairs, he always 
lends his aid to measures he deems will prove 
beneficial to the general advancement of the 
city, and is just what his father was, a lib- 
eral-minded, public-spirited business man 
and genial gentleman, who carefully weighs 
all measures, and acts upon them in a con- 
servative and wise manner. 

Mr. Oiler was married to Miss Myrtle 
Funk, the accomplished daughter of H. C. 
and Rebecca Funk, of Waynesboro. The 
children bom to Mr. and Mrs. Oiler are as 
follows : 

1. Rello. 

2. J. F. 

3. J. EZR.\. 

Mr. Oiler has long been an honored mem- 
ber of the German Baptist Church, toward 
whose support he is a most liberal contribu- 
tor. Politically he is a Republican. His 

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remarkable success is the result of hard work 
and close attention to business, together with 
his natural good judgment. 

SAMUEL B. HAVERSTICK, one of 
the best known citizens of Waynesboro, Pa., 
member of the city council, and foreman 
of the boiler department of the Geiser Mfg. 
Co., of that city, was born Feb. 2, 1852, 
at Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pa., and is a 
son of David and Eliza (Cropp) Haver- 
stick. 

The education of Mr. Haverstick was 
acquired in the public schools of his native 
place, and he was only a lad when his father 
and brother Benjamin enlisted in Company 
.\, /th Pennsylvania Reserves, at Camp 
Pierpont. His father was killed in the seven 
days fight at the Peninsula, leaving Samuel 
B. a boy of eleven to care for his mother 
and three sisters. In 1865 he began to work 
at the J. & D. Rhodes warehouse, Carlisle, 
unloading freight of all descriptions, and in 
1868, when this firm started an individual 
coal train, he was appointed conductor of 
it, and hauled away the first coal shipped 
from Lykens Valley Breaker Xo. 2, at Wil- 
liamstown. In 1869 the company promoted 
him, and he had a run from Carlisle to Phila- 
delphia, making two trips a week. In Janu- 
ary, 1870, he entered the employ of the 
South Mountain Iron Co. as front brake- 
man, and upon Feb. 2, of the same year, 
he was promoted to be rear brakeman ; on 
Jan. 3, 1 87 1, he was made conductor, a posi- 
tion he held until January, 1875, when he 
became a locomotive engineer. The follow- 
ing year Re resigned from railroad life, when 
Jay Cook, who owned the railroad, failed, 
and for two years resided in Buchanan Val- 
ley, Adams county, after which he located 
in Waynesboro, and began to work for the 
late George Frick, at the old lx)iler shops 
on Broad street. When a change was made 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



to the new shops he went with the company 
to the west end, and remained with it untd 
Dec. 31, 1892. 

On Jan. i, 1893, Mr. Haverstick was ap- 
pointed doorkeeper of the House of Repre- 
sentatives of Pennsylvania, and served as 
such through that session of the Legislature, 
and was then employed at the Coatesville 
Boiler Works in the laying out department 
until his return to Waynesboro, April 15, 
1894, when he was appointed foreman of the 
boiler department of the Geiser Mfg. Co. 
On Jan. i, 1895. he was appointed assistant 
postmaster of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives at Harrisburg, and served 
as such throughout the session. Further 
honors were in store for him, as on Feb. 17, 
1903, he was elected to the town council 
from' the First Ward, which ofifice he is still 
ably holding. He was elected president of 
the council March 6, 1905. 

Mr. Haverstick was made a Mason in 
St John's Lodge, No. 260, Carlisle, but 
when Acacia Lodge. No. 586, was established 
in Waynesboro, he became a member of that 
bodv. He is also a member of the Citizens 
Corps, G. A. R. In politics he is a Republi- 
can, and has been a member of the Republi- 
can' committee for six years in succession. 
In October, 1870, Mr. Haverstick mar- 
ried Mary Agnes, daughter of George and 
Mary (Strausbaugh) Cole, the latter a 
daughter of George and Elizabeth Straus- 
baugh: Mr. Cole came to this country from 
Hesle-Darmstadt, Germany, settling in 
Chambersburg, Pa., in 1840, and remaining 
there until he removed to Buchanan Valley, 
Adams Co.. Pa. Mrs. Haverstick is one 
of the leading workers in St. Andrew's R. C. 
Church at Waynesboro, being sacristianam 
member of the altar society of the B. N. M. 
Sodality and of the Apostleship of Prayer. 
She was also appointed, by Rev. J. P- Mc- 
Dermott, to represent that parish in the 



Waynesboro Relief Association. She helped 
to reorganize the choir and for fifteen years 
was alto singer, anil all of her life she has 
been a very earnest church worker. To the 
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Haverstick were 
born children as follows: 

1. Iv.\ B., born Nov. 6, 1872. married 
H. W. Ottenberger of AWiynesboro ; issue: 
Paul liastings, born Dec. 20, 1893; Esther 
Gladys, April 14, 1895; Marie Frances, July 
I. 1896 (died the same day) : Frances Grace, 
June 26, 1897 (died Jan. 16. 1900) : Joseph, 
twin brother (died July 10. 1897) ; Kate, 
Feb. 2. 1899; Samuel Ray, Sept. 8, 1900 
(died April 23, 1901). 

2. Je.\n Cole, born Feb. 5. 1876. mar- 
ried Martin L. Wyand, of Waynesboro ; is- 
sue : Martin Eugene, born May 21, 1900 
(died May 23, 1900) ; Alargaret Irene, born 
Aug. 2, 1902 

Mr. Haverstick is one of the leading men 
of Waynesboro, having worked up into his 
present position through untiring industry 
and the exercise of natural ability. Among 
his business associates and friends he is well 
liked and very highly respected, and he and 
his family occupy a leading position, and 
one worthv of them. 



JACOB S. LEHMAN, of Stauflferstown, 
Guilford township. Franklin county, a bishop 
of the Reformed Mennonite Church, and a 
man well-known, was born in the township, 
near New Franklin. Jan. 22. 1833. son of 
Jacob and Mary (Stauffer) Lehman, now 
deceased. The originator of the Lehman 
familv in this country is supposed to have 
Ijeen a man of German birth and emigrating, 
became one of the very early settlers of Lan- 
caster countv. Pennsylvania. 

(I) JACOB LEHMAN, grandfather 
of Tacob S.. was born in Lancaster county, 
in T762. and died in t834. I" 1804 be came 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIN COUNTY. 



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of a blacksmith in connection with farming 
for many years. He was the father of a 
large family : 

1. John. 

2. Christian. 

3. Jacob (II). 

4. Samuel. 

5. Daniel. 

6. Mrs. A. Guyer. 

7. Mrs. A. Strock. 

S. Mrs. a. Drollinger. 
9. Mrs. B. Shefler. 

(II) JACOB LEHMAN, the father of 
Jacob S., was born in Elizabeth township. 
Lancaster county, in 1802. and died at his 
home in Guilford township, Franklin county, 
in 1 88 1. He was but two years of age 
when he was brought to Franklin county, and 
he grew up on the farm, following farming 
all his life. About 1828, he married Mary 
Stauffer, of Guilford township, and their 
children were : 

1. John, born Jan. 22. 1829. 

2. Daniel, born May 27, 1830. 

3. M.\Rv, born jMarch 30, 1833. 

4- Jacob S. (Ill), born Jan. 22, 1835. 

5. Christopher, born Jan. 14. 1837. 

6. Benjamin, born Feb. 17, 1839. 

7. Abraham, born March 17, 1841. 

8. Le.jlh S.. born Feb. 22. 1844. 
Jacob Lehman was one of the successful 

and honorable farmers of his township. In 
early life he was a Whig, and later he be- 
came a Republican. He was liberal in his 
religious views. 

(III) JACOB S. LEHMAN, was 
reared to a farm life, and attended the pub- 
lic schools, and after finishing his course in 
them, he went to Mt. Morris Seminary. 
Later he returned to Franklin county, and 
for nine years he was a successful and popu- 
lar teacher. He later became interested in 
farming in Guilford township, and for about 
twenty years was a farmer, when he retired 



to Staufferstown. In 1858 he became a mem- 
ber of the Reformed Mennonite Church, 
was chosen a minister of the same in 1861, 
and elected an elder in 1873. Since then 
he has devoted himself to his ministerial 
duties. 

In 1869 Mr. Lehman married Miss Mary 
R. Stauffer, of Staufferstown, Pa., a daugh- 
ter of Jacob Stauffer, who was a leading 
farmer of Guilford township. Jacob Stauf- 
fer, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Leh- 
man, was born in Lancaster county, and came 
to Franklin county, where he became a large 
landowner, and miller of the township. The 
paternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Lehman 
was Abraham Stauffer, who was also born 
in Lancaster county, where he was \ery 
prominent in the early days of that locality. 
Mr. and Mrs. Lehman had children as fol- 
lows : 

1. Ezra. 

2. Frank. 

3. Margaret. 

4. Mamie (deceased). 

The Lehman and Stauffer families are 
among the best known of Lancaster and 
Franklin counties, and their representatives 
are numbered with the leading men and 
women of both counties. 

REFORMED MENNONITE 

CHURCH. HisTORV : .As the result of the 
union of Church and State about the be- 
ginning of the fourth century, there was a 
loss of spirituality in the Church, and the 
dominant part of it conformed to the world 
so that the evidence of the divine endow- 
ment of the Holy Spirit, so characteristic 
during the Apostolic Age, was wanting. But 
a band of faithful believers separated from 
the fallen Church and from its worship, op- 
posed its innovations and corruptions, and 
though cruelly persecuted by the professed 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



436 

part of the seventeenth century, they yet 
maintained their existence, and were called 
Waldenses, Albigenses, Anabaptists, &c. 

In 1524 Menno Simon was ordained a 
priest in the Roman Catholic Church, but, 
being convinced of his error, and of the 
fallen state of the Church, he abandoned 
that faith, and espoused the cause of the 
(so-called) Anabaptists, by whom he was 
baptized, and through the solicitations of his 
brethren, and from an ardent desire for the 
salvation of souls, he yielded himself to the 
calling of the ministry. His labors pros- 
pered, notwithstanding violent persecution. 
and, on account of his zeal and influence, 
his followers in many places were called 
Mcnnonitcs. After persecution abated, there 
was a manifest tendency to a spiritual de- 
cline, even among those who professed to 
follow the teachings and practice of Menno. 
The decline was so prevalent that in the 
early part of the nineteenth century a num- 
ber of devout persons of Lancaster county, 
Pennsylvania, organized into church fellow- 
ship. Being in agreement wath the doctrine 
taught by INIenno. they assumed the name 
of Reformed Mennonite to distinguish them 
from those who bore the name Mennonite, 
but whom they regarded as having departed 
from the doctrine taught by Menno. There 
are organized churches in Montgomery, Lan- 
caster, Dauphin, Cumberland and Franklin 
counties, Pa., Baltimore county, Maryland, 
in a number of counties in Ohio, Indiana, 
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and in different 
places in Ontario. 

Doctrine: The Reformed Mennonites 
emphasize the necessity of a manifestation of 
the fruits of redemption wrought by Christ. 
They believe that man was created to be in 
social accord, and although this principle 
was disturbed through the fall, yet it was 
restored through the redemption by the Holy 
Spirit to all who receive Christ, and that 



such are united by the bonds of Christian 
charity. As this principle of unity pervades 
the teaching of Christ and his Apostles, it 
condemns the divisions prevalent among the 
professed followers of Christ, hence they 
maintain that there can be but one visible 
Church, separated in worship from all who 
defend the right of divisions, or who other- 
wise are not in accord with the doctrine of 
Christ and his Apostles. 

They maintain that the Church of Christ 
originated with the outpouring of the Holy 
Spirit on the day of Pentecost, when three 
thousand persons were made "of one heart 
and of one soul." They recognize the New 
Testament as the true text book for the 
church, and the Holy Spirit as the safe in- 
terpreter of it. hence they do not regard ad- 
vanced human learning as an indispensable 
qualification for the successful interpreta- 
tion and preaching of the Gospel. They in- 
sist that regeneration is a necessity, and that 
it is mysteriously wrought by the Holy Spirit 
in all who yield to its gracious influence. It 
is characterized by a holy faith, separation 
from sin, and from the spirit of the world, 
and by a faithful obedience to the com- 
mands of Christ, and it should be manifest 
in the lives of those professing godliness. 
One of its fruits is peace in the heart, in 
the family, and with all men ; the loving of 
enemies — "rendering evil for evil to no 
man." Another fruit is purity— the keeping 
of the heart from sin. and the helping of 
one's fellow believers to do the same. 

The Reformed Mennonites are non-resi- 
stant. They do not vote nor hold office, nor 
serve as jurors; neither do they sue at the 
law in defense of person or property. They 
do not serve the government in any position, 
but conscientiously pay taxes and other 
charges demanded by the government. Ever)' 
member recognizes a solemn obligation of 
non-conformitv to the world in its fashion? 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIN COUNTY. 



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and amusements and vain displays, and to 
avoid all manner of sin, and "keep himself 
unspotted from the world." Members who 
lapse into sin and persist in it are separatee', 
fruni the Church, and placed under the ban 
in their relation to church fellowship, secular 
dealings and customary social intercourse, 
and this without respect of person or regard 
to social relations. This ban is enforced for 
the spiritual reformation and restoration of 
those who have fallen from grace, and to 
maintain the purity of the Church. 

Ordixaxces : They regard ordinances 
as testimonials expressive of a saved state 
by faith in Christ, and not as having saving 
virtues. They reject infant baptism as hav- 
ing no foundation in the Scriptures, and ad- 
minister baptism upon such as have come to 
a knowledge of the saving faith through 
repentance and conversion. As the ordi- 
nances do not in themselves possess any 
saving virtue, so there is no specific mode 
of administration given in the New Testa- 
ment. As water baptism is but an outward 
expression of the baptism by the Spirit which 
should precede it, and as the baptisms by 
the Holy Spirit are comrrionly expressed by 
pouring, so the Reformed Mennonites have 
adopted the mode of pouring, though they 
do not ci.mdemn other modes. They, how- 
ever, make a distinction between the bap- 

' tism administered by John the Baptist and 

; that enjoined by Christ upon his followers. 
John's baptism was a testimony to repent- 
ance, foreshadowing the same, and was an 
act of righteousness because it was an act 
of obedience: while the baptism enjoined 

'' by Christ expresses a union with God and 
his Son, and fellowship with the Holy Spirit, 

« indicating adoption as heirs of the everlast- 

- ing inheritance. 

Since the Communion, or Lord's Supper, 
is an expression of the love and unity of the 

I- Church and is commemorative of the sacri- 



ficial offering of Christ through his death 
upon the Cross, no body of worshippers can 
consistently partake of it who do not stand 
in the power of his death, and who are not 
united in faith and doctrine. Neither can 
it be administered to those members who do 
not stand in mutual love and confidence, nor 
to any who do not live Christian lives. It 
sliould ever inspire all sincere partakers wit!; 
a willing obedience to all Gospel precepts. 

Feet Washing is observed as a command 
of Christ, and is expressive of the need ot 
daily spiritual washing through the interces- 
sion of Christ. It indicates the duty of 
brotherly love in serving each other in things 
pertaining to their temporal and spiritual 
well being. 

The Kiss of Charity is practiced as a 
social salutation expressive of mutual love 
and confidence, and the very nature of the 
])ractice demands the actual presence of these 
\-irtues, and their maintenance inviolable.* 

:\IILTON J. SLICK, a well known and 
popular justice of the peace of Mercersburg, 
is a son of James Slick, a native of Mary- 
land, and comes of an old family of that 
State. 

d) JAMES SLICK was a miller by 
trade. He died at the early age of thirty- 
three years, near Leitersburg, Washington 
Co., Md., and was buried at Taneytown, 
Carroll Co., I\Id. He married Mary Ann 
Haugh, daughter of Paul Haugh, a farmer 
of Carroll county, Md. Mrs. Slick died at 
Leitersburg, Md., Dec. 2, 1904, aged eighty- 
nine years, ten months and three days. 
Three children were born to this union : 

I. M.\RTH.\, born in August, 1837, 
married Daniel Durboraw, a farmer near 



*The article of the Reformed Mennonite Church 
was written by Jacob S. Lehman, born in Guilford 
township, Franklin Co., Pa., in 18.S.5, ordained to the 
ministry ISHl, ordained a bishop about 1873. 



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Leitersburg, where they still live, and they 
have two children: Mamie married Dr. J. 
W. Wishard, of Leitersburg, and has two 
children, Mary and Walter, both living in 
Maryland; Emma, born in the early 
seventies, married Jacob A. Strite. a lawyer 
of Chambersburg, and has three children, 
Edwin, Albert, and an infant. 

2. Emma, born near Leitersburg, Dec. 
2, 1842, married John Nye (no issue), and 
she died in Mercersburg July 2, 1864. 

3. Milton J. (H). 
(II) MILTON J. SLICK was born 

May I, 1844, in Leitersburg, Md., was edu- 
cated in the common schools of his native 
town, and grew to manhood, making his way 
in life as best he could, under the guidance 
of a good mother. When he was sixteen he 
began working upon a farm, and at anythmg 
else he could find to do. Later he went to 
Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pa., to learn 
the printer's trade under William Blair, who 
established the r'illagc Record, one of the 
oldest of the county papers. He was there 
but a year. In the meantime the printing 
office of Mercersburg was sold and our sub- 
ject managed to buy half an interest in the 
business. Later, in September, 1863, he pur- 
chased the interest of his partner. J. F. Cum- 
mings, who on Jan. i, 1864. enlisted, leaving 
his business in the hands of Mr. Slick, who 
continued it until the burning of Chambers- 
burg, in July, 1864. when he closed the 
printing office and enlisted in Company A. 
17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was with 
Sheridan in his campaign in the Shenandoah. 
He was with the army until the close of 
the war, and was present at Sheridan's 
famous ride from Winchester to Cedar 
Creek, as one of the general's escort, and he 
also took ])art in many other battles. He 
was fortunate enough to escape being 
wounded. In the spring of 1866 Mr. Slick 
returned to Mercer.sburg. re-opened his print- 



ing office, and conducted it until June i, 

1899. 

Milton J. Slick married Dec. i, 1865, 
Alice Garlinger, daughter of Horatio Gar- 
linger, of Leitersburg; they had no children. 
In March, 1873, he was honored by elec- 
tion as justice of the peace, which office he 
has held continuously ever since, giving the 
most entire satisfaction to all. Many of 
his decisions have served as precedents in the 
higher courts, and he is admitted to be a 
wise, calm, just judge, and one who always 
carefully considers all the points in the cases 
brought up before him. Judge Slick was 
elected under the old constitution. He is a 
Republican in politics, and has always taken 
a very active part in party affairs, being a 
prominent factor. In religious matters he 
is a consistent member of the Reformed 
Church, toward the support of which he 
contributes very liberally. For twenty-five 
years he served as secretary of the town 
council, and for thirty years he was clerk 
of the school board. For thirty-eight years 
he has been an Odd Fellow, and for twenty- 
five consecutive years he was secretary of 
the local Lodge at Mercersburg, Pa., and for 
two years was grand master of that order 
for Franklin county. During about fifteen 
years of his life he has devoted a large por- 



tion of his time clerking sales, and has 
handled about 600 farm sales. 

In every walk of life Mr. Slick has 
proven himself an honorable upright man, a 
true Christian gentleman, a wise and just 
man on the Bench, and a kind friend, both 
in good and evil fortune. The city of Mer- 
cersburg has always found in him a wise 
promoter of all measures calculated to work 
to its betterment, while in the cause of educa- 
tion he has labored long and efficiently. Such 
is the man presented in this l)rief record of 
one of the leading representatives of the best 
interests of Franklin county. Pennsylvania. 



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D. B. STONER, a prosperous retired 
fanner of Guilford township, Franklin 
county, Pa., was born near Waynesboro, 
Pa., on the old Jacob Frantz farm, Jan. 24, 
1842, son of Samuel and Catherine (Bear) 
Stoner, deceased. 

(I) SAMUEL STONER, the gv^nd- 
father, was a native of York county, but 
moved to Cumberland county where he died, 
and is buried. He was a miller by trade. 
His ancestors came originally from Germany, 
and were among the early settlers of York 
county. Originally the name was spelled 
Steiner. The following family was born to 
Samuel : 

Deitrich. 

Anna married Samuel Mellinger. 

Fannie married Jacob Wolf. 

Isaac died in Franklin county. 

John emigrated to Arkansas. 

Samuel (II). 

SA:\IUEL STONER was born in 



I. 
2. 

3- 

4- 

5- 
6. 

(11) 



York county. Pa., in May, 1818. and died in 
Guilford township, near Falling Springs, 
May 14. 1894, where he had lived from 1843. 
About 1840 he married Catherine Bear, 
daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Zeigler) 
Bear, of Cumberland county. Nine children 
were born of this marriage, six of whom 
grew to maturity; 

1. David B. (III). 

2. John K. died at the age of twenty- 
eight years. 

3. Mary married Abraham Strickler, of 
Marion, Pennsylvania. 

4. Sarah B. married Ezra Shoemaker, 
of Guilford township. 

5- Elizabeth, unmarried, residing in 
Guilford township. 

6. Jacob H., of Waynesboro, cashier 
in the bank. 

Samuel Stoner was a member ruid minis- 
ter of the Reformed Mennonite Church for 
over fifty years. He was the second minister 



of that faith in l-'rankliii county, and one of 
the most active leaders in the church. Thirty 
years prior to his death he was made a 
bishop, and for many years was the only 
English speaking minister of his faith in the 
surrounding countrv. 

(HI) DAVID B. STONER was only 
a year old when his father brought his fam- 
ily to Franklin county, and located on the 
Falling Spring road, where the lad was 
reared to manhood and received a fair educa- 
tion. He chose farming as his occupation 
in life, and has followed it all his life. On 
Nov. 2. 1871, he married Leah S. Lehman, 
of Guilford township (born Feb. 22, 1844), 
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Stoufifer) Leh- 
man, members of good old families of Guil- 
ford township. They have no children. Mr. 
Stoner followed farming until 1896 when he 
retired and erected a fine home in Stouffers- 
town. one mile from Chambersburg on the 
Falling Spring road. Being reared in a 
strong religious atmosphere, he early became 
a member of the Reformed Mennonite 
Church, and his wife is also connected with 
that body. In it, as throughout the commun- 
ity, they ha\e many warm, personal friends. 

SMITH W. CUNNINGHAM, a mem- 
ber of the firm of Cunningham & Criswell, 
proprietors of the Keystone Steam Laundry, 
Waynesboro, and a member of the Waynes- 
boro council, representing the First ward, 
was born in the First ward May 28, 1864, 
son of Thomas O. and Esther (Wallace) 
Cunningham. 

(I) THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM, 
his grandfather, was a native of the western 
part of Pennsylvania. He married Matilda 
Cooke, and their children were : 

1. Alexander, deceased. • 

2. John, deceased. 

3. Thomas O. (II). 

4. Elizabeth married William Finlcv. 



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5. Grace M. married James Finley, 
brother of William. 

6. Jane (deceased) married Mathew 
Henderson. 

(II) THOMAS O. CUNNINGHAM, 
the father of Smith W., was born June 9, 
1830, in Mercer county, Pa., and came to 
Wa3-nesboro in 1847, prior to his marriage. 
Coming to the city just after he left school, 
he began his business career as a clerk in the 
employ of W. F. Anderson, and later, when 
the house became Anderson, Benedict & Co., 
he was the "Co." This partnership con- 
tinued until 1 88 1, when he went into the 
grocery business, and thus continued until 
1900, when he sold his interests. While in 
the store he was also a notary public, and 
still acts as such. For some years he was a 
member of the borough council, and took 
an active part in the development of Waynes- 
boro. Fraternally he is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity, having joined at Hagers- 
town, Md., but transferred to the Waynes- 
boro lodge. His religious home is in the 
Presbyterian Church, toward which he al- 
ways gives a liberal support. The children 
born to himself and wife are: 

1. Smith W. (III). 

2. T. S., Jr., teller of the People's 
Bank. 

3. J. M. William, president of the 
Ways and Means office of the Philadelphia 
& Erie Railroad Co. 

4. F. C, agent at Geiser station, joint 
station of the Cumberland Valley & Western 
Maryland railroads. 

5. Gr.\ce, at home. 

(III) SMITH W. CUNNINGHAM 
was reared in Waynesboro and was educated 
at the common and high schools, attending 
until he was seventeen years old, when he 
went with the Geiser Mfg. Co. There he 
learned the trade of a machinist, working at 
same for about eight vears, after which 



he had charge of a stock room for about 
seven years. Next he spent a couple of 
years in the O. L. Thompson Chemical 
Works, and in 1901, with F. I. Criswell, he 
established the Keystone Laundry, which is 
one of the best in the city. The business 
transacted by this laundry is a large one, 
and the trade is constantly increasing, new 
patrons being constantly added to the list. 
Mr. Cunningham was elected to the 
council from the First ward in 1901, and 
during his term of service was chairman of 
the Street car and Ordinance committees. 
In 1903 he was again elected, and is serving 
upon the Finance committee. Fraternally 
he is a member of the Order of Elks. In 
religious connection he is a consistent mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church. ]Mr. Cun- 
ningham is very highly respected by a large 
circle of admiring friends, while his business 
associates recognize that he is a man of 
sterling integrity, possessed of unusual 
ability and keen foresight. 

JOHN \^TLLIA]\I HENNEBERGER. 
The Henneberger family name is of Swiss 
origin and the name is still originally pre- 
served in one of the cantons of Switzerland. 
From that country about 1770 there emi- 
grated to America the parent stock of this 
family and settled in Lancaster county. Pa., 
on the banks of the Conestoga creek, near 
the present city of Lancaster. There John 
Henneberger, the father of the subject of this 
sketch, was born Sept. 10. 1781. On reach- 
ing mature years he was seized with the spirit 
of ailventure and crossed the Alleghanies to 
Pittsburgh, where he engaged in carrying 
produce from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. 
Many were the stories of adventure he re- 
lated of his experiences while engaged in that 
business. In addition to the present dangers 
attending the navigation of the Ohio and 
Mississippi rivers they had the Indians to 



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441 



contend with, and close watch had to 1)L' 
kept while they were anchored during the 
night. Becoming tired of this pursuit he re- 
turned to Frankhn county, Pa., and in 181 1 
married Susanna Byer, the widow of Jacob 
Byer, who was born Dec. 20, 1777. Her 
maiden name was Susanna Sheets ; she died 
Sept. 10, 1830. Three children came of this 
imion : 

1. John \Villi.\m. 

2. Isaac. 

3. A son died while young. 

John Henneberger, thougli engaged in 
farming, was also a tailor by trade, and for 
a time kept a hostelr}' along the turnpike 
leading from Waynesboro to Greencastle. 
In 1850 he was stricken with paralysis and 
after lingering for two years died Dec. i, 
1852. 

John William Henneberger was born 
May 31, 1812, near Greencastle, on a farm 
now owned by Peter L. Eshleman. and re- 
sided during his whole life in Franklin 
county, and within a radius of two miles 
from the place of his birth. His occupation 
was that of a farmer. He was frugal, in- 
dustrious and temperate, very domestic -'n 
his habits, which is proved by the fact that 
during his married life of thirty-five years 
Tie spent but one night away from his fam- 
ily. In politics he was a Democrat, but not 
biased in his political views. He never 
sought political honors, nor did he care to 
become conspicuous in any matter, either 
social, political or religious. In 1850 he mar- 
ried Mary Ann Sheely, the daughter of 
Frederick and Catharine Sheely. Catharine 
Sheely was the daughter of John Barnheisel, 
a Revolutionary hero, and one of tiie trophies 
he brought home from the war for Inde- 
pendence was a hat twice pierced by bullets 
from the enemy's guns. He lived to the ripe 
old age of 106 years and his remains lie in- 
terred in the Reformed graveyard at 



Waynesboro, Pa. The issue of John Wil- 
liam Henneberger was : 

1. John C. married Susan Stover, and 
they had children: Annie (married Harvey 
Brewer), Florence and William S. 

2. Jacob O. married Alice Bittner, and 
they had children: Warren B. (graduated 
from JMercersburg Academy, and Pennsyl- 
vania University Veterinary Department), 
Minnie, Grace, Nellie, J. Clark and Pearle. 

3. George F. married Agnes Ovelman, 
and they had children : Frank S. (graduated 
from Mercersburg Academy and Franklin 
and Marshall College), Charles E. (grad- 
uated from Mercersburg Academy), Bessie, 
Ruth, John W.,, and Frederick. 

4. Charles H. died at the age of two 
years. 

5. William A. graduated from Frank- 
lin and Marshall College in 1885. He taught 
in the Seminary at Lamar, Mo., one year, 
and was principal of Boonsboro, Md. schools 
for thirteen years. Fraternally he is a mem- 
ber of Antietam Lodge, No. 197, Maryland, 
A. F. & A. M., and religiously he is a mem- 
ber of the German Reformed Church, being 
baptized in that faith by Re\-. Thomas G. 
Apple, D. D., and confirmed by Rev. John 
Sykes. 

John William Henneberger died Aug. 
28, 1885, highly respected by all who knew 
him on account of the integrity of his char- 
acter. His wife after his death resided with 
her son George F. until Sept. 25, 1904, when 
she passed awa}'. Both were members of the 
German Reformed Church. 

JACOB F. GOOD, one of the well- 
known citizens of Washington township, 
Franklin county, residing at Midvale, was 
born in the old Good homestead, Jan. 31, 
1852. .son of Jacob S. and Maria (Funk) 
Good. 

It is supposed that the ancestor of this 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



family came from Switzerland, near the Ger- 
man line. So far as can now be ascertained, 
three brothers, by the name of Guth (Good) , 
emigrated from Switzerland and settled in 
Lancaster county, Pa. While one remained 
in Lancaster county, the other two removed 
farther West in about 1740, and settled in 
Maryland, close to the Mason and Di.xon 
line, which locations are now known as 
Washington and Garrett counties. The one 
settling in Washington county was CHRIS- 
TIAN (from whom our subject descends). 
Christian Guth and wife reared a family as 
follows : 

1. Christian. 

2. Peter. 

3. Abraham. 

4. Jacob (II). 

5. John. 

6. David. 

7. Elizabeth. 

8. Nancy. 

9. Barbara. 

(II) JACOB GOOD, son of Christian 
the founder of the family in America, re- 
sided near Leitersburg, Washington Co., 
Md., in 1765, and died in 1797. His chil- 
dren were : 

1. John. 

2. Anna married Peter Longenecker. 

3. Elizabeth married Joseph Long. 

4. Barbara married Peter Whitmer. 

5. Catherine married Peter New- 
comer. 

6. Nancy married Christian Hershey. 
• 7. Jacob. 

8. Abr.miam. 

9. Christian (III). 

(III) CHRISTIAN GOOD, born Feb. 
25, 1759, died Dec. 5, 1820. His children 
were as follows : 

1. John married a Miss Summers. 

2. Peter. 

3. Eliz.\betu married Henry G. Funk. 



6. 

7- 



9- 



3- 

4- 

5- 
6. 



N.'\ncy married Peter Newcomer. 

Barbara married Stephen Martin. 

Abraham. 

Jacob. 

Daniel. 

Christian (IV). 

(IV) CHRISTIAN GOOD (born 
Nov. 18, 1783 — died Jan. 2. 1863). Mar- 
ried Elizabeth Stover, and they had issue : 

1. Christiana married Jacob Funk. 

2. Sarah married Samuel Welty. 
Mary died young. 
David M. 
Henry. 
Daniel F. 

7. Jacob S. (V). 

(V) JACOB S. GOOD was born Dec. 
9, 1819, on the farm where his son, our 
subject now resides, at Midvale, Washing- 
ton township. Franklin county. The farm 
house in which he was born, and which still 
stands, was one of the first built in the town- 
ship. He was educated in the old-fashioned 
subscription schools, and later engaged in 
farming, an occupation he continued 
throughout life. He was a prominent man 
of his time, and in 1859 was elected county 
commissioner of Franklin county. In 1845 
he married Maria, daughter of John Funk, 
born July 22, 1821, on the old Funk home- 
stead south of Waynesboro, on the Antietam, 
which is now the "Brookside Farm" owned 
and occupied by her sister, ]Mrs. ,C. B. 
Detrich. She died Aug. 18, 1904. Her 
father was born March 25, 1786, in Wash- 
ington county, Md., and her mother, July 
6, 1787, in Lancaster county Pa. Jacob S. 
Good died March 2^ 1889. His children 



were : 

I. 

.\pril 



Oscar \\'. 
9, 1900. 



irn Oct. 27. 1848, died 



2. Jacob F. (VI). 

(VI) JACOB F. GOOD was reared 

the homestead and was educated in the 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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common schools, the Waynesboro Institute 
and the Millersville Normal School. After 
leaving- school he returned to the home farm, 
took up farming, and so continued until 
1 88 1, in the previous year having embarked 
in a mercantile and warehouse business at 
Midvale, established by his father. In the 
fall of 1880 he became station agent of the 
Western Maryland Railroad, at Midvale, 
and continues to perform the duties of this 
office in connection with his other enter- 
prises. In 1882 when a postoffice was 
established at Midvale, he was the most 
available man, and received the appointment 
as postmaster. 

Mr. Good is a man of means and in- 
fluence. He is one of the directors of the 
People's National Bank of Waynesboro, and 
is a stockholder in various enterprises of the 
same place, and in addition is president of the 
Victor Remedy Company of Frederick City, 
Md., which was incorporated in 1902. for 
the manufacture of a special line of family 
remedies, with a capital of $100,000, and 
an annual business of $25,000. For eighteen 
years he has been actively identified with the 
Sabbatii-school of Harbaugh's Reformed 
Church. 

In 1875 Mr. Good married Mary K. 
Miller (born Aug. 24, 1853, near Sharps- 
burg, Md., — died April 11, 1897), daughter 
of Michael Miller. Her religious member- 
ship was with the Brethren Church. The 
one son of this marriage is : 

I. J. Omar who graduated from tlie 
Waynesboro High School in 1894; gradu- 
ated from Juniata College, and later, from 
Pierce's Commercial College at Philadelphia. 
He is now filling the responsible position of 
assistant to Charles Mann, president and 
manager for the William Mann Company, 
manufacturers of blank books, in Philadel- 
phia. In 1902 he married Mable Hartmann. 
of Philadelphia, a daughter of Mrs. 



Catherine Hartmann, and a granddaughter 
of I. G. Harley, a jirominent wholesale mer- 
chant of Philadelphia. 

The Good family with its connections is- 
one of the leading families in southeastern 
Pennsylvania. 

JACOB WOLFERSBERGER (de- 
ceased) was one of the representative men 
of Waynesboro. Franklin county, and a na- 
tive of the county, h;i\ing been born in about 
1837, and passed away in Waynesboro, in 
1887, a son of Joseph Wolfersberger, of 
Franklin county. 

The late Jacob Wolfersberger came of 
an old German family, and possessed many 
of the excellent (|ualities of that sturdy peo- 
ple. During the Civil war, he fought on the 
side of the Union, and when all strife was 
over, he was an active member of the G. 
A. R. Post at Wayneslioro. In political 
matters he was a Republican, and at all 
times was a prominent and public-spirited 
man. The first wife of Mr. Wolfersberger- 
lx)re the maiden name of Anna Bowden. 
She was a native of Waynesboro, and a 
daughter of Tank Bowden, now deceased. 
One child was born of this union, dead. 

The second wife of Mr. \\'olfersberger- 
was Anna Funk, daughter of Henry and 
Margaret (Good) Funk, granddaughter of 
John Funk. The one child of this union is: 

I. H. I-". Wolfersberger, proprietor 
of the "Central Hotel." 

(I) JOHN FUNK was born in Lan- 
caster county, Pa., and came of Germam 
ancestry. His family was as follows : 

1. Eliz.-v. 

2. Mariah. 

3. Jacob. 

4. John. 

5. Barbara. 

6. Henry (II). 

7. Annie. 



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8. Catherine. 

9. Martha. 

(II) HENRY FUNK (born in 1818— 
died in 1872) married Margaret Good 
(born in 1824 — died in 1890). Their fam- 
ily was as follows : 

1. Amanda, wife of Luther Walter, a 
farmer and dairyman. 

2. Silas, sheriff of Buffalo county, 
Nebraska. 

3. Mattie, wife of Frank Frantz, a 
farmer of Ringgold, Maryland. 

4. A. M., of Philadelphia, engaged as 
a general insurance agent. 

5. Anna, Mrs. Wolfersberger. 

Mrs. Wolfersberger, who is a very 
■estimable lady resides in Waynesboro at the 
family home, where she is highly respected. 
Both her family and that of her husband 
are well known in Franklin county, where 
their representatives have resided for several 
generations, and taken an active part in the 
de\'elopment of this section of country. 

VICTOR B. GOOD, one of the leading 
dry-goods merchants of \Vaynesboro, was 
born near Hagerstown, Washington Co., 
Md., Oct. 10, 1857, son of the late David M. 
Good, Sr., a full sketch of whom appears 
•elsewhere. 

When Victor B. Good was about seven 
years of age his parents removed to Hagers- 
town, and he was eight years old when they 
located in Leitersburg. Md., in which latter 
place he received the greater part of his edu- 
cation. The family finally came to Waynes- 
"boro, where the father resided until his 
death. The life work of Victor B. Good 
was begun as a machinist in George Frick's 
machine shops, this concern now being known 
as the Frick Co., and he there spent twn 
years. He then began clerking in the store 
of Good, Besore S: Unger, Waynesboro, 
Avhere he continued six years. At the expira- 



tion of that time he became associated in t" ^ 
dry-goods business with his brother, D. M. 
Good, Jr., under the firm name of Good 
Bros. On March i, 1903, he purchased his 
brother's interest, and is now sole owner of 
the business, carrying a full line of dry 
goods, and enjoying an extensive trade, be- 
ing regarded as one of the leading merchants 
in his line in the city. 

Mr. Good was united in marriage with 
Annie M., daughter of the late George 
Frick, founder of the Frick Co., and to this 
marriage have been born children as follows : 

1. George Frick. 

2. Frederick Detrich. 

Mr. Good is a consistent member of the 
Lutheran Church, toward which he contrib- 
utes very liberally. Fraternally he is a mem- 
ber of the Order of Elks and the Red Men. 
No man stands any higher in Waynesboro 
than Mr. Good, for he has gained the con- 
fidence of the people by his honorable meth- 
ods of dealing and sterling traits .of char- 
acter, and he has not only made a success 
financially, but also socially. 

HENRY SPANGLER, whose ancestors 
\vere among the early settlers of Mercers- 
burg, is a direct descendant of one of the old- 
est families in the State. The Spangler 
family comes from the German Spenglers, 
and traces its line to George Spengler, cup- 
bearer to the Prince Bishop of the Ecclesias- 
tical Principality of Wurzburg. The Bis- 
hop and his cup-bearer accompanied the Em- 
peror Frederick Barbarossa on his crusade 
to the Holy Land about 1 1 90. The gene- 
alogy runs as follows : 

(I) GEORGE SPENGLER, cup- 
bearer, born in 11 50, died in 1190. 

(II) GEORGE SPENGLER, son of the 
cup-bearer, died in 1230. 

(III) KILLIAN SPENGLER, son of 
George, died in 1 270. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANx\ALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



445. 



(IV) KILLIAN SPENGLER (2), son 
of Killian, died in 1302. 

(V) PETER SPENGLER, son of Kil- 
lian (2). 

(VI) HANS SPENGLER, son of 
Peter. 

(VII) HANS SPENGLER, or Urban 
son of Hans, died in 1527. 

(VIII) GEORGE SPENGLER, son of 
Hans, died in 1496. 

(IX) GEORGE SPENGLER, son of 
George, died in 1529; he was the brother of 
Lazarus Spengler, the coadjutor of Martin 
Luther. 

(X) FRANTZ SPENGLER, son of 
George, born in 1517, died in 1565. 

(XI) LAZARUS SPENGLER, son of 
Frantz, Procurator in Nuremberg, born in 
1552, died in 1618. 

(XII) HANS SPENGLER, son of 
Lazarus, born in 1594, was exiled to Switz- 
erland on account of his Protestant faith. 

(XIII) JACOB SPENGLER, son of 
Hans. 

(XIV) HANS RUDOLPH SPEN- 
GLER, son of Jacob, was the German an- 
cestor of the American branch of the fam- 
ily and his children were : 

I. Johannes, born Sept. 14, 1679. 

Anna Margaret, born March 5, 



2 
1682 

3 
4 
5 
6, 

7 
8 

9 
1704 

10 
1706. 

II 
1710. 



Hans Kasper, born Jan. 20, 1684. 
Anna Mari.\ born May 28, 1693. 
Rudolph, born Sept. 24, 1696. 
Jacob, born Sept. 22, 1698. 
Hans George, born Feb. 2, 1701. 
Job Henry, born July i, 1703. 
JoRG Heinrich (XV), born June 8, 

JoH. Balthasar, born Nov. 29, 

Anna Elizabeth, born March 19, 



12. Peter, born May 19, 171 2. 

Of the above family there came to Amer- 
ica : Kasper in the ship "William & Sarah," 
landing in Philadelphia, Sept. 15, 1727; 
Hans George, Jorg Heinrich and John B.,. 
in the ship "Pleasant," Oct. 11, 1732, at Phil- 
adelphia; Peter, in the ship "Samuel," Dec. 
3, 1740; and Hans George, in the ship "St. 
Andrew," Sept. 14, 1751. 

(XV) JORG HEINRICH SPEN- 
GLER, otherwise Henry, was born June 8, 
1704, at Weyler, Germany, and died July 6,. 
1776. He married, Jan. 17. 1730, Susanna 
Muller of Mechersheim, and he sailed from 
Rotterdam on the ship "Pleasant," with wife 
and brothers, as before stated. The little 
party arrived in October, 1732, in Philadel- 
phia. He became very highly respected. His 
occupation was that of a linen weaver, and 
he brought with him letters of recommenda- 
tion. His children were : 

1. Henry (XVI). 

2. John George. 

3. Christina. 

4. Susanna. 

5. Rudolph. 

(XVI) HENRY SPANGLER, born at 
York, Pa., Jan. 2, 1761. married Miss Su- 
sannah Lightner. of Lancaster, Pa., daughr 
ter of Ignatius Lightner, and removed to 
Mercersburg, Franklin county. His children 
were : 

1. George, born in York, July 25, 1789.. 

2. Rebecca, born in York, April 5, 
1792, died Jan. 25, 1879. 

3. Lenah, born July 20, 1793. 

4. Henry (XVII), born in Mercers- 
burg July 16, 1795. 

5. Cassandra^ born Jan. 9, 1797, died 
June 27, 1862. 

6. Margaret, bom in Mercersburg, 
July 6, 1798. 

7. Catharine, bom in Mercersburg, 
Jan. 16, 1800. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



8. Charlotte, born in Mercersburg, 
Aug. 19, 1 80 1. 

9. Nathaniel, born in Mercersburg, 
Dec. 19, 1802. 

10. Susannah, born in Mercersburg, 
April II, 1.805, still lives in ber native town. 

11. John bom in Mercersburg, March 
29, 1807, lives in Huntingdon county, Penn- 
sylvania. 

12. Hannah, born in Mercersburg, 
July 30, 1809, moved to Indiana. 

13. Lydia, born July 26. 1812. died 
Jan. 20, 1900. 

(XVII) HENRY SPANGLER mar- 
ried Feb. II, 1830, Mary Aspey, and they 
had issue : 

1. John, deceased. 

2. Robert H., deceased. 

3. Mary J. married John Waidlich, of 
Mercersburg. 

4. Isabella G. married John Seit- 
singer and (second) Nelson Wilson. 

5. Henry (XVIH). 

6. Susan, deceased. 

7. Harriet married Frederick Heist, 
■of Philadelphia. 

(XVIII) HENRY SPANGLER was 
born in Mercersburg April i, 1842, was edu- 
cated in the public schools, and afterward 
followed farming, becoming very successful. 

^When about thirty-five years of age, how- 
ever, he retired from that vocation, and has 
since then been engaged in general business, 
making a specialty of administering estates. 
He has been a school director for many years, 
and is also a director in the Farmers Bank of 
Mercersburg, and engaged in the grain busi- 
ness, owning and building a large elevator 
which he subsequently sold. In politics he is 
a Democrat, and in religious faitli a member 
of the Reformed Church, in which he has 
long held the office of elder. On Feb. 8, 
1870, he married H. Margaret Hoke ( born 
Nov. 9, 1838 — died Aug. 16, 1877), daugh- 



ter of Adam and Hannah Hoke. They had 
issue : 

1. H. Mary, born March, 1871, was 
educated at Mercersburg College and at Bryn 
Mawr. She is unmarried and at home. 

2. Henry Hoke. 

3. Harriet R., born Jan. 14, 1875. 
Henry Spangler married (second) Mary 

Frances Sipe, (born May 2, 1847), daugh- 
ter of G. \y. B. Sipe, of Wells Valley, Fulton 
Co., Pa., in 1882. Their issue was : 

1. John W., born Feb. 2, 1884, studied 
at Mercersburg Academy, and graduated 
from Princeton University in the class of 
1905, with honors. He led his class at the 
Mercersburg Academy, actually heading it 
at every monthly examination for the full 
three years. He has accepted the position 
of instructor of ancient languages at Central 
High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

2. Helen graduated from the high 
school in Mercersburg, and has registered as 
a student at Wilson College, Chambersburg, 
Pennsylvania. 

3. Allen, twin to Helen, born Aug. 
22, 1886, is a student at the Mercersburg 
Academy in the class of 1906. 

4. Louise, born Jan. 4, 1890, was grad- 
uated from the Mercersburg high school in 
the class of 1905. 

HENRY HOKE SPANGLER, born in . 
Mercersburg. Jan. 22, 1873, '^^'^^ educated at 
Mercersburg College and at the University 
of Virginia, still later attending Franklinand 
Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa., from 
which he graduated in 1895. He then took 
up the study of law under Hon. W. U. 
Brewer, State senator from the 33d Sena- 
torial District, and was admitted to the Bin- 
in 1897. 'it Chambersburg. His practice ex- 
tends throughout Franklin county, and he 
is also successfully engaged in a real-estate 
and insurance business, which he nianages 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



politics lie is a Democrat, and was a candi- 
date on his party ticket for tlie office of dis- 
trict attorney, but was defeated with the re- 
mainder of the ticket in the great landsHde 
for Roosevelt in the Presidential election of 
1904. He is a member of the Reformed 
Church, of which he has been treasurer for 
over six years, and he is superintendent of 
the Sunday-school. He is very highly re- 
spected and popular in his county, number- 
ing among his friends many members of both 
parties. He married in 1903, Louise Price 
Miller, daughter of Dr. Victor D. Miller, of 
Mason and Dixon. Pennsylvania. 

The mother of Mr. Spangler descended 
from Madame Mary Ferree, a French Hu- 
guenot who fled to Germany during the 
Revoluticju : thence she went to London to 
see William Penn, who. moved with com- 
passion for her, took her to the Queen. Her 
Majesty gave her passage and safe conduct 
■ to America, and she settled among the 
Pequea Indians, who welcomed her upon 
her arrival in Lancaster county. Her chil- 
dren were : Daniel, who had a grant of 2.000 
acres in the Pequea Valley from the Penns ; 
Philip, who married Leah, daughter of Abra- 
ham Dubois, and was also the owner of a 
2,000-acre grant; and Catharine. 

GEORGE H. CARBAUGH. In no pro- 
fession does a man have an opportunity to 
leave so direct an impress of himself, or to 
exert so far-reaching an influence as in that 
of teaching, and for one who has devoted 
himself to that work for twenty-eight years 
the extent of that influence can never be even 
approximately measured. Antrim township. 
Franklin county, has been fortunate in re- 
taining for that period in its educational 
work, the services of so efificient and so 
faithful an instructor as George H. Car- 
baugh. He was born in the township Nov. 
2-j, 1849, son of Abram and Eliza (Detrich^ 



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Carbaugh. The family first became asso- 
ciated with Franklin county in the time of the 
paternal grandfather, Abram Carbaugh 

(I) ABRAM CARBAUGH was orig- 
inally a farmer of Adams county, and was 
there married to Miss Bucher. ' Later tl- 
couple moved to Franklin county and located 
on a farm in Antrim township, where they 
passed the rest of their lives. Abram Car- 
baugh ided in 1863, leaving issue as follows : 

I- Abram (II). 

2. George, who married the widow of 
John McDowell. 

3- Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Burkholder. 

4- Maria, Mrs. Fatt. 

5- Laura, wife of Daniel Stauffer. 

6. Annie, who married Jacob Rook. 

7. Sophia, .Mrs. John Hollinger. 

8. Susan, wife of John Kaufifman ; and 
a daughter, who married Adam Varger. 

(II) ABRAM CARBAUGH was also a 
farmer all his life. He always displayed a 
keen interest in public afifairs, served as su- 
pervisor of the township and as school di- 
rector, and in each capacity did good work. 
He died Feb. 2, 1900, a member of the Lu- 
theran Church. He was the father of : 

1. George H. (III). 

2. Emmanuel who married Miss 
Keefer. 

3. Snively S., who married Mero 
Osborne. 

4- Abram, who married Myra Phillipy. 

5. i\IiNNiE S.. wife of Samuel Hess. 

(Ill) GEORGE H. CARBAUGH grew 
up in his native township, and was given a 
good education, first in the public schools of 
the section, and then in the Normal School 
at Shippensburg. He received his diploma 
from the latter institution in 1873, and at 
once began teaching in Antrim township, 
where he continued to give instruction for 
twenty-eight sessions. After his marriage 
in 1889 Mr. Carbaugh took up his residence 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



on a farm he owned in the township, and i:i 
addition to his teaching undertook the man- 
agement of his place ; for the last few years 
he has given his whole attention to that. 
He has always been an active Republican, 
though never an offtce holder ; and fraternally 
he belongs to Greencastle Lodge, F. & A. M. 
A lifelong resident of Antrim township, he 
has many warm friends there and is univer- 
sally esteemed and respected. 

Mr. Carbaugh married Feb. 14, 1889, 
Miss Alice Deardoff, daughter of Samuel 
Deardoff, of Waynesboro, Pa. She has 
borne her husband three children : 

1. Snively S. 

2. Edith M. 

3. Frank L. 

DANIEL HOOVER, who died in De- 
cember, 1904, was one of the most promi- 
nent and successful citizens of Waynesboro, 
Pa., and president of the People's National 
Bank, as well as member of the board of 
directors of a number of the leading enter- 
prises of the city. He was born Oct. 19, 
1833. in Washington county, Md., son of 
David and Elizabeth (Zentmeyer) Hoover. 
The Hoover family originated in Switzer- 
land, and one of its representatives came 
therefrom and located in Manor township", 
Lancaster Co., Pa., from whence the grand- 
father of our subject moved to Frederick 
county, Md. The latter married a Whitmer. 

(I) DAVID HOOVER was born near 
Graceham, Frederick Co., Md., in 1796, and 
died in 1883, in Washington county, Md., 
where he had been living many years. He 
married Elizabeth Zentmeyer, who was liorn 
in 1803, near the Mason and Dixon line, 
at the foot of South Mountain, in Wash- 
ington county, Md., where her father was 
for many years engaged in the tanning busi- 
ness. Her death occurred in 1887, and the 
children she bore her husband were : 



1. David married Miss Stephey and re- 
sides near the old homestead in Washington 
county, Maryland. 

2. Anna married Daniel Geiser, 
founder of the Geiser Manufacturing Com- 
pany, and both are deceased. 

3. John married Elizabeth Crouse, and 
resides at Cavetown, ^laryland. 

4. Catherine, unmarried, resides in 
Waynesboro with Daniel. 

5. Daniel (II). 

6. Elizabeth married first Joseph 
Funk, and then E. Elden. 

7. Mary married Peter Geiser (the in- 
ventor of the original Geiser Separator), of 
Waynesboro. I 

8. Benjamin married Sarah New- f 
:omer, daughter of Peter Newcomer, and 

is now deceased. 

9. Martin married Lorena Besore, and 
lives in Smithsburg, }ilaryland. 

10. Christian died while a student at 
Gettysburg Theological Seminary. 

11. Susan died when about twelve years 
of age. 

The parents were consistent members of 
the Mennonite Church, and most excellent 
people. 

(II) DANIEL HOOVER was reared 
on the farm in Washington county, Md., 
and was educated in the common schools. 
In 1855 he began life for himself. The 
"Geiser Separator" was at that time in its 
infancy, and its inventor, Peter Geiser. hav- 
ing married his sister, Daniel was induced 
to take an interest in the new machine, and 
purchased one of the first, which was made 
at Smithsburg, Md., by William Franklin- 
berry. Mr. Hoover took the machine with 
him to Middletown, Md.. and there engaged 
in threshing during the season of 1856. 
After that he followed different pursuits, 
sometimes working on tl>e farm.then travel- 
ing in the interests of the Geiser Manufact- 




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ElOGRAi'HlCAL ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIiM COUNTY. 



449 



uring Company. In iS66, however, lie l)e- 
came a member of the firm of Geiser, Price 
& Co., and located at Waynesboro, becoming 
traveling salesman for the firm. 

In January. 1868, Mr. Hoo\er bought 
one-half of the interest of J. F. Oiler, and in 
January, 1869, a charter was procured and 
the company was incorporated. Folhjwing 
that Mr. Hoover occupied various import- 
ant positions in the company until 1884, 
ivhen he was elected its president and gen- 
eral superintendent and held that honorable 
office until 1890. when he resigned, although 
at the time of his death he was still a direc- 
tor in the company. In 1890 he was one of 
the incorporators of the People's National 
Bank, was elected its first president, occu- 
pying that position as long as he lived. He 
was also one of the incorporators of the Lan- 
dis Topi Company, of which he was elected 
vice-president at the organization. Mr. 
Hoover was a director of the Waynesboro 
Water Company ; a stockholder in the Frick 
Manufacturing Company, and has been in- 
strumental in promoting many other imix)rt- 
ant intlustries which have assisted so mate- 
rially in the upbuilding of Waynesboro and 
its outlying districts. Realizing his ability, 
uprightness and sound common sense, the 
people of Waynesboro always desired to have 
him in positions of trust, but except serving 
as a member of the council and upon the 
town school board, he always refused office. 
On Feb. 8, 1866, Mr. Hoover was mar- 
ried to Elizabeth, daughter of John and 
Catherine (Knave) Newcomer, who was 
born Dec. 19, 1840, and comes of German 
descent. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Hoover were as follows : 

1. Amon B., born Jan. 16, 1867, died 
Dec. 24, 1868. 

2. Virtue E., born Sept. 5, 1868. mar- 
ried Rev. J. Edward Byers, a Lutheran min- 
ister. 

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3. Ira N., born April 4, 1870, married 
Ella Harbaugh, daughter of George Har^ 
baugli. and is a farmer uf Waynesixjrn. 

4. Percy D., hnrn .-Vug. 2y, 1871, is a 
[)hysician of Waynesboro. 

5. Lestor S., born Oct. 12. 1873, died 
.\pril X, 1874. 

6. Roy J. D., Ixjm Nov. 18. 1878, is 
supervisor of electric signals and interiock- 
ing switches on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
Western Division. 

7. Earl, born July 4. 1880, died April 
2.-J. 1 88 1. 

8. Catherine, born Aug. 30, 1882, 
died June 8, 1883. 

Mr. Hoover was an elder in the Luth- 
eran Church, of which Mrs. Hoover is a 
consistent member. In politics he ahvays 
supported the Republican party, after its or- 
ganization. He was a self-made man, and 
one of the leading citizens of Franklin 
county. 

PERCY DANIEL HOOVER. M. D., 
a successful member of the medical frater- 
nity of Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pa., was 
born in Waynesboro, Aug. 27, 1871, son of 
Daniel Hoover, one of the leading business 
men of the city, and president of the Peo- 
ple's National Bank. 

Dr. Hoover attended the Waynesboro 
high school until his junior year, when he 
was transferred to the Washington Co.,,Md., 
Male High School, after which he took the 
full scientific course at Pennsylvania Col- 
lege, Gettysburg, Pa., graduating in 1895. 
In the summer of that year he began the 
study of medicine in the office of Dr. I. N. 
Snively, of Waynesboro. That same fall, 
he entered the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, from which he 
was graduated in the spring of 1899, with 
a degree of M. D. In the fall succeeding he 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



450 

Waynesboro, and while he is one of the 
youngest physicians in the city, he has built 
up a large and lucrative practice from the 
best people here. He is a member of the 
American Medical Association, the Ameri- 
can Academy of Medicine, the Pennsylvania 
State :^Iedical Society, the Franklin County 
Medical Society and the Waynesboro Acad- 
emy of ^ledicine, of which he is secretary 
and treasurer. Fraternally, he is a member 
of the K. of P., the B. P. O. E., and of his 
college fraternity, the Alpha Tau Omega. 
Dr. Hoover is a man of very pleasing per- 
sonality, and is well read in his profession, 
taking a deep interest in all new discoveries. 



JACOB SARBAUGH, one of the well- 
known citizens of Washington township, 
Franklin county, located near Zullinger, four 
miles west of Waynesboro, was born m 
Adams county. Pa., close to the York cninty 
line, Nov. 12, 1845. 

(I) JACOB SARBAUGH, the grand- 
father of our subject, married (first) a Miss 
Haverstick, and they had these children— all 
oiow deceased— born to them : 

1. Jacob. 

2. Philip. 

3. George (H)- 

4. ToiiN. 

5. Eliz.^betii became the wife of 

David Trimmer. 

6. Barbara married Samuel Harbold. 

7. CiiRisTi.A.NA married Jonas Shriver. 
The second wife of Jacob Sarbaugh 

was Esther (Weaver), who first married 
John Herman, and was a widow witli six 
children at the time of her second marriage. 
To this union came one son, 

I. Henry. 

The children of her first marriage were 
(surname Herman) : 

I. Rebecca married (first) Samuel 
Miller and (second) Peter Raffensburger. 



2. Susan became the wife of Jacob 

Hoecht. 

3. Magdalena married George Binder. 

4. Sarah married George Sarbaugh. 

5. Abalona married Daniel Meyers. 

6. George married Nancy Shank. 
(II) GEORGE SARBAUGH was born 

in Adams county, Jan. 29. 1803. and died 
July 24, 1884. He married Sarah Harmon, 
who was -born Oct. 17. 181 1, also in Adams 
countv, where they were married, and died 
April'i, 1899. On March 24. 1847. George 
Sarbaugh removed to Washington town- 
ship, Franklin county, and settled on what 
was the old Besore farm, which had been in 
that family for three generations, buying 
from Jacob Besore. The farm contained at 
that time 220 acres, and the original home 
residence, built by the Besores, still stands, 
having been improved by George Sarbaugh 
and by his son Jacob, who now owns it. Here 
the parents resided and here the father died, 
but his widow died in the home of her daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Martin S. Funk, of Washington 
township. The children of George Sar- 
baugh and wife, all highly esteemed in 
Franklin county, were : 

1. Solomon, born June 30, 1827. mar- 
ried Elizabeth IMiller, daughter of Henry 
Miller, and died in 1901. 

2. William, born Dec. 4. 1829. mar- 
ried Malinda Beaver, daughter of Christian 
Beaver ; she died in 1886. 

3. George, born ISIarch 15, 1832, mar- 
ried' Catherine Russell, daughter of Chris- 
tian Russell. 

4. Esther, born Dec. 4. i^.U- "ever 
married and lives with our subject. 

5. Rebecca, born July 2j. 1837, mar- 
ried Jacob Potter, steward of the Franklin 
Countv Almshouse. 

6.' Sarah, born Jan. 24. 1840. married 
Jerome Deitrick. of Antrim township. 

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BIOGIL\PHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



married Martin S. Funk, of whom a sketch 
appears elsewhere. 

8. Jacob (III) born Nov. 12, 1845, 
married Eleanor L. Newman. 

9. JoiixV H.. born April 19, 1849, mar- 
ried Jennie Deitrick. 

10. Fr.-\nklin Elmer, born Oct. 12, 
1854, married Alice Robinson, a native of 
Canada, who died in May, 1902. 

(Ill) On Dec. 23, 1869, Jacob Sarbaiigh 
Avas united in marriage to Eleanor L. New- 
man, born in Washington county, Md., near 
the Mason and Di.xon line, not far from 
Hagerstown, a daughter of Joseph and Jane 
(Brumbaugh) Newman. The father was 
■born Oct. 4, 181 8. in Maryland, and died 
May 7, 1862. He was a son of John and 
Elizabeth (Byers) Newman, both natives of 
Maryland, where the grandfather died in 
February. 1851. aged about sixty years, the 
grandmother dying previously. The ma- 
ternal grandparents of Mrs. Sarbaugh were 
David and Eve (Kissecker) Brumbaugh, the 
former of whom was born in Maryland and 
the latter in Pennsylvania; he died in 1842 
and she in July, 1845. David Brumbaugh's 
mother was a Brewer, and Eve (Kissecker) 
Brumbaugh's mother was a Cordeman. The 
children of John and Elizabeth (Byers) 
Newman were: Andrew, David, John, Jo- 
seph, Catharine, Elizabeth, Priscilla, Mary 
and Barbara, all deceased. 

The children of David and Eve (Kis- 
secker) Brumbaugh were: Simon, Elias, 
Nathan and Jacob, deceased: George: Eliza- 
beth, deceased: Jane, mother of Mrs. Sar- 
baugh: Maria, deceased: Indiana, surviving; 
and three who died in infancy. The mother 
of Mrs. Sarbaugh was born June 11. 1822. 
and still resides on the old Brumbaugh farm 
on the State line, Maryland. 

The children of Joseph and Jane (Brum- 
baugh) Newman were as follows: 



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I. Clinton B., born in October, 1843, 
died in October, 1844. 

■2. Ann Amelia, bom Dec. 17, 1845, 
married Isaac Meyers, son of Daniel and 
Abbie Meyers. 

3- Maria B., born Nov. i, 1848, mar- 
ried William J. Pensinger, son of Henry and 
Rebecca Pensinger. 

4- Eleanor L., born Aug. 10, 1851, is 
the wife of Mr. Sarbaugh. 

5- Jacob T., born Nov. 9, 1854, died 
March 17, 1875. 

6. Elizabeth E., born April 13, 1857, 
married George A. Koons, son of Wesley 
and Catherine Koons. 

7. Mary Alice, bom Jan. 18, i860, 
died Aug. 26, 1863. 

In religious connection the Sarbaughs 
belonged to the Reformed Church. The 
Harmons and the Kisseckers were Luther- 
ans. The Newmans belonged to the United 
Brethren. 

The children born to Jacob Sarbaugh 
and wife were as follows: 

1. Ottie Idella, born Nov. 26, 1870, 
married George L. Gilbert, of Waynesboro, 
son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Summers) Gil- 
bert, on Sept. 19, 1899. He is employed in 
the Landis Tool Works. 

2. Sadie Jane, born Oct. 26, 1872, on 
Jan. 9. 1900, married John F. Miller, of 
Waynesboro, son of David R. and Annie 
(Shank) Miller; their one son, Ralph 
Edgar, died aged six weeks and one day. 

3. A son died in infancy unnamed. 

4. A son died in infancy unnamed. 

The family belong to and liberally sup- 
port the Salem Reformed Church. Thev en- 
joy the respect and esteem of the whole 
community. 

Jacob Sarbaugh was reared in the old 
Sarbaugh home which he now owns. His 
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BIOGRAPHICAL AXNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



45^ 

at the Saiem schoolhouse. When he married 
he brought his bride to the old farm where 
all his useful life has been spent, with the 
exception of three years passed on an adjoin- 
ing farm. Mr. Sarbaugh has been a very 
successful agriculturist, and his lOO acres of 
well improved and finely cultivated land give 
testimony to his excellent methods. In poli- 
tics he is identified with the Republican 
party, but he does not seek political prom- 
inence. For many years he has been one of 
the elders of Salem Reformed Church and in 
every way is an upright and substantial 
citizen. 



GREENAWALT. The Greenawalt fam- 
ily of Franklin county traces its ancestry to 
Johann Heinrich Greenawalt (born in 1732 
— died Jan. 10, 1811), who with his wife, 
Eve (born Aug. 30, 1745— died Aug. 12, 
1831), settled near Hanover, York county, 
but moved to Chambersburg during the Rev- 
olution. There is some evidence that the fam- 
came from Wurtemberg, Germany, in an in- 
denture executed in 1720, and still in the 
possession of a member of the family. In 
this deed is the name of John Greenawalt, 
who was probably the father of Johann 
Heinrich. Hans Greenewalt emigrated to 
Pennsylvania on the galley "Ann" from Rot- 
terdam, landing at Philadelphia, Sept. 27, 
1746, and Johannes Griinwald, on the bil- 
ander "Vernon." landing Aug. i. 1747- 
Other Greenawalts who emigrated later 
were Hieronomus and Nicholas, the latter a 
soldier in the Revolution. Johann Heinrich 
and Eve Greenawalt are known to have had 
two sons : 

1. Henry, born 1772, died Sept. 15, 
1816. 

2. Godfrey (H). 

(II) GODFREY GREENAWALT 
(born Dec. 21, 1778— died Dec. i. 1847) 
was a resident of Chambersburg and a farmer 



of Hamilton township. In 181 8 he was a 
member of the Chambersburg town council. 
He married Anna Mary Rothbaust inborn 
:\Iay 8, 1787— died Dec. 21, 1855), daugh- 
ter of John and Barbara Rothbaust. ]\Irs. 
Greenawalt's father was a prominent citizen 
of Chambersburg. and county commissioner 
of Franklin county, 1809-12. Godfrey and 
Anna Mary Greenawalt had issue : 

I. Eliza married, May 27, 1827, Nich- 
olas Snider (born in 1803— died Jan. 2, 
1883), son of Nicholas and Catharine 
(Stantz) Snider. They had issue: Godfrey, 
John, Mary M. and Emma. 

2. Susan (born Dec. 30. 1809— died 
Aug. 5. 1892) married, June 12. 1833. Sam- 
uel Etter (born March 22, 1803— died Feb. 
28, 1871), son of Christian and Mary Eliza- 
beth Etter. They had issue: Anna Mary, 
Edward G., William H. and Charlotte S. 

3. Henry (HI). 

4. John married June 21. 1836, Alary 
McClintock. 

5. Daniel married Rebecca Bickley 
and they had issue: Susan, who married 
Capt. James T. Long; Godfrey; John; Ed- 
ward ; Daniel ; Sophia; Kate, and Mary. 

6. Mary. 

7. Sophia (born Sept. 13, 182 1— died 
Nov. II, 1893) married (first) Nov. 28, 
1837, Dr. Henry R. Botiler; (second) Aug. 
I, 1848, Maj. Henry R. Hershberger. No 
issue. 

8. Charlotte married Hiram M. 
\Miite [White Family]. 

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10. Samuel F. (V). 

(Ill) HENRY GREENAWALT (born 
in Chambersburg in 181 1— died Jan. 7, 
1892). eldest son of Godfrey and Anna 
Marv (R.^thbaust) Greenawalt .was educated 
in the public schools of his native town. In 
1830 he began the butchering business in 
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until 1843, wlien he moved to the farm 
formerly owned by his fatlier, on the turn- 
pike in Hamilton township, where he re- 
mained until his death. He never aspired to 
public office, but gave his whole attention to 
his farm. He was a member of the Re- 
formed Church. Mr. Greenawalt married 
July 19. 1843, Catherine S. Shaubel (living 
with her son, Davison, in Hamilton town- 
ship, 1903), daughter of John and Magda- 
lena Shaubel, of Lancaster, Pa. They had 
issue : 

1. Mary (born May 27, 1844) married 
H. C. Orth, of Harrisburg, and died without 
issue. 

2. Ch.a.rlotte, born March 12. 1846, 
died June 2t,. 1851. 

3. Elizabeth (born Jan. i, 184S — 
died Nov. i, 1875) married Dec. 26, 1869, 
William B. Metzgar, of Harrisburg, and 
they had one son. La Rue. 

4. La Rue married Jenny Whitmer, 
and they had issue: Bertha, Gail, William 
and Forrest. 

5. Samuel, born Oct. 19, 1850. died 
May 27,. 1 85 1. 

6. Davison (IV). 

7. Eleanora (born Aug. 25, 1854) 
lives in Hagerstown, Maryland. 

8. Henry (born Sept. 19, 1856) is a 
printer in Philadelphia. 

9. Bell.\ (born Oct. 15, 1862) married 
George W. Benchoff, of Hagerstown, Md., 
formerly of Monterey. They have one 
daughter. Marguerite. 

(IV) DAVISON GREENAWALT 
(born on the Greenawalt farm in Hamilton 
township, April 1 1, 1852), son of Henry and 
Catherine S. (Shaubel) Greenawalt, was ed- 
ucated in the schools of Chamber.sburg. He 
began farming in 1872. on the farm owned 
by his father, where he remained five years. 
and then went West as far as California with 
a \ iew of finding a situation suited for horti- 



cultural purposes. After an absence of sev- 
eral months he returned in 1878, and re- 
sumed farming, but began to pay special at- 
tention to horticulture. He has since devoted 
much of his time and given much study to 
fruit raising, and is now the proprietor of the 
Siberia Fruit Farm, which was part of the 
old Greenawalt homestead. He has about 
twenty acres devoted to horticultural uses. 
For more than twenty years he has made 
scientific fruit raising a profession, and is 
acknowledged as an authority on the subject. 
In politics he is a Republican worker, and 
for twenty years he has been a delegate from 
his township to Republican County Conven- 
tions. He has also served his party as .-' 
member of the Republican County Commit- 
tee. Mr. and Mrs. Greenawalt and their three 
eldest children are members of the First Lu- 
theran Church, of Chambersburg. Mr. 
Greenawalt married (first), Oct. 10, 1871, 
Emma K. Reisher (died March 4, 1874), 
daughter of Daniel S. and Susan Reisher, of 
Chambersburg. By this marriage there was 
no issue. He married (second) Dec. 23, 
1880, Mary Ida Miller, daughter of George 
and Elizabeth Miller, of Chambersburg. 
They have issue : 

1. Harry (born Oct. to, 1881) taught 
school in Hamilton township, and was a 
rural free deliverv mail carrier. 

2. Bessie^ born March 27, 1883. 

3. Mabel, born April 17, 1885. 

4. Roy, born April 26, 1887. 

5. Ruth, bom July 19, 1889. 

6. Gail, born Jan. i, 1892. 

7. Dorothy, born .\ug. 6, 1901. 

(V) SAMUEL F. GREENAWALT 
(born Dec. 6. 1829 — died Nov. 2-/, 1877), 
youngest son of Godfrey and Anna Mary 
(Rothbaust) Greenawalt, was educated in 
the public schools of Chambersburg, and en- 
gaged in active business while still a young 
man. Of indomitable will and iron nerve, he 



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early developed those traits of character that 
he maintained throughout an active business 
and political career of forty years. He took 
an active part in everything that tended to 
promote the best interests of the borough and 
our public schools, and was a leader in every 
undertaking. A member of the Friendship 
Fire Company, he was foremost at a fire or 
in the settlement of a tilt lietween rival com- 
panies. As a member of the town council 
?nd chief burgess he took an active part in 
the grading and improvement of our thor- 
oughfares, and in the election which resulted 
in the erection of our system of water works. 
His livery and sales stables previous to the 
Civil war, and until the burning of Cham- 
bersburg, located in the rear of the "Mansion 
House" — at present known as the White 
block — were noted for their superior equip- 
ment, and the notable horses they contained. 
For his personal and family use he had choice 
strains, and as a dealer enjoyed the confidence 
of the best local and city purchasers. From 
1867 to 1869 he was engaged in the st()\-e 
and tinware business with the late E. G. 
Etter. He also had farming and other in- 
terests to which he gave attention. It was 
about tiiis time that he became chief leader in 
the councils of the Republican party. Al- 
though active at every election he had never 
until now aspired for place. It was in 1867, 
after a most vigorous preliminary contest. 
that he received the nomination for Treas- 
urer in the Republican County Convention, 
but with the greater part of the ticket he was 
defeated at the election. The chief cause for 
his defeat was the apathy of voters, and in- 
difference to his election of unsuccessful 
competitors in the convention. Defeated, he 
did not sulk, but gallantly and loyally ac- 
cepted the leadership of the party as its 
county chairman in the campaign of 1868, 
and won a sweeping victory for the Repub- 
lican ticket, thus redeeming the countv. This 



was at the October election, under the old 
constitution, and the Presidential election 
was to follow in November. He therefore 
issued a ringing appeal "To the Voters of 
Franklin County," congratulating them upon 
the result of the late election and upon re- 
storing the party "to its proper position." To 
arouse Republican enthusiasm for the im- 
portant contest in November he continued : 
"The loycil people, who have repeatedly 
spoken with emphasis against the common 
foe at the ballot box, now feel like ending 
the matter, and winning a lasting peace by 
the final overthrow of the disturbers of na- 
tional trancjuility. We exhort you to do your 
part in the good work. Fall in and move 
forward ! Do not pause to divide the spoils 
or wrangle over past indifferences, but push 
on solidly until the work is done. Let every 
voter be at the polls. Swell the majority to 
its fullest reach." Aleanwhile he was borne 
down with the business misfortune of one 
who was near to him, with the result that he 
himself was well nigh driven to the wall 
financially. Nothing daunted he set to work 
to retrieve his fortunes with that vigor and 
pluck which were ever his characteristics. In 
1 87 1 he became the Republican candidate for 
Sheriff, and was elected by a rousing vote, 
considering the closeness of the county at 
that period, his majority in Chambersburg 
alone being 577, never until that time ap- 
proached. During the Civil war he gave his 
aid and support to every effort made for 
the cause of the L^nion. Fearless and cour- 
ageous during the trying times visited upon 
us during the civil strife, his shrewdness 
and diplomacy got him out of many difficult 
situations, the most notable being his capi- 
tulation to the Confederates on the night 
Stuart's cavalry held the town. He had just 
returned from Marion with members of the 
Chambersburg band, and was given safe 
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Upon reacliiiig the Diamond tlie names of tlie 
party were taken, and they were paroled to 
appear at Gen. Stuart's headquarters at 6 
o'clock in the morning. Mr. Greenawalt was 
about to drive his team into the alley leading 
to his livery, when an officer ordered him to 
drive over to the old depot where Stuart was 
at the time. Arriving there, the Rebels were 
about to appropriate his horses, but Mr. 
Greenawalt pleaded to be permitted to take 
them to his stables and give them one more 
"good, last supper." He was allowed to do 
so. No sooner, however, had he driven 
under his carriage shed than the harness was 
stripped off and the animals were taken up 
what is now known as Central alley as far as 
German street, and then, turning east, he 
went out what was called "Long Lane." 
Fortunately, there were no pickets to inter- 
cept him in that lane, and he succeeded in 
saving his valuable horses. Mr. Greenawalt 
was a splendid horseman, and no culprit for 
whom he started ever escaped when once he 
got upon his trail. So speedily did he take 
after Johnston, the confederate of Rolland, 
on the night of the attempted bank robbery 
in March, 1875. that he surprised and cap- 
tured the would-be robbers on the South 
Penn train coming toward Chambersburg, as 
it was taking its departure from that place. 
When he landed his prisoners here the plucky 
ex-sheriff was the hero of the hour. He was 
quick to decide in business or private under- 
takings. When Chambersburg, after its de- 
struction in 1864, was without a hotel, he 
converted a South Main street property 
which had escaped the flames — now in the 
ownership of Mr. H. S. Gilbert — into a hotel, 
and for a year or more did an extensive busi- 
ness. In his death the town and county lost 
one of the most public-spirited citizens. Mr. 
Greenawalt married (first), March 28, 1851. 
Lucretia B. Smith (born May 16, 1834 — 



died Jan. 16, 1855), daughter of Daniel 
Smith. They had issue : 

1. Mary married Harry D. Little, of 
Gettysburg. 

2. John D. lives in the West. 

3. Laura Virginia, born Dec. 4, 1853, 
died Feb. 7, 1854. 

Mr. Greenawalt married (second), Anna 
Mary Brough (born March 24, 1836 — died 
March 14, 1902), daughter of Peter Brough, 
a prominent citizen and active business man 
of Guilford township ; they had issue : 

1. Emma married Simpson R. Miller 
[Miller Family]. 

2. Samuel G. (VI). 

3. Kate lives in Chambersburg. 

4. William G. is a druggist living in 
New York City, and a member of the firm of 
Greenawalt Bros., Chambersburg. 

5. Anna married Flenry H. Silvers, of 
Chambersburg. 

6. Sophia B. married Dr. B. F. Myers. 

7. David Lehman is a druggist at 
Chambersburg. 

(VI) SAMUEL G. GREENAWALT 
(born Jan. 3, i860), son of Samuel F. and 
.\nna Mary (Brough) Greenawalt, was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Chambersburg 
and engaged in the drug business in partner- 
ship with his brother, W^illiam G. Greena- 
walt, purchasing the old Nixon drug store, 
founded by the late Jacob S. Nixon. He i^ 
an active and leading Republican and was 
sherifif of Franklin county, 1896-99. Siiv 
his retirement from the Sherifif's office he has 
been in business as a stock dealer, as a 
member of the firm of Greenawalt & Zull- 
inger. They are e.xtensive buyers of horses 
in the West for the eastern market. For 
thirteen years, 1880-93, he was in the livery 
business in Chambersburg, as a member of 
the firm of Greenawalt & Lehman. He is a 
stock holder and director of the Chambers- 



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burg Trust Company. He is a member of 
George Washington Lodge, No. 143, F. & 
A. M., of Chambersburg; of George Wash- 
ington Chapter, R. A. M., and of Continental 
Commandery. K. T. He is also a member 
of the B. P. O. E., of Chambersburg. Mr. 
Greenavvalt married Dec. 11, 1884, Mary E. 
Miller (born July 15. 1861), daughter of 
John and Mary C. (Metzler) Miller, and 
they have issue : 

1. S. Miller^ born March 15, 1887. 

2. Margaret Brough, born July 25, 
1893. 

3. Samuel Lortz, born Jan. 26, 1899. 

4. William F., born July 10, 1903. 

ROBERT CLARK JOHNSTON, a 
man of progressive ideas, well informed upon 
current events, and a large landowner, was 
born May 8, 1831, on a farm on the olrl 
Chambers road where his father. Squire 
Johnston, then resided. His great-grand- 
father, 

(I) JOHN JOHNSTON, came from 
Ireland, but was of Scotch descent. He 
settled in Southampton township, Franklin 
county, prior to the Revolution. He bought 
many hundreds of acres of land, became 
wealthy, and married a Miss Edmundson. 
who lived to be eighty-four years of age. 
Two of his sons fought in the Revolution, 
and one of them, John, was taken prisoner 
in a church in Philadelphia, and died prob- 
ably of neglect or starvation. Another son, 

(II) BENJAMIN JOHNSTON, was 
born in this county, and died here at the age 
of seventy-four years. He farmed on the old 
homestead, and married Jane Breckenridge, 
a daughter of John and Sarah (Culbertson) 
Breckenridge, the latter one of the Culbert- 
sons of "Culbertson's Row." Mrs. Johnston 
died aged sixty-four years, the mother of 
these children : 

I. John. 



2. James. 

3. Robert. 

4. Joseph. 

5. Samuel. 

6. George (III). 

7. Margaret married Adam Snoddy 
and died at the age of seventy-four years. 

8. Sally. 

9. Rebecca. 

(III) SQUIRE GEORGE JOHN- 
STON, father of our subject, was an exten- 
sive farmer, and Vwed to be eighty-five years 
of age, dying in May, 1S84. He married 
Sarah, a daughter of Robert Clark, and she 
died young, leaving these children : 

1. Elizabeth. 

2. Jane. 

3. Robert C. (IV). 

4. Joseph. 

5. Rebecca. 

6. James. 

The Johnstons were members of Rocky 
and Middle Spring Presbyterian Church. 
George Johnston was a Democrat, and 
served as justice of the peace for many years, 
first being appointed by the governor, but 
later elected by the people. 

(IV) ROBERT C. JOHNSTON, the 
subject proper of this sketch, was educated 
here, and all of his life has followed agricul- 
tural pursuits. In politics he is a Democrat, 
and has been a member of the school board 
for a number of years. He and his family 
are members of the Middle Spring Presby- 
terian Church, in which they take an active 
])art. He married Miss Martha Orr, daugh- 
ter of John Orr^ of Orrstown. this county, a 
member of the pioneer Orr family. Four 
children have been born to Mr. and I\Irs. 
Johnston : 

1. Jane. 

2. Lucy. 

3. Robert. 

4. Elizabeth. 



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PETER KNEPPER. Near the villag-e 
of Duffield, amonj:^ the well cultivated farms 
of Guilford township, Franklin Co., Pa., is 
one owned by Peter Knepper, who was horn 
in the county, in the township of Quincy. 
Sept. 27, 1844, son of Peter and Nancy 
(Heller) Knepper, farming people. 

The elder Peter Knepper was born in 
Germany, and there learned the trade of a 
shoemaker. W'hen still a young man he 
came to America, settling in Franklin county, 
Pa., and married Nancy Heller, who was ;» 
native of Lancaster county. He was a strong 
Democrat, but never an office seeker, and he 
was a member of the Dunkard Church. The 
cliildren born to himself and wife were: 

1. Lucy married John Fahrney, of 
Quincy township. 

2. Samuel engaged in farming in the 
West. 

3. Amos became a farmer in Quincy 
township. 

4. Henry is deceased 

5. Peter. 

6. Obed is a resident of Guilford. 
7._ Solomon is a farmer of Quincy. 

8. Jeremiah is a farmer of Guilford. 

9. Lizzie married a Mr. McFern, a 
farmer of Guilford. 

Peter Knepper was reared upon the farm 
of his father, and received the common 
school education of his time and location. 
He married Miss Lizzie Sheller, a daughter 
of Christian and Lydia Sheller, members of 
the old German Baptist Church. She died 
leaving no children, and Mr. Knepper subse- 
quently married Miss Amanda R. Etter. a 
daughter of Jacob and Susan (Miller) Etter. 
To this marriage have come the following 
children : 

1. William L., a farmer, is at home. 

2. J. H., formerly a teacher in the pub- 
lic schools, is now a telegrapher. 

3. Lydia May is at home. 



In politics Mr. Knepper is a Democrat, 
and in religious matters a member of the 
German Baptist Church. Starting out in 
life a poor boy, he has accumulated consid- 
erable property, and now owns three ex- 
cellent farms, one of si.xty acres, one of 129 
acres, and one of 120 acres, all well im- 
[)roved. He enjoys the distinction of being 
one of the largest farmers of the township 
and is very highly respected by all who know 
him. 

Mrs. Knepper had the following brothers 
and sisters : 

1 . Jacob is in the West. 

2. Henry is also out West. 

3. John is deceased. 

4. William is a resident of Cniilford 
township. 

5. Susan became the wife of Lewis 
Deal. 

6. Leah is the wife of John Pfoutz. 

7. Amanda. 

8. Maggie married John Wingert, a 
farmer of Peters township. 

FAUST FAMILY. DAVID WAG- 
NER FAUST (born in Cumberland 
county, in 1826 — died in 1894), son of 
George Faust, was one of a family of four 
brothers, the others being John, Peter and 
Philip, and two sisters, Nannie and Eliza. 
He was a carpenter and contractor in early 
life; in his last years he was a farmer. Mr. 
Faust married Susan Coover, daughter of 
Andrew Coover, of Franklin County. The 
Coovers were German Baptists. Mr. Faust 
and his wife were also members of that re- 
ligious society. David W. and Susan 
(Coover) Faust had issue: 

T. .Andrew G. married Mary Christ- 
man. 

2. John H. married Elizabeth Unger. 

3. David W. (II). 

4. Edward A. (born Nov. 20. 1850) 



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is in the milling business in Chambersburg. 
He married (first) Margaret Martin (died 
in 1876), daughter of John and Anna 
(Shall) Martin. They had issue: Ida, Will- 
iam A. and Wallace R. Mr. Faust married 
(second) Mary E. Brindle, daughter of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Gelwicks) Brindle 
and they have issue, Minnie M. and 
David N. 

5. Daniel J. (III). 

6. Albert C. married Jennie Shields. 
(II) DAVID WAGNER FAUST 

(born in Franklin county, Sept. 19, 1847), 
son of David W. and Susan (Coover) Faust, 
was educated in the public schools, and 
worked on his father's farm until he was 
eighteen years of age. He continued farm- 
ing until i86g, when he went West. He re- 
turned in 1 87 1 and resumed farming, in 
which he was engaged altogether for twenty 
years. In 1893, he went into the planing 
mill, contracting and lumber business at Mer- 
cersburg. After being in the business for 
five years he took into partnership with him 
his two sons, John Z. and William C, under 
the firm name of D. W^ Faust & Sons. In 
the spring of 1902, he began the genera! 
grain elevator and coal business in Cham- 
bersburg. with his sons as partners. The 
Fausts are members nf the Reformed 
Church, and Mr. Faust has lieen a deacon 
and is now an elder of the church at Mer- 
cersburg. He married March 7, 1871, 
Mary Catharine Zarger, daughter of John 
and Catharine (Goltman) Zarger. They 
had issue: 

I. John Zarger (born in St. Thomas 
township) was educated in the public schools 
of his native township, and worked on his 
father's farm until he was twenty-one years 
old ; he worked in the F"aust sash and door 
factory in Mercersburg, 1893-98, when he 
became a member of the firm of D. W. 
Fau.st & Sons, of which he is still a member. 



He also gives attention to the fancy poultry 
business, and is a noted breeder of Scotch 
Collie dogs. He was tax collector of Mer- 
cersburg, 1 899- 1 902, and became a member 
of the Mercersburg town council in 1903. 
Mr. Faust married Oct. 17, 1893, Mary 
Susan Jane Philips (born March 25, 1872), 
daughter of Joshua M. and Maiy M. 
(Yeakle) Philips, and they have issue : Mary 
Verna, born Sept. 21, 1895; David Earl, 
born Aug. 24, 1897; and Ruth, born Aug. 
16, 1901. 

2. William Chambers (born in St. 
Thomas township, Oct. 12, 1873) is a mem- 
ber of the firm of D. W. Faust & Sons, and 
lives in Chambersburg. He married Dec. 
19, 1901, Mary Elizabeth Davison (born 
Dec. 28, 1877), daughter of Joseph B. and 
Hannah Elizabeth Davison, of Antrim town- 
ship. 

3. Mary Susan. 

(Ill) DANIEL JEROME FAUST 
(bom in Franklin county), son of David W. 
and Susan (Coover) Faust, was educated 
in the public schools of his native county, 
and in 1867 began an apprenticeship in the 
milling business. After serving three years 
he went into the milling business at Orrs- 
town, where he remained two years. He 
then went to Lexington, Ohio, where he 
was engaged in the milling business from 
1877 to 1884. He then came to Chambers- 
burg, and after being engaged in the grocery 
business for two years he removed to Mer- 
cersburg, where he was a miller until the 
spring of 1898. Returning to Chambers- 
burg, he took charge of the Lake \^iew Mills 
in the capacity of general manager. In 
company with H. G. WoU and John T. Rin- 
singer Mr. Faust ]nu"chased the Lakeview 
Mills from C. H. Dcmpwolf, of York. They 
do a general milling business and have made 
improvements until they now have one of the 
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in Franklin county. In politics Mr. Faust 
is a Democrat. He was a member of the 
school board at Lexington, Ohio, and also a 
school director at Mercersburg. He was a 
county auditor of Franklin county, 1895-98, 
being elected as a Democrat. He is a mem- 
ber of the Royal Arcanum and the Knights 
of the Golden Eagle. His religious connec- 
tion is with the Lutheran Church, in which 
he has served on the official board, being both 
treasurer and trustee. Mr. Faust married in 
1872, Anna Minnick, daughter of Jacob 
Minnick ; and they had issue : 

I. LiLLiA E. married James A. Boyd, 
of Mercersburg. 



2. Mary E. is at home. 

JOHN GEHR CORBETT, one of the 
well-known citizens and business men of 
Waynesboro, Franklin county, a member of 
the hardware, harness and implement firm of 
Beck & Corbett, located in the Wayne build- 
ing, was born in Baltimore county, Md., 
Sept. 8, 1856. He is a son of Jacob B. and 
Louise (Honodle) Corbett, the former of 
whom was born in Washington county, Md., 
in 1826, while his wife was born in QuinCy 
township, Franklin Co., Pa., in 1835. The 
father died in 1871, but the mother still sur- 
vives, making her home with her son John, 
in Waynesboro, where she located in the 
fall of 1 87 1, and which has since been her 
home. From Washington county, Md., the 
father removed to Franklin county, Pa., 
where he was married. One child was born 
in that county, and then the parents removed 
to Baltimore county, Md., where the remain- 
ing seven children of the family were born 
and the death of the father occurred. He 
was a lifelong farmer and met with reason- 
able success. The children w-ere as follows : 

I. Franklin, born in Franklin county, 
Pa., died Sept. 8, 1855, in Baltimore county, 
Maryland. 



2. John G. 

3. Samuel H., born in Baltimore 
county, resides in Kansas. 

4. Margaret E. married W. H. Mor- 
rison, of Waynesboro. 

5. Martin S. resides in Washington, 
Pennsylvania. 

6. Edward H. resides in Kansas City,. 
Kansas. 

7. Mary A. married J. F. Towson, of 
Baltimore. 

8. Louisa died in childhood in Waynes- 
boro. 

JOHN GEHR CORBETT was reared 
to farm work and attended the common 
schools of his neighborhood. When about 
twelve years of age he was sent to Balti- 
more and there attended school for one win- 
ter. In October, 1872, he came to Waynes- 
boro, and that winter attended the schools of 
the city, but in March, 1873, he went to work 
for the Frick Mfg. Co., serving an appren- 
ticeship to the machinist's trade. He contin- 
ued with that company for twenty-eight 
years, nineteen of which he was foreman of 
the machine department. In February, 
1 90 1, he left the employ of the Frick Co., 
and on July 15th, same year, he and J. Ed- 
ward Beck organized their now flourishing 
business. 

Mr. Corbett married Mary F., the daugh- 
ter of William Adams, deceased, who was at 
one time a prominent member of the Cham- 
bersburg Bar. To Mr. and Mrs. Corbett 
one son has been born, 

I. William Adams. 

Mr. Corbett is a Republican and has al- 
ways been prominent in local affairs, serving 
as president of the borough council for two 
years, and treasurer for one year. Both he 
and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Church, and he is a very popular factor in 
that bodv. 



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SAMUEL H. MARTIN, one of the 
prosperous and enterprising' men of /Antrim 
township, Frankhn coimty, was born Oct. 
15. 1 85 1, in Washington county, Md., son 
of Jacob and EHzabeth (Horst) Martin, and 
grandson of Jacob Martin. 

, (I) JACOB MARTIN first settled near 
New Holland. Lancaster county, and he 
made his home in that county, until his death 
in 1864. He was buried at Weavers Church, 
*n the Mennonite cemetery, being a member 
of that religious denomination. His issue 
was : 

1. Abraham. 

2. Samuel. 

3. Jacob (II). 

4. John. 

5. Mattie married John Lonanecker. 

6. A daughter that died unmarried. 
(II) JACOB MARTIN son of Jacob, 

was a farmer of Washington county, Md., 
where he lived from 1836 to 1887, when he 
died. He was buried at Reiff's Church, in 
Washington county. His religious faith 
was that of the Mennonites. He married 
Elizabeth, daughter of John Horst, of Lan- 
caster county, Pa. They reared their chil- 
dren in the Mennonite faith, and all were 
successful worthy citizens. These children 
^^•ere : 

I. Michael married Molly Hege, of 
Franklin county, daughter of Jacob Hege. 

2. Annie married Solomon Martin, of 
Lancaster county. 

3. J.\C0B married Elizabeth Roth, of 
W^ashington county. He was a minister in 
the Mennonite Church. 

4. Mary married Isaac Eby, the his- 
torian of the family now residing at 
Maugansville, Washington Co., Maryland. 

5. John married Mary Miller, of 
W'ashington Co., Maryland. 

6. Henry married Fannie Miller, sister 
of lohn's wife. 



7. Elizabeth is unmarried. 

8. David married Mary Eshelman. 

9. Samuel H. (III). 

10. Abraham married Mary E. Shank, 
of Franklin county. 

11. Martha married Louis Shank, a 
l)ishop of the Mennonite Church of the dis- 
trict of Rockingham county, Virginia. 

12. Amos married Elizabeth Shank. 

(Ill) . SAMUEL H. martin at- 
tended the public schools of Washington 
county, Md., and was reared upon the old 
homestead within five miles of Hagerstown, 
Md. In 1882, he came to Franklin county 
and bought a part of the old John Shank 
farm, 130 acres, which had l)een in the Shank 
family for fifty years, upon which he has 
since resided and brought up his family. In 
1 87 1 Mr. Martin married Catherine Shank, 
daughter of Jacob and Martha (Strife) 
Shank, of Antrim township. Seven chil- 
dren have been born to them : 

1. Harvey married Elizabeth Shindle, 
of Antrim township, and they have four 
children : Grace, Katie, Dorsey and John. 

2. Cl.\yton, deceased. 

3. John, deceased. 

4. Dorsey marrietl .\da Loucks of 
Westmoreland county. Pa., and they have 
two children, Katherine and Clifford. 

5. Alvin. 

6. Elmer married Amanda Baer, of 
Washington county, Md., and they have one 
child, Leonard. 

7. IMartha. 

Mr. and Mrs. Martin are very prominent 
in the Mennonite Church. The eldest son, 
Harvey is a minister of the Dunkard Church 
in .\ntrim township, Franklin county, while 
Dorsev is a minister of the Mennonite 
Church in Westmoreland county, Pa., and 
both are very excellent, and eloquent young 
men. devoted to their sacred calling. The 
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known throughout Pennsylvania and Mary- 
land, where its representatives have been 
honest, God-fearing men and women, de- 
voted to their homes, their families, and 
their church. Among them the larger vices 
do not come, for the elders have set excellent 
examples and have brought up the young 
according to the teaching of the church. The 
greater number of them are farmers, and 
success follows them, for they are industrious 
and frugal, and know how to save as well as 
how to earn. 

ADAM J. DUKEHART, one of the 
leading citizens of Rouzerville, and the only 
justice of the peace for Washington town- 
ship outside of Waynesboro, was born June 
9, 1839, at Baltimore, Md., a son of Henry 
and Margaret ( List) Dukehart, natives of 
Saxony, Germany. 

(I) HENRY DUKEHART was born 
in 1 80 1 and died in 1883, and his wife was 
born in 1807 and died in 1888. They were 
married in Germany and a few years later 
emigrated to America, landing at Baltimore, 
where they liv-ed for some time, then remov- 
ing to Emmitsburg, where they died. The 
father was a butcher by trade, and followed 
tiiat business successfully all his life. Both 
parents were worthy members of the Catho- 
lic Church. They had these children born to 
them : 

1. Frederick, a carpenter and builder 
at Waynesboro, married Helen Keepers. 

2. Mary (deceased) married Joseph 
Roosensteel, of Emmitsburg. 

3. John (deceased) married Catherine 
Smith. 

4- Adam J. (II). 

5. Henry married Anna Florence, 
who is deceased. 

6. William went West. 

7. Margaret, twin of William, is de- 
ceased. 



(11) ADAM J. DUKEHART was 
reared in the neighborhood of Emmitsburg,. 
-Md., near Mt. St. Mary's where he attended 
school for two years. In i86j he came to- 
Rouzerville and began clerking in the store 
of Peter Rouzer, and acquitted himself sO' 
creditably that at a later date he was taken 
into partnership by Mr. Rouzer in a hucks- 
tering business, this connection lasting about 
five years. Then he withdrew from the part- 
nership, continuing in the same business for 
himself for about eight years, enjoying a 
prosper(ius trade. In 1885 he was elected 
magistrate and ser\-ed for five years, was re- 
elected for a like term, and was again re- 
elected. Through some oversight he failed 
to file his notice of acceptance and he was 
appointed by Gov. Hastings for one year 
and at the next general election was again 
re-elected. He resigned his commission as 
magistrate in 1892, in order to accept a posi- 
tion in the Internal Revenue department as- 
storekeeper and ganger, which position he 
held nearly five years, serving at distilleries 
through the neighborhood. After leaving the- 
Revenue service Mr. Dukehart was not of- 
ficially active until the next regular spring- 
election, when he was again elected magis- 
trate, and was re-elected in 1900. This long 
service as magistrate very forcibly shows - 
his character and the confidence and esteem 
in which he is held by his fellow citizens. 
He has been equall)- prominent in all town- 
ship afifairs, serving for thirteen years as 
school director and one year as assessor. 
Being the oidy magistrate in his locality he- 
handles much business, and does it in so just 
and fair a way that little complaint has ever 
been made over his decisions. 

Mr. Dukehart married Annie Waltham,. 
who was born near Emmitsburg, Md., 
daughter of Henry and Catherine (Tin- 
string) Waltham, and to this union eleven' 
children have been born, as follows-:. 



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1. Catherine is at home. 

2. Stella married George Sanders, of 
Rouzerville. 

3. Ella married Charles Hook, of 
Southampton township, Frankhn county. 

4. Ida is unmarried. 

5. Harry is deceased. 

6. Agnes is deceased. 

7. Anna is unmarried. 

8. John, connected with the Baltimore 
.& Ohio Railroad, is living at Baltimore. 

9. Charles is living in Iowa. 

10. Louisa. 

11. Morbet. 

Mr. Dukehart and his family are mem- 
bers of the Roman Catholic Church, those 
still at home being connected with St. An- 
drew's Catholic Church at Waynesboro. In 
politics he is a Democrat. He is widely 
known, and exerts a strong influence in the 
community in favor of education and moral 
reforms. 

WILLIAM G. KIRKPATRICK, one of 
the leading farmers in Path Valley, was 
born in Fannett township, Franklin county, 
Aug. 26, 1836, on the farm which is now 
his own property. His parents were Ed- 
ward and Ann (Herron) Kirkpatrick, na- 
-tives of the Valley. 

(I) FRANCIS KIRKPATRICK and 
.Ann (Hudson) Kirkpatrick. the paternal 
grandparents, were of Scotch-Irish origin, 
and were among the early settlers of Cum- 
berland and Franklin counties. Their fam- 
ily consisted of : 

1. Edward (II). 

2. Mary became the wife of Joseph 
Elder. 

3. Ann married Abraham Elder. 

4. Marth.\ died young. 

5. George married Maria Filson, of 
Fannett township. 

6. James married Agnes Shetler. 



7. John died unmarried. 

8. William married Rebecca Brant. 

On his mother's side William G. Kirk- 
patrick is descended from Patrick and 
Temperance (Moore) Herron, natives of 
Adams county. Pa. Patrick Herron was a 
son of John and Elizabeth (Bowls) Herron, 
of Scotch-Irish stock, who came from Ire- 
land to Pennsylvania at an early day. 

(II) . EDWARD KIRKPATRICK 
was born Feb. 12, 1799, and died June i, 
1858. A lifelong Democrat and consistent 
member of the Upper Path Valley Presby- 1 
terian Church, he was a leading citizen and ' 
held many church and township offices. In 
1829 he married Miss Ann Herron, who was 
lx)rn May 6, 1800, on the farm now owiied 
by Hance Campbell. She outlived her hus- 
band for many years, passing away April 

4, 1886. Their children were as follov/s : 

1. Martha J., born Feb. i, 1830, died 
Aug. 24, 1847. 

2. Mary T., born Feb. 3, 1S32, died 
Feb. 13, 1854. 

3. Frances J., born May 18, 1834, 
died May 13, i860. 

4. William G. (HI). 

5. Alexander H., Ijorn Nov. 7, 1839, 
(lied Jan. 11, 1862. 

6. David M., born Oct. i, 1843, •^'^'^ 
May 12, 1865. 

(III) WILLIAM G. KIRKPATRICK 
spent his youth on his father's farm, where 
he became thoroughly acquainted with all 
the details of a farmer's life and laid the 
foundation of all that practical knowledge 
which has made him since so successful a 
farmer. He was given a good education, 
being sent first to the public schools ami then 
to an academy in Juniata county. On at- 
taining man's estate he decided upon farm- 
ing as his occupation and has become one 
of the most prosperous agriculturists in the 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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equipped with good buildings, is one which 
liis father bought in 1840, having rented it 
for the seven years previously. Mr. Kirk- 
patrick is a prominent man in the commun- 
ity for he has been active on behalf of the 
Democratic party always, and has served the 
public well as school director and township 
auditor. He is well known also in the work 
of the L'pper Path Valley Presbyterian 
Cliurch. to which he has belonged many 
years. When the Path Valley Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company was organized he was 
one of the directors, and for fourteen years 
was its treasurer. 

The married life of Mr. Kirkpatrick has 
extended over almost forty years. On Nov. 
30, 1865, he was united to Xancy J. Burk, 
daughter of William and Elizabeth (Smith) 
Burk, an old and well-known family of Fan- 
nett township. They have had a family of 
nine children, as follows : 

1. Anxie E., wife of J. B. Elder, of 
Dry Run, is the mother of Gwendolyn May- 
belle and Miriam. 

2. Minnie G., the widow of Oliver 
Brown W'olfif, of Path Valley, is residing in 
Philadelphia with her two daughters, Ger- 
trude and Dorothy. 

3. E. Newton, a farmer, is at home. 

4. William B., a physician at High- 
spire, Dauphin Co., Pa., married Miss Susan 
Brinley. 

5. Mary E. is at home. 

6. Samuel A. is a student in the 
Medico-Chirurgical Institute, Philadelphia. 

7- John H. is principal of the public 
schools of Port Royal, Pennsylvania. 

8. Harry M. is a student in the Cum- 
berland Valley State Normal School. 

9. Clara M. lived only seven years. 
The family life of Mr. Kirkpatrick has 

been a very happy one, for he is a man of 
the greatest kindness in his home, while his 
absolute honestv and integ-ritv are every- 



where acknowledged and admired. He is 
the only one of the old family n<.\v living in 
I'ranklin county. 

DAVID OTIS NICODEMUS, a mer- 
chant, farmer and part proprietor of the 
Xicorlemus Creamery at Waynecastle 
(Zullinger, P. O.) Washington township, 
\vas born on the old Hagerman farm, owned 
by his father, four miles west from Waynes- 
boro, Jul3- 30, 1 85 1, son of Samuel 
Nicodemus. 

(I) FREDERICK NICODEMUS, 
great-grandfather of David Otis, was a 
prominent farmer in Washington township. 
He was one of the founders of the Salem 
Reformed Church, which was organized 
July 9, 1786, and to this church his de- 
scendants have been loyal. In his family 
was a son John (II). 

(II) JOHN NICODEMUS, grand- 
father of David O., was a native of Penn- 
sylvania, born of German parents, and was 
one of the early settlers of Washington town- 
ship, where he followed farming, and also 
had one of the early distilleries. He died in 
1828. His wife, 3*Iargaret Potter, was also 
born in Pennsylvania of German parents. 
There were eight children born to John and 
Margaret Nicodemus as follows: 

1. Frederick. 

2. Jeremiah. 

3. Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Snyder. 

4. Maria, wife of David Hollinger. 

5. Daniel. 

6. Margaret, who married Jacob Sea- 
crist. 

7. Courtney. 

8. Samuel (III). 

( III ) SAMUEL NICODEMUS 
(born in Washington township, March 25, 
1825) is one of the best known farmers in 
Washington township, where he has been 
living retired since 1893; I" 1847 he married 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Catharine (died in 1895), daughter of John 
Leckron, of Waynesboro. John Leckron has 
been prominent in Washing-ton township for 
years; he is a Democrat in pohtics, and has 
filled various township offices, including that 
of auditor. He is a member of Salem Re- 
formed Church, of which he has been elder 
and deacon. Samuel and Catharine Nico- 
demus had issue : 

1. John, who resides at Edgemont, 
Maryland. 

2. David Otis (IV). 

3. A. L., of Greencastle. 

4. Araminta, who married Franklin 
Miller. 

5. Dora, who married A. H. Morgal, 
of Washington township. 

. (IV) DAVID OTIS NICODEMUS 
was reared on the farm and attended the 
district schools and the Waynesboro high 
school. He began farming for himself in 
1879, on his father's farm, and has continued 
that occupation up to the present. In 1884 
he was instrumental in forming a stock com- 
pany and establishing the Xicodemus 
Creamery, at what may now be termed 
Waynecastle, with a capital of $6,000. He 
became one of the first directors of the Com- 
pany. In 1898, with H. D. Morgal, he pur- 
chased the creamery, and they have since 
operated it in partnership. They have a 
daily capacity of 1,000 pounds of butter. 
When the creamery was established only 
cheese was made, but gradually the owners 
got into general merchandising in connec- 
tion with the creamery, and this business 
they have continued. 

In 1879, Mr. Nicodemus married Alice 
M. Gilbert, daughter of Henry and Rebecca 
(Jacobs) Gilbert. Mrs. Nicodemus was 
born on the old Gilbert home farm, now in 
South Waynesboro, occupied by her widowed 
mother. Mrs. Gilbert traces her ancestry to 
1753, when Martin Jacobs left his native 



Rotterdam, and on the good ship "Richard 
and Mary" sailed for the New World, land- 
ing at Philadelphia Sept. 17th, of that year. 
He settled in the neighborhood of what is 
now known as Jacobs' Church, and there be- 
came the owner of 400 acres of land. He 
donated the land for the church and the 
graveyard, and in the latter he sleeps his last 
sleep. He was the progenitor of many use- 
ful and .pious descendants, among whom 
may be mentioned Rev. Michael and David 
Jacobs, who were among the founders of the 
widely known Lutheran Theological Semi- 
nary of Gettysburg; Dr. Luther Jacobs, of 
Emporia, Kans. ; and Dr. Harry Jacobs. 
David O. and Alice M. Nicodemus have had 
issue : 

1. Katie Lenore. 

2. Edith Grace. 

3. Harry Clyde. 

4. Samuel Gilbert. 

5. Leila May. 

6. Eva Rebecca. 

7. Beula Bahner. 

8. John Otis. 

9. Margaret. 

■Mr. Nicodemus. while taking an intelli- 
gent interest in public questions, has held 
no official position save that of school 
director, serving for several years. Fra- 
ternally he is a member of the Junior Order 
of j\merican Mechanics. Prominent in 
church work, he is a member of the Salem 
Reformed Church, where for three years he 
has been superintendent of the Sabbath- 
school. 

ABRAHAM O. PRICK, president of 
the Frick Company of Waynesboro. Pa., is 
an inventor of no mean order, and has pat- 
ented and placed upon the market a number 
of machines of great value in industrial 
lines. The son of the late George Frick, a 



BIO-GRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.. 



machinist, his ability in such work is a nat- 
ural inheritance. 

Born near Ringgold. .Md., June 16, 
1852, Abraham O. Frick received a com- 
mon school elucation, and then, when thirteen 
years old, he was placed by liis father in the 
shops of the latter to learn the machinist's 
trade, at which he worked during the sum- 
mer, attending school in winter. At the ao-e 
of nineteen years he entered the draughting 
department, of which he was given charo-e 
a year or two later, and at the same time 
made general foreman of the works. After 
filling both positions for a couple of years, 
he resigned his duties as general foreman, 
and devoted all his time to the draughting 
room, of which he was given full charge. 
In this position he continued until 1888, and 
during that time did all the designing of the 
machinery manufactured by the company. 
In the latter year, however, his health beo-aii 
to fail, and he gave up all work, retiring 
from business for ten years. It was while 
in the draughting department that he de- 
signed the "Eclipse" portable and traction 
engine, which was patented in his name. He 
also designed and patented numerous other 
machinery, all manufactured by the Frick 
Company. At the Cincinnati Industrial Ex- 
position (1873). the Centennial Exposition 
(1876), the World's Fair (1893), and the 
Pan American Exposition (1901), the 
"Eclipse" received awards, the exhibits of 
tlie company being in charge of Mr. 
Frick. 

In 1897 Mr. Frick returned to the Frick 
Company as vice-president, and he now 
holds the position of president, and is also 
a director. In 1878 Mr. Frick married Lou- 
isa Hatter who was born in Baltimore, 
the daughter of Martin and Fredericka 
(Leintz) Hatter. She died in 1885, leaving 
no issue. Mr. Frick was again married, his 
present wife being Margaret Mehaffey, who 

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was born in Lancaster county, Pa., daughter^ 
of Samuel and Margaret (Cassell) Mehaf- 
fey, both natives of Lancaster county, but 
later of Chambersburg. 

Mr. Frick is a Republican in politics, and 
displays a keen interest in all matters affect- 
ing the municipality, having served on the 
city council. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic and Odd Fellows orders, and is promi- 
nent in the councils of both. 

DESCENDANTS OF DEVVALD 
KIEFFER.— Dewald Kieffer (born in Hes- 
sen-Darmstadt, Germany — died at Upper 
Strasburg), son of Abraham Kieffer, Jr., 
emigrated to Pennsylvania from Zwei- 
Brucken, on the Rhine, with his father and 
two brothers, landing at Philadelphia Sept. 
15- 1748. He was raised near Kutztown, in 
Berks county. Pa. After the Revolution he 
removed to Franklin county, and in 1789 
purchased from James Clark the tract of land 
called "Clark's Fancy," where the village of 
Upper Strasburg now stands. He laid out 
the town the same year, calling it Strasburg 
after the famous German city. The village 
was very prosperous for many years, and 
until the advent of turnpikes was the most 
important town in the county. Mr. Kieffer 
kept a tavern that was a noted resort in its 
day. He married Hannah Fox; they had 
issue : 

1. Abraham (I). 

2. Peter (II). 

3. Dewalu (III). 

4. Gideon. 

5. LuDwiG died s. p. 

6. Jacob (born Sept. 21, 1780 — died 
May I, 1818) went to Bedford county. He 
married Elizabeth Houser (born Sept. 9, 
1783 — died Feb. 2, 1835) and they had is- 
sue : Ludwig, Sophia, Lydia, Jacob, Hannah, 
Abraham and William Maclay. 

7. Christian (IV). 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



466 

8. Hannah married Peter Keefer. 
[See Descendants of Nicklaus Kieffer]. 
[^^ 9. Catharine married George Beaver 

(vy. 

- 10. Rebecca married David Shearer. 

r (T). ABRAHAM KIEFFER (born 

I near Kutztown. Berks county, Nov. 18, 1758 
! —died Aug. 18, 1855) was a farmer and 
teamster near Keefer's postof^ce. He was 
j widely known as "Old Uncle Abraham." He 
was a Revolutionary soldier, and there is a 
tradition that he served in the same com- 
pany with his brother-in-law, George Beaver. 
This service probably was in Capt. Beaver's 
company of Berks County Associators. He 
lived near Keefer's Church, on the farm oc- 
( cupied by William Karper in more recent 
\ years. ':^Ir. Kieffer married Catharine 
Beaver (born Nov. 9, 1763— died Aug. 10, 
1833). daughter of George Beaver, and a 
sister of George Beaver, who married Abra- 
ham Kieffer's sister, Catharine. Abraham 
and Catharine Kieffer had a large family : 
-— • I. John married Rebecca Cressen; 
^ent to Ohio. 

2. Joseph (VI). 

3. Abraham (VII). 

4. Daniel married and removed to In- 
diana; he had issue: Lucinda, William, De- 
wald. Calvin and Daniel. 

5. Dewald, born Oct. 10, 1803. died 
unmarried, Dec. 23, 1836. 

6. Lewis (VIII). 
7 Simon was a farmer and merchant 

at Reedsburg, Ohio. He married Elizabeth 
Espv. and had issue: Corvan. Frank, Cath- 
arine, Marv Louise, Sarah ^latilda. Eliza- 
beth Alice.'Carrie Ida and Laura Jennette. 
8. Hannah married Benjamin Keefer. 

Sibbie married Christian Keefer. 

Mary married Stephen Keefer. 

Rebecca. 

Elizabeth married John Owen 



4- 

5- 
6. 



9- 
10. 
1 1. 
12. 
<IX). 



13. Catharine (born 1804— died 
1845). married, 1828, William C. Grim, a 
merchant at Wooster, Ohio : they had issue : 
Abraham Keefer, Henry K., William and 
Catharine Elizabeth. 

14. Susan married Gideon Keefer 

(X). 

(II) PETER KIEFFER was a tall 
man and was known as "Big" Peter; he was 
a noted- wrestler. Mr. Kieffer married 
(first) Margaret Sells, of Berks county and 
(second) Elizabeth Schamm, of Lancaster, 
Pa. By the first union there was issue : 

1. GiDEON (X). 

2. Samuel married Sarah Clapsaddle; 
no issue. 

3. Peter (XI). 
Jacob married Jane Hibbert. 
Jonathan (XII). 
Christian (XIII). 

7. John P. (XIV)- 
(III) DEWALD KIEFFER married 
Mary Bossart ; they had issue : 

1. Jacob (born March 4, 1 801— died 
1884) married Mrs. A. S. Waldo. 

2. John married Christina Gilbert; 
moved to Ohio. 

3. Jonas was a minister. 
'4. Catharine married James Kin- 

neard (XV). 

5. Elizabeth married Jonas Clap- 
saddle. 

6. Julian married Charles Cox, Cleve- 

lands Ohio. 

pIV) CHRISTIAN KEEFER (bom 
near Kutztown, Berks county, in 1768— 
died June 18. 1822) was brought to Frank- 
lin county by his parents, and was a farmer 
and teamster in Letterkenny township. He 
married (first) Elizabeth Sells (bom in 
T-fM^— died April 4. 1800) ; they had issue: 

1. Benjamin (XVI). 

2. Christian (XVII). 
-,. Di:wai.d (XVIII). 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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(second) Mary 



r. 



4- George (XIX). 

5. Hannah married Christian Foltz. 
[See Foltz Family]. 

Mr. Keefer married 
Poorman ; they had issue 

1. Solomon (XX). 

2. Daniel (XXI). 

3. Moses (XXII). 

4. Elizabeth married Samuel Foltz. 
[See Foltz Family.] 

5. Mary Eve married Christian Brandt 
(XXIII). 

6. Julian (born April 24, 18 18 — died 
Nov. 18. 1835) married Jacob T. Smith 
(died May 25. 1861). who was a carpenter 
at Martinsburg, W. Va. They had issue: 
^\'illiam F.. John A.. Sarah A.. Mary E.. 
Moses K.. Jacob T., Martha E.. George D., 
Mina Belle, and James Buchanan. 

(V) CATHARINE K I E F F E R, 
daughter of Dewald and Hannah (Fox) 
Kieffer. married George Beaver (born in 
Chester county. May i. 1755), a Revolution- 
ary soldier. He enlisted in Capt. Thomas 
Church's Company, of the 4th Pennsylvania 
Battalion, Col. Anthony Wayne, and served 
in the Second Canada Expedition, in 1776. 
He was afterward a captain in the 6th Bat- 
talion, Berks County Associators, in 1778. 
and in the ist Battalion, in 1780. After 
tlie Revolution he settled near Strasburg. in 
Franklin county. George and Catharine 
(Kieffer) Beaver had issue (surname 
Beaver) : 

I. Peter (XXIV). 

Mary (Mrs. Gudekuntz). 

Samuel died in South America. 

Hannah (Mrs. Gudekuntz). 

Elizabeth (Mrs. Edwards). 

Margaret (Mrs. Gudekuntz). 

George died in Shippensburg. in 

Sarah (Mrs. Delaney). 
David. 



(VI) JOSEPH KIEFFER (b.jrn 
June 22, 1784— died Oct. 5, 1849), son of 
Abraham and Catharine (Beaver) Kieffer, 
was a farmer and tanner at Shepherdstown, 
W. Va. He married (first) Hannah Falk; 
they had issue : 

1. One child died in infancy. 

2. EPHRAIM (XXV). 

3. Maria. 
4- Stephen (born Nov. 20, 1816 — 

died April 27, 1898) learned the trade of a 
carpenter, at which he worked for twelve 
years in West Virginia. He then remo\'ed 
to Hanov-er, Pa., and engaged in the grocery 
business, in which he made an ample for- 
tune. He was a director of the Hanover 
Junction, Hanover & Gettysburg Railroad, 
the Berlin Branch Railroad, the Baughman 
Valley Railroad, the Hanover & Baltimore 
Railroad and the Baltimore, Gettysburg & 
Harrisburg Railroad. He was also a direc- 
tor of the First National Bank of Hanover 
and the Hanover Gas Co., and was president 
and superintendent of the Hanover Water 
Co. He was chosen a county commissioner 
of York county in 1880, and burgess of 
Hanover in 1885. Mr. Kieffer married 
(first) Dec. 24. 1842, Catharine Bixler, 
daughter of David and Susan Bixler; and 
(second) May 18. 1858, Susan Forry, 
daughter of Rudolph and Elizabeth Forry. 
There was no issue by either marriage. 

5. Justus (XXVI). 

Mr. Kieffer married a second time, the 
name of his wife being Stuckey; they had 
no issue. 

(VII) ABRAHAM KEEFER (died 
March, 1864), son of Abraham and Catha- 
rine (Beaver) Kieffer. married Susan Price; 
they had issue : 

1. Henry (XXVII). 

2. John (XXVIII). 

3. A son died in infancy. 



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4. Hezekiah (born Oct. 3, 1835) 
married Annie R. Fohl ; they had no issue. 

5. Daniel married Jane Blair, de- 
ceased ; they had issue : Susan, James, 
Harry and WilHam. 

6. Price died young 

(VIII) LEWIS KIEFFER, son of 
Abraham and Catharine (Beaver) Kieffer, 
married Ephia Kieffer, daughter of Isaac 
Kieffer, who was a son of Nicklaus Kieffer, 
and grandson of Abraham Kieffer, Jr., the 
immigrant. Lewis and Ephia Kieffer had 
issue : 

1. Amelia married Jacob Curley; 
they had a daughter, Jennie. 

2. Alice Ellen married James 
Myers; they had issue: Ida (died young), 
Emma, William, Charles, Rush, Harry and 
Grace. 

3. Hannah (died 1884) married 
Samuel Fisher, a druggist at Andrews, 
Ind. They had two children : Carrie and 
Edna. 

4. Dewald, Mt. Carroll, 111. ; wife's 
name Reed. 

5. Abraham Lewis (born April 16, 
1852) married Nov. 9, 1876, Mary W. 
Stitzell (born Feb. 27, 1850) ; they had 
issue: William Lewis, John Earl, Ervin 
Dewald, Mora Suissa and Laura Mony. 

6. Laura married John Walker; 
they had issue : Minnie and Harvey. 

7. William. 

( IX ) ELIZABETH KIEFFER, 
daughter of Abraham and Catharine 
(Beaver) Kieffer, married John Owen 
(born in 1786 — died Dec. 18, 1854), a 
schoolmaster at Cove Gap ; they had issue : 
(surname Owen). 

1 . Alexander. 

2. Abraham. 

3. Wilson. 

4. William. 

5. Catharine. 



6. Ellen. 

7. Selina. 

8. Stephen W'., a minister. 

(X)* GIDEON KIEFFER (born Jan. 
16. 1785 — died Feb. 2, 1821), son of Peter 
and Margaret (Sells) Kieffer, was a farmer 
at L'pper Strasburg. He married (first) 
Susan Kieffer, daughter of Abraham and 
Catharine (Beaver) Kieffer; they had issue: 

1. ^I.'^rgaret married (name of hus- 
band not known) and had issue: Keefer, 
born June 21, 1824; Mary, Oct. 19, 1827 
(married Shively) ; Cyrus, Nov. 11, 1830; 
Rebecca, July 14, 1833 (married Miller) ; I 
Jonas, Aug. 3, 1846; and Julia Ann. Oct. 
27, 1851. 

2. JoN.\s (born 1807 — died Oct. 30, 
1886) was a hardware merchant in Pitts- 
burg. 

3. Paul. 

Mr. Kieffer married (second) Elizabeth 
Laufman ; they had issue : 

1. Augustus Laufm.\n (born March 
10, 1 818) was a farmer at Paris, Illinois. 

2. Adolphus Wilhelm (born Dec. 
2y, 1819) was a farmer at Oliver, 111. He 
married Ellen Jones; they had issue: Dora, 
born April 22, i860; Augustus E., Sept. 
18, 1861 (died March 23, 1887) ; Benja- 
min, Sept. 13, 1863; Ellen M., Sept. 16, 
1865; Josephine. Nov. 24, 1867; Irene, 
March 2, 1870: and Gertrude, July 14, 1876. 

(XI) PETER KIEFFER (bom Feb. 
8' 1793 — (^i^cl April 27, 1854), son of Peter I 
and Margaret (Sells) Kieffer, lived near ' 
Mercersburg, and was afterward a miller 
in Lancaster county. He married Sept. 10, \ 
1816, Barbara Steele (born Sept. 15, 1795 ' 
— died Sept. 9. 1852), and they had issue: ! 

I. David Steele (XXIX). , 



•There is some confusion in regard to this Gideon: • 
the question is whether he is a son of " Big" Peter of 
the hne of Dewald, or of "Little" Peter of the line of 
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2. William (born 1822 — died Oct. 27, 
1873), a coppersmith at Cincinnati, mar- 
ried Susan E. Carpenter; they had issue: 
Alfred, Catharine. Ahce and Louisa. 

3. Margaretta Sells. 

4. Elizabeth R. (died Sept. 16, 1865) 
was a poetess and teacher. 

5. Marv Jane (born 1827 — died Aug. 
27, 1842). 

6. AxNA M. married John E. Car- 
penter, and Iiad issue : Lilha, Percy, 
Clare, Grant, Adie, Agnes, Walter and Wil- 
liam. 

7. Jonathan married Elizabeth Etter ; 
they had issue : . Albert, Frank, Lillie, Min- 
nie, Estella, Ada, \\'alter, and Irene. 

8. Sarah Belle married Samuel F. 
Reber, and had issue : Bruce, John, Peter 
and Irene. 

9. Walter (XXX). 

(XII) JONATHAN KIEFFER (born 
Dec. 16, 1797 — died 3\Iarch 25, 1882), son 
of Peter and Margaret (Sells) Kieffer, was 
a farmer near Greencastle. He married 
(first) Mary Tice (born May 31, 1806 — 
died Feb. 15, 1833), and they had issue: 

1. Eliza Malinda married Jonathan 
Kiesecker (XXXI). 

2. Henrv died in infancy. 

3. One child died in infancy. 

Mr. KielYer married (second) Eliza 
Tice, born Jan. 21, 1801, died June 25, 1876. 

(XIII) CHRISTIAN KIEFFER 
(born Oct. 20, 1799 — died Sept. 1885). son 
of Peter and Margaret (Sells) Kiefifer, was 
a merchant and coppersmith at Lancaster. 
He was twice elected to the State Legisla- 
ture, in 1840 and 1841, and was three times 
chosen mayor of Lancaster, in 1852. 1853 
and 1834. He married (first) Sarah Big- 
ler (born Aug. 12, 1802) : they had issue: 

I. Emily (born X'ov. 14. 1833) mar- 
ried Anthony B. Flinn; they had issue: 
H. Victor Ganes. 



2. Adelaide, born Oct. i, 1838, died 
Dec. 8, 1874. 

3. Henry Elwood, born Oct. 23, 1840, 
died July 13, 1842. 

4. Clara, born May i, 1842, died 
April 30, 1843. 

Mr. Kiefifer married (second) Sophia 
Tice (died July 6, 1890), and had issue: 

1. Sarah, l)orn Sept. 4. 1844. died 
June 23, 1846. 

2. Annie (born April 5, 1846) mar- 
ried Andrew C. Flinn; they had issue: 
Elwood, Emily, Eugene and Dorothy. 

(XIV) JOHN P. KIEFFER, son of 
Peter and Margaret (Sells) Kiefifer, mar- 
ried May 29, 1821, Martha Thompson; they 
had issue: 

1. Thompson, a coppersmith at Bucy- 
rus, Ohio, married and had issue: Wil- 
liam, Edward C, Franklin, Homer J.,. 
Laura (married William Dewald,) and 
Sarah (married Charles Newman). Wil- 
liam Kiefifer (born February, 1844), the 
eldest son, married Frances Phillips, and 
had issue: Harry T., born in June, 1867; 
Sarah, June, 1869; Mira, August, 1872; 
Mabel V., X^ovember, 1879; and Ethel, July, 
1882. 

2. Augustus. 

3. William. 

4. John. 

5. Jacob. 

6. Martha. 

7. Mary Jane married Thomas Kel- 
ly; they had issue: Kiefifer, Thompson, 
William and Walter. 

(XV) CATHARIXE KIEFFER, 
daughter of Dewald and Mary (Bossart) 
Kiefifer, married James Kinneard,- they 
had issue (surname Kinneard) : 

1. Mary Jane, born Dec. 5, 1814, died 
May 14. 1883. 

2. Sarah Ann. married William F. 
Roemer (XXXII). 



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3. William J., born Jan. 9, 1819, was 
a cabinet-maker an<l organ-builder at. Cleve- 
land, Ohio. He married Mary- McGee ; tliey 
had issue : George and Minnie. 

4. John Dewald (XXXIII). ' 

5. Elizabeth, born Jan. 2t,. 1823, 
died in infancy. 

6. M.\RGARET^ lx)rn Feb. 20, 1824. 

7. James (born April 26, 1826 — died 
Dec. 5. 1869) was an undertaker at Lexing- 
ton, Ky. He married Margaret Messmer; 
they had issue : Thomas Leonard, Eliza- 
beth, William, John and Jennie. 

8. JosF.PHUS, born Feb. 29, 1S28. died 
Jan. 17, 1847. 

9. Catherine, born Feb. 14. 1831, 
married Milton J. Heart; no issue. 

10. Leonard Harvey (XXXIV). 

11. Eleanora W., married David 
Croft. 

(XVI) BENJAMIN KEEFER. son of 
Cliristian and Elizabeth (Sells) Keefer, 
married his cousin, Hannah Keefer, daugh- 
ter of Abraham and Susan (Price) Keefer; 
they had issue ; 

1. B.vrnet (XXXV) 

2. Jeremiah (XXXVI). 

3. Maria (died 1878) married Robert 
Robertson, of Mercersburg; no issue. 

4. Judith, married John Lininger, his 
second wife; no issue. 

5. Elizabeth married Peter Rotz; no 
issue. 

6. Lydia married John Lininger, his 
third wife; no issue. 

7. Hannah married John Shook,- 
they had a son, Jeremiah. 

'(XVII) CHRISTIAN KEEFER, son 
of Christian and Elizabeth (Sells) Keefer, 
married his cousin, Sibbie Kiefifer, daughter 
of Abraham and Catharine (Beaver) Kief- 
fer ; they had issue : 

1. Gideon (XXXVII). 

2. Elizabeth married (first) Na- 



thaniel P. Shade (died Feb. 3, 1863), a 
farmer at Lexington, 111. They had issue: 
John (died young), and Florence (who 
married Samuel Flutcheson, and has Lizzie 
M.). Mrs. Shade married (second) Austin 
S. Hutson. 

3. Catharine married Peter Keefer. 

4. William died in 1848. 

5. Rebecca born 181 5, died in 1837. 
(XVIII) DEWALD KEEFER (born 

May 12, 1796 — died June 7, 1866), son 
of Christian and Elizabeth ( Sells ) Keefer, 
was a prominent farmer of Letterkenny 
township. He inherited the old Keefer 
homestead, and when he died was the owner 
of three farms, aggregating 800 acres. He 
held numerous township offices, and was 
County Commissioner, 1848-51. His death 
was sudden. He retired to bed in his usual 
health and died during tlie night. Mr. 
Keefer married Rebecca Bard (born Sept. 
31, 1803 — died Sept. 17, 1862), daughter 
of William and Margaret (Durboraw) Bard. 
The Bards were an old Rocky Spring family, 
the grandfather of William Bard having 
settled in that neighborhood before 1751. 
Dewald and Rebecca Keefer had issue : 

1. Mary Jane married William 
Karper (XXXVIII). 

2. William Sells (XXXIX). 

3. James Bard, born July 7, 1828, died 
Sept. 2, 1850. 

4. Cyrus Thompson (XL). 

5. John Dewald, born April 9, 1836, 
died May 5, 1856. 

6. Isaac Holmes (XLI). 

7. Moses Augustus (XLII). 

8. Thomas Alexander, born July 28, 
1841, died Aug. 25. 1850. 

9. Francis Upton (XLIII). 
(XIX) GEORGE KEEFER (born in 

1797 — died May 13, 1863). son of Chris- 
tian and Elizabeth (Sells) Keefer, was a 
druggist at Clearspring, Md., and Canton, 



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III. He married Dec. 19, 1836, Susan Falk- 
well (Ixirn Aug. 21, 1810 — died May i, 
1855), and tiiey had issue: 

1. William Wesley (XLIV). 

2. Mary Ann (born Nov. 28, 1828) 
married April 10, 1849, Henry Kessler 
(born Nov. 24, 1823), a farmer in Iowa; 
they had issue : Mary, Velman, Samuel T., 
Lydia L., William H., Louisa L. and 
Lillian K. 

3. Eliza Virginia^ born March 12, 
1831, died March 8, 1855. 

4. George Daniel (XLV). 

5. Emily L. S. (born Oct. 21, 1834) 
married Nathaniel F. Dorrance, and had 
issue : Margaret and Maud. 

6. Margaret Lugretia Crum, born 
Aug. 2j, 1837, died Dec. 21, 1862. 

7. John Melvin (XLVI). 

8. Sarah Catharine ( born February, 
1841) married Philo W. Smith of Green- 
ville, 111. They had issue : Philo W., Kate 
P., Clarence E. and Benjamin J. 

9. James Edward^ born February, 
1 841. 

10. Amanda, born Nov. 16, 1843. 

11. Susan Rebecca^ born Sept. 12, 

1845- 

12. Martha Ann Calender, born 
Sept. 27, 1847, fl's^l Sept. 4, 1 89 1. 

13. Anna (born May 5, 1850) married 
Dec. 20, 1 87 1, Charles W. Wright (born 
March 2, 1850 — died March 9, 1884) ; they 
had no issue. 

(XX) SOLOMON KEEPER (bom 
July 18, 1806 — died Feb. 16, 1837), son of 
Christian and Mary (Poorman) Keefer, was 
a farmer and merchant at Shirleysburg: he 
married Elizabeth Long (born Oct. 5, 1808 
— died Aug. i, 1871), and bad issue: 

1. William Long (XLVII). 

2. D.wiD Porter (XLVIII). 

3- John, born 1832, drowned May 24, 
1846. 



4. Elm IRA, born Feb. 3. 1834. died 
October, 1837. 

5. EvALiNE married George \'. Saift 
(XLIX). 

6. Moses (L). 

(XXI) DANIEL KIEFFER (born- 
March I, 1808 — died, 1897), son of Chris- 
tian and Mary (Poorman) Keefer. was a 
merchant at Dayton, Ohio. He was a man 
of prominence in the community in which 
be lived and was very successful in business. 
He was the first president of the Keefer 
Family Association and presided over tlie 
first Keefer reunion, held on the old Keefer 
liomestead, then occupied by William S. 
Keefer, June 25. 1887. Mr. Keefer mar- 
ried Dec. 31, 1830. Elizabeth Witherow 
(died Dec. 5, 1885), and had issue: 

1. James Witherow) born Dec. 15,, 
1 83 1, died Feb. 8, 1855. 

2. Thom.\s Bard, born .\ug. 30, 1833, 
died Nov. 9. 1835. 

3. Mary Belle, born March 24, 1835,. 
married Charles G. Grimes, and had issue : 
Edward and Daniel. 

4. Franklin Putnam (LI). 

5. Susan,- born Dec. 10. 1840. mar- 
ried John M. Stoddard, a manufacturer of 
farming implements at Dayton, Oliio. They 
had issue : Susan Kieffer, Charles Grimes, 
Daniel Kieffer, Annie, Howard, Alice and 
Florence. 

6. Annie Elizabeth (born Sept. 21, 
1845 — died March 15, 1897) married in 
1864 William C. Howard (born April 24, 
1842). a lawyer at San Diego. Cal. They 
had is.sue: Elizabeth Kieffer, Annie Laura, 
Louise Hastings and John Hastings. 

(XXII) MOSES KIEFFER (born 
May 5, 1 814— died Feb. 3. 1888). son of 
Christian and Mary (Poorman) Keefer, en- 
tered a preparatory school at York. Pa., at 
the age of seventeen, and was graduated at 
Marshall College, Mercer.sburg, in 1837. He 



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was licensed to preach in 1840, and was 
pastor at Waterstreet, Huntingdon county, 
1840-44; Hagerstown, Md., 1844-51, and 
Reading, Pa., 1851-55. While at Reading 
he built the Second Reformed Church. In 
1855 he was chosen president of Heidelberg 
College, Tiffin, Ohio, over which he pre- 
sided for thirteen years, besides filling a pro- 
fessorship in the Theological Seminary. He 
resigned because of ill health antl then filled 
a Presbyterian pulpit at Sandusky, Ohio. 
Believing that country life would be bene- 
ficial to his health he returned to his native 
county, and was pastor of the Grindstone 
Hill charge, 1870-71; Greencastle, 1871-74; 
and Gettysburg, 1874-84. His last work 
was as a missionary at Sioux City, Iowa. 
Dr. Kieffer married (first) Catharine Smith; 
they had issue : 

1. Augustus R. (LH). 

2. George Smith (LIII). 

Dr. Kieffer married (second) Nov. 8, 
1868, Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell Barney (born 
May 8, 1820), but they had no issue. 

(XXIII) mary' eve keeper 

(born Dec. 10, 1817 — died April 5, 1885), 
daughter of Christian and ]Mary (Poorman) 
Keefer, married Christi.\n Brandt (born 
1808 — died Sept. 3, 1871), of Chambers- 
burg; they had issue (surname Brandt) : 

1. Sarah died young. 

2. Mary Eve married George Faust. 

3. Elizabeth Ellen, who died March 
28, 1878, married T. C. Rodanch. 

4. Samuel Holmes. 

5. Elmina married Jonas Keefer. 
[See Descendants of Nicklaus Kieffer]. 

6. Christian died at Chambersburg. 
March 22, 1886. 

7. Daniel Webster married Eliza 
Woods. 

8. Hannah Jane married Joseph Vm- 
cent. 

9. Rebecca died young. 



10. Charlotte Matilda (born July, 
1846) married William B. Monn (born 
July 28, 1840 — died Nov. 19, 1890), a 
blacksmith of Quincy; they had issue: 
Cyrus Lincoln, John Brandt, Annie Mary 
(died young), Laura Belle, Harry Walter, 
Effie, Ira Snively, Elmina, William Benja- 
min, Nettie, Lottie and Charles Rey. 

11. ^^'ILLIAM Henry married Catharine 
Bates. 

12. Alfred Kieffer married Sarah 
Pinkay. 

(XXIV) PETER BEAVER (born in 
Franklin county, Dec. 25, 1782 — died in 
Pfoutz' Valley, Aug. 25, 1849), son of 
George and Catharine (Kieffer) Beaver, 
was ordained to the ministry in the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church by Bishop Asbury, 
in 1809. He was accustomed to preach in 
both the English and German languages. 
He was also engaged in mercantile pursuits 
in Pfoutz' Valley. Mr. Beaver married 
Elizabeth Gilbert, daughter of Samuel Gil- 
bert ; they had issue : 

1. George (LIV). 

2. Samuel (born, 1804 — died March 
20, 1834) married Maria Lehman. 

3. Jacob (LV). 

4. Sarah (born Nov. 25, 1808 — died 
Sept. 13, 1892) married Aaron Nevins. 

5. Jesse (LVI). 

6. Thomas (LVII). 

7. Peter (born June 28, 1816 — died 
June 13. 1890) married (first) a Simonton, 
(second) Mrs. Elliott. 

8. Eliza F., born Feb. i, 1818. 

9. Catharine, born June 25, 1819, 
married Rev. Archibald Greenlee. 

10. Mary, born Nov. 22. 1820, married 
Henry Miller. 

11. Elmir.v born May 9, 1839, died 
Dec. 13. 1859. 

12. Amanda, deceased. 

13. Lydia, deceased. 



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(XXV) EPHRAIM KIEFFER (born 
Jan. 17, 1812 — died JNIay 11, 1871), son of 
Joseph and Hannah (Falk) Kieffer^ was 
reared in Berkeley and Jefferson counties, 
W. Va. At the age of eigliteen he came 
to Chambersburg and while clerking in a 
store he received catachetical instructions 
from Rev. Frederick Rahauser, which led 
him to adopt the ininistry in the Reformed 
Church as his life work. He obtained his 
literary and theological training at the Ger- 
man Reformed High School and Theological 
Seminary at York. 1831-35, and was or- 
dained pastor of a new charge, compris- 
ing Bellefonte and Schneider's and Best's 
churches, in Centre county, in 1836. He 
was afterward pastor of Mifflinburg charge, 
in Union county, 1840-57; of the Lykens 
Valley charge, 1857-64; and of the Sulphur 
Spring charge, near Carlisle, 186G-70. Mr. 
Kieffer married (first) Eleanor Spangler, 
•of York ; they had issue : 

1. Hann.\h married JoHX R. Cor- 
nelius, an editor of Lewisburg; they had 
issue : Edward, Edith and Rhea. 

2. John B. (LVIII). 

3. J. Spangler (LIX). 

4. LvDiA J. married Luther C. Fur.'^t, 
a merchant of Cedar Spring, Clinton county ; 
they had issue : Eleanor, John, Robert, Guy, 
Edgar, Luther, Harry and Miriam. 

5. Harry M. (LX). 

6. Benjamin Ephraim, deceased. 
Mr. Kieffer married (second) Aug. 10. 

1848, Margaret Linn (born Nov. 19, 1825), 
daughter of David and Margaret (Wilson) 
Linn, of the Linns of Lurgan ; they had issue : 

1. William T. Linn (LXI). 

2. Mary C. (born June 26, 1854) mar- 
ried Nov. 9, 1882, Phineas T. Ball, a 
merchant of Bellair, Md. They have a 
daughter, Margaret Linn. 

3. Emma B. (born March 26, 1859) 
married Nov. 6, 1884, W^illiam Done- 



hovver, of Kansas City ; they have a son, 
Franklin Roy. 

4. Catharine L., born June 17, 1861. 

5. Anna M., born .\pril 3, 1864. 

6. Margery died in infancy. 

7. Stephen E., born in August, 1868, 
married and has a son, Roland. 

(XXVI) JUSTUS KIEFFER (born 
Aug. 29, 1819 — died May 7, 1873), son of 
Joseph and Hannah (Falk) Kieffer, married 
Elizabeth Penn (born Jan. 6, 1819 — died 
Jan. 9, 1883), and they had issue: 

1. Dora Melvin. 

2. GeNOR.'V. 

3. Mary Elizabeth. 

4. Jessie. 

5. Justus Stephen. 

6. Lulu. 

(XXVII) HENRY KEEFER (born 
May 20, 1822 — died June 17, 1889), son of 
Abraham and Susan (Price) Keefer, was a 
farmer in Hamilton township. He began 
farming on the Weist farm owned by his 
father, which he afterward bought. He be- 
came an extensive owner of real estate, his 
farms aggregating 452 acres. He owned, 
besides, 224 acres of timber land, and had a 
third interest in a large tract of 1,200 acres. 
He was an intelligent and enterprising man. 
Mr. Keefer married March 12, 1844, Eliza- 
beth Weist (born Sept. 7, 1823 — died June 
I, 1900), and had issue: 

1. Alfred Price, bom Oct. 11, 1842, 
died Oct. 18, 1863. 

2. Jerome Huss (LXII). 

3. Henry Denton (LXIII). 

4. John Abraham, born Dec. 23, 
1848, died Sept. 6, 1851. 

5. Lavinia Elizabeth, born Dec. 18, 
1850. 

6. 

1853- 
7- 



Salone Victoria, born Jan. 22, 
died unmarried. 
Emma Virginia married John F. 



Gelwicks. [See Gehvicks Family]. 



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8. Clayton Weist (born Feb. 22, 
1857 — died April 8. 1891) was a merchant 
and postmaster at Reefer's; married Annie 
Elizabeth Reefer (see XXXIX), (bom 
Aug. 31, 1858 — died June 14, 1899), 
daughter of William S. and Elizabeth 
(Eberly) Reefer. 

9. Daniel Hezekiah (bom Jan. 17, 
1859) went West; he married Maria Glick, 
and had issue : Elsie, Pearl and Ruth. 

10. Wesley Grove, born Dec. i, 1861. 

(XXVIII) JOHN REEFER (born 
June 18, 1825 — died June 4, 1890), son of 
Abraham and Susan (Price) Reefer, was a 
stock dealer at Chambersburg. He married 
Catharine Eberly ; they had issue : 

1. Ellen married John F. McCleary. 

2. L.\ Rue married Frank Rinehart. 

3. Catharine married Allen Sel- 
lers, and had one son, Daniel. 

4. Susan married Adolphus A. Skin- 
ner. [See Skinner Family]. 

5. Henry lives in San Francisco. 

(XXIX) DAVID STEELE RIEF- 
FER (died Oct. 9, 1856), son of Peter and 
Barbara (Steele) Rieffer, was a journalist. 
He married Louisa Pierson ; they had issue : 

Alph.'V. 

Eleanor. 

Ernest. 

Peter. 

Elizabeth. 

(XXX) WALTER RIEFFER, son of 
Peter and Barbara (Steele) Rieffer, was a 
journalist at Lancaster. He married Pauline 
Hambright ; they had issue : 

1. Marg.\retta Pauline. 

2. Irene Belle. 

3. Linn Clairmont died Oct. 21, 
1879. 

4. Dalsy Virginia Force died Nov. 
7, 1879. 

5. Clifford died Nov. 17, 1879. 

6. Blanche died Oct. 2-j , 1879. 



7. Maude died Oct. 29, 1879. 

8. Claude died July i, 1881. 

9. Birch. 

10. Beulah. 

11. Janet. 

(XXXI) ELIZA AIALIXDA KIEF- 
FER (born Nov. 15, 1830), daughter of 
Jonathan and Mary (Tice) Rieffer, married 
Jan. 13, 1852, Jonathan Riesecker (born 
Aug. 29, .1821), a miller and farmer near 
Greencastle; they had issue (surname 
Riesecker) : 

1. Clinton Rieffer. 

2. Mary Ada. 

3. Emma Belle. 

4. David Ziegler. 

5. Effie Olivia. 

6. Jacob. 

(XXXII) SARAH ANN RIN- 
NEARD (bom Dec. 25. 181 5— died Feb. 
2, 1883). daughter of James and Catharine 
(Rieffer) Rinneard, married William F. 
Roemer; they had issue (surname Roemer) : 

1. John. 

2. Jacob F. (bom Aug., 1831) married 
Martha Palsgrove (born Oct., 1841), and 
they had issue : May. George, Harry. John, 
Rate and Mary. 

3. Maria married John W. Gillan. 
[See Gillan Family]. 

4. Rate. 

5. Upton H. (born June 6, 1846) mar- 
ried .'Vpril 15. 1872. Maria Rapp, born July 
21. 1846. 

6. William A. married Lex'ina Reigel, 
of Cashtown, Adams county, 

7. Ida married William McGee. 

8. Sarah (died 1895) married Jere- 
miali Harrison. 

9. S.'vmuel married Emma Hay. 

(XXXIII) JOHN DEWALD RIN- 
NEARD (bom March 27. 1820— died 
1896), son of James and Catharine (Rieffer) 
Rinneard. was a printer by tnule. In 1 851- 



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475. 



52 he was one of the proprietors of the 
Cumberland J 'alley Sciitiiicl at Chanihers- 
hurg in partnership with Benjamin F. Nead. 
After disposing of the Sentinel he removed 
to Harrisburg. where he was an alderman 
for twenty years previous to his death. Mr. 
Kinneard married Martha A. Brown (born 
Feb. 22. 1826). and tiie}- had issue: 

1. B. Frank, foreman of the Mt. Holly 
Printing Company, married Annie Stock. 

2. Charles A. married Matilda 
Honeywell. 

3. Ida married Thomas Rekord. 

4. Mary Elizabeth married ;\ugustus 
C. Foltz. [See Foltz Family]. 

5. William McCollough married 
Grace Gebhart. 

6. Harry. 

(XXXIV) LEONARD HARVEY 
KINNEARD (born April 26, 1833— died 
April 18, 1900), son of James and Cath- 
arine (Kiefifer) Kinneard, was a printer by 
trade. In 1854 he started a school journal 
called Tutor and Pupil, at Chambersburg, 
in partnership with James Kell, afterward a 
lawyer at York. The little paper was not a 
success. Kell & Kinneard then kept a livery 
stable for a short time. For the last forty 
years of his life Mr. Kinneard lived in Har- 
risburg, where he was employed in the State 
Printing Office. He married Elizabeth 
Hummel ; they had issue : 

1. Ella. 

2. Leonard Hummel. 

3. John Nielson (born Dec. 26, 

'873). 

(XXXV) BARNET KEEFER (born 
I-'eb. 20, 1818 — died Oct. 19, 1864), son of 
Benjamin and Hannah (Keefer) Keefer, 
was a horse dealer at St. Thomas. He en- 
listed in the 77th Regiment, P. V., Oct. 9, 
1 86 1, and served in Tennessee, and died in 
the service at .Atlanta, Ga. He married 



Catharine Cunningham (born March 7, 
1822 — died Jan. 22, 1882), and they had 
issue : 

1. Hannah M., born Aug. 4, 1845, 
died March 17, 1849. 

2. .Xnna La Rue, born Oct. 15, 1847, 
died March 17, 1849. 

3. Charles A. (born I"eb. 14, 1850, 
died 1897) married Martha Gager. 

4. James G. (born Jan. 21, 1852), a 
farmer at Mt. Carroll, 111., married Rosa- 
Berwell ; they have issue : Bertha. 

5. John (born Aug. 25, 1857), a car- 
penter at St. Thomas, married Mary Eberly ; 
they had issue : Henry Barnet, who died 
April 4, 1892. 

6. Albert (born Feb. 9, 1859) is a 
farmer at Mt. Carroll, Illinois. 

7. Emma Kate (born Aug. 25, i860) 
married Nov. i, 1880, Reuben Snyder 
(born Oct. 11, 1851), and they had i.ssue: 
Harriet C, born Sept. 10, 1881. 

(XXXVI) JEREMIAH KEEFER 
(born Sept. 21, 1821 — died July 24, 1886), 
son of Benjamin and Hannah (Keefer) 
Keefer, was a farmer at \\'ilmot, Ohio. He- 
was a member of Company K, 163(1 Ohio 
N. G. In 1875 he left his home in Ohio, 
and after several years' wandering came to 
Franklin county, where he died; he was 
buried at Keefer's Church. He married 
Sophia Hobbs (born Alay 20, 1825), and 
they had issue : 

1. Lucinda (born June 3, 1850 — died. 
March 11, 1880) married John Gilmore;. 
they had issue: Viola, Sophia. .-Mbert and 
Waiter. 

2. George, born May 12, 1853. died 
May 10, 1879. 

3. .\dessa (bom Sept. 8, 1856 — died 
Oct. II, 1881) married Frederick -Xll- 
m.\n; they had issue: .Arthur, Calvin and 
Dora Mav. 



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4. William (born Oct. 12, 1858) mar- 
ried Mary Mullet ; they had issue : Laura, 
Blanche and Florence. 

5. Annie (born Aug. 15, i860) mar- 
ried Charles Lash. 

6. Robert (born Jan. 12, 1862) is a 
hotel-keeper at Wilmot, Ohio. 

7. Henrietta (born June 11, 1864) 
married Clem Linche ; they had issue : 
Beulah, Viva and Florence. 

8. Mary (born March 7, 1866) mar- 
ried Albert Knoble; they had issue: Al- 
bert and May. 

9. Florence (born April 27, 1869) 
married Edward McMullen ; they had is- 
sue : Ward. 

10. Alice was born May 31, 1870. 

11. Laura was born Feb. 12, 1872. 
(XXXVH) GIDEON KEEFER (born 

Oct. 26, 1829 — died Dec. 11, 1884), son of 
Christian and Sibbie (Kieffer) Keefer. was 
a grocer and farmer at Alexandria, Ind. He 
married Rebecca Jane Moreland (born Oct. 
1825), and they had issue: 

1. Sar.\h Isabel (born Sept. 16, 1849 
— died Feb. 22, 1887) married Jub.\l 
Finch; they had issue: Edith Belle. 

2. Emma Kate (born March 12, 185 1) 
married Reuben A. Menefice, a druggist of 
Summitville, Indiana. 

3. Margaretta (born Nov. 20, 1852) 
married John B. D.\niels; they had issue: 
Mary and Ethel. 

4. Mary Rebecca (born Jan. 20, 
1855) married Paron P. Painter, a carpen- 
ter of .-Mcxandria, Indiana. 

5- William Henry (born Nov. 22, 
1836) is a harnessmaker at La Fontaine, 
Indiana. 

6. Lilly 1\Iay (born Feb. 12, 1859) 
married Samuel Fisher, a druggist at .An- 
drews, Ind. They have issue : Charles, 
Edna and Hueh .Ashford. 



7. Idella (born April 7, 1861) mar- 
ried Dr. E. G. Swallow, of Summitville, 
Indiana. 

8. David Moreland, born Jan. 12, 
1864, died July 7, 1865. 

9. Henry Clay, born May 31, 1866. 

10. Jessie, born June 20, 1869. 
(XXXVIII) MARY JANE KEEFER 

(born Oct. 6, 1823 — died Nov. 13, 1898), 
tlaughter of Dewald and Rebecca (Bard) 
Keefer, married Willi.\m Karper (born 
July 10, 1819 — died Nov. 22, 1893), a 
prominent farmer. They had issue (surname 
Karper) : 

1. Philip Augustus (born Sept. 30, 
1 84 1 — died 1896) married Leah Detrich 
(born Oct. 25, 1845), ^"d had issue: David 
(born Aug. 24, 1864, died Aug. 11, 1866) ; 
Ida (born Jan. 9, 1866), who married Wil- 
liam Richter, and they have Edith Leah ; 
Minnie (born Oct. 23. 1868, died Jan. 9, 
1869) ; Elsie (born Nov. 9, 1871, died 
March, 1897), who married Charles Bick- 
ley; Harvey (born Aug. 8, 1873); John 
(born Jan. 17, 1878, died Oct. 9, 1880); 
and Ruth (bom March 11, 1880). 

2. Margaret Eliz.\beth (born April 
30, 1843) married Martin Grove (born 
Jan. 22, 1841), a farmer of Frederick coun- 
ty, Va. They had issue : William George, 
born Oct. 30, 1864, who married Sarah 
Keller and had Melvin Keller and Mary 
Jane; Edward Senseny, born Feb. 28, 1868, 
David Elmer, born Aug. 26, 1873; Samuel 
Benton, born Jan. 16, 1875 ; and Clara Ellen, 
born March 30, 1881. 

3. RosANNA Rebecca (born Feb. 3, 
1845) married Simon Schlichter; they 
had issue: William (married Cora Jack- 
son), Harry and Jennie. 

4. Lemuel Keeper (born .\ug. 21, 
1847) married Catharine Rife: they had is- 
sue: Ira, \\illiani, Norman, Ora and Am- 
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5. Mary Jane (born June 23, 1849) 
married David Shirk. 

6. Emm,\ Sevilla, born Oct. 16, 1851, 
died Sept. 9, 1852. 

7. Luther William (born July 8, 
1853) married Mary Detwiler; they had is- 
sue : Edward, Wilham and Carrie. 

8. Austin Bard, born May 23, 1855; 
died June 18, 1855. 

9. Moses Dewald (born July 15, 
1856) married Fannie Kauffman; tliey had 
issue: John, Martin, Maud and Mabel. 

10. Laura Belle (born Nov. 17, 1858) 
married Jacob Shank; they had issue: 
Mary, Ellen, William and Samuel. 

11. Ellen Sarah (born Dec. 17, 
1861) married Michael Bert, a merchant 
and county clerk at Abilene, Kans. They 
had issue : Blanche, Bertha and Cora. 

(XXXIX) WILLIAM SELLS 
KEEFER (born Dec. 22, 1825 — died July, 
1899), son of Dewald and Rebecca (Bard) 
Keefer, was a prominent farmer in Letter- 
kenny township, where he owned two farms, 
aggregating, with 150 acres of timberland, 
500 acres. He owned, besides 10,000 acres 
of timberland in Hard}- county, W. Va. He 
was a noted importer of heavy draft horses. 
During the Civil war he was enrolling officer 
for three and a half years. Mr. Keefer mar- 
ried (first) May 25, 1852, Elizabeth Eberly 
(born Nov. 20, 1830 — died 1865), daughter 
of Jacob and Hannah (Reed) Eberly; they 
had issue: 

1. Horace Dewald, born April 19, 
1853, died March 18, 1856. 

2. Jacob Reed (born March 2, 1856) 
married Emma L. Immell, daughter of Ber- 
nard Immell ; they had issue : John Immell 
and Ruth. 

3. Annie Elizabeth. 

Mr. Keefer married (second) March 20, 
1866, Elizabeth Ann Huber, and they had 
issue : 



1. Florence Alberta married George 
W. Palmer and they had one son, Charles* 

2. Heilman Huber (born Jan. 21, 
1871 — died March 17, 1902) married Eliza- 
beth and died without issue. 

3. Moses W., born Oct. iS, 1875, died. 
March 23, 1897, unmarried. 

(XL) CYRUS THOMPSON 
KEEFER (born Oct. 4, 1830), son of De- 
wald and Rebecca (Bard) Keefer, was a 
farmer in Letterkenny township, and lived 
on the homestead farm. He now lives at 
Greenvillage. In politics he is an active Re- 
publican. He served his township as a school 
director and was a member of the State 
Legislature in 1887-90. He belongs to the 
Reformed Church. Mr. Keefer married May 
6, 1856, Lydia A. Britton (born Nov. 20, 
1838), and they had issue: 

1. A son, born June 3, 1858, died same 
day. 

2. William Britton (born Feb. 6, 
i860) married Abbie Hoover: they had is- 
sue : Alice, Warren and Robert. 

3. Ida Ellen (born July 8, 1862) mar- 
ried Dec. 25, 1884, John Immell (born- 
Sept. 23, 1851), and they have issue: Helen, 
Keefer and Paul. 

4. Grant Dew.'vld, born Sept. 4, 1864. 

5. Mary Jane (born Aug. 12, 1867) 
married Dr. A. W. Thrush, issue : Walter 
and Mary. 

6. Cyrus Edg.\r, born Jan. 15, 1870. 

7. Carrie Grace (born March 31, 
1875) married John Jacob Wenger. 

(XLI) ISAAC HOLMES KEEFER 
(bom July 5, 1833), son of Dewald and 
Rebecca (Bard) Keefer, was educated in 
the public schools near Keefer's .store, and 
followed farming until he was thirty years 
old, part of the time on the old Keefer home- 
stead and six years in Guilford township. 
Besides two other farms he owns the original 
Keefer farm purchased by his grandfather, 



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Christian Keefer. This farm has been in 
the family for a century and a quarter. In 
1870 he removed to Chambersburg and en- 
gaged in the wholesale and retail commis- 
sion business, in which he continued until 
1898, when he retired. Mr. Keefer married 
May 10, 1861, Sarah Jane Reed, daughter of 
Michael and Elizabeth (Branthaver) Reed; 
they had issue : 

1. William Reed (born May 10, 

1862) was educated in the public schools 
and at the Chambersburg Academy, and 
was graduated at Franklin and Marshall 
College, Lancaster, Pa., in 1886. He studied 
law with Hon. W. Rush Gillan, and was 
admitted to the b>anklin County Bar in 
1888. He has since been in active practice. 
Mr. Keefer married Jnne i. 189J, Alice 
Bausman. daughter of Henry and Barbara 
(Brenneman) Bausman, of Lancaster 
county. 

2. Addie Elizabeth (born Sept. 16, 

1863) married Frank H. Hewitt (born 
Dec. 27, 1857), of Huntingdon county. 
They ha\'e two children, Roland Keefer and 
Edith. 

3. George Dewald (born May 16, 
1865), a grocer in Chambersburg, married 
Elizabeth Lowry : they have two children. 
Reed Lowry and Norman. 

4. Emma Rebecca (born March 21, 
1868) married Rush S. Dittman; they 
have one daughter, Ethel. 

5. Harry Norman, born Fel). 14, 
1871, died Jan. 3, 1874. 

6. Carrie Alice, born Sept. i. 1874, 
died Oct. 5, 1877. 

7. Eugene Holmes, born Sept. 28, 
1879. 

(XLII) I^IOSES AUGUSTUS 
KEEFER (born Sept. 8, 1837— died May 
23, 1892), son of Dewald and Rebecca 



(Bard) Keefer, 
'Cliambersburg. 



was a gram 
He married 



merchant of 
Margaret E. 



Palmer (born May 14, 1843), daughter of 
Jonas C. and Catharine (Flack) Palmer; 
they had issue : 

1. Charles Dewald (born Sept. 20, 
1864) married Nov. 11, 1891, Emilie Conkle 
Cressler, daughter of Charles H. and Eliza- 
beth S. (Jones) Cressler; they have issue: 
Raymond Cressler (born Nov. 10, 1894) 
and Charles Dewald (born May 15. 1897 — 
died Aug. .25, 1897). 

2. Emma Grace (born June 8, 1867) 
married H.\rry E. Ross (born July 19, 
1870), an electrician; they have one son, 
George Keefer. 

(XLIII) FRANCIS UPTON 
KEEFER (born Oct. 24, 1842— died April 
II, 1882), son of Dewald and Rebecca 
( Bard ) Keefer, was a grocer at Gettysburg. 
He married Oct. 14, 1869, Sarah Amanda 
Barney (born March 22,, 1846), and they 
had issue: 

1. Charles Barney, born July 24, 
1870. 

2. Frank Dewald, born Aug. 15, 
1872. died Aug. 30, 190 1. 

3. Nellie Barney^ born Nov. 5, 1873. 
(XLIV) WILLIAM WESLEY 

KEEFER (born July 26, 1827), son of 
George and Susan (Falkwell) Keefer, was 
a druggist and physician in Philadelphia ; he 
was e.xecutor of the Matthew Baird estate. 
Dr. Keefer married ilay 26, 1852, Jane Stin- 
son (born Feb. 14, 1832), and they had 
issue : 

1. M.\RY (born Jan. 30, 1854) married 
a Mr. White, a merchant. 

2. William Baird (born Oct. 12, 
1S55) is a carpet manufacturer. 

3. Rebecca Baird (born Sept. 12, 
1859) married Edwin S. Cramp, of the firm 
of Cramp & Son. the well known shipbuild- 
ers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

(XLV) GEORGE DANIEL 
KEEFER (born Jan. 25. 1832 — died July 



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14, 1877), son of George and Susan (Falk- 
well) Keefer, was a druggist at Macomb, 
111. He married Nov. 28, 1866, Margaret 
E. Stinson ; they had issue ■. 

1. George Daniel, born Feb. 29. 1870. 

2. Harry H., born Feb. 19, 1874. 

3. Frank B., born April 7, 1876. 

4. Frederick S., born July 27. 1878. 
(XLVI) JOHN MELVIN KEEFER 

(born March 31, 1839), son of George and 
Susan ( Falkwell) Keefer, was a druggist 
at Macomb, III. He married (first) Lucy 
Harding (born Dec. 2"/ ^ 1837), and they had 
issue : 

1. Mary, bom May 14. 1868, died Feb. 

14, 1869. 

2. WissiE (born Dec. 14, 1870) mar- 
ried Oct. II. 1899, James F. Ford. 

3. Bertie, born Jan. 11, 1873. 

Mr. Keefer married (second) Lillie Ann 
Beard (born IMarch i. 1849), 'i"'' '^'i^Y ^'^'^'^ 
issue : 

1. LiLLiE died in infancy. 

2. Ruth, born July 18, 1885. 

3. LiLLiE, born Sept. 18, 1886. 
(XLVII) WILLIAM LONG 

KEEFER (born July 28, 1828), son of 
Solomon and Elizabeth (Long) Keefer, was 
a merchant at Porterfield. Venango Co., Pa. 
He married (first) Mary Ann Spanogle 
(born 1830 — died Feb. 2, 1859), and they 
had issue: 

1. Catharine Elizabeth (born Oct. 
II, 1853) married John H. Hillard (born 
July 14, 1844), a carpenter at Saltillo. They 
had issue : Birdal Delmay, born April 4, 
1874; Jessie Margaret, born Feb. 4, 1877: 
Walter Lee, born Dec. 8. 1878: and Mary, 
born Aug. 2, 1884. 

2. Adella Spanogle (born July 20. 
1858) married James Murray (torn Jul_\ 

15, 1862), a farmer in McKean county. 
Tiiey had issue : Frederick Samuel, born 



May 5, 1883; Roy A., born Sept. 13, 1884; 
Birdal E., born April 22, 1886; and Mary, 
born Oct. i, 1887. 

Mr. Keefer married (second) Mary 
Davi.son (born 1844 — died June, 1887), 
and they had issue : 

1. Benjamin Franklin, born July 8, 
1864. 

2. Virginia West, born 1866. 

3. William Edward, born 1869. 

4. Willis John, born 1881. 

5. James Rowland, born 1885. 
(XLVIII) DAVID PORTER 

KEEFER (born April 25, 1830), son of 
Solomon and Elizabeth (Long) Keefer, 
went to Mountain Home, Idaho. He mar- 
ried May 24, 1854. Mary Ann Sadler (born 
June 10, 1827), and they had issue: 

1. Sarah E. (torn \\\g. 30, 1855) 
married George L. Crandal. 

2. David Eugene (born June 25, 
1857) married Mattie Stone. 

3. John D., born Aug. 3, 1859. 

4. Charles H., born April 10, 1863. 
(XLIX) EVx\LINE KEEFER (born 

Feb. 3, 1834 — died Nov. 4, 1871), daughter 
of Solomon and Elizabeth (Long) Keefer, 
married George Vilas Sen ft (born .\pril 
5. 1825), a farmer and blacksmith at Saltillo, 
Huntingdon county. They had issue (sur- 
name Senft) : 

1. John Wicks, born Jan. 8, 1854. 

2. William Keefer, born June i, 
1855. died Oct. 18. 1855. 

3. Frederick Herbert (born Jan. 3, 
1857) is a minister. 

4. Annie Almira (born March 31, 
1859) married John Wesley 1""isher 
(born July 15, 1855), and had issue: \'arnie 
Olga, born .\pril 21, 1879; Arthur Justus, 
born June. 1880; Evaline May, born Feb. 
4. 1882; Frederick Senft, born Feb. 28, 
1884: and George Philip, born May, 1885, 
died Nov., 1885. 



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5. Alice Belle^ born March 3, 1861, 
died Nov. 12, 1871. 

6. Narcissa Hudson, born Sept. 14, 
1863, died Nov. 11, 1871. 

7. Elizabeth Minnie, born Feb. 20, 
1867, died Dec. 2, 1871. 

8. Simon Kenton Boyer, born Feb. 
2, 1869. 

9. Adella Rose, born March 25, 1871. 
(L) MOSES KEEFER (born Oct. 27. 

1836), son of Solomon and EHzabeth 
(Long) Keefer, is a farmer at Greenwood,. 
Neb. He married, in 1855, Mary Ann Barn- 
hizer (born July 13, 1836), and they had 
issue : 

1. John \V. (born March 31, 1856) 
married (first) Mary A. Bowman (born 
i860 — died March 24. 1885) and had Vir- 
ginia A. He married (second) April 26. 
1887, Ollie M. Eshleman (born 1867) and 
had Ethel B. 

2. George F. (born June 4, 1859) mar- 
ried Dec. 24, 1882, Flora Belle Lynch (born 
i860) and had issue: Lawrence R. and 
Carl C. 

3. Martin Luther (born March 9. 
1861) married Feb. 28, 1885, Rosa Belle 
F. Ramey (born 1864), and had Zella B. 

4. Willard R. (born July 17, 1864) 
married July 26, 1885, Marian C. Cooley. 

5. MosES C. (born July 28, 1866) mar- 
ried Feb. 21, 1889, Hannah M. Skiles. 

6. Frederick A., born 1869. 

7. Annie E., born March 13, 1872. 

8. Roland F., born April 2, 1874. 

9. Mary E., born Sept. 17, 1878. 

10. Jessie L., born June 24, 1880. 
(LI) FRANKLIN PUTNAM 

KIEFFER (born June 11, 1838), son of 
Daniel and Elizabeth (Witherow) Kieffer, 
is a manufacturer of linseed oil at Dayton, 
Ohio. He married, in 1867, Jennie Reed 
(born Dec. 25, 1843— died Oct. 22, 1888), 
and they had issue : 



1. Susan Stoddard (born June 13, 
1870) married Temple A. Robinson. 

2. Thompson Reed, born April 16, 
1872, died 1899. 

3. Isabella Grimes, born Dec. 5, 
1876. 

4. Mary Louise, born Aug. 25, 1883. 
(LII) AUGUSTUS R. KIEFFER 

(born April 2, 1842). son of Rev. Moses 
and Catharine (Smith) Kieffer, is a min- 
ister. He married Dec. 25, 1866, Elizabeth 
Hall (bom ]\larch 3, 1848) ; they had issue: 

1. Alma Kate (bom Dec. 19, 1868) 
married Dr. Henry Moore, of Colorado 
Springs ; they have two daughters, Con- 
stance and Catharine. 

2. Augustus Bedell, bom Oct. 14, 
1 87 1, died Feb. 10, 1888. 

(LIII) GEORGE SMITH KIEFFER 
(born Sept. 26, 1844), son of Rev. Moses 
and Catharine (Smith) Kieffer, is a stove 
manufacturer at Baltimore. He married 
Sallie E. Sexton (born March 28, 1848) and 
they had issue: 

1. Bessie Kate (born Oct. 28, 1876) 
married Jolm Nichols. 

2. Mary Sexton, born Dec. 2, 1878. 

3. George S. M. (born Jan. 26, 1881) 
is a physician. 

(LIV) GEORGE BEAVER (born 
Sept. 24, 1802 — died Dec. 31, 1878), son 
of Peter and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Beaver, 
was a tanner and farmer in Pfoutz' Valley. 
In politics he was originally a Democrat, but 
he became a Know-Nothing in 1854, and 
later a Republican. He was one of the 
founders of an independent Democratic jour- 
nal that aftenvard became the People's Ad- 
vocate and Press. He was a county cons- 
missioner of Perry County, 1833-36, and was 
elected to the State Legislature in 1841. Mr. 
Beaver married April 15, 1827, Maria C. 
Long, daughter of Jonathan Long ; tliey had 
issue: 



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1. Mary Ann^ deceased. 

2. Elizabeth married George M. Bru- 
baker. 

3. Samuel L. (LXIV). 

4. Sarah Catharine, deceased. 

5. SoPHi.v married D. M. Rickabaugh. 

6. Peter, deceased. 

7. George E (born Sept. 23, 1843) 
married Jan. 18, 1870, Elizabeth Sieber; 
they had issue: Margaret; James (married 
Katie Gaymaii) ; Mary (married Wilham 
Kearns) ; Catharine; Charles, and George S. 

8. Ellen Jane married Uriah Shu- 
man. 

(LV) JACOB BEAVER (born in 
Lebanon county in 1805 — died Aug., 1840), 
son of Peter and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Beaver, 
was engaged in merchandising at Millers- 
town, Perry county, in partnership with his 
brother, Thomas. After the opening of the 
Pennsylvania canal the Beavers made heavy 
shipments of grain. Mr. Beaver married 
Ann Eliza Addams, of Millersburg. Jacob 
and Ann Eliza Beaver had issue: 

1. A daughter died young. 

2. ■ married Rev. J. W. White, 

a Presbyterian minister. 

3. James Addams (LXV). 

4. A son. 

In 1844 Mrs. Beaver married the Rev. 
S. H. McDonald. 

(LVT) JESSE BEAVER (born March 
8, 181 1 — died Dec. 9, 1892), son of Peter 
and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Beaver, was a mem- 
ber of the State Legislature in 1862. He 
married Mary Ann Schwartz. 

(LVII) THOMAS BEAVER (born 
Nov. 16, 1814 — died May 16, 1891), son of 
Peter and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Beaver, en- 
gaged in mercantile pursuits at Millerstown 
with his brother Jacob. He was afterward a 
member of the wholesale firm of Barcroft, 
Beaver & Co., of Philadelphia. He after- 



ward removed to Danville. Mr. Beaver mar- 
ried and had issue: 

I. Laura Aubrey married .Xug. 20, 
1874, John Dewitt (born Oct. 10, 1842), 
son of Rev. William R. and Mary E. 
(Wallace) Dewitt. He was graduated at 
Princeton College in 1861 and studied- 
theology at Princeton and the Union Theo- 
logical Seminary, and was pastor at Irving^ 
ton, N. Y., 1865-69; Central Church, Bos- 
ton, 1869-76; Tenth PresJjyterian Church, 
Philadelphia, 1876-83; and Profes.sor of 
Church History in Lane Theological Semin- 
ary, 1882. 

(LVIII) JOHN B. KIEFFER (boriT 
Oct. 20, 1839), son of Rev. Ephraim and' 
Eleanor (Spangler) Kieffer, was graduated 
at Heidelberg College under the presidency 
of the Rev. Moses Kieffer. He afterward' 
accepted a professorship in Mercersburg Col- 
lege and was licensed to preach by Mercers- 
burg Classis. In 1877 '^e became a mem- 
ber of the Faculty of Franklin and Marshall 
College. Prof. KiefTer married Lalla M. B. 
Troup (born March 4, 1840). and they had 
issue: one daughter, Josephine B. Kiefifer. 

(LIX) J. SPANGLER KIEFFER 
(bom Feb. 3, 1842), son of Rev. Ephraim 
and Eleanor (Spangler) Kiefifer, was gradu- 
ated at Franklin and Marshall College in 
i860, and at the Reformed Theological' 
Seminary at Mercersburg in 1866. His first 
charge was at Huntingdon, Pa. In 1868 he 
was called to Zion Reformed Church, 
Hagerstown. Md., where he still remains. 
Dr. KiefYer married Mary Martin Clark 
(born Aug. 9, 1848), daughter of James and 
Elizabeth (Bufifington) Clark; they have 
issue : 

1. Elizabeth Buffington, born Aug. 
22, 1870. 

2. John Brainard, born July 9, 1872. 

3. James Clark, born June 26, 1874. 



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4. Eleanor Spangler, born Oct. 19, 
1876. 

5. Henri Grandlenard, born July 24, 
1878. 

6. Paul, born Jul}- 16, 1881. 

7. Richard, born June 15, 1886. 
(LX) HARRY M. KIEFFER, son of 

Rev. Ephraim and Eleanor (Spangler) Kief- 
fer, was a drummer boy in the Civil war. 
He was graduated at Franklin and Marshall 
College in 1870, and at the Reformed Theo- 
logical Seminary at Lancaster in 1873. His 
first charge was at Norristown. He was 
pastor of the Reformed Church at Easton, 
1885-1903. Dr. Kiefifer married Mary Riley; 
they had issue : 

I. Edna Jeanne married F. F. R. 
Deichman. 

(LXI) WILLIAM T. LINN KIEF- 
FER (born Sept. 8, 1850), son of Rev. 
Ephraim and Margaret (Linn) Kiefter, 
studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, until 
the close of his Sophomore year, and was 
graduated at Franklin and Marshall College, 
:in 1 87 1. He was graduated in theology, 
:at the Princeton Theological Seminary, in 
1875. He was licensed by the Presbytery of 
Carlisle, April 14, 1875, and ordained by the 
Presbytery of Baltimore Nov. 11, 1875. He 
was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
Churchville, Md.. 1875-83, and at Mercers- 
burg, Pa., 1883-91. He has since been set- 
tled at Washington, Pa. Mr. Kieffer mar- 
ried June 24, 1874, Elizabeth Miles (born 
June 6, 1853), of Carlisle. They have issue : 

1. William Miles, born Aug. 13, 
ii882. 

2. Thompson Linn, born IMay 19, 
:i884, died July 9, 1885. 

3. Harold Creigh, born July 23, 
1887. 

(LXII) JEROME HUSS KEEFER 
,(born March 22, 1845). son of Henry and 



Elizabeth (Weist) Keefer, is a merchant at 
Keefer's Store. He married (first) Mar- 
garet Wilson ; they had issue : 

I. Melvin. 

Mr. Keefer married (second) Dec. 29, 
1887, Kate A. Martin (born Oct. 25, 1855) 
and they had issue : 

1. Lindsay, born Dec. 23, 1893. 

2. Cath.\rine, born Feb. 16, 1896. 
(LXIII) HENRY DENTON 

KEEFER (born Jan. 5. 1847), son of 
Henry and Elizabeth (Weist) Keefer, was 
educated in the public schools and is a 
farmer. In 1895 he bought a farm in Letter- 
kenny tnwnship, but he prefers to live on the 
old Weist homestead in Hamilton township 
on which he was born, as it is in the lime- 
stone belt near the mountains. In politics 
he is a Republican, and he is an elder in 
the Reformed Church. He married Nov. 
19, 1871, Mary Jane Musselman (born Dec. , 
13, 1850), daughter of David and Elizabeth | 
Musselman ; they had issue : 

1. Annie Elizabeth, born April 14, 
1873: married Frank Huber. 

2. Laura Ellen, born March 7, 1875 ; 
a teacher, married Frank Sellers. 

3. Emma Grace, born Nov. 2. 1878. 
(LXIV) SAMUEL L. BEAVER 

(born March 2, 1831), son of George and 
Maria C. (Long) Beaver, was a farmer in 
Perry county. He married June 12, 1862, 
I\Iary E. Kipp (born Oct. 14. 1838), daugh- 
ter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Harmon) Kipp; 
they had issue: 

1. Thomas K. (born Jan. 8. 1864) was 
a farmer in Perry county, and a merchant at 
Academia. He married Dec. 4, 1884. Fan- 
nie M. Sieber. daughter of Henry and Anna 
(Wenner) Sieber; they had issue: Anna 
M.. Samuel S., Harry S.. Edgar L. and 
Charles Walter. 

2. William A. (born May 5. 1865) 
married Emma Troutman. 



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3. Laura (born Nov. 22, 1866) mar- 
ried Lewis Ziegler. 

4. George E.. born June 10. 1868. 

5. Jennie, born May 25, 1871, died 
young. 

6. Samuel G., born Aug. 6, 1873. 

7. Bessie, bom Aug. i, 1875, "^'^tl 
young. 

8. Mary Ella, born Nov. 2, 1877. 

9. Elizabeth, born Dec. i, 1880. 

10. Minnie C, born Aug. 8, 1884. 
(LXV) JAMES ADDAMS BEAVER 

(born 1837), son of Jacob and Ann Eliza 
(Addams) Beaver, was educated at Pine 
Grove Academy and was graduated at Jef- 
ferson College. Canonsburg, in 1856. He 
studied law with Hugh N. McAllister, at 
Bellefonte. and was admitted to the Centre 
County Bar. Jan. 24, 1859. At the outbreak 
of the Civil war he was first lieutenant of 
the Bellefonte Fencibles, which became Com- 
pany H, 2d Regiment P. V., in the three 
months" service. He was commissioned 
lieutenant-colonel of the 45th P. V. July 22, 
1861, and promoted to colonel of the 148th 
P. V. Sept. 4. 1862. He participated in 
nearly all the important battles of the Army 
of the Potomac and was wounded at Chan- 
cellorsville and before Petersburg. The 
latter wound was in the thigh and cost him a 
leg. He was brevetted brigadier-general for 
particularly important service at Cold Har- 
bor, while commanding a brigade. After the 
war Gen. Beaver took an acti\e part in Penn- 
sylvania politics. He was the Republican 
candidate for governor in 1882 but was 
beaten owing to a factional division in the 
party. He was again nominated in 1886 and 
elected, serving the full term of four years, 
1887-91. In 1895 he was appointed a Judge 
of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and 
he was elected for the full term of ten years 
at tlie following election. Gen. Beaver mar- 
ried Dec. 25, 1865. Mary Allison McAllister. 



daughter of Hugh N. and Henrietta A. 
fOrbison) McAllister, of Bellefonte. They 
had issue : 

1. Gilbert Addams. 

2. Thomas died Jan. 28, 1887. 

3- Hugh McAllister died Aug. 2, 
1897. 



DESCENDANTS of PETER KIEF- 
FER. PETER KIEFFER (born in Ger- 
many — died in Pennsylvania), son of Abra- 
ham Kieffer, Jr., the immigrant, came to 
America on the ship "Two Brothers," in 
1748, with his father and two elder brothers, 
Nicklaus and Dewald. The record of his 
liirth and death has been lost, and there is 
no trace of any of his descendants except 
those of his eldest son, Jacob. He married 
Susanna Butts, and had issue: 

Jacob (I). 

John. 

Daniel. 

Frederick. 

Susan. 

Margaret. 
(I) JACOB KEEPER (died 1825), 
son of Peter and Susanna (Butts) Kieffer, 
married (first) Elizabeth (surname un- 
known), and they had issue: 

1. Jonathan (II). 

2. Henry (III). 
David (IV). 
Samuel (V). 

5. Benjamin. 

Mr. Keefer married (second) 

Reese; they had issue: 

I. Elizabeth married John Martin 
(VI). 

2. 

3- 

4- 



3- 

4- 



Mary married John Miller (VII). 

Jacob (VIII)." 

Adam (IX). 

Margaret married John Finken- 



binder (X). 



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6. Julia Ann married Jacob Heffle- 
finger (XI), 

7. Daniel (XII). 

(II) JONATHAN KEEPER (born 
Nov. 19, 1795 — died Feb. 18, 1882), son of 
Jacob and EHzabeth Keefer, married (first) 
Catharine Kramer; they had issue: 

I. Jacob (XIII). 

Mr. Keefer married (second) Anna 
Maria Jacoby (born May 25, 1804 — died 
Nov. I, 1879), and they had issue: 

1. John. 

2. Sarah (born April 13. 1825) mar- 
ried March 18, 1858, John Bay (liorn June 
17, 1825 — died 1878) and had issue : Anna, 
WilHam, Allen and Carrie. 

3. David (born June 4, 1830) married 
Catharine Rupley ; they had issue : Florence, 
Effie and twins. 

4. Levi D. (torn Feb. 16, 1832 — died 
June 15. 1893). a hardware dealer at Me- 
chanicsburg, married Catharine Ernest (born 
March 31, 1834 — died Oct. 25, 1892), and 
they had issue: Annie (born i860 — died 
1868) and William E. 

5. Lydia (born March 16, 1834) mar- 
ried Isaiah Mowers; they had issue: 
Charles, Alfred, Harry, Malinda and Emma. 

6. Daniel (born Feb. 23, 1837), a 
hardware dealer at Greencastle, married 
Susan Shade (born March 16, 1841), and 
they had issue : Newton Osborne, Annie 
Strickler, Nellie Rowe and Franklin Ernest. 

7. Annie (born Nov. 29, 1840) mar- 
ried Anthony Darnbaugh ; they had is- 
sue: Millie, Margaret, Walter Edward, 
Grace and Ella. 

8. Mary Elizabeth, born Nov. 29, 
1840. 

9. Margaret (born March 16, 1843) 
married David Winters ; no issue. 

10. Carrie May (born May 18, 1845) 
married Benjamin Byers ; they had issue : 
Rose, Maud, Edward, Frank and Cora. 



(III) HENRY KEEFER (born Feb. 
14, 1798), son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
Keefer, was a farmer near Newberg. He 
iiarried Rebecca ; they had issue : 

1. John. 

2. EPHRAIM. 

3. Henry. 

4. Mary Ann married a McGrath. 

(IV) DAVID KEEFER (born 1800 
— died 1878), son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
Keefer, was a wagonmaker at Spruce Creek, 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. He married Susan 
Butts, and had issue : 

1. Francis R. (born March 20, 1826) 
married Aug. 20, 1850, Ada Funk (born 
July 28, 1829), and they had issue: Clyde 
C. and Bertram L. 

2. Samuel (born April 28, 1828), an 
electrician at Cincinnati, married Feb. 15, 
i860. Mary Ann Culter (born Jan. 13, 
1835) and they had issue: David Homer, 
born Feb. 12, 1862; Howard Samuel, born 
July 5, 1867; Mary Ellen, bom March 5, 
1871 ; and Ida Sarah, born Aug. 17, 1874. 

3. Joseph (XIV). 

4. Mary Ann, born Dec. 31, 1830. 

5. Jacob N. (born March 2. 1832 — 
died at Altoona, in 1888) married Mary 
Elizabeth Chamberlain (born June- 24, 
1835), ^"<i they had issue: David C, born 
Dec. 10, 1862; Susan Myrtle, born Sept. 18, 
1863 ; James D., born March 16, 1865 ; John 
H., born Nov. 20, 1866; Laura C, born Dec. 
18, 1869; Charles S., born June 21, 1872; 
and Mary L., born Dec. 24, 1873. 

6. Margaret T. (born Nov. 5. 1836) 
married James Wilson. 

7. Sarah Rose (born March 8, 1838) 
married J. H. Ray. 

8. Mary Ellen, born Dec. 29, 1842, 

9. John (born Oct. 28, 1845) married 
Mary M. Scruders (born April 2$. 1853), 
and they had issue: Harry S., born May 
16, 1874; Harriet B., born Oct. 26, 1878;. 



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485 



Nellie B., born Nov. 14, 1882; and Hays. 

10. WiLLi.\M H., born Sept. 2, 1848. 

11. \V. Scott (born Jan. 13, 1851) 
married Rhodes. 

(V) SAMUEL KEEPER (born in 
Berks county. June 18, 1804 — died Dec. 11. 
1875), son of Jacob and Elizabeth Keefer, 
came to Cumberland county when a youth 
and removed to Franklin county in 1840. 
He was a farmer in Guilford township for 
nine years; in 1849 he bought a small farm 
in Hamilton township, where he lived until 
his death. Mr. Keefer married Sept. 25. 
1828. Hannah Martin (born July 28, 1806 
— died March 9, 1879), ^"c' th^y 'I'^'J issue: 

1. RoS.'kNNA. 

2. William B. (XV). 

3. Samuel. 

4. Rebecca. 

5. Adeline. 

(VI) ELIZABETH KEEFER (born 
Aug. 5. 1809), daughter of Jacob and 

(Reese) Keefer, married John 

Martin (born Feb. 5, 181 1 — died Nov. 27, 
1898), a carpenter at Shippensburg. They 
had issue (surname Martin) : 

1. John. 

2. William. 
3.' Hannah. 

4. Margaret. 

5. Samuel. 

6. Alfred. 

7. George. 

8. Adeline. 

9. Sarah J. 
ID. Elizabeth. 
II. Jacob. 

(VII) MARY KEEFER (born Sept. 

18, 1 8 10), daughter of Jacob and 

(Reese) Keefer, married Sept. 16, 1834, 
John Miller (born July 4, 1815), and 
they had issue (surname Miller) : 

1. Susan. 

2. Harriet. 



3- 


Mary M. 




4- 


Julia Ann. 




5- 


John L. died young. 




6. 


David R. 




7- 


Elizabeth J. died young. 




8. 


William A. 




9- 


Daniel T. 




10. 


Harry W. died young. 




II. 


Mattie E. died young. 




(VIII) JACOB KEEFER (b 


orn Oct. 


7. 18] 


2), son of Jacob and 


(Reese) 



Keefer, married Jan. 11, 1838, Margaret 
Smith (Ixirn Feb. 15, 1819), and they had 
issue : 

1. Eliza Jane, born Feb. 18, 1839. 

2. William (XVI). 

3. Abner Daniel, born Dec. 10, 1843, 
died March 10, 1848. 

4. Robert Alexander, born .-\i)ril 18, 

1847. 

5. Jeremiah, born Sept. 5, 1849, died 
Aug. 2z, 1852. 

6. George Washington, born July 27, 

1854- 

7. John Andrew Jackson, Ixini July 

27, 1854- 

8. Mary Belle, born Jan. i, 1859, 
died Aug. 23, 1861. 

(IX) ADAM KEEFER, son of Jaoib 
and ■ (Reese) Keefer, married and 



had issue: 

Samuel. 

Jacob. 

Emma. 

Elizabeth. 

Mary. 

Anna. 

(X) MARGARET KEEFER, daugh- 
ter of Jacob and (Reese) Keefer, 

married John Finkenbinder; they had is- 
sue (surname Finkenbinder) : 

1. M.xrgaret. 

2. David. 

3. Julia. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



4. Daniel. 

5. John. 

6. Sarah. 

7. Mary. 

8. Bradley. 

9. Lavinia. 

(XI) JULIA ANN KEEPER (born 
May 10, 1821 — died Oct. 19, 1887). daugh- 
ter of Jacob and (Reese) Keefer. 

married Jacob Hefflefinger (born July 
4, 1826), a farmer near Green Village. They 
had issue (surname Hefflefinger) : 

1. James W. (born Jan. 11, 1849) 
married Catharine Ann Grove, born June 
13, 1842. 

2. Elizabeth, born Jan. 17, 1850. 

3. William A. (born April 11, 1851) 
married Mary Lindsay. 

4. Mary Ann died in infancy. 

5. Clara died young. 

6. Agnes (born Oct. 3, 1856) married 
Jacob Shively; they had issue: Julia, 
Rebecca (died young), Hugh L. and Edna. 

7. John A. (born Dec. 29, 1858), a 
clothier of Carlisle, married Bertha Wallace; 
they had issue : Robert. 

8. Anna Mary, born 1862, died Nov. 
18, 1892. 

9. Alberta C. (born Aug-. 15, 1864) 
married William Hambright, of Misha- 
waka, Ind. They have issue : Floyd and 
George, and Clara died young. 

(XII) DANIEL KEEPER (born 



(Reese) Keefer, married Mary Ferguson 


(born June 23, 1823), and they had issue: 


I 


Sadie. 


2 


Catharine. 


3 


Emma J. , 


4 


John A. 


5 


Frank E. 


6 


Daniel died young. 


7 


Samuel died young. 


8 


Annie died voune:. 



(XIII) JACOB KEEFER (born May 
3, 1820), son of Jonathan and Catharine 
(Kramer) Keefer, was a gunsmith at Ship- 
pensburg. He married March 14, 1847, 
Susan Miller (born Sept. 30, 1826), and 
they had issue : 

1. Edward. 

2. John C. 

3. David, deceased. 

4. Isaac. 

5. Samuel. 

6. Susan C. 

7. Jacob M. 

8. William. 

9. Annie E. 

10. Franklin, deceased. 

(XIV) JOSEPH KEEFER (born in 
Fulton county Oct. 8, 1829 — died Aug., 
1894), son of David and Susan (Butts) 
Keefer, learned the trade of a wagonmaker j 
at Spruce Creek. He afterward lived in 
Franklin, but died in Warrior's Mark town- 
ship, Huntingdon county. Mr. Keefer mar- 
ried Rebecca Chamberlain (born May 26, , 
1837), of Warrior's Mark township; they 
had issue : 

1. William W. is a manufacturer of 
mineral waters at Lancaster. 

2. Francis D. is a merchant at Iron- 
field. 

3. Mary A. married John Riley, of 
Altoona. 

4. Ella May, married Dr. 

P^ickes, of Tyrone. 

5. Sudney a. (born Dec. 12, 1867) 
is superintendent of the Keystone Limestone 
Quarry, at Birmingham, Huntingdon 
county. 

6. Warren J. 

7. Edward Carlton. 

8. Lucy C. 

9. Joseph. 

(XV) WILLIAM B. KEEFER (born 
in Cumberland county Nov. 2j, 1837), son 



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487 



of Samuel and Hannah (Martin) Keefer, 
was educated in tlie public schools anil 
learned the trade of a carpenter. He en- 
listed in tlie 126th Regiment. P. V. I., 
Aug. II, 1862, and participated in the battles 
of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He 
afterward followed farming in Hamilton 
township, but subsequently resumed his trade 
in the emplo\- of the Cumberland Valley 
Railroad Co., with which he remained six- 
teen years. He retired in 1901. Air. Keefer 
married Oct. i. 1863, Alargaret Ellen Mc- 
Donald (born Jan. 27,. 1846), daughter of 
Barney and ^Margaret (Berkley) McDonald, 
of Fannettsburg ; they had issue: 

1 . Mary. 

2. Ellen. 

3. Anna. 

4. Ida. 

5. William E. 

(XVI) WILLIAM KEEFER (born 
March 2, 1841), son of Jacob and Margaret 
(Smith) Keefer, married Jan. 3, 1867, 
Elizabeth Ellen McCoy (born March i, 
1842), they have issue: 

1. William Furgeson (born Jan. 8, 
1868) married Sept. i, 1891, Bessie Hef- 
felfinger ; they have issue : Grace and 
Martha. 

2. David McCoy (born March 15, 
1875) niarried Nov. 24, 1898, Emma Alice 
Rotz (bom Feb. 5, 1881). 

3. Mary E. (born April 3, 1882) mar- 
ried Clem Coleman ; they have issue : 
Paul E. 



> 



JOHN CALVIN MILLER. Among 
the prosperous and thrift}- fanners of Guil- 
ford township, Franklin Co., Pa., one who is 
especially worthy of mention, is John Cal- 
vin Miller, who was born in the township, 
on the Solomon Miller farm, Aug. 28, 1856, 
son of Solomon and Barbara (Miller) 
Miller, and grandson of Solomon Miller. 



(I) SOLOMON MILLER, the granrf- 
father, married Mary Shearer, and they had 
issue : 

1. Eliza, wife of Samuel Grossman, of 
Marion. 

2. Marv, wife of William Reed, of 
Chambersburg. 

3. Susan, wife of Jacob Snyder, of 
Marion. 

4. C.\TiiARiNE, wife of Samuel Miller, 
of Lancaster. 

5. John F., of Marion. 

6. Rebecca, wife of Rev. .\aron 
Warner, of York. 

7. Solomon (II), of Chambersburg. 

8. Christianna, wife of John W. 
Barr, of Chambersburg. 

9. Henry S., of Chambersburg. 

10. Anna, wife of J. S. Hollinger, of 
Kansas. 

11. Charlotte, wife of Abraham 
Hassler, of Greencastle. 

(II) SOLOMON MILLER, father of 
John Calvin Miller, was born Nov. i, 1824. 
He married Barbara Miller, and they had 
issue : 

1. Franklin, a farmer of Guilford 
township. 

2. Samuel, also a farmer of Guilford 
township. 

3. John Calvin (HI)- 

4. T. J., of Guilford township. 

5. Emma K. married W. W. Hege. of 
Guilford township. 

6. Mary L. married W. H. Snively, of 
Philadelphia. 

7. Ella M. married E. S. Lehman, of 
Guilford township. 

8. Solomon, deceased. 

(III) JOHN CALVIN MILLER was 
reared upon the homestead, and received a 
common school education. On Dec. 14. 
1S80. he married Miss Anna R. McCleary, 
of Quincy township, daughter of George C. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



arid Mary (Cook) McCleary, early settlers 
of Franklin county, who were the parents 
of a large family of children : 

Martha, wife of John Kepner; Franklin 
C. ; John A.; James A.: Samuel; Abraham; 
Anna M., wife of Mr. Miller; George, de- 
ceased ; Mary, deceased ; Harvey, deceased ; 
and Ella, deceased. 

Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had issue : 

1. Tressa Blanch. 

2. IVA MURTLE. 

In politics Mr. Miller is a stanch Repub- 
lican, and is now one of the school directors 
lof Guilford township. He is a consistent 
member of the Reformed Church, and gives 
liberally toward its support. His home is a 
A'ery comfortable one, well supplied with all 
necessary buildings and appliances, all of 
which have been earned by the energy-, fore- 
sight and thrift of Mr. Miller, who without 
doubt is one of the representative farmers of 
his township. 

PENSINGER FAMILY. (I) JACOB 
PENSINGER came from Lancaster- to 
Franklin county in iSio and settled on a 
farm near Greencastle. He was the father 
of five sons and three daughters : 

1. Jacob. 

2. John. 

3. Henry. 

4. George (II). 

5. David. 

6. Nancy. 

7. Elizabeth. 

8. Rosanna. 

(11) GEORGE PENSINGER (born 
in .\ntrim township), son of Jacob Pensin- 
ger, was by trade a millc-. He operated the 
Martin Mills for thirty years, after which his 
son William succeeded him. He enlisted 
Aug. 12, 1862. in Company D, T26th P. V. 
I., and was mustered out with the company 
JVIay 20, 1863. He was with his regiment 



in the terrible battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 
13, 1862, and, before being mustered out, 
participated in tlie battle of Chancellorsville. 
He married Christiana Ruthrauft, and they 
had issue : 

1. William H. enlisted in Company 
K, 2ist Pennsylvania Cavalry, Aug. i, 1863, 
was promoted to corporal June i, 1865, and 
was mustered out with the company at 
Lynchburg, Va., July 8, 1865. He partici- 
pated in all the imjxjrtant actions in which 
his regiment was engaged. He married 
Louisa \\'underlich. 

2. Mary married David Criswell. . 

3. Catharine married Calvin Hagar. 

4. Marg.\ret. 

5. Elizabeth married Alfred Lesher. 

6. Maria married Harry Gerhart. 

7. George married Mary Bricker. 

8. Jacob enlisted in Company D, 126th 
P. V. I., Aug. 12, 1862, and was mustered 
out with the company. May 20, 1863. He 
was with his regiment in the storming of 
Mary's Hill, Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 
1862, and in the battle of Chancellorsville. 
He enlisted as a veteran in the 21st Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry, Aug. i, 1863, and after 
participating with his regiment in its many 
engagements from Cold Harbor to .^ppomat- 
to.x was mustered out with the company at 
Lynchburg, Va., July 8, 1865. 

' 9. John T. (III). 

10. Luther. 

1 1. Abraham. 

12. Emma. 

(Ill) JOHN T. PENSINGER (born 
in ^Montgomery township. Oct. 5, 1848), 
son of George and Christiana (Ruthrauff) 
Pensinger, learned the trade of a miller 
under his father, and that of a millwright 
with M. Hayes, of Mercersburg. In 1870, 
he became prominently identified with the 
millwright business, erecting grist mills for 
Everhnrt & Bro., of Newport, Perry county; 




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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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Abrani Reams, at Fort Hunter, Dauphin 
county; and for Christian Burkhart, Kerlin 
& Zullinger, W. F. Eyster & Bros., and ^L 
C. Stoner & Co., in Chambersburg-. On 
Feb. 3, 1864, lie enhsted in Company K, 
2 1 St Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was mus- 
tered out with tlie company, July 8, 1865, 
He participated in many engagements, in- 
cluding Cold Harbor, in front of Peters- 
burg, on the W'eldon Railroad, and at Ream's 
Station, Dunwiddie Courthouse, Farmville 
and Appomattox, After Lee"s surrender at 
Appomattox Courthouse the regiment 
marched into North Carolina, as far as the 
Dan river, Init learning that General John- 
ston had surrendered, it returned to Peters- 
bin-g. In Alay and June it was on provost 
duty at Danville and Lynchburg, Va.. and 
was mustered out at the latter place. Mr. 
Pensinger is an active Republican and has 
always been prominent in local politics. He 
Avas a county auditor of Franklin county. 
1885-88, was elected Burgess of the bor- 
ough of :\Iercersl)urg in February. 1886, and. 
also served for three years as a school direc- 
tor. He Avas sheriff of Franklin countv, 
1899-1902, and was chairman of the Repub- 



I'ost, No, 497, G, A. R. ; of Brownson Camp. 
Xo. 132 S, v.; of Mount Pisgah Lodge, 
Xo. 443, F. & A. M., Greencastle; and of 
the Elks. He is a member of the Lutheran 
Church. In 1874 he married Louisa M. 
Shaffer, daughter of Christian and ^Laria 
Shaffer. They have issue : 

1. H.ws married Ella Fisher, of Cham- 
bersburg. 

2. M.\RY married H. G. Wagner, of 
Carlisle, and they have one son, John P. 

3. Id.\ married Charles Sheetz, of Har- 
risburg, 

4. Joiix S. was a soldier in the Spanish- 
.\merican war as a member of Company H, 
9th United States Infantry, and served three 
years in the Piiilippines with Company H, 
3d United States Infantry. He married 
Edith Burkhart, and they have one son. Earl, 

5. George L. lives in Chambersburg. 

6. P.JiULiNE lives at home. 

7. Ella lives at home. 



lican County Committee. 1902-05. He is 
one of the best known men in the county, 
and is recognized as a Republican leader. 
After retiring from the sheriff's office he 
returned to his old position as traveling 
salesman for the Wolf Company that he ha'^ 
beld since 1884, except during his three 
years term as Sheriff of Franklin county. 
He was elected president of the Lakeview 
-Milling Company, of Chambersburg, Jan. 
I. 1904. and vice-president of the Wolf 
Company, Jan. i, 1905. He is one of the 
original stockholders of the Chambersburg 
Trust Company. Mr. Pensinger is a self- 
made man and attributes his success in life 
to temperate habits and close application to 
business. He is a member of McCullogh 



ECKEL FAMILY. (I) JACOB 
ECKEL (born in the village of Bechofen, 
near Homburg, Rhine Bavaria, Germany, 
Sept. 21, 1799 — died at Port Washington, 
Wis., March 12, 1890) emigrated to the 
United States Sept. 10, 1832, on the ship 
"Pennsylvania," destination Philadelphia, 
and was shipwrecked on the South Carolina 
coast, just outside of Charleston Harbor, 
December 2d, losing everything he possessed. 
With his wife and three children the vessel 
owners sent him to Philadelphia. He was a 
stone cutter, mason and builder by trade. 
L'pon arriving at Philadelphia he worked at 
his trade and such jobs as he could obtain. 
He was unable to speak English. In 1837 
he went to Frederick, Md., and worked on 
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, building 
acjueducts along the line, and had iust 
finished the aqueduct at Hancock, Md.. when 
the company failed. He soon afterward re- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



moved to McConnellsbnrg, Pa., where he re- 
sumed his trade as builder. In 1853 ^e set- 
tled on a farm at Port Washington, Wis., 
and was engaged in farming until 1861, 
when he sold his farm and retired from active 
business. 

Mr. Eckel married Catherine Mentzner 
(born in the village of Middlebach, Rhine 
Bavaria, Germany, April 12, 1798 — died 
June 7, 1878); they had issue: 

1. Philip. 

2. Elizabeth married Jacob Kreich- 
baum. 

3. George. 

4. John (II). 

5. Charles. 

6. Mary married Marcellis Audier. 

The children, grandchildren and great- 
grandchildren of Jacob Eckel were sixty- 
nine in number. 

(II) JOHN ECKEL (born in Phila- 
delphia Jan. 14, 1834) son of Jacob and 
Catherine (Mentzner) Eckel, was educated 
in the public schools at McConnellsburg. He 
clerked in the general store of William Scott 
Fletcher from the age of thirteen, until he 
was eighteen years old, with the exception 
of the first three winter months of each year, 
when he was at school. At eighteen he went 
to Gettysburg to learn the tinning trade with 
George A. Buehler, and then worked two 
years at his trade with his brother George 
in Eaton, Ohio. Later he went to Port 
Washington, Wis., where he clerked in a 
store for three years. He then engaged in 
the grocery business in partnership with his 
brother Philip, in which he continued until 
the beginning of the Civil war. After the 
war he came to Chambersburg, and was in 
the dry-goods business for two years in part- 
nership with Capt. Calvin Gilbert, the firm 
being Eckel & Gilbert. After retiring from 
the dry-goods trade he engaged as a com- 
mercial traveling salesman for the Chambers- 



burg Woolen Mill Co., and has traveled for 
various wholesale and cloth manufacturing 
firms for more than a third of a century. He 
is a Mason and Knight Templar, and a mem- 
ber of the G. A. R. 

Mr. Eckel married, June 26. 1856. Ara- 
bella E. Gilbert, daughter of Daniel and 
Amy (Rice) Gilbert, of Gettysburg, Adams 
Co., Pa. They had issue : 

1. Edward Everett is in the hardware 
business of Eckel & Brand. 

2. Emma Catherine married James 
Logan Senseny, of Dayton, Ohio. 

3. Mary Grace married Frank B. 
Haller, of Frederick, Maryland. 

4. Arabella Elizabeth married W 
L. Mantz, of Washington, D. C. 

5. Annie Lavina married Charles B. 
Brand, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 

6. John Jacob was graduated at the 
Philadelphia Dental College in 1894, and 
has since practiced his profession in Cham- 
bersburg. 

SCHAEFFER FAMILY. GEORGE 
SCHAEFFER (born in Germany, prob- 
ably in the Palatinate — died in Berks county, 
in 1792), the immigrant ancestor of a note- 
worthy Pennsylvania-German family, emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania on the ship "Edin- 
burgh," landing at Philadelphia, Aug. 13, 
1750. He settled in Berks county, and 
bought a farm of 132 acres in Richmond 
township, near Kutztown, Sept. 28, 1759. 
He was naturalized before Chief Justice Wil- 
liam Allen in Philadelphia, April 10, 1761. 
He was active in the .\merican Revolution, 
being appointed second lieutenant in the 
German regiment, five companies of which 
were raised in Pennsylvania, July 12. 1776, 
He became second lieutenant of Capt. John 
Paul Scoth's Company, Baron de Otten- 
dorffs Battalion. Pulaski Legion, Feb. 10, 
1777, and captain of the 3d Cavalry of the 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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Legion Feb. 8, 1778. He left the army with 
the rank of major. Major Schaeffer mar- 
ried in Germany Katharine Richer (died near 
Kntztown), and they had issue: 

1. Elizabeth married John Bieber. 

2. Margaret married Dewalt Bieber, 
and removed to Chester county. 

3. Maria married Michael Christman, 
and lived at Tamaqua ; after her husband's 
death she returned to Fleetwood with her 
children. 

4. Peter went to Montgomery county. 

5. Philip (II). 

(II) PHILIP SCHAEFFER, son of 
George and Katharine (Rieber) Schaeffer, 
was a farmer on the old Schaeffer home- 
stead near Kutztown. He married Eliza- 
beth Fetherolf, and they had nine sons and 
live daughters ; one of the sons, David, died 
young, and a daughter, Anna Merkel is liv- 
ing ( 1903) aged ninety. The youngest son, 
named after his deceased brother, was 

I. David (III). 

(III) DAVID SCHAEFFER. son of 
Philip and Elizabeth (Fetherolf) Schaeffer, 
was all his life a farmer near the old Schaef- 
fer homestead in Berks county. He married 
Esther Christ ; they had issue : 

1. Nathan C. (born Feb. 3, 1849) 
was prepared for college at Maxatawney 
Seminary, now Keystone State Normal 
School, and w-as graduated at Franklin and 
Marshall College in 1867, and at the Eastern 
Theological Seminary of the Reformed 
Church. He also studied at the Universities 
of Berlin, Tubingen and Leipsic. He was 
a teacher in Mercersburg and Franklin and 
Marshal! College and was for sixteen years 
principal of the Keystone State Normal 
School. He has been superintendent of the 
Department of Public Instruction of the 
State of Pennsylvania since 1873. 

2. William C. (IV). 

3. Daniel Nichola.s was graduated at 



Franklin and Marshall College in 1876, and 
is a leading member of the Berks County 
Bar. 

4. James is a farmer in Berks county.. 

5. Charles David was graduated at 
Franklin and Marshall College in 1886 and 
is a physician at Allentown. 

(IV) WILLIAM C. SCHAEFFER. 
(born near Kutztown. Berks county, April 
28, 1851 ) , son of David and Esther (Chri.st) 
Schaeffer. was educated at the Keystone- 
State Normal School, and was graduated at 
Franklin and Marshall College in 1871. In/ 
the autumn of that year he entered the 
Eastern Theological Seminary of the Re- 
formed Church and was graduated in 1874. 
He was soon afterward ordained to the- 
pastorate of the Reformed Church at 
Waynesboro, where he remained until 1876, 
when he was elected to the chair of Latin- 
and Greek at the Kutztown State Normal 
School. In January, 1876. he resigned the 
professorship in the Normal School to ac- 
cept the pastorate of the Reformed Church, 
at Danville, Pa., which he held until the 
spring of 1884. He was president of 
Palatinate College at Myerstown. 1884-91, 
and Pastor of the Reformed Church at Hun- 
tingdon, 1891-94. In 1894 he was called to 
Zion's Reformed Church, Chambersburg, 
and was its pastor for exactly ten years, re- 
signing in September, 1904, to accept the 
professorship of New Testament E.xegesis 
in the Reformed Theological Seminary at 
Lancaster, to which he was chosen by the 
three Synods of the Reformed Church in 
May, 1904. After his election he made a 
visit to Europe, returning in September to 
close his pastorate at Zion's Church and be- 
gin his work in the seminar^'. He retains 
his membership in the Synod of the Potomac. 
He is a member of the board of trustees of 
Franklin and Marshall College. Mercersburg 
College, and the College for Women at 



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Frederick, ]\Id. He is also a member of the 
Board of Home ^lissions, and the Board of 
Education of the S\iiod of the Potomac. 
He \\as for six years a member of the Cham- 
bersburg school board. His Alma Mater 
conferred upon him the degree of Ph. D. in 
1S89, and that of D. D. in 1903. At a 
special meeting ■Mercersburg Classis held 
Sept. 23. 1904. to dissolve his pastoral re- 
lation with Zion's Church, the Rev. C. A. 
Santee, in moving the dissolution of the 
pastoral relations, said that the call to a 
higher sphere had in it elements of pleasure 
and regret, pleasure that we had the man 
and Mercersburg Classis the honor of pre- 
senting him for the post, and all would re- 
joice that the choice had fallen upon Dr. 
Schaeffer, who was by education and char- 
acter, merit and intrinsic worth, so eminently 
fitted for the position. It was an instance, 
above all, in which the man sought not the 
place but the place the man. The regret 
was that Mercersburg Classis should lose one 
■of its foremost pastors. 

Dr. Schaeffer married in January. 1880. 
Mary H. Diersbach. daughter of Solomon 
Diersbach. of Carbon county : the)' have 
issue: 

1. John Ne\tx was graduated at 
Franklin and ^larshall College in 1903, and 
is a professor in Millersville State Normal 
School. 

2. Edith. 

J. A. MIDDOWER. a well known and 
prosperous citizen of Waynesboro, Pa., and 
secretan,- of the Geiser ^Manufacturing Com- 
pany, was born on a farm in Ouincy town- 
ship, Franklin Co.. Pa.. Dec. 15. 1855. The 
name is of German origin, the first of the 
line in this countrv. 

(I) JACOB MIDDOWER, coming 
from Germany, and settling at an early day 
in Franklin countv. where he followed fann- 



ing. He and his family were Lutherans. He 
was the father of : 

1. Jacob. 

2. John (II). 

3. Joseph. 

4. David. 

5. George. 

6. Samuel. 

7. Elizabeth. 

8. Kate. 

(II) JOHN MIDDOWER, father of 
J. A., was born on the Middower farm in 
Ouincy township in 1S30, and died in 1894. 
He was a farmer all his life. He married 
Annie E. Funk, who was born in Washing- 
ton township, Franklin county, in 1835, and 
now resides in \\'aynesboro. She is a daugh- 
ter of John Funk, granddaughter of Henry 
Funk, and sister of Benjamin F. Funk, the 
last named being one of the leading farmers 
of the township of \\'ashington. 

(III) J. A. MIDD0\\'ER was reared 
upon the farm until his eighth year. He ob- 
tained his early education in the common 
schools of Ouincy and the ^^"aynesboro high 
school, from which he was graduated in 
1876. He then entered Lock Haven (Pa.) 
State Normal School, and was graduated 
from that institution in 1878. After teach- 
ing school for several years he took the chair 
of mathematics in Windsor College, holding 
the same one year. WTien he first com- 
menced teaching he also began the study of 
law, in the office of S. D. Ball, at Lock 
Haven, and continued his legal studies for 
two years. A short time prior to his ex- 
amination, however, he received an offer 
from the Geiser Manufacturing Company 
of ^^'aynesboro, and in January. 1883, took 
charge of their collection department, hold- 
ing that position for ten vears. during which 
time he revised all the legal forms and or- 
ganized a system of collection which was a 
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493 



the time he assumed charge. In the fall of 
1893 he was elected secretary of the com- 
pany, having been made a director in 1890, 
and he still meets with the board in his 
capacity of an officer. He gives all his time 
and attention to promoting the interests of 
the company. 

Mr. Middower married Sudie E.. daugh- 
ter of Benjamin Stewart, Frederick City, 
Md., and they have the following children : 

1. Lester Emmert. 

2. Ger.\ld Funk. 

3. Ida Gertrude. 

4. Lillian Gladys. 

Mr. Middower is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church of \Vaynesboro, with which 
he has been connected for seven years, and 
in the work of which he takes an active part, 
being now a member of the board of trustees. 
He is one of the most energetic, public- 
spirited men of the city, and one who stands 
high in the estimation of everyone, especially 
among the officials and stockholders of his 
company. In politics he is a Republican. 

JOHN A. NEIL, a successful retired 
farmer of Fannett township, who resides 
near Spring Run, was born Sept. 12, 1833, 
son of Henry and Peggie (Rine) Neil, of 
Path Valley, and grandson of David Neil. 

(I) DAVID NEIL was a nati\-e of 
Ireland, who came to this country when a 
}-oung man, and became a farmer of Path 
Valley in its early days. He became the 
father of the following children : 

I- Pollie. 

2. Sarah. 

3. Nancy. 

4. Amy. 

5. AcEY. 

6. Betsie. 

7. David. 

8. William. 

9- Henry S. (II). 



(H) HENRY S. NEIL, father of our 
subject, was born in 1801, and lived to be 
eighty-five years of age. By trade he was a 
blacksmith, and carried on his work at 
Spring Run for man)- years. The following 
family was born to himself and wife : 

1. John A. (HI). 

2. Ann married David Gracy. 

3. Isaac R., deceased, was a physician.. 

4. Ellen married August Cooper. 

5. Calvin B. 

6. Mary married George C. Britton. 
(HI) JOHN A. NEIL was born and 

reared in Fannett township, where he re- 
ceived a public school education, and learned 
to farm. In i860, he married Miss Eliza- 
beth McMullin, of Path Valley, born June 
5, 1837, daughter of Alexander and Eliza- 
beth (Jones) McMullin, an old family of the 
Valley. The following children were born 
of the marriage : 

1. Henry E. married Clara Skinner,, 
and lives at East Liverpool, Ohio. 

2. Elizabeth married Dr. S. M.. 
Branen. of Concord, Pennsylvania. 

3. Lottie married T. S. Morehead, of 
Juniata county, Pennsylvania. 

4. Matilda E. married Prof. E. E.. 
Kell, of Shade Gap, Pennsylvania. 

5. JoHN% of Blairs Mills, Pa., married 
Blanch Robinson. 

6. }ilAUD is at home. 

7. Fannie, widow of Harry K. Bair, 
resides with her father. 

In politics Mr. Neil is a stanch Republi- 
can, and in religion a Presbyterian, as is 
also his wife. During the Civil war he en- 
listed in Company E. 9th Pennsylvania 
Cavalry, and participated in many of the- 
closely contested battles of the war, and re- 
ceived a fall from his horse, which caused 
permanent injury. He was given an honor- 
able discharge, and mustered out in the fall 
of 1865. Naturally he is a wami supporter 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



■of the G. A. R. and belongs to the Post at 
Spring Run, being very popular with his 
fellow members. By hard work, and un- 
ceasing industry, in spite of the fact that he 
was injured by his service to his country, 
Mr. Neil has been enabled to build up his 
fortunes, and now is living retired from an 
active life, surrounded by those he loves, and 
provided with the comforts of the times. 
His actions throughout his useful and honor- 
able life have always been those of a just 
man, who endeavored to live up to what he 
believed was right, and as a result today, 
his word is regarded as binding as another 
man's bond, and no man is more highly es- 
teemed than he. In their comfortable home, 
Mr. and Mrs. Neil dispense a generous hos- 
-pitality, which includes not only their many 
friends and relatives, but those who are in 
trouble and need, and none who ask are ever 
sent empty away. This worthy couple have 
reared a family which is a credit to them, 
and they have the pleasure of seeing them 
happy in homes of their own, and of having 
their grandchildren about them, to unite in 
■calling them blessed. 

A. C. WILSON is one of the well- 
known farmers and highly esteemed citi- 
zens of Lower Path Valley, and was born 
in his present home in Metal township. 
Franklin county. Sept. 19. 1848, son of Wil- 
liam and Maria (Lysinger) Wilson. 

(I) THOMAS WILSON, his grand- 
father, as far as is known came from 
the North of Ireland. He was a farmer, 
one of the earliest settlers in the Path Val- 
ley and was the father of a large family, 
born as follows : 

1. George, Aug. 18. 1795. 

2. Margaret, Aug. 6. 1797. 

3. Andrew, Dec. 18, 1799. 

4. Thomas, Jr., Feb. 3, 1802. 

5. Isabella, Jan. 5, 1804. 



6. Mark C. (twin to Isabella), Jan. 5, 
1804. 

7. Elizabeth, Dec. 22, 1806. 

8. William (II). 

9. Joseph, Nov. 16, 1812. 

(II) WILLIAM WILSON (born near 
Dryrun, Franklin county. May 13, 1809 — 
died at his home in the valley Oct. 2, 1890), 
married Miss Maria Lysinger (born in Bed- 
ford county, Pa., Oct. 3, 181 2 — died May 

18, 1884). Mr. Wilson was a wagon-maker 
by trade, and followed that calling for some 
years in Bedford county, but finally returned 
to the scene of his boyhood, and in 1844 
purchased the present Wilson homestead 
from William Elliott. Politically he was a 
Republican, and in matters of religion 
was a Presbyterian, and a member of 
the Lower Path Valley Church. To him 
and his wife were born thirteen children, 
as follows : 

(i) James H. (Sept. 19, 1834) now 
of Chicago. 

(2) Eliza (July 24, 1836) died young. 

(3) Catherine Elizabeth (July 18, 
1837) married David H. Wyand, of Keedys- 
ville, Maryland. 

(4) Emily J. (May 29, 1839) of 
Illinois, is unmarried. 

(5) Thomas A. (Sept. 21, 1841) died 
young. 

(6) William M. (May 15, 1843). 

(7) Charlotte Ann (May 20, 1845 — 
died in July, 1884), married David Kendig. 

(8) Almira B. (Jan. 27, 1847) mar- 
ried John Maxwell, of Jackson Hall, Frank- 
lin county. 

(9) Andrew Calvin (III), born Sept. 

19, 1848. 

(10) Clementine (Oct. 4, 1850) is 
the wife of Augustus Kitzmiller, of Keedys- 
ville, Maryland. 

(11) Marietta L. (July 3, 1852), is 
the wife of T- F. Reese, of Kansas. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



(12) Caroline W. (Dec. 21, 1854) 
died in childhood. 

(13) Bertha G. (Sept. 2^, 1857) is 
the wife of George W. Nycrom, of Illinois. 

(Ill) ANDREW C. WILSON (born 
Sept. 19, 1848) grew up on his father's farm 
and attended the schools of Metal township. 
After finishing his own education he taught 
for a while, and then turned his entire at- 
tention to farming. He now owns the old 
farm of 100 acres, one of the best farms in 
the Lower \'alley, and he is one of the most 
esteemed citizens of the locality. He is a 
Presbyterian in his religious belief, and has 
been for some years an elder in the Lower 
Path Valley Church. In his political views 
he is a Republican and an active one, who has 
done his part in the public life of his vicinity, 
for he has served efficiently as township 
auditor, school director and township clerk. 

On Dec. 5, 1871, Andrew C. Wilson and 
Miss Ann Mary Keedy, were united in matri- 
mony. Miss Keedy was the daughter of 
Jacob H. and Maria Keedy, of Keedysville, 
Md., and has had a family of twelve chil- 
dren. Seven of these are living, viz. : 

(i) Charles Franklin, of Phillips- 
burg, Pa., married Miss Jane Hewitt, and 
has two daughters, Gladys and Caroline. 

(2) Daisy G., is at home. 

(3) Minnie is the wife of John D. 
Burkholder, and mother of Evelyn and 
Arthur, residing in Hartford, Conn. 

(4) Bruce C, is of Hartford. 

(5) Ethel. 

(6) Hattie B. 

(7) Carrie. 

MONTGOMERY FAMILY. The 
Montgomery family of Chambersburg is de- 
rived from th.e noble house of Eglinton, 
through Sir John Montgomerie, lineal de- 
scendant of Roger de Montgomerie, kins- 
man of William, Duke of Normandy, and 



495 

commander of tiie first body of the Duke's 
army at the battle of Hastings. The Mont- 
gomerys have long been settled in the North 
of Ireland. They were among the soldiers of 
fortune who, by sustaining the English there, 
obtained large grants of land in the Counties 
of Antrim, Down, Donegal, I-ermanagii, 
Monaghan and Cavan. The ancestor of the 
Chambersburg family was a retainer of Sir 
Hugh Montgomery, Lord of Ards, who with 
Sir James Hamilton obtained two-thirds of 
the lands of Conn O'Neill, hereditary Prince 
of Ulster, in 1606. The noble house of 
Ards is now extinct in the direct line, but 
the collateral branches are still numerous in 
many parts of Ulster. James Montgomery 
(died in 181—) was a native of Ballymena, 
County Antrim, whence he emigrated to 
Pennsylvania, and settled in Chester county, 
where he was naturalized May 24, 1804. 
He married. Dec. 22, 1801, Susanna John- 
son (died in 1 81 6), of that county; they 
had only one son: James (II), and one 
daughter, Ann. 

(II) JAMES MONTGOMERY ( born 
in Chester county, in 1808— died March 17, 
1858), son of James and Susanna (Johnson) 
Montgomery, received a meager education 
in the schools of Brandywine Manor, and 
learned the trade of a harnessmaker. After 
his marriage he lived for a brief period at 
Rising Sun, in Lancaster county, but in 1837 
he removed to Franklin county, where he 
bought a small farm in Letterkenny town- 
ship. This farm he soon afterward ex- 
changed with Christian Bigler for a wayside 
inn in Upper Strasburg. He disposed of the 
tavern property in 1844, and after living at 
Shippensburg for a few months settled at 
Chambersburg. where he took charge of tlie 
"Eagle Hotel." in North Main street, now 
the "Hotel Montgomery." This property 
remained in the Montgomery family for half 
a century. The old hotel was destroyed by 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



the Confederates in 1864. Mr. Montgomery 
married Margaret Wagenseller (died June 
I, 1876), daughter of Jacob and ]\Iartha 
(Shrack) Wagenseller. The Wagenseller 
family, which was of German or Dutch de- 
scent, is derived from Christopher Wagen- 
seil, who came to Pennsylvania as early as 
1727, and possibly before 171 7, and settled 
in what is now Hanover township, Mont- 
gomery county, in the valley of tne Perkio- 
men creek. John Wagenseller (1739-1799), 
as the name was written by him, son of 
Christopher, married Maria Margaret Hon- 
netter (.1740-1811), daughter of Andrew 
Honnetter, and their son Jacob married Mar- 
tha Shrack. James and Margaret (Wagen- 
seller) Montgomery had issue: 

I. Hannah Ann died in infancy. 
.2. John (HI). 

(Ill) JOHN MONTGOMERY (born 
in Brandywine Manor, Chester Co., Pa., 
Dec. 29 1835), son of James and Margaret 
(Wagenseller) Montgomery, was educated 
at Lititz Academy and at the Chambers- 
burg Academy. He served a three years' 
apprenticeship to the drug business, and 
then studied medicine with Dr. John C. 
Richards, an eminent physician at Cham- 
bersburg. He was graduated M. D. at Jef- 
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
March 9, 1858, and began the practice in 
Chambersburg. In 1864 he entered into 
partnership with Dr. Richards, his former 
preceptor, with whom he continued for 
eight years. He is a member of the Penn- 
sylvania State Medical Society and was its 
vice-president in 1874, and was also presi- 
dent and recording secretary of the Frank- 
lin County Medical Society. In 1892 he 
published a history of the Medical Society 
of Franklin County, with sketches of the 
early practitioners of the county, and in 
1902 he read a paper before the society on 
Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was the first phy- 



sician in the Conococheague Valley. In 
1886 Dr. Montgomery associated with him, 
in his practice h.is son. Dr. P. Brough Mont- 
gomery. He retired from practice in 1902, 
his son James H. Montgomery becoming 
the partner of his elder brother. Although 
he is a Democrat he was appointed by 
President Arthur a member of the first board 
of United States medical examiners in 
southern .Penns3'lvania, a position that he 
retained for fourteen years, 1884-97. He 
has been for many years one of the visitors 
appointed by the Pennsylvania Board of 
Public Charities to inspect the Charitable 
institutions of Franklin county. He has 
been a prominent Freemason since 1858, 
and for many years was \\'orshipful ^Master 
of George Washington Lodge, No. 143; he 
is also a member of George Washington R. 
A. Chapter, No. 176. Dr. ]\Iontgomery 
married Feb. 6, 1862, Catharine Ann 
Brough (born July 19, 1840 — died Nov. 2^, 
1899), daughter of Peter Brough, a promi- 
nent business man of Franklin count}' ; they 
had issue : 

I. Peter Brough (born Dec. 29, 
1862) was educated at the Chambersburg 
High School and the Chambersburg Acad- 
emy. He studied medicine with his father 
and was graduated M. D. at Bellevue Hospi- 
tal Medical College, New York, in 1886. He 
has since practiced his profession at Cham- 
bersburg. He was elected coroner of Frank- 
lin county in 1887, and while coroner was 
connected with some of the most important 
murder trials in the history of the county. 
He was the Democratic candidate for the 
State Senate in 1892, but was defeated in 
the landsliile of that year. He was twice 
a member of the Chambersburg town council 
and declined the nomination for chief bur- 
gess in 1900. In 1896 he was appointed for 
the State Board of Health medical inspector 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



497 



member of the drug firm of Greenawalt & tail drug store firm of Greenawalt & Mont- 
Montgomery, the largest of its kind in the gomery, organized in Deceinl)er, 1897. This 
Cumberland Valley. He is a member of the lirm conducted four line stores in. Chambers- 
American Medical Association, the Medical burg. He is now proprietor of the Cressler 
Society of Pennsylvania, and the Franklin drug store. He is a member of George 
County Medical Society. He is a member Washington Lodge, No. 143, F. & A. M. 
of George Washington Lodge, No. 143, F. 

& A. M., and a Knight Templar. Dr. Mont- MILLER FAMILY'. FREDERICK 

gomery married Nov. 28, 1889, Jessie MILLER (born in Lancaster county, — died 
Snively Bonbrake, daughter of Emanuel J. Sept. 28, 1858), came to Chambersburg as 
and Eliza Belle (Oakes) Bonbrake; they a young man, and engaged in business as a 
have one son : William Erdmann, born July tinner and coppersmith in 1806, in which 
12, 1892. he continued his retirement in 1850. His 

2. Margarett.\, born Dec. 29, 1862, shop and dwelling were on the west side of 
died Jan. 22, 1889. She made a bequest for Main street, opposite the "Indian Queen 
founding the teachers' library of the Central Hotel." He was one of the leading citizens 
Presbyterian Church, which was named the of the town during his life. He was a mem- 
Retta ^lontgomery Memorial Library. her of the Chamljersburg town council in 

3. James H. (born March 23, 1875) 1819, and again in 1828, and 1844-46. He 
was educated in the Chambersburg High was also at one time commissioner of Frank- 
School and at the Chambersburg Academy, lin county and was also a director of the 
He studied medicine with his father, and was National Bank of Chambersburg. The busi- 
graduated M. D. at the Medico-Chirurgical ness established by him is still in existence, 
College, Philadelphia. May 31, 1898. At and is the oldest of its kind in Chambers- 
the outbreak of the Spanish-American war burg. Mr. Miller married Maria Eve 
he was appointed assista'nt surgeon, U. S. Shriver (died July 13, 1852), a native of 
A. ; he first served at the Red Cross Hospi- Lancaster Co. ; they had issue : 

tal at Camp Meade, near Middletown, Pa., i. Julia A. married Henry Strickler, 

and was afterward sent to Summerville, April i, 1830, and had issue: Maria Eliza- 
S. C, Augusta, Ga., Tampa, Fla., and Cuba. beth. Anna Mary, Josephine Davison, Cath- 
Since his return to his home he has prac- erine Hall and Emma D. 
ticed medicine in Chambersburg in partner- 2. Maria married Aug. 23, 1838, 

ship with his brother. Dr. P. Brough Mont- George S. Eyster, the leading merchant of 
gomery. He is a member of George Wash- his time in Chambersburg. She was his sec- 
ington Lodge, No. 143, F. & A. M., and ond wife; they had issue: Frederick and 
of various medical societies. Christian. 

4. John Custis (born March 22,, 3. Catharine married in 1853, Fred- 
1875) \\as educated in the Chambersburg erick Smith, a leading member of the Frank- 
High School and at the Chambersburg lin County Bar. She was his second wife; 
Academy. He served an apprenticeship to they had issue : Catharine, who married 
the drug business with W. G. Greenawalt, John L. Reside. 

and was graduated at the Philadelphia Col- 4- John P. died unmarried, July 28, 

lege of Pharmacy in March, 1896. He was 1877. 

the promoter of the large wholesale and re- 5. Charles F. died unmarried, Aug, 

32 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



19, 1882. He was a worthy citizen, a care- 
ful and conscientious business man, an 
agreeable companion, and a generous friend. 

6. Jacob B. (II). 

7. Sarah ^I. died unmarried. July 27. 
1868. 

(II) JACOB BURNETT MILLER 
(torn at Chambersburg, May 23. 18 19 — ■ 
died March 28, 1892), son of Frederick and 
Maria E. (Shriver) Miller, succeeded his 
father in the tinning and coppersmithing 
business in conjunction with his brother, 
Charles F. Miller. When the elder brother 
retired, Jacob B. Miller remained in the 
business and continued in it until his death. 
He was a good business man, a public 
spirited citizen, and a genial and generous 
friend. Mr. Miller married Mary Cath- 
;arine Simpson (bom Sept. 28, 1832), 
.daughter of Matthew Simpson (born in 
Dublin, Ireland, April 10, 1791 — died April 
5, 1844), a prominent citizen of Chambers- 
burg and landlord of the old "Mansion 
House" in the Public Square, in its palmy 
.days. Jacob B. and Mary C. Miller had 
tissue : 

1. Simpson R. (III). 

2. Charles P. (IV). 

3. William K., a clerk at Philadel- 
phia. 

4. Frederick Eyster (bom Dec. 10, 
1862) is engaged in the real estate business 
in Chambersburg. He married in 1887, 
Mary C. Link (torn May 16, 1863 — died 
Feb. 6, 1898), daughter of John and Mary 
(Lenher) Link; they had issue: Wayne 
L., Ralph Simpson and Mary Catharine. 

5. Herrington Smith (born Nov. 18, 
1871), a machinist of Philadelphia, married 
Annie Amelia Besor (torn March 31. 
1871), daughter of George and Emma 
(Nicklas) Besor. They had issue: Ed- 
win Burnett, born Sept. 14, 1895. 

6. Paul Walter (born Feb. 9, 1873'^ 



is a machinist at St. Louis, Mo. He is un- 
married. 

(Ill) SliMPSON R. MILLER (bom 
at Chambersburg, March 13, 1857), son of 
Jacob B. and Mary C. (Simpson) Miller, 
was educated in the public schools and at the 
Chambersburg High School. At the age 
of eighteen he began life as clerk and book- 
keeper in his father's store, where he re- 
mained five years. After completing his ap- 
prenticeship he returned to the store, and 
was clerk and bookkeeper for twelve years. 
He then engaged in the grocery business for 
a year, worked at his trade for a year, and 
again went into the grocery business with 
his brother-in-law, H. H. Myers. In 1891, 
he was appointed a letter carrier in Chami- 
bersburg, a position that he still holds. In 
partnership with D. L. Greenawalt, he is 
the owner of a fruit farm in Greene town- 
ship : he also owns a fruit farm of one 
hundred acres near Scotland, in conjunction 
with A. L. Rogers. The latter is the finest 
fruit farm in the county. It comprises 
10,800 peach and 4.000 apple trees. At the 
death of H. M. White in 1903, he was ap- 
pointed attorney in fact for the executrix. 
He is a member of Zion's Reformed Church, 
and has toen a member of the Consistory. 
He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., 
Knights of Malta, Modern Woodmen, and 
Royal Arcanum. Fle is a member of the 
Letters Carriers" Mutual Benefit Association. 
Mr. Miller married Dec. 9, 1880. Emma 
Greenawalt. daughter of Samuel and .\nna 
M. (Brough) Greenawalt; they have is- 
sue: Jay B. and Robert Greenawalt. 

•' (IV) CHARLES PARKER MILLER 
(born at Chambersburg. March 14. 1859), 
son of Jacob B. and Mary C. (Simpson) 
Miller, was educated at the public schools, 
and was graduated at the Chambersburg 
High School. He was a clerk in his father's 
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•succeeded to the business, in whicli his 
mother retained an interest, tlie firm becom- 
ing C. P. Miller & Co. This is the oldest 
house in continuous Ixisiness, conducted jjy 
the same family, in tiie county. It will be 
one hundred years old in 1906. The busi- 
ness has grown rapidly under Mr. ]\liller's 
direction, and it is the largest house of its 
kind in the Cumberland Valley, being now a 
house furnishing store, including stoves, 
chinaware, glass lamps, and household hard- 
ware. In connection with the business the 
firm runs a manufacturing and repair shop 
and employs a number of men. Mr. Miller 
is a member of George Washington Lodge. 
No. 143. F. & A. M.: of the Chambersburg 
Chapter; and of Continental Conmiandery, 
No. 56, Chambersburg; and Zembo Temple, 
Mystic Shrine, Harrisburg. He is a char- 
ter member of the B. P. Q. E., in Chambers- 
burg. of the Knights of Pythias, and of the 
Red Men. In politics he is a Republican, 
but he has never aspired for any political 
office. Mr. Miller shows all the character- 
istic traits of the Aliller family— good busi- 
ness capacity, earnest citizenship, and sin- 
cere devotion to his friends. 

G R A X V I L L E MOODY BRU- 
BAKER, M. D., one of the leading phy- 
sicians of Mercersburg, was lx)rn Sept. 17, 
1868, on the family farm in Franklin coun- 
ty. Pa., five miles south of Mercersburg, 
and is the eldest son of John H. and Nancy 
E. Brubaker, both of Waynesboro. 

(I) JACOB BRUBAKER, the grand- 
father of Dr. Brubaker, was of German e.\- 
traction and during his life lived on the old 
home place southwest of Mercersburg. He 
married Elizabeth Rummel, who was also 
of German descent, and a family of thirteen 
children was born to them, as follows ; 

I- J-xcoB. who became a farmer, m.ir- 
ried and left a large family in Indiana. 



2. \\ ii.LiAiM is a retired farmer, living 
m Mercersburg, was twice married and is 
tile father of two daughters. 

3. George was also a farmer, and at 
death left a large family which has scattered 
and carried the name into many Western 
States, especially in the locality of Bushnell, 
Illinois. 

4. Patterson is a retired farmer liv- 
nig at Mercersburg, surronndetl by his chil- 
dren. 

5. Jere.miah, a farmer, lives at 
Shimpstown, a widower, with children. 

6. John H. became the father of our 
subject (II). 

7. Sarah, deceased, married George 
Ritchey. 

8. Caroline, deceased, married Henry 
Dietrich, a school teacher and sale crier, and 
a farmer of McConnellsburg, and they had 
one child. 

9. Jennie married David Miller and 
they live in Chambersburg and have sons. 

10. ^Iarv, the eldest daughter, married 
John Angle and had twelve children. 

11. Mariah married William Mowny, 
a farmer, and had five children. 

12. David was two years (;Id at the time 
of his death. 

13. One died young. 

.All the Brubakers have been stanch Re- 
publicans in political sentiment, and two of 
the sons, Jacob and Patterson, saw one 
year's service in the Civil war. 

(II) JOHN H. BRUBAKER, father 
of Dr. Brubaker, was born at the family 
home near Mercersburg, Pa., and grew up 
accustomed to farm pursuits. .\.s soon as 
his services were not needed at home he 
engaged with a neighbor by the name of 
James Patterson, with whom he remained 
until he was prepared to buy a farm of his 
own, upon which he lived .some thirty years. 
He then sold it and nio\-ed to Mercersburg, 



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living tliere some years and then buying a 
place in Waynesboro, a comfortable home 
on the corner of North and Potomac streets, 
and engaged in the general grocery busi- 
ness. In 1865 he married Nancy E. An- 
derson, daughter of Samuel Anderson, a 
member of a prominent Franklin county 
family, which resided seven miles south of 
Mercersburg. He was a distiller and farmer 
and was one of the substantial men of his 
locality. The children born to John H. Bru- 
baker and wife were the following: 

1. M.\RY Rankin^ torn in 1866, lives 
at home in Waynesboro. 

2. Granville Moody (HI). 

3. Archibald Scott^ born in 1870. 

4. Herbert Adams, born in 1873. 

5. Eleanor Isabella, born in 1876. 

6. Elizabeth Virginia, born in 1879. 

7. Robert Oliver, born in 1881. 
(Ill) GRANVILLE MOODY BRU- 

BAKER was reared until early manhood 
on his father's farm and attended the Lafay- 
ette school in Montgomery township until 
the age of fifteen years, when he became a 
student at the Mercersburg high school, 
from which he graduated two years later 
as valedictorian, then taking the county ex- 
amination for teaching. He then taught the 
Blue Spring school for two successive terms, 
giving the utmost satisfaction and gaining 
experience for himself, adding to his knowl- 
edge during vacations by attendance at Mer- 
cersburg College, now Mercersburg Acad- 
emy, and becoming connected with the 
Washington Irving Literary Society of that 
institution. 

In the spring of 1889 Dr. Brubaker took 
a trip through the West and remained for a 
time in Kansas, and later went into New 
Mexico, where he spent eighteen months as 
clerk in the mechanical department of the 
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad at 



Raton and Las Vegas. In the fall of 1891 
he returned and took up the study of medi- 
cine at the LTniversity of Vermont, located 
at Burlington, in that State, and during 
his vacations attended the clinics at 
Danvers Hospital at Danvers, Mass. 
He then Matriculated at the Baltimore 
Medical College, at Bahimore, Md., 
and was there graduated in April. 1894. 
With his credentials he then returned 
to Mercersburg for a visit with his parents, 
and while there he had a call to take charge 
for a time of the practice of Dr. J. H. 
Devor, at Fort Loudon. After a few 
months he returned to Mercersburg and be- 
came assistant to Dr. E. A. Hudson, later 
accepting a call to The Little Cove to take 
the place of a physician who was on the 
point of leaving that place. During this 
time he successfully passed the examining 
boards of both Pennsylvania and Maryland. 
Two years later he took up his residence 
and permanent practice in Mercersburg, 
where he is most highly esteemed both as a 
physician and as a citizen. 

In 1896 Dr. Brubaker was united in 
marriage with Ida Marie Stoner, who was- 
born July 14, 1871, in Hagerstown, Md., 
a daughter of J. Caufman Stoner, who had 
removed to Warren township. He was one 
of the first conductors on the Western Mary- 
land railroad and prior to that had been con- 
nected with a transportation line, running a 
stage coach between Emmitsburg and Balti- 
more. His death occurred in 1902. The 
four children born to Dr. Brubaker and wife 
are as follows : 

1. Thelma Madeline, bom Feb. 13, 
1897. 

2. Virginia Gertrude, bom Jan. 25, 
1899. 

3. Margaret Eleanor, born Aug. 16,. 
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4. Granville Moody, Jr., bom July 
16, igo2, died July 16, 1903, of whooping 
cough and enteritis. 

In politics Dr. Brubaker is a stanch 
Repulilican, but he has never sought politi- 
cal preferment. However, he was elected 
councilman for three years in February, 
1904, has served on the board of health, 
and for two years was physician, by appoint- 
ment, of the Mercersijurg Academy. He is 
a Methodist in religious view, while Mrs. 
Bnibaker is a Catholic. Socially the D(i>ctor 
has many friends and takes a prominent part 
in all public matters of the city, whether as 
to sanitation or the advancement of religious 
or educational enterprises. 

REV. JAMES GRAY ROSE, pastor of 
the Presbyterian Church of Mercersburg, 
Pa., is the son of James McKinley Rose. 

(I) ANDREW ROSE settled in Mercer 
county. Pa., in 1794, on a tract of land 
known as the Rose estate, becoming an iron 
master. He helped to make cannon-balls for 
the Revolution and was one of the brave sol- 
diers of that struggle. His wife bore the 
maiden name of Gray, and one of his daugh- 
ters bore the name of Mary. He had three 
sons, James, Jacob and Ephraim, all of 

^ whom were soldiers in the war of 1812. 

(II) JAMES ROSE, a son of Andrew, 
also became an ironmaster, and he partici- 
pated in the war of 1812. He married 

* Martha McKinley, while the sister of James 
married David ]\IcKinley, brother of 

' Martha. James was the grandfather of Rev. 

' James Gray Rose, and Mary the grand- 
mother of President William McKinley. 
James was probably born in Chester county. 
Pa., in 1783, and the entire family came 
from the vicinity of Philadelphia. The chil- 
dren of James and Martha (McKinley) Rose 
were as follows : 



1. Sar.\h married James Irwin and 
left a family ; both are now deceased. 

2. Hannah married James Miller; 
both are deceased, leaving a family. 

3. Susan married Benjamin Slater, 
has a family, and is still living, although her 
husband is deceased. 

4. Martha married John .Mexander, 
and both died, leaving a family. 

5. Ephraim married Grace Slater, and 
both are deceased ; they left a family. 

6. A daughter whose name is not re- 
membered married and left a family, all of 
whom died young. 

7. James McKinley (III). 

8. Eleanor married Dr. Clement Per- 
son, and is now living with her daughter. 

9. William Gray (deceased) married 
Martha Parmelee, was twice mayor of 
Cleveland, in 1877 and in 1891, and was 
also at one time a member of the Legisla- 
ture, as well as a candidate for lieutenant- 
governor, but declined to permit the nomi- 
nation to be made on account of his re- 
lationship with William McKinley, who 
was then a rising statesman and member 
of Congress. 

(Ill) JAMES McKINLEY ROSE, 
father of Rev. James Gray Rose, was 
born in Mercer county. Pa., on the 
family property, in 1821. He became 
a teacher when only t\\cnty years of 
age. and then took up farming. His wife 
bore tlie maiden n.ime of Maria Catherine 
Brandon, and she was a daughter of James 
Brandon, also of Pine township. Mercer Co., 
Pa., where he was well known and active. 
He was a man of great scholarly attain- 
ments, and esteemed by all who had the 
honor of his acquaintance. Among his warm 
personal friends he numbered John Trunkey, 
a member of the supreme court. He served 
in the war of the Rebellion, and with him in 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



that war were fourteen nephews. Twelve 
children were born to him, namely : 

1. Laura Kate married Rev. T. M. 
Watson, of New Wilmington, Pa., and both 
are now deceased ; they left one son. Charles 
M. Watson, M. D., a physician of Allegheny 
City, Pennsylvania. 

2. Mary M. married G. W. Carroll, of 
Middlebrook, Pa., a prominent farmer, and 
they have two boys, Clinton Clay and James 
Rose, both at college. 

3. Maria F., a physician of Harvey, 
111. is unmarried. 

4. Homer Jay, superintendent of 
public schools of Sewickley, Pa., a suburb of 
Pittsburgh, married Margaret Shaw, and 
has three sons, Don (a graduate of Prince- 
ton). Gray and Roy. 

5. Rev. James Gray (IV). 

6. Nancy E. married J. Emery Bran- 
don, of Butler, Pa., and has three girls. Rose, 
Catharine and Eleanor. 

7. William B. married Genevieve 
Stephen, of Lincoln, Neb., is an attorney and 
assistant attorney-general of the State, and 
has one girl, Geneviex'e, who is of the twelfth 
generation in a direct line from Elder Brew- 
ster, who came over in the "Mayflower." 

8. Halleck F. married Catherine 
Cameron, lives in Lincoln, Xeb., and is one 
of the most prominent lawyers in the State. 
doing a large amount of work in the Su- 
preme court. 

9. Lillie died at the age of twenty. 

10. Suella died at the age of twenty- 
one. 

1 1. Alice died at the age of five years. 

12. Maud Esta married Ernest Pol- 
land, of Minnehawka. Neb., who is a meiu- 
ber of the Legislature and has been for sev- 
eral years. 

(IV) REV. J.VMES GR.\Y ROSE 
was born in Grove City, Mercer Co.. Pa., 



Dec. 29, 1859. He attended Grove City Col- 
lege, from which he was graduated in 1885. 
and he was graduated from the Western 
Theological Seminary in 1888. He was then 
called to the pastorate of the First Presby- 
terian Church of Edinboro, Pa., and re- 
mained there from June, 1888, to October, 
1892. While there he married, in 1890, 
Effie H. Brown, daughter of John M. 
Brown, a merchant of Parkersburg, W. Va., 
and two children were born to them : 

1. Jame.s McKinley, born May 4, 
1891. 

2. Catharine Virginia, born July 19, 
1897. 

Dr. Rose was called in 1892 to Mercers- 
burg to fill the pulpit of the Presbyterian 
Church, and has continued here ever since. 
He is a scholarly man, whose discourses are 
not only profound, but also clear and concise, 
and within the understanding of even the 
youngest, for they breathe of true Christian- 
ity as well as of doctrinal points. Such a 
man can not help but work good, not only in 
his written and spoken words, but by the 
example set by his upright, honorable life 
and his thorough carrying out in practice of 
the doctrines he preaches. 

GEORGE A. MINNICH. one of the 
representative and public-spirited business 
men of Chambersburg, and a man well and 
favorably known throughout Franklin coun- 
ty, was born .\ug. 21. 1844. at Mt. Vernon, 
Knox Co., Ohio, son of Daniel and Jane 
(Kerr) Minnich. 

(I) MICHAEL AIINNICH, the pa- 
ternal grandfather, was a tanner by trade. 
His tannery was located on the site opixisite 
Sears Furniture factory, in Chambersburg. 
and he conducted same for many years, be- 
coming a man of large means. In addition 
to his place of business he owricd several fine 
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503 



a Democrat, but his association with politi- 5. Barnett niarrifd Annie Plum. 

cal matters ceased with casting his vote. 6. Jexxif, married John Brooks. 

Botli lie and Iiis wife were consistent mem- 7. ]).\niel married Alary Lightner. 

hers of tiie Lutheran Church, and they are (III) GEORGP: A. MINNICH at- 

buried in the graveyard connected witli that tended tlie pul)lic school of his native place 

denomination at Chambersburg, on Wash- for a year, and subsequently went to the 

ington street. The children born t(j this public schools of Chambersburg. However. 

worthy couple were: when he was only seventeen, his school days 

1. MiCH.\EL married a Miss Gro\e. were brought to an end by his enlistment in 

2. Peter married Miss Purviance. Company D, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, in 

3. Daniel married Jane Kerr (II). July, 1863, while the battle of Gettysburg 

4. Barnett died unmarried. was being fought. He remained in the scrv- 
The maternal grandfather was James ice until the end of the war, was present at 

Kerr, and he was one of the hrst of the the surrender of Gen. Lee at .\ppomattox, 
name to locate at Chambersburg, settling and was the last man on picket on the 
at w hat was then known as Kerrstown, but Lynchburg road when the flag of truce 
is now included in the southern part of the came in from Lee's advance cavalry. .Vfter 
city. In his early days he was a farmer and a faithful service he was honorably dis- 
owned the property now owned by T. B. charged, in Jul}-. 1865. Just prior to his 
Kennedy, on South Water street. Mr. Kerr enlistment he had started for Harrisburg 
was the maternal grandfather of Dr. Strealy with the jjurpose of enlisting, but was taken 
as well. a prisoner by Jenkins Cavalry, and was sent 
(II) DANIEL MINNICH, father of to a farm house with orders to endeavor to 
George A., was brought up to work in the get some horses. While there he managed 
old tannery already mentioned, and con- to effect his escape. At the close of the war 
tinned with his father until he was eighteen he returned to Chamberslmrg. and learned 
years of age. when he learned the coachmak- the trade of a carpenter with Sanniel Sei- 
ing business. After pursuing his trade in bert. working at same for five years with Mr. 
Chambersburg for several years he went to Seil)ert. when he embarked in business for 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and continued in the himself as a contractor and builder. in 
same line for a short time, and then re- 1899 he ])urchascd the old brewery on West 
turned to Chambersburg, where he em- King street, and turned it into a planing- 
barked in a tanning business. This he con- mill, which he still operates. .Vmong other 
tinned until 1864. when Chambersburg was important contracts he has carried to a suc- 
burned by the Confederates, and he then cessful completion may l)e appropriately 
retired from active business. He was a mentioned the remodeling of the "Mont- 
Democrat, but never took any active part in gomery Plotel" and the building of its new 
public life. Both he and his wife are buried addition ; the e.xtensi\e Taylor shops on Sec- 
in the Cedar Grove cemetery. The children ond street; the Coyl and Diehl elevator: the 
born to them were: Steager block on East Market street; and 

1. Mary died unmarried. others too numerous to mention in the brief 

2. George .\. (III). confines of this article. 

3. Matilda. ^'i '868 Mr. Minnich married Miss An- 

4. Joseph died unmarried. "ie Mdntire. daughter of George W. Mc- 



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Intire, of Chambersburg. The following- 
children were born of this marriage: 

1. Joseph, who married Ida Atwell, is 
a carpenter and resides at Chambersburg. 

2. Catharine. 

3. Charles, who married Cora Mc- 
Clure, is a carpenter of Chamt^ersburg. 

4. Lucy is deceased. 

5. George is deceased. 

6. Edith is deceased. 

7. Clara. 

8. Bertha. 

9. Hazel. 

Mr. Minnich is a member and past com- 
mander of Housum Post, No. 309, G. A. 
R. : he is a member of and has passed all the 
chairs in the I. O. O. F., Columbus Lodge, 
No. 75, Chambersburg, being a past grand; 
is a member of the Improved Order of Red- 
men, No. 335 ; is grand sachem of the Junior 
Order of United American Mechanics, No. 
877; is past councilor of the Knights of 
Malta, No. 147; and past commander of the 
Knights of the Golden Eagle. In politics he 
is a Republican, and he has served very ac- 
ceptably as a member of the town council, 
always taking an active part in local affairs, 
and being recognized as a leader of his party. 

Mr. Minnich is an industrious, hard- 
working man, one who thoroughly under- 
stands every detail of his business, and su- 
perintends all the w'ork himself, so that any 
contract undertaken by him is certain of be- 
ing executed in the l)est possible manner. His 
methods are honorable, and once he gains a 
customer he retains him. Being a public- 
spirited man, he is always in favor of all 
measures looking toward the betterment of 
the community in general, and while in the 
city council he was instrumental in securing 
the passage of a number of excellent meas- 
ures. His financial standing is high, while 
personally he is highly esteemed and has 
many warm friends throughout the county. 



LESHER FAMILIES. The Leshers 
of Franklin county are descended from two 
distinct ancestors, both Swiss, and both dis- 
ciples of Menno Simon. They came to Penn- 
s«.dvania within a few years of each other, 
and their descendants have always lived in ■ 
near contiguity, first in Lebanon and the \ 
northeastern part of Lancaster county, and 
later in the Cumberland Valley. The names 
of these progenitors of the Lesher families 
were Henry and Sebastian. \Miether they 
were connected by family ties in their na- 
tivity it is now, perhaps, too late to ascertain, 
but many of the Leshers of the fourth and 
fifth generation in Pennsylvania have in their 
veins the actual blood of the two emigrants. 
Both Henry and Sebastian Lesher came with 
the first great influx of Mennonite settlers 
to the then frontier of Pennsylvania, and the 
surnames of the families into which the 
Leshers have intermarried are found on the 
passenger lists of the emigrant ships from 
Rotterdam before 1740, and in close prox- 
imity in Lancaster and Lebanon counties and 
in the Conococheague Valley. 



Henry Lesher Lineage. 

(I) HENRY LESHER (born at 
Schaufifhausen, near Zweibrucken, Switzer- 
land, in 171 1 ) emigrated to Pennsylvania as 
a young man and settled in Lancaster 
County. He married and had issue : 

1. John died unmarried, in Lancaster 
county. 

2. Henry (II). 

3. Jacob (HI). 

4. Casper was a farmer in Cumberland 
county. He married Elizabeth Hummer; 
they had issue: Abraham, John, David, 
Peter, Jacob, Catharine, Mary and Eliza- 
beth. 

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ter county. The name of his wife was 
Hochnian. 

6. Maria married Peter Brubaker; 
they had issue : John and David. 

7. Barbara died unmarried. 

8. Anna died unmarried. 

(II) HENRY LESHER (born in Lan- 
caster county), son of Henry Leslier, the 
immigrant, was a farmer. The name of his 
wife was Zette; they had issue: 

1. Henry married Maria Longenecker. 

2. Maria married Jacob Stoner, and 
had issue : Henry and Nancy. 

3. Jacob died unmarried. 

4. Fanny married Jacob Wingert, and 
had issue : EHzabeth and Henry. 

5. Christian (IV). 

(III) JACOB LESHER (born in Lan- 
caster county — died Dec. 31, 1813), son of 
Henry Lesher, the immigrant, was a farmer. 
After the Revohition he removed to Antrim 
township, near Greencastle. He married 
Fanny Gingerich (died Feb. 26, 1798, and 
had issue : 

1. John (V). 

2. Henry, born Jan. 5, 1771. died Jan. 
21, 1842. 

3. Maria married John Hege (VI). 

4. Fanny married Abraham BrechbilL 

5. Martha married Jacob Hege [Hege 
Family]. 

(IV) CHRISTIAN LESHER (born 
April 26. 1775 — died Sept. 6, 1856). son of 

Henry and (Zette) Lesher, was a 

farmer in Washington township, near 
^^'aynesboro, and Bishop in the River 
Bretliren Church. He married Catharine 
Strite (born Aug. 21, 1779 — died Feb. 15, 
1865), and they had issue: 

1. Molly married Christian Shank. 

2. Christian married Mary Hege. 

3. John married Mary Solenberger. 

4. Catharine married Jacob Miller. 



5. Henry married Mary DeHoff. 

6. Jacob S. (VII). 

(V) JOHN LESHER (died Jan. 27, 
1833), son of Jacob and Fanny (Gingerich) 
Lesher, was a farmer in Antrim township. 
He married Catharine Detrich ; they had 
issue: 

1. Fanny married Jacob King, 

2. Andrew married Martha Shank. 

3. John married (first) Barbara 
Senger, and (second) Elizabeth Baker. 

4. Mary married Christian Newcomer. 

5. Nancy married Jacob Shank. 

6. Jacob married Nancy Newcomer. 

7. Christian (VIII). 

8. Samuel married Sarah Young. 

9. Lewis married Martha Baker. 

(VI) MARIA LESHER (born April 
17. 1773— died July 14, 1835), daughter of 
Jacob and Fanny (Gingerich) Lesher, mar- 
ried Feb. 14, 1809, John Hege (born Feb. 
14, 1778 — died Dec. 5, 1857), son of Chris- 
tian and Maria (Stouffer) Hege, and grand- 
son of Hans Hege, the immigrant. He was 
a farmer in Peters township. John and 
Maria (Lesher) Hege had issue: 

1. Henry L. married Elizabeth Gsell. 

2. Jacob married Elizabeth Weaver. 

3. Christian, born Jan. 22, 18 14, died 
unmarried, July 23, 1843. 

4. Mary married John Hawk. 

5. Eliz.\beth married Benjamin 
Lesher. [See Descendants of Joseph Lesher, 
son of John, son of Sebastian]. 

(VII) JACOB S. LESHER (born Dec. 
20, 1 819 — died Feb. 11, 1887). son of 
Christian and Catharine (Strite) Lesher, 
was a farmer in Antrim township, and a 
minister of the River Brethren denomina- 
tion. He married Leah Solenberger (torn 
April I, 1825 — died Feb. 10, 1897), daugh- 
ter of Peter and Mary Solenberger ; they had 
issue : 



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1. Abraham S. (IX). 

2. Anna (born Oct. 27, 1846) mar- 
ried John D. Pyke, living in Kansas. They 
had: Abraham S., Wilham F., Grace L., Al- 
bert J.. Rhoda L., Franklin M., Wesley S.. 
and Earnest J. 

3. Mary (born Sept. 11, 1849 — 'I'^d 
Oct. 22, 1884) married Benjamin Grove. 

4. Christian, (born Aug. 16, 1851), 
married Mary Brechkill. 

5. Jacob, born Jan. 2, 1852 — died 
young. 

6. Susan, born Nov. 22, 1861 — died 
young. 

(VIII) CHRISTIAN D. LESHER 
(born in Antrim township Aug. 19, 181 3 — 
died Nov. 18, 1893), son of John and Cath- 
arine (Detrich) Lesher, lost his father by 
death when he was in his minority. He then 
made his home with his sister Nancy Shank, 
in Guilford township, and sold books in 
Maryland and Virginia a few years. He 
then married Mary M. Bovey (born at Shep- 
herdstown, Va., July 20, 1814 — died June 
23, 1874). near Chambersburg, in 1844. 
Alxiut 1848 or 1850 he bought a tract of land 
in Antrim township, near the Maryland line, 
five miles southeast of Greencastle, with a 
sawmill on it run by waterpower. Some- 
where in the fifties he had a steam engine 
and boiler placed in the mill to help run the 
saw, as the water was failing. He was quite 
a country lawyer and business man, settling 
estates and doing other legal business for his 
neighbors. He was once chosen a candidate 
for the Legislature, but was defeated. Chris- 
tian D. and Mary M. (Bovey) Lesher had 
issue : 

1. George W. (X). 

2. Emma V., born Jan. 3, 
one month and fourteen days. 

3. Isaac N., born Dec. 16 
four years, two months and 
days. 



1848, lived 

1849, lived 
twentv-two 



4. Henry B. (born Sept. 3, 1851) 
married Mary E. Stine. 

5. David T. (born March 5, 1854), 
married Miss Prosser, of Williamsport, 
Maryland. 

(IX) ABRAHAM S. LESHER (born 
in Antrim township, Aug. 14, 1845), son of 
Jacob S. and Leah (Solenberger) Lesher, 
was reared on the Lesher homestead and be- 
came a farmer. He was ordained a minister 
of the River Brethren in 1874, and was later 
ordained bishop by Bishop Aaron Wingert. 
He married Oct. 18, 1866, Mary Grove, 
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lesher) 
Grove ; they had issue : 

1. Elizabeth (born Aug. 17, 1867) 
married David B. Solenberger. 

2. Jacob (born Sept. 8, 1870) married 
Estella E. Hollinger. 

3. Margaret (born Sept. 6, 1875) 
married William A. Whisler. 

(X) GEORGE W. LESHER (born in 
Guilford township Nov. 3. 1846), son of 
Christian D. and Mary M. (Bcivey) Lesher, 
was educated in the public schools and reared 
on the farm. At nineteen years of age he 
took his father's place on the sawmill. In 
1874 he married Mary Shank, daughter of 
Jacob R. and Mary (Hoover) Shank, of 
Washington county, Md. He rented his 
father's farm, and mill, on the shares, the 
same year he was married. In 1890 he 
bought his father's farm of 115 acres with 
the sawmill, his father making his home 
with him until his death. In 1897 he bought 
the old John Detrich farm of twenty-seven 
acres, two miles southeast of Greencastle, on 
which he now lives, and still owns the old 
C. D. Lesher homestead. He and his wife 
had issue : 

1. Ben. F. 

2. Mary Kate married John W. 
Potter, of .\ntrim township, and has t-.vo 
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3. Annie F. married William E. Bink- 
ley, of Antrim township. 



Seb.^stian Le.sher Lineage. 

(I) SEBASTIAN LESHER (born 
in Switzerland — died in Lebanon county) 
emigrated to Pennsylvania ^vith the early 
Mennonite settlers as a young man. The 
family tradition is that he came to America 
on the same ship with his brother John, who 
it is believed was killed by the Indians. Jo- 
hannes Lescher came on the ship "Hope," 
of London, sailing from Rotterdam, and 
landing at Philadelphia Sept. 22,. 1734, Ise- 
fore he was sixteen years old. The name 
of Sebastian Lesher does not appear in the 
passenger list of the "Hope," as printed in 
Rnpp's "Thirty Thousand Names," but the 
editor says that there were forty-nine adult 
males on the vessel, while he gives the names 
of only forty-eight. This deduction is not 
conclusive, but it is a strong probability. 
He settled first among the Kendigs, 
Kreiders, Funks and Brubakers on the 
Conestoga, in Lancaster county. He after- 
ward removed to the Shultz creek settlement, 
in what is now Lebanon county. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Baughman ; they had issue : 

1. Michael (born in Lancaster coun- 
ty) married Veronica Schmutz, daughter of 
Abraham and Barbara Schmutz, but seems 
to have died without issue. 

2. John (II). 

3. One daughter became Mrs. Metz. 

4. One daughter became Mrs. Smith. 

(II) JOHN LESHER (born in Lan- 
caster, county, March i. 1759 — died near 
Chambersburg, April 20, 1839), son of 
Sebastian and Elizabeth (Baughman) 
Lesher, was a farmer. He was enrolled in 
Capt. Patrick Hays' company of Lieut.-Col. 
Ale.xander Lowrey's battalion, Lancaster 
County Militia, 1780-83. but being a non- 



resistant he iiaid his exercise fines. In 1804 
he removed to I^'ranklin county where he 
bought a farm of 120 acres in Guilford 
township from John Bender. Two years, 
later, in 1806, lie bought two tracts of land 
in Antrim township. He l)ccame an exten- 
sive landowner in both townships. Among 
other acquisitions was a large tract of land' 
on the Waynesboro road, south of Cham- 
bersburg, where his last years were spent. 
With his wife, Elizabeth Bosler (born in 
1763 — died April 21, 1823), he was buried 
in Stouffer's graveyard, near the first gate- 
house on the Chambersburg and Gettysburg 
turnpike. He had issue : 

1. Joseph (III). 

2. John (born March 11, 1793 — died 
Feb. 26, 1870) was a farmer in Guilford 
township. He married Nancy Cryder, they 
had issue : Elizabeth married Jacob Grove 
and had John L., Mary, .\braham, Benja- 
min, Jacob, Elizabeth, Susan, Martha, 
Lydia, Margaret and David; Nancy mar- 
ried Abraham Eshleman, and had Peter and 
Mary; Mary married I'rederick Shank and 
had Anna, Susan and John ; Su.san married 
Samuel Eshleman, and had .\nna, .-Vbraham,, 
Henry, John and Sarah ; ant! Lydia married 
Samuel Horst, and had Nancy. Hcttie, 
Fanny, Lydia, Susan and Lesher. 

3. Michael married Catharine Sollen- 
berger; they had issue; Mary (married 
Abraham Horst), Elizabeth, Jacob, John, 
David, Nancy (married Samuel Horst), 
Catharine (married J<ilin .^trite) antl Leah. 

4. Eliz.\cetii died unmarried. 

(Ill) JOSEPH LESHER (born in 
Lancaster county, JaiL 13, 1784 — died near 
Chambersburg, Nov. 12, 1857), son of Johrr 
and Elizabeth (Bosler) Lesher, came to 
Franklin county with his parents when he 
was twenty years old. .\fter living on the 
Lesher homestead for a number of years he 
removed to a farm owned bv his father on' 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



the Waynestoro road, two miles south of 
Chambersburg, where he was a farmer dur- 
ing the rest of his hfe. Like his father and 
grandfather he was a Mennonite. He mar- 
ried (first) Fanny Lehman (born in 1782 — 
died in 1827), daughter of Daniel Lehman, 
who came to Greene township from Lancas- 
ter county at the beginning of the nineteenth 
century. Daniel Lehman's faither, Peter, 
a Mennonite, emigrated to this country from 
Switzerland in 1727, and settled near Man- 
heim, Lancaster county. Joseph and Fanny 
(Lehman) Lesher had issue: 

1. John L. (IV). 

2. D.\NIEI, (V). 

3. David, born March 15, 1813, died 
oinmarried, April 17, 1838. 

4. Benjamin (VI). 

5. Joseph (torn Nov. 29, 181 6 — died 
Dec. 13, 1865), a farmer, married Susan 
Stoufifer; they had issue: Benjamin; Mar- 
tha married J. Wisler and had Sarah, John 
and Ida ; Elizabeth married J. Yoder, and 
Tiad Levi; Fanny married A. Weaver, and 
Iiad Daniel, Noah and Mary ; Menno mar- 
ried Miss Bixler, and had Rosella; Chris- 
tian married Miss Harmon, and had Viola, 
Clarissa, Clarence, Ada, Carrie and Har- 
mon ; Susan married Mr. Baer, and had 
Anna and Monroe; Catharine Nancy mar- 
ried Mr. Ruppert ; Elvina married D. Yoder, 
and had Effa, Waller, Lottie, Dallas and 
Vera ; and Joseph married Miss Engler, and 
had Oscar, Carroll, Mary and Paul. 

6. Samuel (born April 17, 1824 — 
died Jan. 2, 1901), a farmer, married Bar- 
bara Lehman ; they had issue : Daniel mar- 
ried Anna Frey, and had Esther; Samuel 
L. married Hettie Stoner; Elizabeth mar- 
ried P. Wadel; Peter married Catharine 
Horst; and Mary. 

Joseph Lesher married (second) Mrs. 
Mary (Smith) Miller, daughter of Daniel 
Smith ; thev had issue : 



1. Anna (born Dec. 5, 1829 — died 
Aug. 24, 1850) married John Reif; they 
had issue : Nancy married Peter Heatwole. 

2. Abraham (VII). 

(IV) JOHN LEHMAN LESHER 
(torn in Antrim township, Sept. 15, 1808 — 
died March 10, 1872), son of Joseph and 
Fanny (Lehman) Lesher, became a farmer 
in Greene township, where he died. He 
married Catharine Lehman (died aged 
si.xty-nine years), daughter of John Leh- 
man ; they had issue : 

1. John L. (torn Oct. 17, 1841), a 
farmer and miller, married Feb. 11, 1883, 
Anna F. Peckman ; they have issue : John L. 

2. Catharine married Philip H. Par- 
ret (VIII). 

(V) DANIEL LESHER (born in An- 
trim township, March 11, 1811 — died Dec. 
31, 1868), son of Joseph and Fanny (Leh- 
man) Lesher, was a farmer. He married 
Christina Shirk ; they had issue : 

1. Fanny married Joseph Horst; they 
had issue : Elizatoth married Jacob White, 
and had Elmer, Ellen, Mary, Jacob, Ida and 
Esther; Nancy married Joseph Haldeman, 
and had Fanny, Elizatoth and George; 
Susan married Jacob Zimmerman, and had 
Joseph, Noah, Mary, Ida, Elmer, -Harry, 
Caroline and Mabel ; Daniel married Eliza- 
beth Burkhart, and had Susan, Joseph, Har- 
^ey, Daniel, Nancy and Royer; Mary mar- 
ried D. Martin, and had Joseph, Elvin and 
Timothy; Benjamin married Miss Detwiler, 
and had Jones, Reuben, Amos and Paul; 
Lydia married F. Strite, and had Anna, 
Daniel, Ira, Paul and Susan: Fanny married 
E. Morningstar; Joseph died unmarried. 

2. Elizabeth married Israel Reif; 
they had issue : Amy, Mary, Fanny, Ben- 
jamin, Israel, "Matty," Elizabeth, David, 
Christina and Harvey. 

3. D.wiD S. married Mary Detwi'er. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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they had issue: Daniel D. married Emma 
Coffman, and tliey liave Mary, Anna and 
Catliarine. 

5. Nancy died unmarried. 

6. Susan married Joseph Horst. 

7. Catharine married Aaron Hart- 
ranft ; they had issue : Ehzabeth, Daniel, 
Emma, Jacob and Joseph. 

8. Mary married Isaac Geist ; they had 
issue : John, Ida, Elizabeth and Samuel. 

9. John S. married Fanny Binkley. 

10. Christina married George Shaffer: 
they had issue : Henry, Harvey, George, 
Samuel, .Anna and Charles. 

11. Daniel died unmarried. 

(VI) BENJAMIN LESHER (born in 
Guilford township, April 2, 1815 — died 
July 8, 1897), son of Joseph and Fanny 
(Lehman) Lesher, was a farmer in Peters 
township. He was a member of the Men- 
nonite Church and for many years was min- 
ister of the Marion and Williamson congre- 
gations, being ordained June 9, 1850, by 
Bishop Abraham Roth. Mr. Lesher mar- 
ried Jan. 7, 1841, Elizabeth Hege (bom 
Aug. 14, 1818 — died July 31, 1888), daugh- 
ter of John and Maria (Lesher) Hege. John 
was the eldest son of Christian and Maria 
(Stouffer) Hege and grandson of Hans 
Hege, the immigrant ancestor of the Hege 
family, of Franklin county. Maria Lesher, 
the wife of John Hege, was a daughter of 
Jacob and Fanny (Gingerich) Lesher, the 
former of whom was a son of Henry Lesher, 
who came to Pennsylvania on the same ship 
with Hans Hege, in 1727, when he was only 
sixteen years old. Thus the marriage of Ben- 
jamin and Elizabeth (Hege) Lesher united 
in their descendants the blood of the two 
Lesher immigrants, Sebastian and Henry 
Lesher. Rev. Benjamin and Elizabeth 
Lesher had issue : 

I. One son, horn July 14, 1842, died 
in infancv. 



2. Isaac (IX). 

3. Jeremiah (.X). 

4. Catharine, Ixirn July 3, 1856, died 
unmarried Dec. 22, 1880. 

(VII) ABRAHAM LESHER (born 
Aug. 31, 1 831), son of Joseph and .Mary 
(Smith) Lesher, was for twenty-four years 
a farmer in Antrim township. In 1877 he 
removed to the old Lesher honiestead in 
Guilford township, where he still lives. He 
is one of the large landowners of the coun- 
ty. Besides caring for his farms he has 
Ijeen for over a lialf century a veterinary 
surgeon. In early life he was a Whig in 
politics and has been a Republican ever since 
the organization of the party. He became a 
member of the Mennonite Church more than 
fifty years ago and has been a trustee for 
over forty years. Mr. Lesher married Nov. 
25. 1852, Susan Reiff, daughter of David" 
and Nancy (Horst) Reiff, of Washington 
county, Md. The Reiffs are an old Lancas- 
ter county family, the immigrant ancestor 
coming from Switzerland in 1733. Abra- 
ham and Susan Lesher had issue : 

1. Israel I. (XI). 

2. Mary (born Nov. 25, 1855) is liv- 
ing at home. 

3. Anna (born Aug. 20, 1857) is de- 
ceased. 

4. Elizabeth (born Aug. 20, 1857) 
married C. Eshleman; they had issue: 
Susan, Amos, Laban, Abner and Mary. 

5. David (born Oct. 20, i860) mar- 
ried E. Strite; they had issue: Fanny, 
Susan and Emma. 

6. Amos E. 

7. Aaron F., lx)m Nov. 15, 1864- 
(XH). 

8. Jacob (born X'ov. 11, 1866) mar- 
ried and had issue: .\da, Mar}- and Ira, all 
three deceased. 

9. .Abraham (Ixirn :\ug. ig, 1868)) 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



married Sarah Rice and had issue: Reiff, 
Milton and Clarence. 

10. Joseph, horn June 5, 1870. 

11. Amon (born May 23, 1874) mar- 
ried Ella Faust. 

(Vlin CATHARINE LESHER 
(horn in Greene township, Oct. 17, 1841), 
daughter of John L. and Catharine (Leh- 
man) Lesher, married Jan. 18, 1866, 
Philip Henry Parret (born in Rocking- 
ham county, Va., Aug. 30, 1842), son of 
Branson M. and Mary (Showalter) Parret. 
The Parrets are believed to be of English 
■extraction, but it is a coincidence that Cor- 
nelius Paret emigrated to Pennsylvania in 
.the same ship with Johannes Lescher, in 
1734. The family has long been seated in 
Rockingham county, Va. Philip Parret, 
the grandfather of Philip H., whose wife 
was a Snyder, of German extraction, was a 
pioneer of that county. He was the father 
of the following children : Susanna mar- 
ried Jackson Smith ; Leanna married Wil- 
liam Miller, a L^nited Brethren minister; 
Ellen married Mr. Riggs; Mary married 
William Showalter ; ' Jeremiah ; John and 
Branson M. The maternal grandfather was 
Jacob Showalter, also of Rockingham coun- 
ty. He had the following children : Adam ; 
Peter: Jacob; David, who was a Mennonite 
minister; Betsey, who married Mr. Bright; 
Henry ; Catharine, who married John Evers ; 
Mary, who married Branson M. Parret; 
Nancy, who married Reuben Cauffman ; 
Sophia, who married Abraham Grove ; Han- 
nah, who married William Bird; Leanna, 
who married Samuel Carpenter; and Mar- 
garet, who married Mr. Whitehurst. Bran- 
son M. and Mary (Showalter) Parret had 
issue: Margaret A. married Joseph Hin- 
ton; Philip H. married Catharine Le.sher; 
Jacob G. married Mary Long, of Dayton, 
Ohio ; Barbara C. is deceased ; Nancy V. 



married (first) Jacob Blosser, (second) John 
N. Young: J. Samuel married (first) Nancy 
Brunk, (second) Leah Eshleman ; Sophia E. 
married Soloman Custer ; L^riah is deceased ; 
and Branson M. is deceased. Branson M. 
Parret, the father of Philip H., died June 
25, 1874, and Mary Parret, his mother, in 
the autumn of 1878. Philip H. Parret was 
educated in a private school in his county, 
and worked on his father's farm until he 
was twenty years old, when he was com- 
pelled to enter the Confederate service. 
Having reached military age he was en- 
rolled in the Virginia State Militia, and in 
1862 he was sent to the front, his company 
Ijeing placed in Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson's 
command. He was in a number of the 
severest battles of the Civil war, but his 
sympathies were not with the cause of the 
Confederacy and his religious convictions 
in regard to war were those of his family, 
who were Mennonites. He served two years 
in the Army of Northern Virginia, but in 
April, 1864, he had an opportunity to make 
his escape. He came to Washington county, 
Md. where he had friends, in May, 1864, and 
in August of the same year he settled in 
Franklin county, with whose interests and 
people he has since been identified, .\fter 
coming to Franklin county he took an active 
part in church work and he was ordained a 
minister by Bishop Eshleman, of Washing- 
ton county, Md., May 18, 1872. For more 
than thirty years he has served the Cham- 
]:>ersburg Mennonite congregation, one of 
the oldest in the county. The first church 
edifice, on the turnpike north of the borough, 
was built in 1804. The congregation now 
has a membership of 160. Mr. Parret also 
ministers for the Row and Marion and Wil- 
liamson congregations. His ministerial 
work has l^een confined to the county. He 
owns a small hut valuable farm of 116 acres 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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borough limits. Philip H. and Catharine 
(Lehman; Parret have two children: 

1. John H., a conductor on the Cum- 
berland \'alley railmad, married Blanche 
McLaughlin; they have one daughter. Cath- 
arine J. 

2. Leanna married Charles E. Cump; 
they have issue: Catharine M., Earl L. and 
Mabel P. 

(IX) IS.\AC LESHER (torn in 
Peters township. Aug. lo. 1845), son of 
Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hege) Lesher, 
was educated in the public schools and at 
Lititz Academy. At an early age he began 
his business life as a clerk in a store, in which 
he continued for a number of years. When 
he was thirty years old he opened a hard- 
ware store in Chambersburg, which he con- 
ducted for thirteen years. Relinquishing 
the hardware business he engaged in mill- 
ing and lime burning at Williamson, on the 
South Penn railroad. He has one of the 
best equipped flouring mills in the county 
and owns a number of lime-kilns. He is a 
successful business man, the output of his 
mill and kilns being up to their full capacity. 
He lives in Chambersburg, making daily vis- 
its to his place of business. Mr. Lesher mar- 
ried, in 1877. Lillian Porter; they had issue: 

1. Julia B. died young. 

2. Benjamin P. 
3- Frank B. 

(X) JEREMIAH LESHER (born 
July 27, 1848). son of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth (Hege) Lesher. was reared on the 
Lesher farm in Peters township, on which 
he now li\-es, and was educated in the pul>- 
hc schools. He is a member of the Men- 
nonite denomination and has been a trustee 
since 1897. Mr. Lesher married Dec. 30. 
1873, Elizabeth Hollar, daughter of Conrad 
and Elizabeth ( Detwiler) Hollar, and 
granddaughter of Christian Hollar, who 
lived near Reefer's store ; thev had issue : 



I. Emma married Harry S. Zimmer- 
man. 

-^. Martha. 

3- Annie married Clarence Statler. 

4- Susan married Charles H. Fields. 

5. David. 

6. Abraham. . 
7- Minnie. 

(XI) ISRAEL I. LESHER (born Sept. 
-3. 1854), son of Abraham and Susan 
(Reifif) Lesher, was reared on the Lesher 
homestead in Antrim township, and e.lucated 
m the public schools. He was a teacher in 
the public schools of Washington county, 
Md.. and for a year in his nati\-e township! 
He then began farming in Washington coun- 
ty. .Md.. but three years later returned to 
the Lesher homestead, where he now lives. 
Besides his occupation as a farmer he has 
clerked more public sales than any other 
man in the county. He served twelve years 
on the Antrim township school toard. and 
on many occasions he has been judge, in- 
spector and clerk of the elections. He' is a 
member of the Mennonite Church, an,l Juis 
for years been actively engaged in Sabbath- 
school work in his church. Mr. Lesher mar- 
ried (first) Dec. 9, 1875. Nancy Detwiler 
Horst (died Oct. 16, 1887), daughter of 
Henry and Martha (Detwiler) Horst. of 
Guilford township; they had issue: 

1. Amanda M. married Jacob H. 
Eberly; they have issue: Carrie. Lester, 
Irvin. Amos and Israel. 

2. Henrv E. married Ella Stoffer. and 
they have a daughter. Ethel, and a son. 
Chester. 

3. Annie S. married John Christ. 

4- Florence M. married Samuel F. 
Christ, and they ha\e a daughter, Edna, 
and a son, Paul. 

5. Mary E. married Adam K. Beam, 
they have issue: Floyd and Elva. 

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512 

1889, Ida F. Hicks, daughter of James and 
Catharine Hicks, of Antrim township; they 
had issue: 

1. Joseph K. 

2. Clara E. 

3. Grace V. 

4. Abraham L. (died Oct. 20, 1901). 

5. Irvin L. 

6. Ruth E. 

7. Nora C. 

8. Alice. 

9. Bertha V. 

10. Ida Pearl. 

(XII) AARON F. LESHER (born 
Nov. 15, 1864), son of Abraham and Susan 
(Reif?) Lesher, was reared on his father's 
fami and educated in the pubHc schools. As 
a young man he engaged in the general mer- 
chandising business in Chamberslsurg for a 
short itime, and then returned to farming, 
in which he has since been engaged, con- 
ducting besides an extensive butchering busi- 
ness. In 1889 he settled on the fine farm 
near New Franklin, on which he now lives. 
He is also an auctioneer, conducting real 
and personal property sales. In politics he 
is a Republican, and served as a school 
director of Guilford township, 1897-1903- 
He is a member of the Reformed Church. 
and has served as deacon and elder of his 
church, and as superintendent of the Sun- 
day-school. Mr. Lesher married, Jan. 31, 
1886, Emma Houser, daughter of David and 
Johanna (Cook) Houser, of Guilford town- 
ship ; they have a daughter : 

I. Susan married D. E. Stouffer. 

GEORGE FRICK, deceased. The ca- 
reer of the late George Frick, founder of the 
Frick Manufacturing Company, of Waynes- 
boro, one of the largest plants in the Cum- 
berland Valley, is a conspicuous instance of 
the possibilities of the business world durmg 
the past few decades for a man of ability and 



energy. The gradual development of his 
manufacturing business, from its compara- 
tively humble beginning to the present im- 
mense proportions, is in itself the only com- 
mentary needed on the man who controlled 
it from the beginning. He was torn in 
Lancaster county, Pa., Nov. 7, 1826, a son 
of Abraham and Catharine (Diffenbaugh) 

Frick. 

(I) ABRAHAM FRICK was a native 
of Lancaster county, of Swiss origin, his 
grandfather having emigrated from Switz- 
erland to Lancaster county in the early set- 
tlement of the country. By occupation he 
was a farmer, but after his removal to 
Franklin county, in 1835, he conducted a 
sawmill business. His wife, Catharine Dif- 
fenbaugh, was also a native of Lancaster 

county. 

(II) GEORGE FRICK, in 1843. went 
into the millwright business in Franklin 
county. In two years he began business for 
himself in a small way at a point about a 
mile and a half north from the village of 
Quincy ; after a couple of years in that loca- 
tion he removed to the old mill property on 
the Antietam. two miles south from Waynes- 
boro, where he began making grain drills. 
The following year he returned to Quincy 
and securing a frame factory began manu- 
facturing threshing machines and agricult- 
ural implements. It was at this point, in 
the fall of 1850. that Mr. Frick made his 
first steam engine, a two-horsepower sta- 
tionary engine, constructed from his own , 
patterns, and for his own use. In 1851 he 
again removed, this time to Ringgold. Md., 
about 300 vards from the Mason and Dixon 
line There the engine he had made at 
Ouincv furnished power for the manufact- 
ure of other steam engines and various mill 
machinery. In 1857 lie began manufactur- 
ing the "Geiser" grain separator, invented 
by Peter Geiser. late of Waynesboro. His 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANXALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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business continued to grow so rapidly tliat in 
i860 he removed the entire plant to Waynes- 
boro, whfere he continued the manufacture 
of steam engines and grain separators on a 
large scale. In 1865 he sold the grain sepa- 
rator business to the Geiser Manufacturing 
Company, so that it was due to Mr. Frick 
that there was founded that company, which, 
with the Frick Company, has caused the 
growth of Waynesboro from a mere \il- 
lage into a thriving city. Mr. I-'rick at 
once erected a new plant and made the 
building of steam engines and toilers a 
specialty. 

In 1870 C. F. Bowman, of Lancaster, 
Pa., became a partner with Mr. Frick, but 
the former died in the fall of 1872, and in 
February, 1873, ^^^ Frick Company was 
organized, with a capital of $34,000, and the 
facilities greatly enlarged. From time to 
time the capital was increased, and in 1885 
the company was incorporated with a capi- 
tal of $1,000,000, with John Phillips as pres- 
ident, and Mr. Frick as general superintend- 
ent, manager and treasurer. The new works 
were erected in 1881. the plant covering be- 
tween twelve and thirteen acres of ground, 
and forming one of the largest and most 
substantial plants in Pennsylvania, thor- 
oughly equipped with modern machinery, 
all driven by electricity and supplied by a 
magniticent power plant costing $100,000. 
Tliey manufacture ice and refrigerator ma- 
chinery, Corliss steam engines, toilers,, 
grain separators and portable sawmills, 
and their products are sold in all 
parts of the civilized world, the \nl- 
ume of business amounting annually to 
$1,500,000. Mr. Frick resigned his posi- 
tion with the company in 1890, on account 



after he resigned from the company Mr. 
Frick's health, for some time frail, gave way 
utterly, and his death occurred Dec. 23, 
1892. 

On Dec. 9, 1849, Mr. Frick was mar- 
ried in Franklin county to Fredericka Op- 
penlander ( Ixjrn Aug. 12, 1824, in Stutt- 
gart, Wurtemberg, Germany — died April 
10. 1901), the daughter of Frederick Op- 
penlander, and to them the following chil- 
dren were born : 

1. Abr.\ham O. 

2. Franklin. 

3. Ezra (III). 

4. Amos. 
Annie. 
Frederick. 



0- 
6. 

Both George Frick anti his wife were 
members of the Mennonite Church. 

(II) EZRA FRICK, the secretary and 
general manager of the Frick Manufactur- 
ing Company, of Waynesboro, Pa., was 
born near Ringgold, Md., three miles from 
Waynesboro, Jan. 12. 1856, son of the late 
George Frick, founder of the Frick Manu- 
facturing Company. He secured his edu- 
cation in the common schools and at the 
Chambersburg Academy, and even while at- 
tending school worked in his father's shop, 
during vacations, preparing the way for his 
successful business career later. In 1876 he 
entered the shop as a regular employe, and 
was at work most of the time in the machine 
department. In the fall of 1878 he entered 
the office of the company, then Frick & Co., 
and for a time did practically all the office 
work. W'hen the present company was in- 
corporated, in 1885, he was appointed secre- 
tary, a position he has held since ; in the fall 
of 1895 'i^ ^^''^ made general manager, and 
of ill health, and the present officers of the fills both offices at present, while he is also 
company are: A. O. Frick, president: W'il- a director in the company. Mr. Frick is 
liam H. Snyder, vice-president; Ezra Frick, likewise a director in the Landis Tool Works, 
secretary and general manager. Two years being a member of the first board; a director 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



in the Waynesboro Ice ami Cold Storage 
Company, and vice-president of the Citizens' 
National Bank of Waynesboro. 

Mr. Frick was married Feb. 26, 1885, to 
Kate, the daughter of Samuel and Margaret 
(Cassell) Mehaffey, of Scotch-Irish descent. 
The parents of Mrs. Frick were born in Lan- 
caster county, as was also Mrs. Frick her- 
self. They are members of the Presbyterian 
Church. Mr. Frick is a prominent member 
of the K. of P. and of the Royal .\rcanum, 
and in all the relations of life is highly re- 
spected and one who has many warm friends. 
Only one child has been bom to Mr. and 
Mrs. Frick: 

1. Frederick. 

i 

HENRY H. HEISEY, a minister of the 
Brethren in Christ, and a farmer in Mont- 
gomery township, Frankli-n county, lives on 
the turnpike between Greencastle and Mer- 
cersburg. and close to the West Conococh- 
eague creek. He is of German extraction 
and a member of the fourth generation of 
the family in Pennsylvania, his great-grand- 
father (whose first name is not now known) 
(Coming from Germany and settling in Lan- 
caster county at an early day. 

(II) JOSEPH HEISEY was born in 
Lancaster county and was a farmer near 
Elizabethtown. He married a Miss Bru- 
baker. and their family consisted of three 
sons and three daughters: 

1. Jacob moved to Franklin county 
and died in Greencastle, leaving a family. 

2. ToHN married and reared a family; 
he lived and died in Lancaster county. 

3. S.^MUEL (III). 

.4. Frances married Jacob Kurtz and 
the familv lived in Franklin county, where 
she died. 

S. Susan (deceased) was the wife of 
John Hawbaker, and had two children : they 
Jivfd in Franklin county. 



6. Mary married John Plum, reared a 
family, and is still living, near Greencastle. 

(III) SAMUEL HEISEY was born in 
Lancaster county and there received his edu- 
cation and early training. When twenty-five 
years old he removed to Franklin county. 
He married Barbara Myers, formerly of 
York county. Pa. ; they had four children : 

1. Henry H. (IV). 

2. Barbara (born in 1853) married 
M. W. Plum, of Kansas, who now lives re- 
tired in Abilene, that State. They have three 
children, Harry, Jennie and Wesley. 

3. Joseph, born in 1858, died unmar- 
ried at the age of thirty years. 

4. Annie (born in 1864) married Al- 
bert Myers and has two children, Blanch and 
Alberta. They live on the farm adjoining 
that of Henry H. Heisey. 

(IV) HENRY H. HEISEY was born 
Aug. 3, 1850, in Franklin county, on the 
paternal farm near Claylick, and received his 
education in the local public schools. He then 
began farming, in which he has e\'er since 
been engaged, giving all his time to agricul- 
tural pursuits and his duties as minister of 
the Brethren in Christ, to which oftice he was 
elected in 1890. He has the Montgomery 
Church and other charges in the surrounding 
country, and has been zealous and faithful 
in the performance of his religious duties, 
Mr. Heisey has not been particularly ac- 
tive in the public life of the community, and 
though a stanch Republican has not cared 
for party honors, having accepted only one 
oflfice, that of register, to which he was 
elected in 1884. He and his wife are beloved 
and respected members of the community in 
which thev have made their home for so 
many years. 

In 1876 Mr. Heisey was married to 
Sarah Jane Alleman, daughter of Jacob and 
Susan (Cromer) Alleman, of Franklin 
countv, who Ii\ed near Mercersburg. The 



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Alleman family is of German descent, and 
Christopher Alleman, Mrs. Heisey's grand- 
father, moved from Dauphin county to 
Franklin county. To Mr. and Mrs. Heisey 
have been born the following named 
children : 

1. John Albert (bom Dec. 9, 1877) 
is a railway mail clerk in the employ of the 
Pennsylvania Company and lives in Harris- 
burg; he is unmarried. 

2. Ruth, born Dec. 2/, 1880, died May 
5. 1882. 

3. Samuel Alleman (born July 7, 
1883) lives at home and is engaged in 
farming. 

4. Harry, born April 3, 1885, died 
May I, 1886. 

5. Mary, born May 17, 1887, died Feb. 
20, 1888. 

DANIEL M. LONG, one of the time 
honored and well-known citizens of Fayette- 
ville, comes of an old Lancaster county fam- 
ily, of German origin, and was born in that 
county, in Carlisle township. Nov. 15, 1828, 
son of John and Mary (]\Iarkley) Long. 

(I) MICHAEL LONG, grandfather of 
Daniel M., came from Germany and settled 
in Lancaster county in the early days, a 
farmer by occupation. His seven children 
were as follows : 

1. John (II). 

2. George, killed by falling under a 
loaded wagon. 

3. Christin.\. wife of John Fry. 

4. Sarah, wife of A. Killian. 

5. Barbara, wife of A. Hower. 

6. Susan, wife of John Bullman. 

7. Elizabeth, wife of A. Kunkle. 

(II) JOHN LONG (born in 1773— ' 
died in 1844) was a farmer and miller at, 
Reamstown, Cocalico township, and in his 
day a leading man in that locality. He was 
a member of the Lutheran Church and a Re- 



publican in his political ideas. He married 
Miss Mary Markley, like himself a native of 
Lancaster county, and they became the pa- 
rents of twelve children, the following eight 
of whom reached maturity. 

1. Sus.\N, who married Daniel Bow- 
man. 

2. Sarah, wife of John Fetter. 

3. Elizabeth, who died unmarried. 

4. Daniel M. (III). 

5. MicH.\EL, a retired farmer of Ship- 
pensburg. 

6. Maria, wife of John Strine, of Cali- 
fornia. 

7. John M., of Fayetteville. 

8. Annie, wife of Jacob Hatmaker. 

( III) DANIEL M. long grew up on 
his father's farm, where he remained until 
he was seventeen years of age, and then in 
1845, removed to Franklin county, located 
at Fayetteville. and after learning the car- 
penter's trade followed it for some years. He 
then began the manufacture of wheat fan- 
ning mills for cleaning grain. In the course 
of his sixty years of business life he was con- 
nected with a variety of enterprises, as saw 
milling, lumbering, and the tie business, but 
through it all he maintained a constant in- 
terest in farming. His career was a varied 
one, marked by the making and losing of 
several fortunes. In the public wel- 
fare he ever had an abiding interest, 
and for a number of years he was 
very active in county, state and na- 
tional politics, always throwing his influ- 
ence on the side of the Republicans. He was 
never, however, an office seeker, and held no 
position save that of school director. Mr. 
Long was a member of the I. O. O. F. and 
K. of P.. and few men in the county were 
better known than he or more highly thought 
of. He was a member of the Lutheran 
Church. His death occurred Feb. 20, 1904. 

In 1854 Daniel Long and Miss .\nnie E. 



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Wingeri were united in matrimony. The 
bride was a daughter of Martin B. and Mary 
(Byers) Wingert, an old family of Franklin 
county. Mrs. Long died in 1901. She was 
the mother of fourteen children, the follow- 
ing seven of whom lived to grow up : 

1. John B., of Waynesboro, ex-county 
treasurer for Franklin county. 

2. Charles F., a bookkeeper of Phila- 
delphia. 

3. B. W., with the Frick Manufactur- 
ing Company of Waynesboro. 

4. D. Edward, District Attorney of 
Franklin County, Pa., and residing at 
Chambersburg. 

5. Margaret E., married to Rev. L. C. 
Manger, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

6. Milton R., of Carlisle. 

7. Samuel M., who was killed at the 
age of seventeen, while coasting at Fayette- 
ville. 

HUBER FAMILY. CHRISTIAN 
RUBER (born in the Palatinate, Ger- 
many), emigrated to Pennsylvania on the 
ship "Britannia," of London, landing at 
Philadelphia, Sept. 21, 1731. He settled 
near New Holland, Lancaster county. He 
had a son : 

1. John (II). 

(II) JOHN HUBER (born :^Iarch 25, 
1750) removed from near New Holland, to 
Franklin county, while there were still In- 
dians at the North Mountain. During the 
Revolution he hauled a load of wheat from 
his farm to Newtown, near Philadelphia. On 
his return an alleged recruiting officer took 
passage on his wagon from Shippensburg to 
Chambersburg. When they reached the 
Colonel Crawford farm at the Cono- 
cocheague Creek, the officer pretended to im- 
press him for the Continental service. 
Huber gave him all the money he had, and 
was allowed to go home, the alleged officer 



stopping at a tavern at the corner of Main 
and King streets, in Chambersburg. When 
Mr. Huber reported the matter to his neigh- 
bors, a party of thirty or forty of them col- 
lected, and armed with guns, pitch-forks and 
axes, went to the tavern where the man was 
asleep. He sprang out of bed and in his 
haste to escape ran down stairs in his shirt 
holding his trousers in his hand. He was 
sent to Carlisle in irons and Huber recovered 
his money. Mr. Huber was a Mennonite, 
and his house at Rocky Spring was a Men- 
nonite preaching place. On Jan. 30, 1774, 
he married Esther Sensenigin ( Senseney) 
(born March 4, 1754) : they had issue: 

1. Anna (born April 3, 1775) married 
George Crider. 

2. John, born Nov. 19, 1777. 

3. David, born April 9, 1780. 

4. Samuel (HI)- 

5. Benjamin (IV). 

6. Abraham (V). 

7. Froenica, born Sept. 26, i788> 
married Mr. Eby. 

8. Sarah (born "Horning" Feb. 28, 
1 791) married David Coldsmith. 

(Ill) SAMUEL HUBER (born Jan. 

31, 1782 — died ), son of John and 

Ester (Senseney) Huber, was a fanner 
near Rocky Spring and became one of the 
pioneer preachers of the United Brethren in 
Christ. He was very active as a revivalist, 
preaching in private houses and at camp- 
meetings over a wide extent of country. His 
auto-biography, edited by John Denig was 
published in Chambersburg in 1858. Mr. 
Huber married (first), June 10, 1806, , 
Nancy Weaver (born Jan. 2~. 1786 — died 
Jan. 20, 1854), daughter of Abraham 
Weaver, of Winchester. \'a. : they had issue: 

1. Elizabeth married Benjamin Hu- 
ber (VII). 

2. Solomon, died in November, 1816. 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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1857, Susanna Grove, daughter of Abraham 
Grove. 

(IV) BENJAMIN HUBER (born Jan. 
17, 1784), son of John and Ester (Sen- 
seney) Huber, was a farmer near Rocky 
S[)ring, and helped to carry the brick used in 
builthng the Rocky Spring Church. As ad- 
ministrator of Peter Over's estate, he sold 
the last slave that was sold in Franklin 
county. He was a member of the United 
Brethren Church. Mr. Huber married Eliza- 
beth Risser, daugliter of Abraham Risser; 
they had issue : 

1. Abr.\ham married Elizabeth Light. 

2. John (VI). 

3. Elizabeth married Joseph Light. 

4. Benjamin (VII). 

5. Samuel married (first) Mrs. Shuey, 
(second) Catharine Brandt. 

6. Esther married Jacob Lehman 

7. N.A.NCY married Daniel S. Reisher 
[Reisher Family]. 

8. Risser married Rebecca Besore. 

9. Stephen (born in 1830) is a 
farmer and he lives in Chambersburg. He 
married in 1858, Catharine Stouffer daugli- 
ter of Henry and Maiy Stoufifer, and they 
had issue: Abraham died young; Benjamin 
died young: Emma L. married John E. Leh- 
man : Mary E. married Rev. Edwin H. 
Hummelbaugh ; Sarah is unmarried : Bar- 
bara married Hiram S. Heintzelman : Sam- 
uel F. married Gertrude Albertson : Solomon 
R. is living in Alaska; Flora, Daisy and Vir- 
gie died in infancy. 

(V) ABRAHAM HUBER (born April 
16. 1786), .son of John and Ester ( Sen- 
seney) Huber was a farmer near Rocky 
Spring. He became a United Brethren 
preacher and preached the gospel for many 
years until a cataract in his eyes compelled 
liis retirement. He married (first) Hannah 
Besore ; they had issue ; 

I.. John (VIII). 



2. Rachel (born Jan. 26, 1813 — died 
Oct. 2, 1893) married Robert E. Tolbert, 
and they had issue : Eliza E., William E., 
Emma S. and J. Robert. 

3. SoLOMo.v married Elizabeth Martin. 

4. Eliz.\ married Benjamin Huber 
(VII). 

5. William died unmarried March 28, 
1 900. 

Mr. Huber married (second) Eva 
Hoover, and they had issue : 

1. Jacob (bom Nov. 20, 1824 — died 
Nov. 29, 1901) luarried Margaret Swartz 
(born Sept. 27, 1827 — died May 21, 1872), 
antl they had issue : George, Charles, Benja- 
min, Catharine, and Mary Ann and Edward 
B., deceased. 

2. Sarah married John Lemaster [Le- 
master Family]. 

3. Rebecca married Abraham Sherk, 
and they had issue : Harry, A. Lincoln, Vir- 
gie and Linnie. 

4. Anna died unmarried. 

(VI) JOHN HUBER (born in Letter- 
kenny township, Aug. 2^. 1809 — died Feb- 
ruary, 1902). son of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth (Risser) Huber, was reared on the 
farm originally settled by Abraham Risser, 
which he afterward purchased from his 
father, and on which he lived until 1868, 
when he remo\ed to Chambersburg. He be- 
came treasurer of the Chamliersburg Woolen 
Mills in 1883, and was a director in the Tay- 
lor ?klanufacturing Company. He was a 
member of the United Brethren Church. Mr. 
Huber married in 1833. Mary A. Heilman, 
daughter of Adam Heilman, of Lebanon 
count}-. They had issue : 

1. Eliza married William Keefer. 

2. Amanda died young. 

3. Benjamin died aged four. 

4. Heilman S. (IX). 

5. Mary Emma married John Mc- 
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(VII) BENJAMIN RUBER (born 
May 26, 1812 — died in 1881), son of Ben- 
jamin and Elizabeth ( Risser ) Huber, was a 
farmer in St. Thomas township. He mar- 
ried (first) Elizabeth Huber (born March 
23. 1807 — died Dec. 22, 1851), daughter of 
Samuel and Nancy (Weaver) Huber; they 
had issue : 

I. Samuel S. married Amelia McNair, 
and had Ralph and Frank. 

Mr. Huber married (second) Eliza 
Huber (born April 10, 181 8 — died March 
29, 1874), daughter of Abraham and Han- 
nah (Besore) Huber; they had issue ; 

1. Abraham (born Aug. 5. 1844 — 
died in June, 1894) married Emma Oyler; 
they had issue : Norman O. and Fli^rence E. 

2. Benjamin F. (X). 

(VIII) JOHN HUBER (born in Let- 
terkenny township. March 5, 181 1 — died 
Aug. 5, 1887), son of Abraham and Han- 
nah (Besore) Huber, began life as a young 
man in the hardware business, in partner- 
ship with his brother Solomon Huber. at 
what is known as the old Berlin store in 
Chambersburg. Later the Hubers bought 
the Wolf stock at the southeast corner of 
Main and Queen streets. When Solomon 
Huber retired, the firm became Huber & Tol- 
bert, Mr. Huber associating with him in the 
business his brother-in-law, Robert E. Tol- 
bert. This firm lasted until the burning of 
Chamljersburg in 1864. Mr. Huber was also 
engaged in the manufacture of edge tools, 
being one of the partners in the old Lemnos 
Works, under the name of Huber & Co. This 
factory was also destroyed by the fire. He 
was also a partner in the strawboard mill 
where the woolen null now stands, the firm 
being Lambert & Huber. After the fire he 
began anew in the hardware business, and 
was interested in the new woolen mill, be- 
coming president of the company. In poli- 
tics he was a Whig, and later a Republican. 



He was a county commissioner, 1853-56, and 
an associate judge, 1856-61. Mr. Huber 
married in 1840, Mary Rhodes (born Feb. 
17, 18 1 7 — died May 24, 1871). daughter of 
Christian and Sarah Rhodes ; they had issue : 

1. Benjamin Franklin married Kate 
Oyler, and they had issue: Mary, William, 
Ralph, Paul, (living), and Frank (de- 
ceased). 

2. Abraham A. (born Feb. i, 1845— 
died Jan. 14, 1889) married Hattie Bricker; 
they had one son, Augustus. 

3. Solomon A. (XI). 

4. Clara married John W. Elder 
[Elder Family]. 

5. Ida married C. Price Speer, and 
they had issue : Grace, Carlton, Price, Helen 
and Mary. 

6. Mary Elizabeth, born Feb. 12, 
1851, died March 11, 1852. 

Judge Huber married (second) Eliza- 
beth Sprecher (born March 31, 1832 — died 
Aug. 14. 1882). 

(IX) HEILMAN S. HUBER (born in 
Lebanon county, April 10, 1837), son' of 
John and Mary A. (Heilman) Huber, was 
educated in the public schools, and has been 
a farmer all his life. He is a member of the 
United Brethren Church, and for many years 
has been a trustee of the Salem U. B. 
Church. Mr. Huber married in February, 
1868, Amanda Plough, daughter of Jacob 
Plough, of Letterkenny township. They 
have had issue : 

1. William died young. 

2. Frank died young. 

3. .'\mbrose died aged six years. 

4. Harry H. 

(X) BENJAMIN F. HUBER (born in 
1847), son of Benjamin and Eliza (Huber) 
Huber. is a farmer on the old Huber home- 
stead in St. Thomas township, purchased by 
his father from Henry Smith in 1851. This 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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McDowell. It now consists of 125 acres. 
Mr. Huber married Dec. 17, 1874, Mar- 
garet C. Gillan, daughter of Charles and 
Jane S. (McDowell) Gillan; they have 
issue : 

1. Ch.\rles Gillan. 

2. Robert McDowell. 

3. J.\MES FiNDL.-w, deceased. 

4. Mary K. 

(XI) SOLOMON A. HUBEK (horn 
at Chambersburg May 26, 1846), son of 
John and Mary (Rhodes) Huber, was edu- 
cated at the Chambersburg Academy, and at 
an early age began clerking in his father's 
store. When seventeen years old he enlisted 
in the United States Signal Corps. He served 
until the close of the war. After his return 
to Chambersburg he kept a hat store for 
three years, but in 1870, he sold out and en- 
gaged in the grocery business at his present 
stand. For a few months he conducted the 
business in partnership with Samuel Davi- 
son, but since the retirement of his partner 
he has managed it alone. His is the oldest 
continuous business in the grocery trade in 
Chambersburg. He carries a full line of 
groceries and crockery ware. He is also a 
member of the board of directors of the 
Chambersburg Trust Company. He is a 
member of the Masonic Order, the I. O. O. 
F., the Red Men, and the G. A. R. Mr. 
Huber married Feb. 21, 1871, Belle F. 
Smiley (born July 17, 1851), daughter of 
Robert B. and Elizabeth A. (Shade) 
Smiley : they have issue : 

1. John S., born Dec. 16, 1873. died 
Dec. 8, 1890. 

2. Robert L. (born Xov. 29, 1875) 
married Gertrude Fahnestock ; they have one 
son, Raymond. 

3. Nellie Elizabeth^ born June iC). 
1878, died Dec. 2, 1883. 

4- Theodore Solomon, born l^ec. 16, 
J 880. 



5. Edwin Blaine, born July 6, 1883. 

6. Walter Rl'.ssel, born Mav 1 r. 
1886. 

7. Nor.man h3.\RL, born April 2^. 1890- 

8. Verna Isabell, born Sept. 23, 
1892. died March 2t,. 1895. 

JOHN H. BUSH, a retired farmer .jf 
Guilford township, living four miles south- 
east of Chambersburg. on the Falling Spring 
road, Avas born in .Antrim townsiiip, July 30, 
1835, son of .Abraham and Elizabeth (Stufif) 
Bush, and belongs to the fourth generation 
of the family in the State. 

(I) JACOB BUSH came from Germany 
and was one of the pioneers of Franklin 
countv. His son, 

(II) HENRY BL'Sll. was a weaver 
by trade and the father of three children. \iz : 

1. Katherine married Henry Foster. 

2. Abraham (HI). 

3. Jacob. 

(III) ABRAFIAM BL'SH was born in 
Antrim township in 1808, and died in 1858, 
he was a farmer by occupation. He married 
Aliss Elizabeth Stufif, and they had a family 
of four children, as follows: 

1. Matild,\ C.\theri.\e, deceased. 

2. Daniel S., of St. Thomas township. 

3. John H. (IV). 

4. George W., of Hagerstown, Mary- 
land. 

(I\) JOHN H. BUSH grew up on his 
father's farm in Antrim township, and at- 
tended the ])ublic schools. When eighteen 
years of age he began to learn the cooper's 
trade, and was employed seven years in 
Greencastle as a journeyman. When the 
war broke out, Mr. Bush enlisted, .April 18, 
1 861, in Company C, 2d P. V. I., and after 
his finst term expired enlisted again, in Com- 
panv B, 126th P. V. I., and participated in 
all the battles in which his regiment engaged. 
A second time he re-enlisted, as a veteran in 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Company D, 209th P. V. I., soon afterward 
being made chief musician of the regiment. 
He served until the close of the war, was 
present at Gen. Lee's surrender, and in tlie 
summer of 1865 was mustered out with his 
regiment at Harrisburg. Mr. Bush returned 
home, married and Uved for a year in An- 
trim township, following his trade of car- 
penter, and in 1868 remo\'ed to Guilford 
township and began farming on the David 
Keller place, where lie has ever since resided 
and where he has a fine farm. 

Mrs. John H. Bush was Miss Mary E. 
Keller, daughter of David Keller, a well- 
known resident of the county. She is the 
mother of one child, a daughter, Emma V. 
Mr. Bush and his wife are members of the 
L^nited Brethren Church. Politically he is a 
Republican, and served as tax collector in 
1878, 1879 ^""^l 1880. He is one of the suc- 
cessful farmers of the township and a man 
highly esteemed by his neiglibors. 

JOSEPH B. ALEXANDER. One of 
the self-made men of Willow Hill, Metal 
township, whose present position of wealth 
and influence is the result of many years of 
earnest endeavor and persistent toil, unaided 
by any favors in the beginning from For- 
tune's hand, is Joseph B. Alexander, who 
was born Dec. 18, 1848, on a farm in Metal 
township, to Watson S. and Elizabeth 
(Brown) Alexander. Path Valley has been 
the home of the Alexander family for many 
long years and numerous branches of it are 
found among the inhabitants. The original 
settler was 

(I) REYNOLD ALEXANDER, a 
Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, who is known to 
have lived there as early as 1750, located a 
mile south of the present village of Dry Run. 
He was a man of good education, of strong 
religious convictions, and of much personal 
courage. He was active in founding the Pres- 



Interian Church at Spring Run and was one 
of the original trustees to whom Gov. John 
Penn made a grant of land "for a Presby- 
terian meeting-house and burial ground" in 
1764. He took up and acquired considerable 
landed estates, which are mainly occupied 
by his descendants to the present time. His 
sons were : 

1. Robert (II). 

2. James. 

3. William. 

4. Polly, his daughter, became the 
wife of David Campbell, an elder in the 
Presbyterian Church. 

(II) ROBERT ALEXANDER, son of 
Reynold, married and had a son named 
George (HI), a native of Franklin county. 

(III) GEORGE ALEXANDER mar- 
ried Mary Stewart, of Juniata county, and 
her children were: 

1. Robert. 

2. Watson S. (III). 

3. Randall. 

4. John. 

5. Martha. 

6. Margaret. 

(Ill) WATSON S. ALEXANDER, 
father of Joseph B., was born in Path Val- 
ley in 1824. He was a carpenter by trade 
but later turned his attention to farming 
instead. He was a lifelong Democrat and a 
member of the Upper Path Valley Presby- 
terian Church. He was married March 11, 
1848, to I\Iiss Elizabeth Brown, daughter 
of Joseph and Elizabeth (Cramer) Brown, 
of Franklin county. The six children Ixirn 
to this couple were : 

1. Joseph B. (IV). 

2. Nancy E. married Clement Mc- 
Donald, of Ohio. 

3. Mary S. is the wife of John Mow- 
ers, of Fulton county. 

4. Martha J. becante the wife of 
Homer Chatlev, of Bradford countv. 



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5. John S. became a resident of Find- 
lay, Ohio. 

6. James K. moved to Montpelier, 
Indiana. 

(IV) JOSEPH B. ALEXANDER 
grew up on his father's farm and was sent 
to the puljlic schools of the township. In 
1870 he went to the oil fields in .\rnistrong 
county and remained there for six years, at 
the end of which time he sold out and re- 
turned to Willow Hill. He purchased the 
old Klippinger fami and gave his entire 
attention to the place till 1885, when he en- 
tered upon his business career. Opening a 
general merchandise business at Willow Hill 
he is still engaged in same, at present under 
the firm name of J. B. Alexander & Son. 
He is also one of the firm of Alexander & 
Elder, hardware dealers in Dry Fxun. Mean- 
time Mr. Alexander has not abandoned his 
farming interests, but has purchased ex- 
tensively, having added to his original prop- 
erty the old Brown homestead of 120 acres 
and the old Alexander farm of his father, on 
which he carries on a large business in live 
stock. He now ranks among the busiest 
:and wealthiest men of his cnmnuuiity. 

In his early manhood Mr. Alexander 
was united in marriage to Miss Pauline 
■Gamble, of Fannett township, whom he 
made his wife Feb. 3. 1874. She was a 
•daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Gamble. 
In the thirty years of their married life they 
have reared ten children, namely : 

1. Elizabeth is the wife of Frank 
Elder, of Dry Run. 

2. Matthew G. married Miss Myrtle 
Rhodes. 

3. Jessie M. is the wife of Dr. Milton 
Parson, of Maryland. 

4. Mary Edith. 

5. Frances B. 

6. Joseph C. 

7. Watson I. 



8. Olive Glenn. 

9. Lois Esther. 

10. Rondo Pomekoy died in childhood. 
Mr. .Mexander is a stanch Democrat in 

his political views; he has held no public 
office other than that of school director. His 
is the old family faith of Presbyterianism, 
anil he is a member of the Upper Path Val- 
ley Church. Upright and industrious, his 
has been a life of continued effort but of 
equally constant progress, and he has fully 
earned his present position of respect and 
honor. 

AARON H. MORGAL, a lifelong 
farmer and one of the well-known citizens of 
Washington township^ Franklin county, was 
born on the old family homestead in Antrim 
township, this county, Sept. 23, 1852. He 
is the son of Philip and Leah (Lehr) 
Morgal. 

(I) ADAM MORGAL, his grandfather, 
(the name in Germany was spelled Markle),- 
with his w'ife and one child, Philip, immi- 
grated to the United States in 1827, when 
Philip was eight years old, landing at Phil- 
adelphia. They located near Ringgold, 
Washington Co., Md., thence removing to 
Antrim township, and later into Washington 
township, Franklin county, where the father 
died. Their children were : 

1. Philip (II). 

2. Maria married Josiah Young. 

3. Michael married Leah Hess, sister 
of John M. Hess, of Waynesboro. 

4. John (deceased) married Catharine 
Zimmerman. 

5. Jacob (deceased) married Eliza- 
beth Conrad. 

6. Peter married Anna Frantz. 

7. Elizabeth died unmarried. 

8. Christian never married. 

dl) PHILIP MORGAL. father of 
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1819, and on Nov. 6, 1845, i" Lancaster 
county, married Leah Lehr, who was born 
there Oct. 5, 1817, daughter of Jacob Lehr. 
She was a sister of Jacob Lehr, who drove 
the first street car from Lancaster to Millers- 
ville. then a horsecar line. The children of 
Philip and Leah Morgal were as follows : 

1. Anna A., born March 7, 1847, mar- 
ried Henry Carbaugh and resides at Mt. 
Holly, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. 

2. Susan C. born July 3, 1848 (de- 
ceased), was the wife of John S. Funk, 
brother of B. F. Funk. 

3. Benjamin F., born Nov. 25, 1850, 
married Clara Phillipy ; he was killed by 
lightning while at work in the field. 

4. .'Karon H. (III). 

5. Harry D., born Oct. 11, 1857, mar- 
ried Minnie, daughter of Martin S. Funk. 

6. Dora, born Sept. 7, 1861, married 
A. L. Nicodemus, son of Samuel Nico- 
demus. 

Philip Morgal died in 1893. He was a 
lifelong farmer in Antrim township on the 
old farm of 206 acres (now owned by Abra- 
ham Frick of Waynesboro). He was a mem- 
ber of the Mennonite Church. 

(Ill) AARON H. MORGAL was 
reared in the homestead in Antrim township, 
and attended the common schools and Zeig- 
ler's select school at Greencastle. He re- 
mained on the home farm until he was mar- 
ried, in 1876, and in 1877 left the old home 
for three years, two of which he spent in 
Washington township and one in Antrim 
township, farming. He then returned to 
the old farm and remained there for ten 
years more. In 1890 he moved to the farm 
of Samuel Nicodemus, his father-in-law, in 
Washington township, just across the line 
from Antrim township, where he remained 
until 1900. He then moved to his present 
home in Washington township, to what was 
known as the old Jeremiah Potter farm, 



which he had purchased from Mrs. Fox, the 
mother of Franklin Miller, in 1893. He im- 
proved the farm, renovated the residence and 
moved there in 1900. The farm embraces 
fifty-eight acres. 

Mr. Morgal married Oct. 17, 1876, Dura 
K. Nicodemus, daughter of Samuel Nicode- 
mus, and five children have been bom to 
them : 

1. Roy Herman^ born July 24, 1877, 
died Aug. 8. 1878. 

2. C. W., born June 16, 1879, is in bus- 
iness in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. 

3. Guy Nelson, born Aug. 13, 1881, 
married Margie, daughter of Daniel Potter, 
of Waynesboro, and is assistant clerk to the 
board of county commissioners. 

4. Wilbur Nicodemus, born Sept. 22, 
1888, is a student at Lebanon, Pennsylvania. 

5. Benjamin Franklin, born July 7, 
1895, is at home. 

Mr. Morgal served as a member of the 
school board of Washington township for 
six years in succession. In the fall of 1902 
he was elected county commissioner. Mrs. 
Morgal is a member of the Salem Reformed 
Church. 

JOHN N. MINTER. the genial host of 
the "Minter House," at Orrstown, Franklin 
county, and formerly a successful tailor, is 
a native of Quincy, Franklin Co., Pa., bom 
.\pril 28, 1855, son of Michael G. and 
.\thalinda (Clark) Minter. 

(I) MICHAEL MINTER, his grand- 
father, was a prosperous farmer in Frank- 
lin county, and one of the leading workers 
in the Lutheran Church. He was the fatlier 
of three children : 

1. Michael G. (II). 

2. John. 

3. Catherine married Daniel Trostlc 

(II ) MICHAEL G. MINTER. son of 
Michael, was a carpenter by trade, and tor 



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some years followed that calling in Qnincy 
to\vnslii]3. Sul)se(|uently lie moved to 
Waynesboro, and there entered the hotel 
business, being proprietor of the "National 
Hotel" for about ten years. He retired some 
years l>efore his death, which occurred 
March 28, 1898, at the age of seventy-two 
years. He married .\tlialinda Clark, ;nid 
their children w-ere: 

1. Ida Belle married J. F. Rider. 

2. John N. (III). 

3. CATHERINE C. married James 
Wilders. 

4. William C. married Anna Doud. 

5. Ernest E. married Ella Roe. 
(HI) JOHN N. MINTER received a 

good education in the schools of Waynes- 
boro, and as a young man served an ap- 
prenticeship at the tailor's trade under 
James Fisher, following that occupation with 
much success for some years. In assisting 
his father at the hotel, he gained a liking 
for, as well as a thorough knowledge of the 
business, and he determined to enter it on 
his own account. In the fall of 1878 he took 
charge of the hotel business at Xewburg. 
Cumberland county, and at the end of two 
years came to Orrstown, and has since been 
proprietor of the "Minter House." He has 
remodeled and improved the hotel from time 
to time and it is now equipped with all 
modern conveniences, a first-class bar, and in 
addition stable accommodations for several 
horses. Mr. Minter is a popular host, and 
his care for the comfort of his guests, his 
courteous, gentlemanly treatment of all. have 
made the "Minter" a favorite resting-place 
for the traveling public. 

On Jan. 6, 1878, Mr. Minter was mar- 
ried to .Almeda I. Zullinger. daughter of 
Jeremiah Zullinger, and she passed away 
Feb. 12, 1904, aged forty-eight years. Three 
children were born of this union. 



1. Bert, a civil engineer, married Miss 
Grace Reifsnyder. 

2. Atha B. is deceased. 

3. Michael G. 

Mr. Minter is a Republican in politics,, 
and has long been active in party work, in 
1892 he was a candidate for sheriff before 
the Republican Convention, but was de- 
feated. He is higiily respected by all for 
his unswerving honesty aufi his progressive 
spirit. 

J. EDWARD BECK, one of the leading 
merchants of Wayneslxjro, and niember of 
the firm of Beck & Corbett, the leading 
hardware, harness and imi)lemcnt dealers in 
the city, whose estaiilishment is located in 
the Wayne building, was born in Union- 
town, Carroll Co., Md., March 9, 1868, son 
of Samuel and Nancy (Adams) Beck. 

(I) SAMUEL BECK was kirn in 
1S31 in Frederick county, Md., and died in 
1894. He married Nancy .\dams, a native 
of Uniontown, born in 1825, who died in 
1887. To these parents were born chiklren 
as follows : 

1. Charle.s V. resides at Sykesville,. 
Maryland. 

2. Amy married John C. Baer, and re- 
sides at Abilene, Kansas. 

3. J. Edward (II). 

(II) J. EDWARD BECK was reared 
on the farm of his father, and he attended 
the common schools, finally lieginning farm- 
ing for himself in Marylruid. in 1887. In 
1894 he removed to Waynesboro, Pa., and 
here engaged in se\eral lines of business, 
chief among which was the selling of wire 
fencing and implements, and contracting and 
building. On July 15, 1900, as a natural 
consequence of this line of work, he and 
John G. Corljett organized the firm of Beck 
& Corbett, and thev have since l>ecn very 



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succes.sfully engaged in the above mentioned 
business. 

Mr. Beck was married in September, 
1898, to Annie E. W'engert, who was born 
in Waynesboro, daughter of the late Rev. 
Laban Wengert. a minister of the River 
Brethren Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Beck 
Avere bom the following children : 

1. Mildred. 

2. Lester. 

3. Esther, twin of Lester. 

Mr. Beck is a member of the L O. O. F.. 
the Elks and the Order of Red Men. He 
is a man who enjoys in highest degree the 
confidence of all who know him, and his 
success in life is all the more pleasing as 
it has been attained through his unaided ef- 
forts, he being a self-made man. 

SUSONG FAMILY. ANDREW 
SUSONG (died in 1878), the grandfather 
of William A. Susong, of Chambersburg. 
was a native of Pennsylvania, of German 
ancestry. He lived near Philadelphia, but 
removed to Tennessee, and was a farmer. 
He married Margaret Ball ; they had issue : 

1. WlLLI.\M. 

2. Nicholas. 

3. Andrew (II). 

4. Cath.\rine. 

5. Marg.\ret. 

6. S.'Vrah. 

7. A daughter who married Bernard 
Russell. 

(II) ANDREW SUSONG (born at 
Greeneville, Tenn.), son of Andrew and 
Margaret (Ball) Susung, was a farmer and 
stock dealer. He married (first) Jane Shef- 
fey, daughter of John Sheffey; they had 
issue : 

1. William A. (III). 

2. John S. 

3. D.wid C. 

4. Ev.\ (died in 1867) married J. K. 



Chambers, of Asheville, N. C. who was 
cmmty treasurer of Buncombe county. 

Mr. Susong married (second) Jane 
Susong, daughter of Capt. Andrew Susong, 
a Revolutionary soldier ; they had a daugh- 
ter: 

I. Sue married T. L. Carty. a lawyer 
of Knoxville, Tennessee. 

(Ill) WILLIAM A. SUSONG (born 
at Greeneville, Tenn., in 1855), son of An- 
drew and Jane (Sheffey) Susong, was edu- 
cated in the county schools and at Tusculum 
College, at Greeneville, Tenn. After leav- 
ing school he engaged in trading and in the 
live stock business. During the first five 
years he bought and sold horses and mules, 
and later engaged in the cattle business. In 
1883 he settled at Chambersburg and estab- 
lished himself in the live stock business, in 
which he has since been engaged. He sells 
a great many cattle at Chambersburg, and 
ships stock to Harrisburg, Baltimore, W^ash- 
ington and New York. His business some- 
times reaches as high as one thousand head 
of cattle in a month. He has always done 
business alone. He is a stockholder in the 
National Bank of Chambersburg, the Valley 
National Bank and the Chambersburg Trust 
Company. He is a member of Zion's Re- 
formed Church. Mr. Susong married, in 
1891, Mary King (of St. Louis) ; they have 
no children. 

HENRY STRICKLER SNYDER, 
clothier and men's furnisher of Greencastle, 
where he is numljered among the successful 
business men of that place, was lx)m there 
Aug. I, 1864, a son of William and Sarah 
(McCune) Snyder. The great-grandfather 
of the family came from Germany. Grand- 
father Snyder was a native of Lancaster 
county. Pa., but spent the greater i)ortinn of 
his life in Franklin county. By occupation 
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business at Mercersburg and Fort Loudon, 
wlieie he served as justice of the peace for 
many years. His wife, who bore the maiden 
name of Ehza W'eiser, was of Frankhn 
county, and they had a family of eleven chil- 
dren that grew to matwrity and are to he 
found in various portions of the countrv, 
working at different callings and in \arious 
professions. 

WILLIAM SNYDER was a merchant 
tailor, learning that trade with his father, 
and he continued along that line until 1887, 
when he located at Birmingham, Ala. For 
some time he was in business in Clreen- 
castle and was one of its progressive men. 
He was a prime mover in the Crowell Mfg. 
Co., and held a number of the offices of the 
town. Fraternally he was a Mason, belong- 
ing to Mt. Pisgah Lodge of Greencastle 
and Cyrene Commandery of Birmingham, 
Ala. He early joined the Presbyterian 
Church. In June, 1903, he retired from 
business and returned to Greencastle. wiiere 
he now resides. He married Sarah Mc- 
Cune, who \\as born in Mercersburg, daugh- 
ter of Jacob and Catharine McCune. and 
died June 22, 1903. Twelve children came 
to bless the union of these parents, seven 
of whom grew to maturity : 

1. W1LL1.A.M Ord is a clothier of Bir- 
mingham, Alabama. 

2. Henry Strickler is mentioned be- 
low. 

3. Margaret married William J. 
Lassiter, of Birmingham, Alabama. 

4. Elizabeth is the wife of D. P. 
Miller, of New York. 

5. Mary is at home. 

6. H. Netscher married J. Edward 
Omwake, of Greencastle, who died March 
19, 1903. 

7. Dr. J. Ross Snyder is a practicing 
physician, Birmingham, Alabama. 

Henry Strickler Snyder is the second 



eldest living child, and he was educated in 
the public schools. After he had finished he 
entered into partnership with his father and 
brother, since which time he has Ixen con- 
nected with the business world of Green- 
castle, with the exception of six years, from 
1887 to 1893, when he was in the South. 
In 1893 he returned to Greaicastle and re- 
estal>lished the house which had been estab- 
lished in 1867 by the father, and has suc- 
cessfully continued it for twelve years. Mr. 
Snyder carries a full stock of clothing and 
men's furnishing goods, also conducting a 
merchant tailoring establishment. He has 
served the bsrough as auditor and secretary 
of the board of health, being the choice of 
the Republican party. Fraternally he is a 
member of the Jr. O. U. A. M. and the 
Royal Arcanum, and is very popular in both 
organizations. 

On Dec. 21, 1884, Mr. Snyder was mar- 
ried to Emma S. Hostetter, daughter of 
Jacob and Georgianna Hostetter, of Green- 
castle, and four children have I)een lx)rn of 
this marriage : 

1. William Donald. 

2. Isabell Crilly. 

3. Georgianna Hostetter. 

4. Sarah Margaret. 

Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are consistent 
members of the Presbyterian Church, in 
which he is an elder. They have many 
friends throughout the county, and he is 
honored as being a straightforward, honor- 
able business man and a Christian gentleman. 

R. M. RENFREW, one of the pros- 
perous residents of Greene township, 
Franklin county, comes of old, solid Scotch 
stock, and was born in this township, Jan. 
26, 1865, son of Robert A. and Hannah 
(Thompson) Renfrew. 

SAMUEL RENFREW, the founder of 
the family in this country, was a native of 



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Glasgow, Scotland, who settled on the prop- 
erty now owned by our subject, during the 
early days of Franklin county's history, and 
built upon it the old mill which is still 
standing. 

(I) SAMUEL RENFREW, father of 
Rolsert A., was a miller for many years in 
Greene township. He had eleven children, 
five of whom grew to maturity, among them 
a son Robert A. (II). 

(II) ROBERT A. RENFREW 
(born in 1814 — died in 1874) for many 
years was a successful school teacher. In 
politics he was a stanch Republican, and 
took an active part in the workings of his 
party, and was a Covenanter, as were all 
•of his ancestors. He married Hannah 
Thompson, and of their ele\'en children, five 
grew to maturity, namely : 

1. Mary E. married James Black, of 
.Steelton, Pennsylvania. 

2. D. L., of Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. 

3. John A., of Chambersburg, Penn- 
•sylvania. 

4. R. M. (III). 

5. Sarah R. married Edward Ross. 

(III) R. M. RENFREW was but six 
years of age when his muther died in 1871, 
and only nine years old when his father 
died, and he went to live with his sister 
Mary, remaining with her until he attained 
maturity. He was educated in the schools 
of Greene township, and at the age of si.\- 
teen years, he learned the trade of a miller 
with Alfred Ditlow, at the old Renfrew mill. 
He followed milling for twelve years, when 
he Ijegan operating a sawmill and lumber 
business at tlie old mill, where he still con- 
tinues, doing a very large business at present, 
his field of operation extending all o\er tlie 
county. 

In 1886, Oct. 26th, Mr. Renfrew was 
married to Miss Laura M. Newman, of Fay- 
etteville, daughter of Richard and Susan 



(Walters) Newman, of F"ayettevilie. The 
children born of this marriage are: 

1. Beula M. 

2. Eva M. 

3. Robert M. 

In politics, Mr. Renfrew is a stanch sup- 
porter of the Republican party, while like 
his father before him, he is a Presbyterian 
in religious affiliations. He has been tax 
collector of Greene township, and is at pres- 
ent school director and Republican nominee 
for prothonotary of Franklin county. Fra- 
ternally, he is a member of the Knights of 
Malta of Chambersburg, and the K. G. E. 
of Fayetteville. He is one of the enterpris- 
ing young men of Franklin county, and has 
gained the good will and esteem of all with 
whom he enters into business relations. He 
is honorable, upright and able, and the future 
before him is very bright. 

HUBER F A M I L Y. HENRY 
HUBER, the ancestor of the Rev. Benja- 
min G. Huber, of Chambersburg, came fmm 
New Holland, Lancaster county, to Franklin 
county at an early period. He had a son : 

I. Christian (II). 

(II) CHRISTIAN HUBER (died 
about 1868). son of Henry Huber, was a 
bishop of the River Brethren denomination. 
He married (first), a Miss Oberholser, and 
they had five sons and five daughters : 

1. John (deceased) was a bishop of 
the Ri\er Brethren denomination. He was 
married to a Miss Sollenberger, and they 
had issue : Mary, deceased ; and Susana, 
married to Rev. Daniel Myers, and residing 
on the Huber farm near Lemasters. 

2. Henry O. (died September, 1902) 
married Lydia Rebok, and they had issue: 
Abraham, deceased ; Amanda, deceased ; 
and Isaac, living in Chambersburg. 

3. Samuel died aged nineteen. 

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5. Reuben died aged three. 

6. Nancy married Rev. Christian C. 
Brechbil!. and they have one son, Rev. Sam- 
uel. Ii\-ing at Eden\-iUe. 

7. Christena married Rev. Daniel 
Myers, of near Orrstown ; issue : Two sons. 
Revs. Christian and Henry, and several 
daughters living. 

8. Elizabeth married Christian Ober- 
holtzer. 

9. Barbara married Tobias Wingert. 

10. Catherine married John Byers, 
and they live on the old Huber farm near 
Chambersburg. 

Mr. Huljer marrietl (second) a Miss 
Myers, by whom he had no issue. 

(III) CHRISTIAN HUBER (died 
March 3, 1849), ^o" o^ Bishop Christian 
Huljer, was a farmer near Chaml^ersburg. 
He married Catherine Grove (died May 8, 
1861), daughter of Abraham Grove, and 
tliey had issue : 

1. Amos G. (born Veh. 15, 1844), 
lives in Philadelphia. 

2. Benjamin G. (IV). 

3. Eliza S. (born March 18, 1849) 
lives in Philadelphia. 

(IV) BENJAMIN G. HUBER (born 
Dec. 8, 1846), son of Christian and Cath- 
erine (Grove) Huber, was educated in the 
public schools and at the State Normal 
School at Millersville. After leaving the 
Normal he taught school three terms. In 
February, 1865, he enlisted in the 103d P. 
V. I., and ser\ed until the close of the war, 
which lasted only a few months after his 
enlistment. After the war he worked as a 
carpenter until 1868, when he entered the 
ministry of the L'nited Brethren Church at 
the Conference at York, and was assigned 
as junior preacher to the Greencastle charge. 
He afterward served a charge in Perry coun- 
ty, two years ; Shoop's Station in Cumber- 
land county, two vears, and the First United 



Brethren Clnuxli in Chambersburg, 1873- 
74. In 1875 he served a church in Balti- 
more. During this year he became publish- 
ing agent and editor of the "Highway of 
Holiness," a monthly periodical which was 
clianged to newspaper form in 1886. He 
continued in the active work of the ministry, 
laboring in Kansas, 1887-89. In the latter 
year he returned to Chambersburg, where he 
has since made his penuanent home. He 
has served six terms as presiding elder, and 
was four times a delegate to the (General 
Conference. Mr. Huber married, March 31, 
1870, Naomi Jane Cormany (born Nov. 28, 
1848), daughter of John K. and Catharine 
Ann (Myers) Cormany; they have issue: 

1. Seba Cormany (bom Jan. 29, 
1871) was educated in the public schools, 
and was graduated at Lebanon Valley Col- 
lege in 1892. He went to Tama. Iowa, 
where he was principal of the High School 
and superintendent of schools. He has 
practiced law at Tama since 1895. 

2. Harry Iverson (born Feb. 28, 
1873) was graduated at Dickinson College 
in 1898. He represented Dickinson in the 
inter-collegiate debates with Bucknell Uni- 
versity and the Pennsylvania State College. 
After leaving college he studied law and 
was admitted to the Franklin County Bar 
in 1900: he was a meml)er of the firm of 
Minehart & Huber, and is now a member of 
the law finu of De Groot. Kenyon 
& Hul)er, of Brooklyn, N. Y. In 
1902 he was a Democratic candidate 
for member of Congress, and has l)een 
a member of the Chambersburg School 
Board. He possesses strong oratori- 
cal powers, and his services as a public 
s])eaker are in constant demand. He is a 
member of the M. E. Church, there being 
no church of the U. B. denomination there. 
He married June 26, 1900, Emily McKee 
Weidler, daughter of Rev. Isaac C. and 



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Mary C. Weidler, of Carlisle; they liave 
issue : Margaret and Harry. 

3. RiLLA Belle (born Jan. 26, 1877) 
was graduated at the Cliambersburg High 
School and at Wilson College; she is a 
teacher in the public schools. 

4. Amos Castle^ born Dec. 27, 1878, 
died March 26. 1880. 

5. Ora Edwards, born Jan. 30, 1881. 

6. Lester Hoke, born March 2-], 
1883. 

7. Bertha Grace, born July 8, 1886. 

8. Mabel Ruth, born May 4, 1889. 

9. Leroy Becker, born Sept. 27, 
1891. 

J. A. WAGNER, a highly respectetl 
farmer of Guilford township, living half- 
way between Chambersburg and Fayette- 
ville, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., 
March i, 1852, son of John and Sarah 
(Hartzook) Wagner, who resided near 
Newburg, Cumberland county. 

(I) JACOB WAGNER, the grand- 
father, also of Cumberlantl county, had nine 
children, all now deceased, seven being men- 
tioned : 

1. Benjamin. 

2. Michael. 

3. Henry. 

4. John (II). 

5. Sarah. 

6. Annie. 

7. Betsy. 

(II) JOHN WAGNER, the father, 
died when J. A. Wagner was a child of 
two years. His family consisted of six 
children : 

1 . William of Cumberland county. 

2. J. A. (III). 

3. Amanda, of Carlisle. 

4. Sarah is married. 

5. Susan is unmarried. 

6. . 



(Ill) J. A. WAGNER lived until 
twehe years of age at Newburg, and then 
came to Franklin county, locating with his 
imcle, John Hartzook. with whom he re- 
mained until he was eighteen. He then 
worked four years for wages. On Dec. 2, 
1875. he married Mary Hamsher, of Frank- 
lin county, a daughter of Jacob and Mar- 
garet Hamsher, of Guilford township. The 
following children have been born to them : 

1. Oliver S., a farmer of Guilford 
township, married Addie Burkhardt, and 
has two children, Bruce and Joseph. 

2. Sarah M. married Preston Rice, 
of Guilford township, and has two chil- 
dren, Ethel and Viola. 

3. Harry is at home. 

4. Eleanor.\ married Newton Garven, 
of Guilford township, a farmer, and has one 
child, Lorenzo. 

5. Annie is at home. 

6. \ViLLL\M is at home. 

7. Dell.\ is at home. 

8. Amos. 

Beginning life a poor boy, Mr. Wagner 
has worked his way along and now owns a 
fine farm of eighty-seven acres, all under 
a good state of cultivation. He understands 
all kinds of mechanical work, and can do 
any kind of work about his farm, Ijeing a 
mechanic l>y nature. He is a stanch Repub- 
lican, but does not desire public office. He 
and his family are members of the Fayette- 
ville Lutheran Church. 

]\Irs. Wagiier comes of an old settled 
Lutheran family of Pennsylvania. Her pa- 
rents had children as follows : 

1. Mary, Mrs. Wagner. 

2. John. 

3. Jacob. 

4. Lucy married John L. Frey. 

5. David, of Cumberland county. 

6. Minnie married William Reif- 
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J. S. VANDERAU, the popular pru- 
prietor of tlie '"L'nion Hotel" at Chambers- 
burg. Pa., was born Nov. 6, 1871, in Frank- 
lin county, a son of John F. and Catherine 
M. (Mowers) Vanderau, and grandson of 
William Vanderau. 

(I) WILLIAM VANDERAU was a 
farmer of Franklin county. He married a 
Miss Finerfrack, and they had children as 
follows : 

1. Caroline. 

2. MaRG.'VEET. 

3. Sadie. 

4. Am.«iND.\. 

5. Mary. 

6. Francis. 

7. A. L. 

8. John Franklin (II). 

The materna] sfrandfather. Samuel Mow- 



6. Carl married Bessie Burnett. 

7. Verna married H. A. Marshall. 

8. Blanche married Leslie E. More- 
hous. 

(Hi) JAAIES S. VANDERAU at- 
tended the public schools of Chambersburg, 
and when he had hnished his education he 
learned and followed the baking business for 
five years. Then, being needed by iiis father, 
he went into the hotel, and after seven years 
became the proprietor of the "Union Hotel.'' 
one of the best in Chambersburg. The house 
is well and comfortably fitted with all mod- 
ern improvements, including electric lights, 
steam heat and running water, and contains 
thirty bedrooms. The stables connected 
with the hotel are ample, and the accommo- 
dations are excellent. This hotel is a favor* 
ite with the traveling public, and Host 



'crs, married Sarah Ritter, and they had the Vanderau is well known throughout a wide 

section of country. Fraternally Mr. Van- 



following children: 

1. George. 

2. Samuel, 

3. Mary. 

4. Henry. 

5. Frank. 

6. Sadie. 
7- Barbara. 
8. Catherine. 
(II) JOHN F. VANDER.\U, father of 

our subject, was engaged in the hotel busi- 
ness for a number of years, and died March 
5, 1902. at Mt. Hope, Md. During the war 
he entered the 21st Pennsylvania Ca\'alry, 
and sen-ed from 1864 until the close of the 



derau is a member of the Red Men, the 
Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Sons of 
Veterans, and is also a member of the 
Chambersburg fire company. He is an en- 
terprising business man, pleasant and genial 
in manner, and one of the solid men of the 
community. 

In 1896 Mr. Vanderau married Miss 
Grace L. Marshall, a daughter of Francis 
Marshall, a most charming lady. 

JOSEPH ENNISS, M. D. One of the 
young medical men of Waynesboro, Frank- 
lin Co., Pa., who has already attained to dis- 
struggle, rendering gallant service. The tinction in his profession, is Dr. Joseph En- 

niss. who was born at Burkittsville, Md., 
May 21, 1875. JHe is a son of William and 
Annie E. (Fink) Enniss, and his family his- 
tory reads as follows : 

(I) JOHN ENNISS came from Eng- 
land and settled in Maryland prior to the 
Revolution, and eventually became a pros- 
perous planter and ship owner. He became 



children born to John F. and Catherine Yan- 
derau were : 

I. Henry died in infancy. 

Carrie died in childhood. 

William married Emma Embick. 

Charles married Miss Nannie \\'il- 



2. 

3- 
4- 



son. 



5- 



James S. (III). 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



the father of a large family, of whom are 
mentioned ; 

1. John. 

2. George. 

3. Eliza. 

4. Elizabeth. 

5. Joseph (II). 

(II) JOSEPH ENNISS was born in 
18 1 3 and lived to an old age. He married 
Julianna Miller, and they became the parents 
of two children : 

1. William (HI). 

2. Mary Catherixe married Lewis 
Kam. 

(IIIj WILLIAM ENNISS was born at 
BurkittsviUe, Md., in 1847, ^"^1 there died 
in 1897. His wife was born in 1845, ^'""^ 
still survives, residing at BurkittsviUe. The 
children born to William and Annie E. 
(Fink) Ennisswere: 

1. Joseph (IV). 

2. Fr.\nk is deceased. 

3. William is a student at Cornell 
University. 

(IV) JOSEPH ENNISS, M. D., the 
subject proper of this sketch, during boy- 
hood attended the common schools, and later 
the BurkittsviUe Seminary, and when only 
fifteen years old he entered the Gettysburg 
College, where he remained three years. He 
then entered the University of Pennsylvania, 
in the spring of 1895, in the medical depart- 
ment, from which he was graduated in 1899. 
After this he returned home, and took up 
the practice of medicine in BurkittsviUe, but 
at the expiration of a year went to Baltimore, 
Md.. where he spent a year. In 1900 he took 
a special course at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, and in 1901 located at Waynesboro, 
Pa., where he has since remained, success- 
fully engaged in the practice of his profes- 
sion. Pie is a member of Alpha Tan Omega 
College Fraternity of Gettysburg College ; 
the Elks of Wa\niesboro; the Mystic Circle. 



and the Masonic fraternity. In politics he is 
a Democrat, but has never taken an active 
part in public afYairs, and in religious con- 
nection he is a member of the Lutheran 
Church. He is a director of the Waynesboro 
Gas Light Company, 

On Oct. 5, 1899, Dr. Enniss married 
Miss Lillian Mae Ranels, of Hagerstown, 
Md., a daughter of Richard C. and Emma 
(Rontzahn) Ranels, members of two of the 
oldest families in Maryland. Dr. and Mrs. 
Enniss have many friends in Franklin 
county, and he is a very popular and efficient 
physician. 

A. H. HORST, one of the prominent 
young merchants of Marion, Pa., was born 
in Guilford township, near Marion, April 
1 1, 1878, a son of A. L. and Martha (Hege) 
Horst, of the same township. The father is 
a farmer. 

(I) DAVID HORST was born near 
New Holland, Pa., about 1750. His pa- 
rents came from Switzerland and w^ere 
among the early settlers of Lancaster county. 

(il) HENRY HORST, son of David, 
was born in 1794, in Lancaster county, and 
came to Franklin while a boy, about a cen- 
tury ago. He was the father of the follow- 
ing children, all deceased except Abraham 
and Elizabeth : 

1. Isaac. 

2. Anna. 

3. Leah. 

4. David. 

5. Abraham (HI). 

6. Henry. 

7. SuS.-\NNA. 

8. Elizabeth, of Marion. 

9. C.\TIIERINE. 

( III) ABRAHAIM HORST. the grand- 
father, was born in 1826. and is now a re- 
tired farmer, living in Marion. He married 
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1. Annie married David Long. 

2. Amanda married John Martin. 

3. Susan married Henry Bear. 

4. AI.\RV, widow of John Slow thonr, of 
Chambersburg, Penns\lvania. 

5. A. L. (IV). ' 

6. Catherine married Peter Leslier. 

7. Le.\h married Philip Cable. 

(IV) ABRAHAM L. HORST. the 
father of A. H., had a family as follows: 

1. A. H. (V). 

2. Mary is at home. 

3. Amand.\ married Samnel Martin. 

4. Mathew. 

5. Abraham. 

6. Israel. 

7. Rhod.\. 

8. Leslie. 

9. Edith. 

10. Ralph. 

The Horsts are Republicans in politics, 
and in religion they are Mennonites. 

(V) A. H. HORST was reared on the 
home farm, and received his education in the 
■common schools and Shippensburg State 
Normal. Finishing his course at the latter 
institution, he returned home and went into 
business with a Mr. Myers, under the style 
of Myers & Horst, merchants. In 1899 he 
purchased his partner's interest, and has 
.since continued alone under the name of A. 
H. Horst, general merchandise. On Oct. 
23, 1900, he was married to Alice Martin, of 
Antrim township, a daughter of J. A. Mar- 
tin, whose family was as follows : Elmer, an 
engineer on the Cumberland Valley railroad ; 
Harry, a teacher in Chambersburg, Pa. : 
Ella, married to Martin I-'ry. a farmer of 
Greene township; Alice, [Mrs. Horst; Sam- 
uel, of Guilford township, and David, of De- 
troit, Michigan. 

Like the other members of his family Mr. 
Horst is a stanch Republican. He is a 
member of the Reformed Church at Marion, 



and fraternally is a member of the Jr. O. U. 
A. M., No. 443, Marion, and of the Hepta- 
sophs at Chambersburg, No. 104. In every 
respect he is one of the live, public-spirited 
young men of the township, and has a very 
promising future. 

GEORGE S. COOVER, a prominent 
citizen and successful blacksmith of New 
Franklin, Guilford township, Franklin Co., 
Pa., was born in Greene township, this 
county, Jan. 21, 1844, the only son of Jere- 
miah Coover, deceased. Tlie family origin- 
ated in this country with his great-great- 
grandparents, who came from Germany and 
Switzerland, respectively, and settled in Lan- 
caster county, Pa. From them have come 
various representatives of the name located 
in nearly every State of the Union. One of 
the sons of this worthy couple, named Jere- 
miah, was born in Lancaster county. 

GEORGE COOVER, the grandfadier 
of our subject, was a son of Jeremiah, and 
also became the father of another Jeremiah, 
who in turn was the father of George S. 
Coover, whose life is treated of in this 
sketch. 

JEREMIAH COOVER was born in 
Letterkenny township, Franklin county, Dec. 
24. 1815, and he was educated in the pay 
schools of his native township. He learned 
the trade of blacksmith. In 1848 he came to 
New Franklin, established his shop, and be- 
gan tlie business which is now owned by our 
subject. 

GEORGE S. COOVER was only four 
years of age when brought by his parents to 
New Franklin, and he grew up here, at- 
tending the Guilford township schools, and 
learning the trade of blacksmith under his 
father. Later he took charge of the business 
until 1865, when he enlisted in Company 
L. 25t1i P. V. I., and was mustered out at 
Lynchburg, Va., at tlie close of the war. be- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



ing given an honorable discharge. Return- 
ing to civil life he resumed his trade, work- 
ing with his father until 1876, since which 
time he has conducted the business alone, and 
still later added dealing in milk to his busi- 
ness. He was married to Aliss Mary C. 
Harchealroad, of Guilford township, a 
daughter of Michael E. Harchealroad, a 
farmer of Guilford township. A large fam- 
ily of children has been tiorn to them. 

Mr. Coover is a member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 309. He has served as assessor and 
school director of Guilford township, was 
elected jury commissioner of Franklin 
county in 1882, and was a candidate for the 
ofifice of sheriff of the county. Hardwork- 
ing, energetic, thrifty, Mr. Coover is a man 
who has well earned his success in life, as 
well as the esteem and honor in which he is 
held by those who know him. 

J. C. BURK. Franklin county has many 
prosperous farmers, who reside upon well 
cultivated land, and own many acres and at- 
tractive homes. Among this class is J. C. 
Burk, of Fannett township, whose property 
is located near Spring Run, and who was 
born on the old Martin Hammond farm, in 
Metal township, this county, April 21, 1852, 
son of James and Mary (Brandt) Burk, of 
Path Valley, now deceased. 

(I) JAMES BURK was a farmer and 
an upright and hardworking man. His po- 
litical opinions made him a Democrat. He 
was a stanch and liberal member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and died in this township, 
firm in its faith. His family consisted of 
eight children, seven of whom grew to ma- 
turity : 

1. William H., a farmer near Ship- 
pensburg. 

2. J. C. (H). 

3. Etta married ^^'illiam Gibble, of 
Kansas. 



4. Lemuel, of Metal township, a 
farmer. 

5. J. A., a farmer of Fannett township. 

6. Mary, unmarried, resides with her 
mother. 

7. Jexxie married West Crouse, of 
Willow Hill. 

(II) J. C. BURK was educated in his 
native township, and worked upon his fath- 
er's farm while attending school. In 1880 
he married ]\Iiss Annie ^ilcCurdy, a daugh- 
ter of Oliver and Maria B. (McComb) Mc- 
Curdy. of Metal township, Path Valley. 
Mrs. Burk died in 1894, and in 1897 Mr. 
Burk married Miss Appelbey, of Path Val- 
ley. J. C. and .\nnie Burk had the fol- 
lowing children : 

1. Ella married Joseph Culbertson, of 
North Dakota. 

2. Mary is at home. 

3. Nettie J. 

4. James IMcCurdy, of Spring Run. 

In politics Air. Burk is a Democrat, and 
has served on the school board for twelve 
years. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church of Upper Path Valley, of which he 
is trustee, and he is a very highly respected 
man in every respect. His fine farm of 154 
acres, and another of 170 acres, are kept in 
excellent condition, and yield a good profit 
upon his investment. His accumulations are 
the result of a life of hard work, good man- 
agement and thrift, and he has reason to be- 
proud of them. 

JOHN W. RHINE, a miller and saw- 
mill proprietor at New Franklin, Guilford 
township, Franklin Co., Pa., was born in An- 
trim township, this county, on the old Davi- 
son farm, Jan. 25, 1840, a son of \\'illiam- 
and Sarah (Meloy) Rhine. 

(I) JOHN RHINE, his grandfather, 
married Mary Sturgis, who was a sister of 
Gen. Sturgis, and connected with several of 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



533 



the old families of Cumberland county. Joim 
Rhine was a coppersmith by trade. He be- 
came the father of live children, all now de- 
ceased : 

1 . Andrew. 

2. James. 

3. \\ ESLEY died in Lima, Ohio. 

4. Rachel. 

5. William (II). 

(II) WILLIAM RHINE, father of 
John W., was born in 1812, in Cumberland 
county, near Shippensburg, and died in 
1864. He was a barber by occupation. In 
politics he was a Democrat. His religious 
views made him independent, and he was in 
every way an honorable, upright man and 
public-spirited citizen. He was the father 
of the following children : 

1. John W. (III). 

2. Mary Jane married Samuel Mc- 
Cleary, of Franklin county. 

3. Fannie married F. S. Creamer, de- 
ceased. 

4. William is deceased. 

5. D.wiD^ of Chambersburg, is a shoe- 
maker. 

6. Columbus, of Kimball county, Neb., 
is a successful farmer. 

7. Sarah married Jacob Spoonhaur, a 
farmer of Guilford township. 

(III) JOHN W. RHINE was reared in 
Ouincy township, and was engaged in mak- 
ing staves and shingles. He and his wife, 
Sarah, whom he married about 1866, have 
liad children : 

1. Albert engaged in sawmilling. 

2. Mary Jane married Bert Champlin. 

3. John, of Antrim, is conducting a 
sawmill for his father. 

4- Sar.\h is at home. 

5. Grace married Albert Ebber. 

6. Benjamin, an engineer, is at home. 
7- Elsie, of Chambersburg, is the wife 

of Claud White. 



Mrs. Rhine was born at Luray, Va., June 
18. 1848. 

Mr. Rhine was simply a farmer's boy, 
educated in the public schools, and yet he has 
made his way to the top until he is the owner 
of an excellent farm in Guilford township of 
seventy-eight acres, and two in Antrim town- 
ship, one of 160 and the other of si.xteen 
acres, as well as two sawmills and a roller or 
grist mill. All he owns has been obtained by 
hard work. Politically he is a Democrat, but 
never even \otes. his time being fully occu- 
pied by his private afifairs. Like his father 
he is independent in religion. He is one of 
the well known men of the township, honest 
and fair in his dealings, and one whose word 
is regarded as good as his signature. 

SAMUEL F. PECKMAN, one of the 
substantial men of Williamson, St. Thomas 
township. Franklin county, was born July 
27. 1867, in St. Thomas township, a son of 
Francis and Catherine (Deitrich) Peckman. 

(I) SAMUEL PECKMAN, his 
grandfather, was a blacksmith by trade, and 
resided at Keefers Church, in Letterkenny 
township, where he worked at his trade for 
a number of years. He married a Miss 
Carolus, and they had issue as follows : 

1. Francis (II). 

2. Marg.^ret. 

3. Sarah. 

4. Malinda married first a Mr. Myers, 
and second J. S. Witmer. 

5. Anna. 

6. Samuel married a Miss Wiland. 

7. Jeremiah. 

(II) FRANCIS PECKMAN, father 
of Samuel F., was a blacksmith by trade. 
Soon after his marriage, howex'er, he en- 
gaged in farming, and followed that calling 
the remainder of his life, his death occur- 
ring in 1896. He married Catherine Deit- 
rich, whose father. Jacob Deitrich, married 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



a Miss Stauffer, and was a miller and 
farmer in Hamilton township. The follow- 
ing children were born to them : 

1. Jacob D. married Sarah Stoner. 

2. Emma died in youth. 

3. Mary married Frank P. Dice. 

4. Margaret married Frank Besore. 

5. Anna married John L. Leisher. 

6. Laur.a married Leonard Carper. 

7. S.^R.AH E. married Jacob L. Keller. 

8. Samuel F. (III). 

(Ill) SAMUEL F. PECKMAN was 
educated at the public schools of his town- 
ship, and reared upon the farm, remaining 
there until 1895, \\l''en he embarked in a 
mercantile business with J. E. Miller, under 
the style of Peckman & Miller. After two 
years the firm was dissolved, and I\Ir. Peck- 
man continued the business until April i, 
1902, when he sold his concern to J. N. 
Snyder. The business, general merchan- 
dising, was in excellent condition, ami Mr. 
Peckman had made a success of it from the 
start. In religious matters I\Ir. Peckham is a 
member of the Reformed Church. He is 
respected wherever known. 

FREDERICK ERNST, a retired jour- 
neyman baker and substantial resident of 
Mercersburg, Franklin Co., Pa., is a son of 
Gottlieb Ernst, of Wurtemberg, Germany. 

(I) GEORGE ERNST, his grand- 
father, lived in Wurtemberg. His children 
were : 

1. Gottlieb (II). 

2. John (deceased) was married and 
had four children. 

3. George (deceased) was liorn in 
Wurtemberg, married and had three chil- 
dren. William, Joseph and a daughter. 

(II) GOTTLIEB ERNST was born in 
Wurtemberg. He was a linen wea\er and 
also owned a small farm in the Fatherland, 
where he married Anna ]\Iary ]^Iack, daugh- 



ter of George Mack, a farmer and teamster, 
who used as many as six horses in his busi- 
ness. Gottlieb Ernst died in Germany in 
1 861. His family consisted of eight sons 
and four daughters : 

1. MiCH-'VEL died in New York. 

2. Henry died in Hagerstown. 

3. John lives in New York, being a 
butcher on Grant street : he is married and 
has three sons and three daughters. 

4. Frederick (III). 

5. Jenny married in Germany and 
there died. 

6. J.\coB died unmarried, in New York. 

7. WiLLi,\M, who is married and has 
six children, lives on Long Island : he is a 
baker. 

8. Joseph married and has two chil'-^ 
dren. 

9. Mary, Mrs. Tchonberger. of Mer- 
cersburg. 

10. K.ATE died in Philadelphia; she was 
married and left two children. 

11. GoTTLiEBE, living in Wurtemberg, 
Germany, is married to a manufacturer of 
crockery and has a family. 

12. Eva married and died in Pennsyl- 
vania in 1901. 

Almost all of the family came to Amer- 
ica. The mother survived until about 1876. 

(Ill) FREDERICK ERNST was born 
in Germany Feb. 12. 1836, and was reared 
in his native land. About 1854 he came to 
America, landing in New York May 16, 
of that year. His first work was upon a farm 
near Clear Spring, Md.. where tw<T of his 
uncles resided upon farms of their own. 
After a short time spent there, hoping to 
better his fortune, Mr. Ernst went to work 
for a Mr. Cushwa, who owned a tannery at 
Clear Spring. There he remained for two 
years and tinally went West, and again 
worked for a tanner at Lancaster. Ohio. 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



535 



making for William Hagerman, at Hagers- 
towii, Maryland. 

In 1859 he made his way to New York 
and worked in a bakery belonging to his 
brother John, with whom he remained ten 
years, except for the time he was in the 
service of the country. In 1863 he went into 
the army in the 3d New Jersey Light Artill- 
ery, Capt. Christ Werner's company, and 
served for two years, part of the time under 
Gen. Hancock, and part in the 9th Corps, 
under Gen. Meade. The battery was de- 
moralized at Antietam and in the seven days 
fight, and the captain was killed, there not 
remaining enough men to send to Gettys- 
burg. Mr. Ernst was a participant in other 
important battles and always proved himself 
a gallant and efficient soldier, worthy of ut- 
most confidence. After his honoralile dis- 
charge he returned to the bakery of his 
brother and there continued until he came 
to Mercersburg and opened a small bakery, 
but discovering that he could make more 
money in New York he returned to that city, 
leaving his business in the hands of his cap- 
able wife. He finally, however, returned to 
Mercersburg, where he is spending bis de- 
clining years. 

In 1870 Mr. Ernst marrieil, in Mercers- 
burg, Pa.. Catherine S. Roder, who came 
from iiessen. She bore him three children : 

1. M.^TiLDA, born in 1876, lives at 
home with her father. 

2. Mary A. married Michael Haffer, 
a tailor of Mercersburg. 

3. A son died in infancy. 

Mr. Ernst has lost his faithful and loving 
wife, and would feel bereft indeed were it 
not for the tender ministrations of his tlaugli- 
ter. By honesty, thrift and industry he has 
accumulated a comfortable competency and 
secured for himself a quiet and ]ieaceful old 
age. Although Mr. Ernst is inclined toward 
the Democratic party he feels that it iS better 



to elect a man well fitted for the office than 
one whose only recommendation is his party 
support. In religious belief he is a Lutheran 
and has always given his hearty support to 
that denomination. He is a man who enjoys 
in highest degree the confidence and respect 
of the people of his community and is well 
deserving of the success which has come to 
him. 

NEWTON THRUSH BOLLINGER, 
one of the prosperous farmers of Letter-" 
kenny township, l-'ranklin county, was born 
Sept. 16, 1870, in that township, a son of 
Israel and Mary A. (Thrush) Bollinger, 

(I) JOSEPH BOLLINGER, father 
of Israel, was born and reared in Lancaster 
county, Pa., and was a farmer all his life. 
He married Lydia Johns, of Lancaster; 
issue : 

1. Israel (II). 

2. Mary married Daniel Thrush. 

3. L^RiAS married Elizabeth Rhinehart. 

4. Jacob married Mary Groub. 

5. Benjamin married Anna Immell. 

6. George married Jennie Bishop. 

7. Abram. 

8. Jcseph. 

9. Elizabeth. 

(II) ISRAEL BOLLINGER was a 
farmer of Franklin county. He died in 
1899. and was buried at Salem Church. He 
and his wife had issue as follows: 

1. Bessie married Newton Minnick. 

2. Newton T. (III). 

3. Elsie J. married \\'hitfield Bishop. 

4. Lulu May. 

(III) NEWTON T. BOLLINGER 
attended the public schools of his county, 
and also a select school at Orrstown, and 
when only seventeen years of age he com- 
menced teaching, and has taught some four- 
teen terms, all in Franklin county. He has 
also engaged in farming, and is one of the 



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most enterprising and successfnl young men 
of the township. 

On the maternal side of the family he 
traces his ancestry to Leonard Thrush, a 
farmer of Franklin county, who married 
a Miss Fisher, and they had issue : 

1. Daniel^ a lawyer of Cumberland 
county, 

2. Elias, a teacher. 

3. Mary A., mother of Newton Thrush 
Bollinger. 

4. Sadie died unmarried. 

5. David, a farmer, married Harriet 
Yont. 

6. Emm.\ died unmarried. 

BOWERS FAMILY. FREDERICK 
BOWERS (born in Germany) emigrated 
to the United States as a young man, and 
settled on the farm in the southern part of 
St. Thomas township, Franklin Co., Pa., 
now owned by Joseph Christman. He had 
two sons : 

1. Frederick, three of whose sons 
were noted musicians. 

2. Samuel (II). 

fll) SAMUEL BOWERS, son of Fred- 
erick, born in 1800, lived in St. Thomas 
township, Franklin Co., where he died in 
1872. He was a miller by occupation, a 
Democrat in politics, and a Lutheran in re- 
ligious faith, with strong leanings toward 
the doctrines of the Universalist Church. 
He married Catherine Wolfe, whose father 
was Henry Wolfe, of Franklin county, and 
whose mother was a Hood, belonging to tlie 
famous Confederate family from which 
sprang Gen. John B. Hood and John M. 
Hood, the latter formerly president of the 
Western Maryland Railroad. Tlie \\'(ilfes 
are of English extraction, and are said to 
belong to the same stock as Gen. James 
Wolfe, who was killed at the moment of 
victory on the Heights of Abraham, Quebec, 



living just long enough to recei\'e assurance 
of the defeat of the French. To Samuel 
and Catherine (Wolfe) Bowers were iDorn 
eleven children : 

1. Eleanor A. married (first) Isaac 
W". Skinner, who enlisted Oct. 9. 1861, in 
Company F, 77th P. V. I., and died July 
I, 1864. of wounds received at New Hope, 
Ga. ; (second) Charles McCardell, who died 
some years ago. She is now living in Wash- 
ington, D. C, with her two children, Cather- 
ine and Oliver McCardell. 

2. Sar.\h A. married David Hafer. 
She died in July, 1904. They had eleven 
children. Samuel, the eldest son, died some 
years ago. Naomi, Etta (a teacher), Har- 
riet (a teacher). .\nn. and Sherman (a 
teacher, educated at Mercersburg .\cademy 
and Shippensburg Normal School), live at 
home with their father near St. Thomas. 
Ellen is married to J. Frank Hoover, St. 
Thomas, and has one daughter, Grace. 
Nicholas M. is a farmer and teacher of 
Guilford township. Luther was educated at 
Pennsylvania College and at the Theological 
Seminary at Gettysburg. Pa., and is now 
pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church, Philadel- 
phia. Da\id was educated at Pennsylvania 
College and the Theological Seminary at 
Gettysburg, Pa., and is now pastor of the 
Lutheran Church at Scalp Level, Cambria 
Co., Pa. George is a farmer H\ing in Peters 
township. 

3. Charity died in infancy. 

4. Marion enlisted in .\ugiist, 1862, 
in Company C, 126th P. \". I., and partici- 
pated with his regiment in the battles of 
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, receiv- 
ing an honorable discharg-e at the end of his 
term of ser\ice. in May, 1863. He married 
Miss Catherine Evans, of Chambersburg, 
who is now deceased. They had children 
as follows: Charles: Samuel O., served in 
the Spanish-. \merican \\ar as Second Lieu- 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



537 



tenant of Co. C, 8th P. V. I., and is now 
captain of Company C, 8th P. N. G. ; Wal- 
ter ; Lewis ; Wilham ; and Margaret. 

5. Nicholas ^I. received his education 
in the pubhc schools of Franklin county and 
at Mercersburg- College, and began teach- 
ing when quite young. On Aug. 9, 1862, 
he enlisted in Company H., 126th P. W I., 
and was engaged with his regiment at the 
battles of Fredericksburg and at Chancel- 
lorsville, where he was severely wounded 
and captured. He was paroled, and died 
of his w'ounds while at the front. He is 
buried in the Lutheran graveyard at St. 
Thomas. 

6. Oliver C. 

7. R.\CHEL married John Sweigert. 
She died May 15, 1902, leaving the follow- 
ing children : Lura M., Elida K., Lucy, 
Joseph, Dessie. Frank and Gideon. 

8. H.\RRiET married Barnett L. Evans, 
of Chambersburg, where they reside. They 
have no children. 

9. Catherine, unmarried, lives in 
Chambersburg. 

10. Samuel died in infancy. 

11. James died in infancy. 

(Ill) OLIVER C. BOVVERS, of 
Chambersburg, one of the leading attorneys 
of Pennsylvania, began his career, as many 
a successful, self-made man in his profes- 
sion has done, on a farm. He was born in 
Antrim township Oct. 11, 1843. He re- 
'Ceived his education in the public schools of 
:St. Thomas township, at the State Normal 
'School at Millersville, Pa., and at Mercers- 
burg College. He taught for se\eral terms 
in the public schools, and in September, 
1869, he became a member of the faculty 
•of Chambersburg Academy, where he taught 
under Dr. Shumaker for four years, and, 
■while engaged in that institution, studied 
law. He was admitted to the Franklin 
County Bar Nov. 14, 1873, and has been 



prominent in the profession ever since. On 
Nov. 7, 1874, he was elected District .Attor- 
ney of Franklin county, and was re-elected in 
1877. During his terms as district attor- 
ney Hezekiah Shaffer and Peachy Swingler 
w ere convicted of murder in the first degree 
and executed, and he also secured the convic- 
tion and punishment of Rolland and John- 
ston for the robbery of the National Bank 
of Chambersburg. The only criminal cases 
that ever went to the Supreme Court from 
F"ranklin county were tried and taken up 
during his terms as district attorney. One 
of these, Rolland vs. Commonwealth, re- 
ported in 82 Pa. State 306, is a leading case 
in Pennsylvania on the law of burglary and 
upon a number of questions of practice. In 
1904 Mr. Bowers was the nominee of the 
Democratic party for Congress in the 17th 
Congressional District of Pennsylvania, a 
district very largely Republican, owing to 
wliich fact he was not elected, notwithstand- . 
ing that he ran about 3,800 ahead of his 
ticket in the district. Mr. Bowers is attor- 
ney at Chambersburg for the Western Mary- 
land Railroad and other corporations. He 
is a brilliant speaker, an able lawyer, and a 
recognized leader at the Chambersburg Bar. 
The honorary degree of A. M. was conferred 
upon him by Mercersburg College in June, 
1878. 

Mr. Bowers married, Dec. 21, 1875, 
Ellen Graham Heyser, daughter of Jacob 
and Amelia (Smith) Heyser. They have 
four children, as follows : 

I. Robert Hood Bowers, Iwrn in 
Chambersburg, May 24, 1877, began his 
education in the private school of iiis aunt, 
Miss Katherine He3'ser, in Chambersburg, 
and later attended Chambersburg .Academy, 
from which he was graduated at the age of 
fourteen. He then entered Franklin and 
Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., where he 
took the full four years' course, graduating 



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with honors in June, 1896, with tlie degree 
of A. B. After leaving college he was for 
two years in charge of the Musical Depart- 
ment of Cheltenham Military Academy at 
OgxDntz, near Philadelphia, during which 
time he continued his musical studies \\ith 
Thomas Whitney Surette and Constantin 
Von Sternberg, in Philadelphia, and after- 
ward for several years in the Auditorium 
Musical Conservatory in Chicago, under 
Frederick Grant Gleason. At the end of his 
first year in the latter school he was awarded 
the gold medal, the highest prize for compo- 
sition. He has composed a number of light 
operas, among them "Rubes and Roses," 
and "The Paraders." which have been pro- 
duced in Chicago and San Francisco, and 
"The Maid and the Mummy," which has 
been repeatedly produced in Boston, New 
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing- 
ton, D. C, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Chicago and 
many other large cities of the United States, 
as far west as Denver, and throughout 
Canada. It is one of the most popular and 
successful comic operas produced in the 
United States during the season of 1904-5. 
Mr. Bowers has also written some fine 
church music, and a number of songs and 
short pieces, which have become very popu- 
lar. He is now engaged in musical com- 
position and kindred work in Xew Y^rk 
city. 

2. Wayne Hevser Bowers, born in 
Chambersburg, Oct. 26, 1878, attended pri- 
vate school in that town and also the Cham- 
bersburg Academy, from which he gratl- 
uated in June, 1893. He then entered 
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, 
Pa., graduating with honors in June. 1898. 
with the degree of A. B. After teaching 
two years as assistant in the Chambersburg 
High Schodl, he entered the Senior class of 
Harvard University, and obtained the de- 
gree of A. B. in June, 1901 ; at which time 



he also received the honorary degree of A. 
M. from Franklin and Marshall. He then 
taught another year in the Chambersburg 
High School, as Vice-Principal, after which 
he studied for a short time at the University 
of Gottingen, Germany, and spent some t'me 
in travel. Afterward he served as instructor 
in German and History at the Mackenzie 
School, Dobbs-Ferry-on-Hudson, N. "S'., 
which position he resigned to take u]) the 
studv of law with his father at Chambers- 
burg. He was admitted to the Bar in De- 
ceml>er, 1904. and is now engaged in the 
practice of his profession. 

3. William G. Bowers, born Jan. 12,. 
1882, in Chambersburg, was educated at a 
private school and in the Chambersburg 
Academy, whence he graduated in June, 
1897. He then took a course in Electrical 
Engineering in State College, Pa., and is at 
present engaged in Brooklyn. N. Y., in ex- 
pert galvanometric work with the Bell Tele- 
phone Company. 

4. Corinne Bowers, born in Cham- 
bersburg, April 16, 1890. has been a student 
in the private school of her aunt. Miss Kath- 
erine Heyser, devoting considerable time to- 
the study of music, and is now ( 1905) about 
to enter Wilson College, Chambersburg. 

SAMUEL P. WHISTLER. The agri- 
cultural interests of the Cumberland \'alley 
are very important, and tliose connected' 
with the development and cultixation of the 
rich farming land are numbered among the 
prosperous and substantial men of this 
region. Among the men of this class 
the biographer finds the name of Samuel 
P. Whistler, a retired farmer of Shippcns- 
burg, Southampton township, Cumberland 
Co., Pa. 

(T) PAUL WHISTLER, the grand- 
father, married a Miss Daniel, of Cumber- 
land county, and reared a large family. 



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(II) DANIEL WHISTLER, father 
of Samuel P., was born in Mifflin townsliip, 
Feb. 12. 1807. and after a long and useful 
life as a farmer died in 1880. His wife, 
who passed away June 3, 1852. was Nancy 
Hershey, born June 16, 1804, near the birth- 
place of her husband, daughter of Peter and 
Nancy (Baer) Hershey,, who were early 
settlers of Cumberland county. The child- 
ren of Daniel and Nancy Whistler were : 

1. Benjamin, born May 3. 1828. 

2. Elizabeth, born May 3, 1831, mar- 
ried John Gochenauer. 

3. Maria W., born Feb. 8, 1836, mar- 
ried Frank Guise, of Middleburg, Dauphin 
county. 

4. Anna, born March 2. 1840, mar- 
ried Philip Reed, of Perry count}'. 

5. Samuel P.. born June 24, 1843 
(III). 

6. Carrie, born July 26, 1844, died 
May 19, 1845. 

(III) SAMUEL P. WHISTLER was 
born June 24, 1843, in Mifflin township, 
Cumberland county, near Hel)erlig. He 
was reared upon the farm, and attended the 
district school in Mifflin township until he 
reached his eighteenth year. Until he was 
twenty-one he assisted his father on the 
farm. In 1866 he was united in marriage 
with Miss Eliza, the third daughter of 
Ephraim A. and Elizabeth (Baer) Adams, 
formerly of Perry county, and early settlers 
of Mifflin township, Cumberland county, 
becoming in time prosperous farmers of that 
locality. After his marriage Mr. Whistler 
settled on the old Whistler homestead in 
Mifflin township, in 1866, and engaged in 
general farming until 1891, when he moved, 
locating near Shippensburg. His Mifflin 
farm, which he still owns, contains 175 
acres, well improxed. The farm upon 
which he resides adjoins the town of Ship- 
pensburg, and contains forty acres, which 



Mr. Whistler farms himself, with the help- 
of hired men; he rents his other property. 
Four children have been born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Whistler: 

1. Frank Blair, born May 12, 1867.. 

2. Mabel Grace married Harry Fog- 
lesanger, and resides at Greenvillage, Frank- 
lin county. 

3. Martha E. is at home. 

4. Rhoda E. married Wallace Kann, 
and lives in Southampton township. 

In politics Mr. Whistler is a Democrat, 
and he served twelve years as a member of 
the .school board. With his wife and family 
he holds membership in the Presbyterian 
Church, worshipping at Shippensburg. Mr. 
Whistler is a pleasant, genial man, an excel- 
lent talker and most highly respected 
throughout the county where he has been 
so long and favorably known. 

AARON B. SOLLENBERGER, M.D., 
one of the leading young physicians of 
Waynesboro, Franklin county, with office at 
No. 108 West Main street, was born Aug. 
2, 1871, at Lemasters, Franklin Co., Pa.,. 
son of Samuel and Alary (Etter) Sollen- 
berger. He is a brother of M. E. Sollen- 
berger, cashier of the Bank of Waynesboro. 

Dr. Sollenberger was reared upon the 
home farm and attended the Mercershurg 
high school, from which he was graduated 
in 1889. After this he entered Mercers- 
burg College, but after one year he went 
to Shippensburg Normal School, and was 
graduated therefrom in June, 1892. Fol- 
lowing the usual custom of farmers' sons, 
he took up the profession of teaching at 
Upton, Pa., where he taught two years, and' 
then went to Bridgeport, Pa., and was thus 
employed for one year more. Having al- 
ways had an inclination for the medical 
profession, he began the study of medicine- 
in the office of Dr. W. O. Lautz, of Lemast- 



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€rs, in 1894, and entered the Baltimore 
Medical College, from which he emerged in 
1898 with his degree of M. D. He at once 
located at Waynesboro, and began to build 
up a general practice, meeting with very 
.gratifying success. Dr. Sollenberger is a 
member of the Franklin County Medical 
Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical 
Society, the Waynesboro Academy of Medi- 
cine (of which he is also vice-president) and 
of the American [Medical Association. Fra- 
ternally he is a member of the Order of 
Elks. Personally Dr. Sollenberger is a very 
pleasant, courteous gentleman, and his fut- 
ure spreads out \ery promisingly before him. 
Dr. Sollenberger on Nov. 16, 1904, mar- 
ried Anna E. Landis, youngest daughter of 
F. F. Landis, of Waynesboro. Pennsylvania. 

NORMAN CLIFFORD GROVE, D. 

D. S., a rising young dentist of St. Thomas, 

"Franklin county, was born in the township 

of St. Thomas May 6, 1876, a son of Louis 

A. and Annie (Cell) Grove. 

(I) JOHN GROVE, grandfather on 
the paternal side, married Margaret Lin- 
inger, and they had issue as follows : 

1 . George. 

2. Louis A. (II). 

3. John. 

4. Emma is deceased. 

5. Solomon. 

6. Charles. 

7. I\Iarv. 

8. Wallace. 

9. Oscar. 

10. Edward is deceased. 

The maternal grandfather, John S. Cell, 
married Elizabeth r>rubaker, and their 
■children were : 

1 . Harry is deceased. 

2. Annie, mother of our subject. 

3. Carrie married S. W. Cable. 

4. John. 



(II) LOUIS A. GROVE was a 
farmer of St. Thomas township. His 
children were : 

1. Norman C. (III). 

2. Zelda. 

3. Carrie. 

4. Cella. 

(III) NORMAN CLIFFORD 
GROVE attended school in his native town- 
ship, subsequently entering the Chicago Col- 
lege of Dental Surgery, in 1897, from which 
he was graduated in the spring of 1900. In 
the fall of the same year he commenced 
practicing at St. Thomas, in the meanwhile 
having passed the State examinations. Al- 
though a young man he has already built 
up a very flourishing practice, and is justly 
regarded as one of the representative young 
men of his profession in this portion of 
Franklin county. Dr. Grove is a member 
of the Mystic Workers of the World, and 
is very popular in that organization. His 
religious connection is with the Lutheran 
Church. 

CORPUS CHRISTI ROMAN CATH- 
OLIC CHURCH, Chambersburg, of which 
the Very Rev. Francis C. Noel is. rector, is 
one of the first Catholic churches organized 
in the Cumberland Valley. It was origi- 
nally called Christ's Church, but when the 
parish of Corpus Christi was established the 
name given was Corpus Christi (Body of 
Christ). The early settlement of Catholics 
in and near Chambersburg is involved in 
much obscurity, but it is evident that a few. 
families were living in the village and its 
neighborhood when the town became the 
county seat of Franklin county. As early 
as 1792, the first church was built, a log 
structure between thirty and forty feet long 
but verv narrow, that stood south of the 
old stone church in which the Catholics of 
Chambersburg \\orshipped for nearly a cen- 




Old Corpus Christi Church, built in 1812. 




New Corpus Christi Chui'ch, built in 1900. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



541 



tury. The old stone chiircli and the organ 
both liave a history, and it may be said of 
tlie early log church that it had an after' 
history, as the building was sold to the col- 
ored Methodists and removed to Kerrstown, 
where it stood until i860. The stone 
church was built in 181 2. It has a depth 
of sixty feet and the front is forty-fi\e feet 
wide. The front wall is a fine specimen of 
old time masonry. At the time of its erec- 
tion it was unsurpassed for beauty by any 
of the Chambersburg churches, and it is 
described by a venerable member of the con- 
gregation, whose recollections of it go back 
to 1820, as a bright, sightly building, with 
high pews and pew doors. The altar stood 
out near where the sanctuary rail now is. 
The brick sacristy was not built then. The 
sacristies were within, the walls of the 
church. There was panel work with a door 
in each on either side of the altar. The pul- 
pit, at first, stood on the north side of the 
altar, then on the south side, and was finally 
removed altogether as it was seldom used. 
The preaching was mostly done from the 
altar. Many an able discourse was preached 
from that altar by Archbishops Kenrick, 
Hughes, Kain and Wood, and Bishops Con- 
well, G'Hara, McFarland and Neuman. 

The organ was the first church organ 
built for a Catholic church in Pennsylvania. 
It was made by John Longman, London, 
for the little St. Joseph's Church, Phila- 
delphia, in which it was used for a period 
of seventy years, 1 750-1820, and perhaps 
longer. In 1827, at the suggestion of 
Father Hughes, then pastor of St. Joseph's, 
but afterward Archbishop of New York, it 
was purchased by the Chambersburg Catho- 
lic congregation for $200, and placed in 
Corpus Christi Church. John Dick, a 
member of the church, went to Philadelphia 
with his team and brought it to Chambers- 
burg. In 18 1 8, the congregation was in- 



corporated with the Rev. Nicholas Zachary, 
Patrick Campbell, Thomas Murray, John 
Devine, Patrick Brown, Richard Ileyden 
and George Garlin as trustees. 

Previous to 1820 when I'alher Kerns 
became pastor of Corpus Christi Church, 
Chambersburg was without a resident priest. 
As the records of the congregation before 
Father Kerns were not preserved the first 
thirty years of its history is very meagre. 
The earliest of whom there is any recollec-. 
tion was Father Whelan. He was an Irish 
Dominican, whom Bishop Carroll sent to 
Kentucky, and who afterward traveled 
through \'irginia and western Pennsyl- 
vania. He was in Chambersburg in 1795, 
when he baptized one of Peter Cook's sons 
in the old log church. The Cooks were 
among the early prominent Catholic famil- 
ies of Chambersburg. At a later date came 
Father Brosius, and Miss Brownson in her 
"Life of Dr. Gallitzin" says that on one of 
his visits a mob pursued him and he was 
compelled to take refuge in the house of 
Michael Stillinger. .\ccording to tradition 
Dr. Gallitzin was often in Chambersburg. 
He had a friend, a storekeeper, John Fels, 
who followed him to Loretto. Both hav- 
ing business in Baltimore they made the 
journey on foot, and it is on record that in 
their return they stopped at one of the fam- 
ous Snider taverns north of the Diamond. 
When Dr. Kerns was resident pastor of 
Corpus Christi, 1820-26, he conducted ser- 
vices twice a month, the rest of his time 
being given to Waynesboro and Path Val- 
ley. He was succeeded by the Rev. Ferdi- 
nand McCusker, 1826-34, and after Father 
McCusker came the Rev. Thomas Hey- 
den, 1834-37. Father Heyden was a 
fine preacher and singer; many Protestants 
went to hear him. He was succeeded by 
the Rev. Patrick Rafferty, 1837-38, an ac- 
complished speaker, singer and writer. 



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]'"ather Kafferty wrote a tract called "David's 
Sling," against an anti-Catholic lecturer 
from New York, whom he hailed as Goliath 
of Gath, being himself little David with the 
sling. It had the effect of putting the lec- 
turer "out of business." Father Rafferty 
was succeeded in rapid succession by Father 
Borgess, 1838. Father Loilghran, 1839, and 
the Rev. James A. Miller, 1839-42. Father 
Miller was a convert and full of zeal ; he 
would permit no pew renting, and no ming- 
ling of the sexes, the men being required to 
take one side of the church and the women 
the other. This brought no income, but the 
earnest priest seemed satisfied ; having no 
housekeeper he was his own cook, and al- 
ways going on foot he had no traveling 
expenses. All went well while he remained 
but trouble began when he was sent else- 
where. His successors were not used to 
his way of living and the people were slow 
to return to the payment of pew rents. 
Father Nugent, 1843, Father Basil Shorb, 
1844, and Father Lane, 1844. came and went 
in quick succession. When Archbishop 
Kenrick was informed of Father Lane's 

"hasty departure he said, "Chambersburg 
must not be left without a priest." and turn- 
ing to one of the leading priests of the 
diocese he asked, "Would you be willing to 
go there?" The answer was in the affirma- 
tive, and thus Corpus Christi obtained for 
a short time the services of the Rev. William 

'O'Hara, D. D. On one occasion one of 
his parishioners asked him if he was re- 

•ceiving a sufficient support. He answered 
that the housekeeper got the pennies, and 
he had mtt heard her complain. Father 
Shrodenbacli. a German priest full of zeal 
and activity, arrived in Philadelphia the 
autumn of the same year destined for the 
diocese of Milwaukee. .'Xt it was too late 
in the season to make the western trip by 
stage the bishop sent him to Chambersburg 



for the winter to relieve Dr. O'Hara. In 
the spring he was eager to remain, but the 
Bishop of Milwaukee sent a peremptory de- 
mand for his services and he was compelled 
to yield. After Rev. Shrodenbach came the 
Rev. Richard O'Connor, 1847-48, a bright, 
intelligent young priest, who made a de- 
mand upon the parish for a fi.xed salary of 
$350.00 per annum. The money was sub- 
scribed by the congregation and the church 
was divided into four districts for the col- 
lection, but the system proved unsatisfac- 
tory both to the people and the priest, 
leather O'Conner was in Chambersburg only 
one year, and was succeeded by Father 
Levitts, 1848, and the Rev. Hugh Mc- 
Mahon. Then came Father M. M. Wirz- 
field, 1849-51, a quiet unassuming German 
priest who succeeded in lifting a debt of 
$800.00 on the pastoral house, built in 
Father Borgess' time, besides building the 
church at Waynesboro. Father Wirzfield 
was succeeded by the Rev. A. Leutner, D. 
D.. 1851-53. Dr. Leutner was a man of 
more than ordinary ability: his appearance 
inspired confidence and his words begot 
respect. He was in Chambersburg during 
the cholera epidemic in 1852, and was al- 
ways readv at the call of duty for the work 
of mercy. Following Father Leutner came 
the Rev. John Dougherty, 1853-55; Fathers 
McDonough. Barrett. Linden, Kelly and A. 
Miller. 1855-60: Father McKee, 1860-63; 
b'ather McCollum, 1863-64: Father Gerde- 
man, 1864-66; Fathers Mullen. Coxe and 
Field. 1866-70: Father Stenzel, 1870-71: 
heather Boetzkes. 1871-75; Father Fleming, 
1875-82; Father Schleuter, 1882-86: with 
the Revs. Joseph Kaelin. F. C. Seubert and 
J. A. McLaughlin as assistants: F"ather J. 
J. O'Reilly, 1886-89, with Rev. Germanus 
Kohl and P. P. Hemler as assistants : Father 
John Shanahan. 1889-91, with Rev J. F. 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



543 



Kohl, 1 89 1 -93, with Rev. J. E. Smith as 
assistant. 

Father J. J. O'Reilly of happy memory 
purchased the property called the Hale prop- 
erty for the sum of $3,200, which added very 
much to the value of the Corpus Christi 
possessions. Through untiring energy the 
present school buildings were erected by 
I'ather John Shanahan in 1890, and the 
entire indebtedness on this property was paid 
by the Ritter brothers through the sugges- 
tion of Father Kohl. The cozy school and 
the sisters' residence are on the once called 
Hale property and now on Main St., tlie 
beautiful stone edifice is on this same prop- 
erty or lot. The present incumbent came 
here from Lewistown May 6, 1893, since 
which time Corpus Christi property has in- 
creased in value. The new cemetery was 
purchased from Peter and Maria Flelfrick 
Nov. 21, 1893, for $1,225, ^""^1 P'lid tor in 
ten months. It is beautifully located on the 
West of the town, and contains about six 
acres. This property was very much needed 
as the old graveyard at the old stone church 
was long ago filled. 

Architect M. J. Beezer staked off the 
ground for the new Corpus Christi church 
giving the boundary for the excavation, 
Sept. 14, 1899. Those present besides the 
Very Rev. Rector were J. V. Reilly and J. 
E. Hoffman, who assisted the architect in 
placing the boundarv lines. Mr. Samuel D. 
Culbertson, town surveyor, gave the proper 
angles and grade level. Father Noel and 
Messrs. Reilly and Hoffman began the ex- 
cavation by removing the first ground. 
The dimensions of tlie church are 132 feet 
long, 65 feet front, and 51 feet in the audi- 
torium. The material of which it is con- 
structed is Woodstock granite, beautifully 
trimmed with Indiana limestone. The 
architecture is Gothic. The front, with its 
strong buttresses, is a firm piece of masonry 



and attracts the observer by its niassi\eness 
and beauty of design. The tower, witii its 
spire surmounted by a gilt cross, has a 
stately appearance. The entire structure is 
built of granite, and liie walls of the build- 
ing are suppcjrted by strong buttresses, 
thereljy breaking tlie monotony of plain 
walls. The upper structure from the water 
table was designed by J. A. Dempwolf, and 
the most striking feature of the edifice is 
the beautiful arched window facing Main 
street. The entire work was directed by 
Father Noel, having Abel Alderson and 
Jacob D. Hammel as his foremen. This 
beautiful and substantial church is a great 
credit to the Catholics of Chambersburg. and 
proved their energy and unity of purpose. 

The \'ery Rev. Fr.vncis C. Noel (born 
at Noel's Station, Cambria Co., Pa., Feb. 2, 
1859), son of Joseph and Catharine (Stoltz) 
Noel, was graduated at Loretto, Pa., in 
1880. He afterward spent a year at St. 
Vincent's College, Latrobe, Pa., and then 
took the Philosophical and Theological 
course at La Salle College, Quebec, Canada. 
Coming to Harrisburg, he was ordained by 
Bishop McGovern, April 11, 1888, and was 
assigned to Sacred Heart Church, Lewis- 
town, Pa., where he remained five years. 
While at Lew-istovvn he remodeled and re- 
built the old church, making it almost new. 
He also purchased ground and opened a new 
cemetery. After completing his church he 
held services in it only once, when he was 
sent to Chambers"burg, May 6, 1893. Cpon 
coming here he reconstructed and rebuilt 
the outlying mission church on the South 
Mountain, and built a new parsonage for 
the mission, and repaired the church, all at 
a cost of about $6,000. This mission is in 
Adams county, about fifteen miles from the 
mother Church, but his crowning achieve- 
ment here is the new Corpus Christi Church, 
which is nearing completion. 



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C. T. HUTTON, one of the represen- 
tative young business men of Waynesboro, 
was born Aug. 25. 1874, in West Virginia, 
son of M. W. and Mary (Bell) Hutton, and 
coming of good old Scotch-Irish stock, in- 
herits some of the excellent characteristics 
of both hardy races. 

(I) CYRUS HUTTON, his grand- 
father, was a native of West Virginia, and 
he was a breeder of fine cattle prior to the 
war of the Rebellion. Four children were 
born to him : 

1. Marcus, of West Virginia. 

2. Daniel M., of Kentucky. 

3. Cyrus, deceased. 

4. M. W. (II). 

In politics the Hutton family has been 
indentified with the Whig and Republican 
parties, and gi\en good service to the 
country. They have been equally faithful 
to their membership in the Presbyterian 
Church, and have always been ranked among 
the very best people in the several commun- 
ities in which they are found. 

(II) M. W. HUTTOX, father of C. 
T., was born in West Virginia in 1837, 
became a well known stock and horse 
breeder, and was a prominent man in his 
community. He married Mary Bell, and 
became the father of the following children: 

1. Annie A. married J. W. \\'ood, of 
West Virginia, a farmer. 

2. Nora B. married F. B. Crissman, of 
West Virginia. 

3. C. T. (IV). 

(III) C. T. HUTTON was educated 
in the public schools of his native place and 
the West Virginia State Normal, and after 
finishing his course returned home and en- 
gaged in farming. Later he went into the 
general merchandise business at Lost City, 
W. Va., there continuing from 1897 to 1899, 
when he sold his interests and engaged in a 
planing-mill business at the same place un- 



til 1 90 1, when he came to \\'aynesboro. En- 
tering the employ of the Geiser Mfg. Co., he 
remained with tliem until August, 1903, at 
which time he formed a partnership with 
Waltz Bros., in a planing-mill business. 
The firm manufactures sash, doors, blinds, 
and all kind of building supplies, and is 
doing a first rate business, controlling much 
of the trade in that line in the vicinity. In 
politics, Mr. Hutton is a Democrat, but holds 
no public offices. In religion he is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church. 

Mr. Hutton married Miss Emma N. 
Bratherton, of West Virginia, and three 
children have been born to them : 

1. W. B. 

2. Charles L. 

3. Laura V. 

Fraternally Mr. Hutton is a member of 
the Knights of IMalta and the Royal Ar- 
canum, and is very popular in both organi- 
zations. He is one of the prosperous and 
public-spirited young business men of 
Waynesboro, and his success has been at- 
tained through hard efforts, intelligently 
directed. He is a man who makes and re- 
tains friends, and he is very highly esteemed 
in his community. 

Alexander R. Bell, the maternal grand- 
father of Mr. Hutton, moved to West Vir- 
ginia from Augusta county, Va., and was- 
among the first settlers in Abbs Valley, 
members of the family building the old Abbs 
Valley fort, for protection against the 
Indians — now one of the show places of 
the locality. Mrs. Hutton was a member 
of the following family : 

1. William, of Washington, D. C. 

2. Lizzie, unmarried. 

3. Mary, wife of M. W. Hutton, of 
Waynesboro. 

4. .\nna married J. W. Myers of 
Wayne.sboro. 

5. Emma, Mrs. Lloyd, is deceased. 



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EMiMERT FAMILY. ELIAS EM- 
MERT (bom in Maryland in 1833 — died 
April, 1901), son of Sannicl and Mary 
(Newcomer) Enimert, was a banker and 
manufacturer at Hagerstown. He married 
Ella Bnrkhart, daughter of Dr. Frank M. 
and Elizabeth (Stuart) Burkhart, of \'ir- 
ginia, and they had issue : 

1. Ernst B. 

2. Eva \\\, who married Egbert Aler- 
riman. 

3. Frank N. (II). 

4. Charles S. 

5. Robert F. 

6. Burkhart S. 

7. Mary E. 

8. Frederick B. 

(II) FRANK X. EMMERT, son of 
Elias and Ella (Burkhart) Emmert, was 
educated in the public schools of Hagers- 
town and at the Hagerstorwn Academy, and 
subsequently studied at the Lhiiversitv of 
Virginia at Charlotteville. Duff's Business 
College at Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania 
College at Gettysburg. He afterward 
studied medicine, and was graduated M. D., 
at Bellevue Medical College, X. Y., in 1897. 
After receiving his degree he served as as- 
sistant physician in the Bellevue Hospital, 
and later was a member of the visiting staff 
of the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, and 
of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was 
also Clinical Assistant to the chair of 
Laryngology at Columbia University. In 
1902 he came to Chaml^ersburg, where he 
opened an office and nvikes a specialt}- of 
diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. 
In January, 1903. he entered into partner- 
ship with Dr. I. X. Snively, of Waynesboro, 
visiting that place two days each week for 
the practice of his specialty. He is a mem- 
ber of Franklin County Medical Society : and 
is also a member of the Medical Society of 
New York, and in January, 1902, he was a 
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delegate to the Medical Convention in Al- 
bany, at which he was given the following 
certificate : 

To all to whom these presents may come : 

The Medical Society of New York, hav- 
ing full confidence in Frank N. Emmert. 
M. D., have nominated him and appointed 
the said Frank N. Emmert, M. D., to be a 
delegate and commissioner to the Medical 
Society of New York, gi\-ing him full 
power to attend to the interests of this 
Society, and of the medical profession so far 
as may be connected with the public good. 
In witness whereof we have afifixed the 
seal of our Society testified by our secretary 
this seventh day of December, 1901. 

John \'anduran "\'oung. Sec. 

Dr. Emmert married Ajiril 6, 1898, 
Lillian de F. Ashman, daughter of Edwin 
F. Ashman, of Xew York City. They have 
issue : 

1. L. DE Forest A. 

2. Stuart P. 

CHARLES T. DA\TS, a well-known 
citizen of Waynesboro, and foreman of the 
molding department of the Frick Mfg. Co.. 
was bom Jan. 20, 1845, '" ^ 'og house 
which now stands on the lot adjoining his 
residence on West Main street, Waynesboro. 

(I) DR. EPHRAIM DAVIS, his 
grandfather, was bom Feb. 5. 1776, and died 
Oct. 15, 1831. He married Oct. 16. 1804, 
Mary Elizabeth Shorb, who was Ijorn Xov. 
1, 1788, the daughter of John Shorb, who 
died Dec. i, 1851, aged about ninety- four 
years. Dr. Davis practiced medicine in 
-Adams county. Pa., for many years. 

(II) HEXRY 1-. DAVIS, father of 
Charles T., was born June 8. 1816. and mar- 
ried Harriet Stonesifer, who was born 
March 17, 1820. In 1841 Henry F. 
Davis and wife removed to Waynes- 



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boro. where they passed tlie balance 
of their lives. By trade he was a mill- 
wright, and some time after locating in 
Waynesboro he purchased an acre of ground 
upon which now stands the residence of his 
son and the Reformed Church. The prop- 
erty is on West Main street and extends 
north almost to North street. Mr. Davis 
was a member of St. Andrew's Catholic 
Church, and his wife of Trinity Reformed 
Church. The children born to them were 
as follows : 

1. William H., lx)rn Oct. 22, 1840, 
died Jan. 24, 1845. 

2. George F., born Nov. 27, 1842, 
served in the nth Pennsylvania Cavalry 
and died in hospital at Suffolk, Va., Sept. 
5- 1862. 

3. Charles Theodore (III). 

4. Worley S., born March 7, 1847. 

5. Catherine A., torn May 10, 1850, 
married Samuel West, of Wayneslxiro. 

6. Alfred B., born Sept. 30, 1855. died 
May II, 1873. 

57. Francis B., born Dec. 10, 1858. 
1 (III) CHARLES T. DAVIS was 
reared in Waynesboro and attended the pub- 
lic schools. At the age of eighteen years be 
began an apprenticeship at the molding 
trade with the Frick Mfg. Co., then only a 
small concern, owned by George Frick, anil 
has been with that company continuously 
ever since. In 1875 he was made foreman 
of the foundry department and has faith- 
fully discharged the duties pertaining thereto 
for twenty-eight years. He is the oldest man 
in length of service in the employ of Frick 
& Co., and enjoys the respect and esteem of 
the many employes. When the h^rick Com- 
pany increased its stock a second time he 
became the owner of a generous block of the 
Stock, which be still owns. 

Mr. Davis married Eliza Jane Sibbet, 
who was born in the "Central Hotel," 



Waynesboro, May 26, 1849, "^'""^ they have 
bad three children. 

1. Jessie Sibbet, born Jan. 22. 1S71, 
was married June 24, 1903, to Charles Scott 
Rex, who was born Jan. i. 1865, in Bigler- 
ville, Adams Co., Pennsylvania. 

2. Alfred Percy, born Feb. 19, 1873, 
died aged one year, one month, one day. 

3. Hugh Theodore, born June 26, 
1876, is a. machinist with the Frick Mfg Co. 

Mrs. Davis is prominent in church, 
charitable and social circles. She has been 
a member for the last three years of the 
Ladies Aid Society, and acted as its presi- 
dent : for five years she has teen president 
of the Womans Relief Corps, No. 26. and 
represents the second district in the \\'omans 
Relief Association for the relief of the poor 
of the borough. 

SAMUEL SIBBET, grandfather of 
Mrs. Davis, was a native of Ireland. He 
and his wife had children as follows: 

1 . James. 

2. Robert. 

3. Thomas. 

4. Samuel. 

5. Margaret. 

6. Lowrey. 

7. Hugh M. 

HUGH MONTGOMERY SIBBET 
was Ixirn May 19, 181 1, at Newville, Pa., 
and married Elmira Parnell, who was born 
April 1. i8i8. Their children were as fol- 
lows : 

1. George, born Dec. 20, 1837. died 
^lay 18, 1839. 

2. Alice A., born Jan. 20, 1840, mar- 
ried John Gafif, of York, Pennsylvania. 

3. Hiram L., born July 16, 1842, lives 
at Youngstown, Ohio. 

4. William R., born July 24, 1844. 

5. Mary B., born Jan. 20, 1847, mar- 
ried William Funk, and is now deceased. 

6. Eliza J., born May 26, 1849. 



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7. Clara. I>^r^ ]\Liy 29. 1852, died 
■when two weeks okl. 

Hugh M. Sibbet died Dec. 15, 1881, 
and his wife Jan. 16, 1857. He purchased 
the "Central Hotel," Waynesboro, and 
operated it until 1863, when he disposed of 
his interest and removed to South Church 
street. \\'aynesboro, and from that time un- 
til his death was a justice of the peace. 

JAMES B. PLASTERER, a well-to-do 
farmer of Franklin county. Pa., residing 
-on his fine farm in Southampton township, 
was born in that township July 13, 1849, 
son of Conrad and Margaret (Wallace) 
Plasterer. 

(I) CONRAD PLASTERER, Sr., 
his grandfather, was born in Lancaster 
■county, and there grew to manhood and 
married. By trade he was a blacksmith, 
but when he brought his family to Franklin 
county he purchased land in Southampton 
township and engaged in farming. He was 
a member of the Reformed Church. His 
wife's maiden name was Kaser. The re- 
mains of both rest at Shippensburg. They 
became the parents of the following family : 

1. George married a Miss Snyder, and 
moved to Huntington county, Ind., and 
there engaged in farming until his death. 

2. Conrad (H). 

3. John, of Shippensburg, married 
for his second wife Anna Zumbro. of Frank- 
lin county. 

4. Susan married Samuel Smith. 

5. Elizabeth married Anthony Mar- 
tin. 

6. Mary married Fred Stombaugh. 

7. Jane married a Mr. Shoemaker. 

8. Sarah married a Mr. Kring. 

(H) CONRAD PLASTERER, father 
of James B., was boni in Southampton 
township, and was there early trained to 
agricultural pursuits, in which he continued 



all his life. lie was a man of good physique, 
fi\e feet, ten inches tall, and in disposition 
was modest and unassuming. He was 
prominent in the affairs of the town and 
held the office of school director for some 
years, and also several other township of- 
fices. His religious connection was with 
the Reformed Church, in which faith he en- 
tered into rest Aug. 3, 1888, aged seventy- 
three years. His remains were interred in 
the Shippensburg cemetery. He married 
Margaret Wallace, daughter of James Wal- 
lace and his wife, Mary Reynolds, the former 
being of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and a farmer 
in Franklin county. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
were the parents of the following children : 
Margaret, Mrs. Plasterer ; Martha, who 
married George Zettle; Sarah, who married 
a Mr. Griffith; Harriet, who married Wil- 
liam Cramer ; Mary, who became the sec- 
ond wife of William Cramer; William, who 
died unmarried ; Reynolds, who married 
Adaline Cressler; Laura, who married 
(first) John Eberly, and (second) William 
Jones ; and George, who married a Miss 
Kitzmiller. To Conrad and Margaret 
(Wallace) Plasterer were lK)rn children as 
follows : 

1. Danis W. married IMargaret Diehl, 
daughter of George Diehl. 

2. James B. (III). 

3. George G. married Mary Plough. 

4. Laura became the wife of Alex- 
ander Kann. 

3. Edward married Jane Rife, daugh- 
ter of Fred Rife. 

6. Reynolds married Myrtle Mowers. 

7. Florence. 

(Ill) JAMES B. PLASTERER re- 
ceived his first literary training in the dis- 
trict schools of Southampton township, after 
which he attended Shippen.sburg Academy, 
Selinsgrove Academy and Mercersburg 
Academv. Returning to the farm after his 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FfL^XKLIX COUXTV. 



school life was over he applied himself to 
its cultivation, and has always followed 
farming as his occupation, winning a com- 
fortable fortune from the rich land of his 
farm. On Jan. 21, 1875. ^Ir. Plasterer was 
married to Miss Kate Shearer, daughter of 
Henry and Kate Shearer, of Letterkenny 
township. This union has been blessed with 
five children : 

1. Myrtle married Frank E. Glesner, 
of Scotland. 

2. Clarence S. 

3. Raymond married Annie Heck- 
man, daughter of Jacob Heckman. 

4. Florence. 

5. Blanche. 

In his political views Mr. Plasterer is a 
Democrat, and he has long been active in 
party work, holding a number of offices, 
among them those of auditor and school 
director. In 1887 he was elected justice of 
the peace and served a term of five years 
most satisfactorily, a substantial recognition 
for his faithful service. He is an impartial 
judge, never permitting his personal feel- 
ings to enter into his decisions. He is a 
member of the Reformed Church, and is 
looked upon as one of the best of the honor- 
able and upright citizens of Southampton. 

WILLIAM R. NOBLE, for many years 
one of the large landowners and a leading 
citizen of Path Valley, in Metal township, 
Franklin county, came of a family that for 
more than a century has been identified with 
that locality. 

(I) JOHN NOBLE (a native of Ire- 
land) and his wife Lienor (Patterson) re- 
moved in 1773 from their farm near Cham- 
bersburg to Path Valley, and purchased the 
farm on which Carrick Furnace stands. He 
died there March 30, 1799, and his wife 
died in 1802. They were the parents of four 
sons and two daughters : 



1. Johnston. 

2. Joseph (II). 

3. Solomon enlisted for service in the 
war of the Revolution, and died of camp 
fever. 

4. John died in Ohio. 

5. Elenor married Samuel Witherow. 

6. Mary became the wife of Samuel 
Walker. 

(II) JOSEPH NOBLE, son of John 
and Elenor, settled on his father's old farm 
in Path Valley in 1787, and died in 1823. 
He had been a soldier in the war of the 
Revolution. He married Susannah Mc- 
Clelland, and their children were : 

1. Ruth married Alexander Widney, 
and died in 1823. 

2. Johnston died in 1838. 

3. Joseph served in the war of 181 2, 
and died in 1855. 

4. John who also served in the war of 
1 81 2, died in 1861. 

5. Susannah died in 1858. 

6. AIary married James Witherspoon, 
and died in 1871. 

7. Willl^m (III). 

(III) WILLIAM NOBLE, son of 
Joseph and Susannah, was born in Path \''al- 
ley Aug. 14. 1787, and he died Sept. 13, 
1874, aged eighty-seven years. He was a 
man of remarkable memory, with a great 
fondness for abstruse reading. Like all his 
family he was conservative to an unusual 
degree, even to retaining the pronunciations 
and provincialisms of his forefathers. Wil- 
liam X'oble married Mary B. McConnell, 
who bore him six children : 

1. Marth.\ B., born Nov. i, 1824, died 
Jan. 7, 1900. 

2. Ruth M., born March 2, 1827, mar- 
ried John McClelland, of \\'estmoreland 
county, and died Jan. 26, 1899, leaving five 
children, Jennie, Belle, Mary, Craig and 
Alice. 



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3. LuciXDA. 1)1 )rn Aug. 10. 1829. mar- 
ried John H. Blair, of Huntingdon county, 
and died April 25. 1892. 

4. Augustus J., born Oct. 18, 1832. 
died Nov. 19, 1902. 

5. \VlLLI.\M R. (IV). 

6. Mary Susan, born Nov. 11, 1836, 
died unmarried Sept. 15, 1900. 

(IV) WILLIAM R. NOBLE was 
lx)rn on the old liomestead Dec. 6, 1833. 
Educated in the district schools, where he 
applied himself with diligence, his natural 
love of reading was fostered by association 
with his father, and he became a man of no 
little erudition. He was early accustomed 
to farm work, and on reaching manhood 
naturally turned to farming as a means of 
livelihood. In i86r he enlisted for the 
Ci\il war in the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
and in 1864 re-enlisted in the 203d P. \'. I., 
serving in Virginia and North Carolina until 
he was mustered out in July, 1865. Return- 
ing home he resumed farming, adding to his 
property from time to time until he became 
the owner of extensive real-estate hoklings. 
Politically, Mr. Noble was a Republican 
l)ut cared nothing personally for the hold- 
ing of offices, although so good a citizen 
never shirks the responsibility when thrust 
upon him. and he ser\-ed as a school director, 
etc. He was a member of the Lower Path 
Valley Presbyterian Chiirch, which he served 
as elder for some years. 

On May 22, 1873, Mr. Noble was mar- 
ried to Sarah E. Wilhelm, daughter of 
Barnabas and Isabella (Johnson) Wilhelm, 
and granddaughter of Jacob W'ilhelm, of an 
early settled family originating in Holland. 
Mr. and Mrs. Noble had children as follows: 

1. Myr.\ B. is at home. 

2. Samuel Walker is farming the 
old homestead. 

3. Lucy B. is at home. 

4. M.\RV died in childhood. 



The family are all highly esteemed and 
popular. Mr. Noble was one of the sul)- 
stantial men of the township, and his good 
judgment and rare common sense were so 
\Nell known that his advice was sought and 
freely given on many questions. He passed 
away Aug. 30. 1904, aged seventy years, 
eight months, twenty-four days. 

DAVID FLICKINGER. Of the 
honored and esteemed citizens of Metal 
township who have passed on into the Great 
Beyond none was more sincerely mourned 
than David Flickinger, whose life here came 
to a peaceful close April 19, 1901. 

(I) JOHN FLICKINGER, his 
grandfather, was born in Lancaster county, 
Pa., of parents who came thither from Ger- 
man)- in the early days. In 1789 John 
inickinger removed from Lancaster to 
h'ranklin county and settled on a farm in 
Path Valley. He was the father of: 

1. Joseph. 

2. John. 

3. D.\NIEL. 

4. Henry (II). 

5. Mary married Henry StaufFer. 

6. Eliz.\beth married David Bear. 

7. Susan married John Everett. 

(II) HENRY FLICKINGER and his 
wife, Elizabeth (Snively) Flickinger, were 
born May 21. 1792, and Dec. 16, 1797, re- 
spectively. They passed their married life 
on a farm in Path Valley, which they con- 
ducted with marked success, and were 
prominent citizens of the region. Mr. 
Flickinger died March 12, 1851, and the 
mother July 14, 1873. Their four chil- 
dren were: 

1. Jon.v .\.. deceased, was long a 
prominent physician of Path Valley. 

2. D.wiD is deceased (III). 

3. C.vTiiERiNE, deceased, was the wife 
of Dr. Lightner. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



4. A. Snively became a farmer in 
Metal township. 

(Ill) DAVID FLICKINGER was 
born on the homestead farm in October, 
1829. He became one of the leading and 
successful farmers of the Valley, and at the 
time of his death owned 160 acres of 
splendidly improved land, on which his 
widow now lives. He was married March 
20, 1862. to Miss Elizabeth Jane McCurdy, 
a daughter of Major James and Elizabeth 
(Klippinger) McCurdy. Xo children were 
born to this union. David Flickinger was 
always interested in questions of public 
moment, but was no politician, although he 
regularly upheld the Republican ideas. In 
church matters he was a Presbyterian. Up- 
right, progressive and public-spirited, his 
death was a distinct loss to the community. 
Mrs. Flickinger, since her husband's death, 
has continued to live on the farm which has 
been her home for so many years, but has 
given up any specially active part in the 
life about her. She is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church and a woman of mjble 
Christian character, which has endeared her 
to a large circle of friends. 

(I) JAMES McCURDY, Mrs. 
Flickinger's grandfather, was one of the 
early settlers in the Valley, the first of his 
name there. His children were: 

1. Anna married Jcihn .Mexander. 

2. Margaret married Huston Rankin. 

3. James (II). 

4. Jane married John Keasey. 

5. Stephen Oliver. 

(in JAMES McCURDY married 
Elizabeth Klippinger and became the father 
of: 

1. Margaret Ann became the wife of 
John ^^'olff. 

2. Stephen Oliver, deceased, was a 
veteran of the Civil war. 



3. Anthony K., deceased, was a 
veteran of the Civil war. 

4. Elizabeth Jane became Mrs. 
David Flickinger. 

5. Mary became the wife of A. Snively 
Flickinger. 

The McCurdy family is of Scotch- 
Irish descent and the original ancestor in 
America was Arthur, a Scotchman by birth, 
who left his native land for County Antrim, 
Ireland, and emigrated thence to America 
before the Revolution, settling in Pennsyl- 
vania. His descendants are scattered all 
over the State and in Virginia. 

JOHNS FAMILY. (I) ENOCH 
JOHNS, a native of Wales, emigrated to 
Pennsylvania near the close of the eighteenth 
century, and with his wife, Mary ( born in 
Dauphin county) settled in Horse Valley, 
Franklin county. Enoch and Many- Johns 
had issue: 

1. Samuel (II). 

2. Enoch. 

3. Rebecc.'\ married David Sarver. 

4. Sarah. 

5. Mary. 

(II) SAMUEL JOHNS (born in 
Horse Valley, in 1800 — died in Franklin 
county, March 16, 1869), son of Enoch and 
Mary Johns, was a farmer. He settled in 
Cumberland county, where he lived until 
1849, when he removed to Southampton 
township, Franklin county. He married 
Elizalieth Carson (born in 1807 — died Jan. 
18, 1883) : they had issue: 

I. D.wiD H. (born Dec. 15, 1S26) en- 
listed in Company H. 7th Regiment. P. V., 
April 22, 1862, and served in the 3d Brigade, 
1st Division, of Major-Gen. Patterson's 
army. He went into camp with his regiment 
at Camp Slifer, whicli was within the present 
limits of the borough of Chambersburg, and 
joined in the advance into the Shenandoah 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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Valley. After the expiratiuii of his three 
months' term of enlistment he re-enlisted for 
three years, serving nntil Feh. j8. 1864, 
when he was niusteretl out, onlv to re-enlist 
as a veteran in Company E, 49th Regiment, 
P. v., from which he was discharged hy 
order of the War Department, July 16, 
1865. During this long service he was 
wounded only once, and then slightly, being 
struck on one of his thunihs by a piece oi 
shell, wliich also grazed his shoulder. An 
army surgeon ordered the wounded thumb 
to be amputated, but Mr. Johns, feeling sure 
that it could be saved, slipped away and 
dressed his own wound. Time proved that 
he was right, for the thumb thus saved has 
given him little trouble. He is a farmer 
living in Perry county. 

2. Mary J. (born Dec. 15, 1826) mar- 
ried William Morret. 

3. Elizabeth A. (born Alarch 29, 
1830) married John Flora. 

4. Samuel A. (born June 11, 1833) 
enlisted in February, 1864, in Company H, 
49th Regiment, P. V., and served until the 
close of the war, being mustered out July 
16, 1865. He lives in Concord, Franklin 
county. 

5. Joseph A. (born Sept. 6. 1835) en- 
hsted in Company E, 29th Regiment, P. \'., 
Dec. 18, 1864, and was mustered out with 
his company, July 17, 1865. It was agreed 
by the five Johns brothers that Joseph A. 
should remain at home to care for the pa- 
rents while the other four were in the Union 
service. He was drafted, however, and then, 
instead of asking President Lincoln for his 
discharge, as was first contemplated, it was 
determined that he should serve the few 
months that it was clear would end the war. 

6. Isabella P., born Aug. 17. 1837, 
died Sept. 8, 1847. 

7. Benjamin F. (born in Cumberland 
county, June i, 1839) was educated in the 



public schools of Cumberland county and of 
Southampton township, I-Vanklin county. 
He remained on his father's farm until he 
was twenty years old, when he apprenticed 
himself to the plastering trade, at which he 
worked until the outbreak of the Civil war. 
Then his ardent patriotism led him to he- 
come one of the first soldiers of the Union-. 
He enlisted in Company I. 49th Regiment, 
P. v., Sept. 16, 1 86 1, and was transferred 
to Company A, Jan. 11, 1863. He was 
promoted to be a corporal of his company 
March i, 1863, and mustered out as a vet- 
eran, July 16, 1865. From the siege of 
Yorktown, which began April i6th, and 
lasted until May 4, 1862, to the action at 
Sailor's Creek, Va., April 6, 1865, he took 
part in seventeen battles and five skirmishes, 
making a total of twenty-two engagements. 
In 1862 he participated in nine battles: The 
siege of Yorktown, which lasted eighteen 
days; Williamsburg, Va., May 5th; Gan- 
nett's Hill, Va., June 27th: Golding's Farm. 
Va., June 28th ; Savage Station, Va.', June 
29th ; White Oak Swamp, Va., June 30th ; 
Malvern Hill, Va., July ist; Antietam, Md., 
Sept. 17th; and Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 
13th. In 1863 he was in six battles: Fred- 
ericksburg, Va., April 29th ; Gettysburg, Pa., 
July 2d and 3d; Funkstown, Md., July 12th; 
Rappahannock Station, Va., Nov. 7th : Lo- 
cust Grove, Va., Nov. 27th; and Mine Run, 
Va., Nov. 28th. 29th and 30th. It is worthy 
of remark that although the battle of Gettys- 
burg is generally supposed to have ended on 
July 3d, 1863, Company A, of the 49th 
Regiment, P. V., in which Corporal Johns 
was serving, was sent out to skirmish at 
dawn on the 4th, and lay all day near the 
Devil's Den, in front of Round Top. In 
1864 he took part in five of the hardest 
fought battles of the war: The Wilderness, 
May 5th-ioth; Spottsylvania, Va., May 
I2th; Cold Harlx)r, Va., June ist-i2th; 



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Weldon Railroad, Va., June 30th ; and 
Petersburg, Va., June 22d and 23d. In 
1865 he was in the assault at Petersburg, 
April 2d, and in the final action with the 
Confederates at Little Sailor's Creek, Va.. 
April 6th, in which Ewell's Qjrps was routed 
anfl Gen. Ewell taken prisoner. At this bat- 
tl ; Mr. Johns was taken prisoner, and while 
he was with the Rel^els was asked by Gen, 
Ewell where the L'nion men were and who 
they were. Mr. Johns answered that the 
troops consisted of the 6th Corps and Sher- 
idan's Cavalry and that they -were all around 
him. The General said, "It looks very much 
like it," and he wrote a note which he dis- 
patched by a carrier. In a short time eight 
of his general officers rejwrted to him, and 
]\[r. Johns was asked the same qtiestion. 
giving the same answer. The old genera! 
walked back and forth for a while, and then 
turning to his men said, "It looks very much 
like it, and I think we had better throw up 
the sponge and save life on both sides." The 
fiag of truce was accordingly sent into the 
Union lines, and Mr. Johns' regiment, the 
4Qth Pa., was detailed to take the prisoners 
back to Burksville Station, about fifteen 
miles. On the way Ijack our subject heard 
Gen. Ewell tell his colonel that but for in- 
formation given him ])y a Yankee he 
(Ewell) would have made another charge, 
which would undoubtedly ha\e resulted in 
the useless slaughter of two or three hundred 
men. Mr. Johns also had the distinction of 
being an advisory member of a Rel^el coun- 
cil of war. In his long and arduous ser\-ice 
of four years, including the most sanguinary 
battles of the war, Corjxiral Johns escaped 
without a wound. Returning to civil life he 
became a resident of Chambersburg, where 
he worked at his trade as a journeyman for 
a year and a half. He then lived in Pitts- 
burgh and in Somerset county until 1877, 
when he returned to Chambersburg. In 



1877 1''^ began business as a contracting 
plasterer, in which line he is still engaged, 
and at which he has been very successful. 
He has always had plenty of work, employ- 
ine seven or eight hands. He does both 
plain and ornamental plastering, and it is 
conceded that he does the best and the most 
work in his calling in the county. In politics 
Mr. Johns is a Republican ; he has served as 
judge of elections in his ward, and has been 
twice a member of the Chambersburg town 
council. The second time he was elected a 
councilman as a Republican in a Democratic 
ward. He was also chosen Justice of the 
Peace for the 3d ward, Chambersburg, but 
declined to serve. He built the handsome 
residence in which he lives, in Second street, 
in 1883. He is a member of the Red Men, 
Pocahontas Council, and of the Shepherds 
of Bethlehem. He has always been one of 
the most active and enthusiastic members of 
Housum Post, No. 309. G. A. R., and he is 
also an honorarv member of the Ladies 
Circle, G. A. R. In his youth his educational 
advantages were meager, his entire attend- 
ance at school covering a period of not more 
than eighteen months, but he has always lieen 
a student, and is a good penman and a fair 
scholar. He writes well and is the author 
of a number of essays reminiscent of the 
Ci\-il war, which have appeared in the 
National Tribune, and some of which have 
attracted wide attention and l>een the sul> 
jects of inquiry from old Confederate 
soldiers. Mr. Johns married Aug. 15, 1867, 
Mary Glessner. daughter of John Glessner, 
of Franklin county. 

8. C.\ROLiXE C. (born Aug. 16, 1842 
— died May i, 1878) married Jacob Ziegler. 

9. Reuben Scott (born Oct. 26, 
1846) enlisted in 1863, under the six 
months' call, in Company H, 21st Regiment, 
Pa. Cav. : he re-enlisted in Company I. 9th 
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by General Order, May 29, 1865. He was 
with (jen. Sherman in his famous "Marcli 
to the Sea." and was present when Cjen. 
Joseph E. Johnston surrendered. Durinsf 
his long service as a cavalryman he escaped 
serious injury, but on one occasion his horse 
was shot from under him, and in falling his 
left leg was slightly fractured by the weight 
of his horse. 

10. Rebecc.\ S. (born Oct. 26, 1846 — 
died Dec. 12, 1890), married Thomas 
Clemens. 

11. Is.M.-Mi M., born Nov. 13. 1848, dieil 
Aug. 18, 1864. 

12. WiLLi.VM M., born .\ug. 12, 1850. 
died March 4. 1882. 

It should be especially noted that the five 
Johns Ijrothers who served in the Civil war 
are all yet lix'ing, the oldest now almost 
se^•enty-nine. 

PETER BENEDICT (deceased), dur- 
ing bis lifetime one of the old merchants and 
leading citizens of Waynesboro, Franklin 
Co., Pa., was born in Franklin county Oct. 
17, 1814, the son of Peter Benedict, who was 
•one of the pioneer farmers of this county. 

Our subject was reared on the homestead 
farm and was educated in th.e common 
:schools of his native township, then held in 
old log houses. Early in life he served an 
apprenticeship to the marble cutting trade, 
and followed this calling for some time, 
afterward engaging in a mercantile line in 
Waynesboro, in which business he remained 
all of his active life, retiring in 1882 with a 
■comfortable fortune. 

Mr. Benedict was a consistent and active 
member of the Lutheran Church, toward 
which he ahvays gave very liberally. His 
•death took place in 1883. and he left a widow 
and son who still survive. During a long 
and honorable business career he firmly es- 
tablished himself in the confidence of the 



community, and left behind him a n:mie re- 
spected and revered. 

In 1873 Mr. Benedict was united in mar- 
riage with Kate M., daughter of William P. 
and Catherine (Shroder) Weagley, and to 
their union one child was born : 

Frank W., a prosperous resident of 
Waynesboro. 

ISAAC H. SHOEMAKER, one of the 
prosperous residents of Upton, Antrim tow-n- 
ship, Franklin county, was born Nov. 24, 
1840, in Delaware county, Ind., son of Mich- 
ael and Mary (Newcomer) Shoemaker, and 
grandson of John. 

(I) JOHN SHOEMAKER was prob- 
ably born in Montgomery county. Pa., but 
later moved to Adams county. Pa., then to 
Franklin county, and finally to Delaware 
county, Ind., where he died in 1864. He had 
issue as follows: 

1. Jones removed to Delaware Co., 
Indiana. 

2. J.\coB removed to Delaware Co., 
Indiana. 

3. John removed to Delaw-are Co., 
Indiana. 

4. D.wiD removed to Delaware Co., 
Indiana. 

5. Mary married Mr. Boyer of Adams 
county. 

6. Nancy married Henry Newcomer, 
of Washington Co., Maryland. 

7. Michael (II). 

(II) MICHAEL SHOEMAKER was 
a farmer, and the greater portion of his life 
was spent in Franklin county, where in 
1864 he purchased the farm upon which his 
son Isaac H., now resides. His death oc- 
curred Jan. I, 1885. In addition to two that 
died in infancy, he had issue as follows : 

1. Anna married Daniel K. White- 
more. 

2. John married Catherine Ryder. 



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3. Isaac H. (III). 

4. David married (first) Sarah Miller, 
and (second) Miss Ryer. 

5. Henry married Sidney Kissinger. 

6. Jacob married a daughter of John 
Frantz. 

7. Ezra married Sarah Stoner. 

(Ill) ISAAC H. SHOEMAKER was 
educated in the public schools of Washington 
county, Md., where he lived and worked 
upon a farm until he was twenty-four years 
of age, at which time he moved with his pa- 
rents to the farm he now occupies, in Frank- 
lin county. Mr. Shoemaker is a prosperous, 
industrious and thrifty farmer, and a man 
highly respected by all who know him. He 
is a consistent member of the Reformed i^Ien- 
nonite Church. The first marriage of Mr. 
Shoemaker was to Leah Shartle, daughter 
of John Shartle, of Welsh Run. His second 
wife was Sarah C. Shartle, a sister of his 
first wife. Their issue was: 

1. Elmer E. 

2. E. Estella. 

3. Carrie E. 

4. M. Anna, who was adopted b_\' her 
Uncle Jacob. 

MAURICE RUSSEL RHOADS, one 
of the prosperous and public-spirited men of 
Chambersburg, Pa., was born in Franklin 
county. Pa., March 25, 1863, a son of Will- 
iam R. and Leah A. (Thoms) Rhoads. 

(I) David M. Rhoads, the grandfather, 
was a wagonmaker by trade at Shippens- 
burg, Cumberland county. He married 
Anna J. Douglas, by whom he had nine 
children : 

1. Emma. 

2. Mary E. 

3. Samuel. 

4. William R. (II). 

5. Sarah. 

6. Matilda. 



7. D.-^VID. 

8. Andrew. 

9. Henry. 

(II) WILLIAM R. RHOADS was a 
blacksmith for the Cumberland Valley Rail- 
road for thirty-seven years, and during all 
that time did not lose two months. His wife 
was Leah A. Thoms, and they had issue : 

1. Maurice RussEL (III). 

2. William S. 

3. George C. 

During the Civil war, William Rhoads 
was a soldier in the Union army, being sta- 
tioned at Washington with the Guards pro- 
tecting the capital, serving at this for nearly 
two years. His death occurred in February, 
1898, when he was fifty-four years of age, 
while his wife died April 30, 1894, aged 
fifty-four years. 

'(Ill) 'mAURICE R. RHOADS at- 
tended the public schools of Chambersburg, 
and at the age of sixteen years went to work 
to learn the building trade. His first con- 
tract for erecting a dwelling house was given 
him in 1883, and since then he has steadily 
advanced until he is now one of the leading- 
men in his line in this locality. Among- 
others he erected the new Methodist Church, 
was the architect and builder of the new 
LT. B. Church, built in 1896, at a cost of 
$50,000, which was about the cost of the 
Methodist Church. During the first ten 
years of his business life, he put up 1 1 1 
buildings in Chambersburg and vicinity, and 
now gi\es employment to about twenty car- 
penters each year. In 1900 he Ijuilt the ■Mer- 
cersburg Academy, at a cost of $35,000. Mr. 
Rhoads built the addition to the court house 
in 1903, at a cost of $50,000; the Woods 
Bros.' factory buildings, and he was archi- 
tect for the new Chambersburg Trust Com- 
pany Building. His knowledge of architec- 
ture, which is thorough, was gained through' 
his own efforts, he studying late at night tea 



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perfect liiniself in this art. Being a natural 
born mechanic, he takes a deep pleasure in 
his work, and produces some very effective 
results. Fraternally Mr. Rhoads is a mem- 
ber of the Royal Arcanum and the order of 
Elks, and he is a man widely known and 
highly esteemed. 

In May, 1887, Mr. Rhoads married Miss 
Ida Ebersole, daughter of Samuel Ebersole 
of Franklin county. Five children have been 
bfjrn of this marriage : 

1 . Gale. 

2. Erm.^i. 

3. NOLAND. 

4. Aria. 

5. Velma. 

HENRY ETTER, a prosperous and in- 
telligent farmer of Peters township, Frank- 
lin county, was born March 2, 1835, son of 
George and Sarah (^Miller) Etter, and grand- 
son of Henry Etter, for whom he is named. 

The paternal great-grandfather of our 
subject was a wagon maker at Hummels- 
town, Dauphin county. In his family of 
children was a Henry (H). 

(II) HENRY ETTER, it is thought, 
married a Miss Etter, who was related to the 
Cassels, prominent people of Dauphin 
county. Henry Etter came to Franklin 
county when he was about twenty-four years 
of age, and bought a farm at Guilford 
Springs. His wife is buried with him at that 
place, she dying within four days of his 
death. His issue was : 

1. Kate married John Harkelrode. 

2. Christin.\ married Henry Sim- 
mons. 

3. John. 

4. Eve married Daniel Buck. 

5. Henry married Magdalena Rhine- 
hart. 

6. William married a Miss Gelsinger. 

7. Jacob married Susan Miller. 



8. George (III). 

9. Samuel married (first) a Miss- 
Rhinehart, and (second) a Miss Etter. 

10. Mary married Henry Bender. 

11. Hannah married a Mr. Ogle. 

12. Michael married a Miss Good. 

(III) GEORGE ETTER (born Oc- 
tober, 1799) was a farmer from 1830 until 
his death March 12, 1864. He married 
March 11, 1830, Sarah, daughter of John 
Miller, of Guilford township. She died in 
1837, and both were buried at Waddle's, now 
known as the Etter graveyard in Peters 
township. He was a member of the German 
Baptist Church. George and Sarah Etter 
had issue : 

1. Henry (IV). 

2. George W. married Mary Ann 
Clapsaddle. 

(IV) HENRY ETTER (born .March 
2, 1835), attended the district school in 
Peters township, and has devoted his life to 
farming, becoming very successful. On .April 
6, 1858, he married .\nnie Glaser, daughter 
of Adam and Catherine (Hahn) Glaser, 
born in Germany, who came to the United 
States, when they were young, and settled in 
Franklin county, where they engaged in 
farming, and were consistent members of the 
Reformed Church. Mr. and Mrs. Etter 
have had issue as follows : 

1. George died at the age of si.xteen 
years. 

2. William Henry died in his thir- 
tieth year. 

3. Sarah Catherine married Albert 
B. Ramsey, who is a traveling salesman. 

4. James Calvin married Sarah Light. 

5. Benjamin Frankli.v married Kate 
Burtner, of Dayton, Va. 

Mr. Etter is a man well thought of in 
his neighborhood, and his present prosperity 
has been attained through his own unaided 
efforts, directed along legitimate lines. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



AMOS F. FUNK, one of the well-known 
farmers of Washington township, FrankHn 
county, now residing on the old Funk home- 
stead, three miles northeast of Waynesboro, 
was born Nov. 29, 1868. 

(I) AARON FUNK was born April 29, 
1835, on the homestead and he died Sept. 4, 
1886, on the same farm, which he purchased 
from his father. He occupied this property, 
which was originally known as the John 
Shockey place. In politics he was a Repub- 
lican, and held various town offices. He 
married Elizabeth Frick, who was born near 
Ringgold, ]\Id., in 1838, daughter of John 
Frick, a cousin of George Frick, the founder 
of the celebrated Frick Manufacturing Com- 
pany of Waynesboro. The Frick family 
came into Maryland from Lancaster county. 
Pa. To Aaron and Elizabeth Funk were 
born children as follows : 

1. Annie M. married John R. Frantz, 
•of Washington township. 

2. Ida B. (deceased) married Charles 
Hassler, of Waynesboro, a machinist. 

3. Alice F. married Samuel Hostetter, 
of Greencastle. 

4. John H., unmarried, is an engineer 
in New Mexico. 

5. Christian L., deceased, married in 
Pueblo, Colorado. 

6. Amos F. (II). 

7. Gertrude E. is unmarried. 

8. Maude G. married J. Stover Price, 
of \\'aynesboro. 

9. Herman died at the age of one 
month. 

(II) AMOS F. FUNK was reared upon 
the farm where he was born, and attended 
the common schools at Roadside. He re- 
mained on the home farm with the exception 
of eighteen months spent in Waynesboro, and 
a nine months' \'isit to Colorado. Mr. Funk 
married Annie May Newcumber, born near 
Ringgold, Md.. daughter of Christian New- 



cumber of Washington county, Md., where 
lie died. The children born to Amos Funk 
and wife are as follows: 

1 . Helen. 

2. Barton. 

3. Robert. 

In politics Mr. Funk is a stanch Republi- 
can, and at present is serving as school di- 
rector. He is an excellent farmer, a public- 
spirited citizen, and a man universally re- 
spected by all who know him. 

STRITE FAMILY. CHRISTIAN 
STREIT (died in Derry, now Conewago, 
township, Dauphin county, in 1823), with 
two brothers, was among the Mennonite im- 
migrants from the Palatinate to Pennsyl- 
vania. He and his brother Joseph settled in 
Lancaster county (the other brother having 
settled in Virginia about 1770). living for 
some years in Warwick township, and later 
in life removed to Derry, now Conewago, 
township, Dauphin Co., where he owned a 
farm situated partly in Lancaster and partly 
in Dauphin counties. He is the ancestor of 
the Strite family of Franklin county, Pa., 
and Washington county, Md. He married 
( first) a Myers, and they had issue: 

1. John (II). 

2. Christian (born in Lancaster 
county, Aug. 3, 1783 — died in Franklin 
county, April 3, 1850), married (first) Eliza 
Eby; they had issue: Elizabeth, born Feb. 7, 
1808 — died Dec. 21, 1844, married Joseph 
Strite, of Leitersburg; Mary, born March 
20, 1809, married a Hoover, of Lancaster 
county. He married (second) Anna \\' ingert 
(born Sept. 15, 1789 — died Aug. 28, 1859) ; 
they had issue: Isaac (bora July 21, 18 18 — 
died June 21, 1863, being killed by Confed- 
erate soldiers) married Nancy Hess ; Sam- 
uel (born Sept. i. 18 19 — died June 16, 
1888) married Sarah Hess: Nancy (l)orn 
April 27, 182 1 ) married John Hess; John 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



557 



(born Oct. 13, 1822) married Martha ReitT 
and had two sons, John and Christian, and 
two daughters : Sarah (born Jan. 12, 1824 — 
died Oct. 22, 1873) married Jeremiali 
Hess; Christian (born Dec. 31, 1828) mar- 
ried Anna Snively; Joseph born Nov. 9, 
1830, died unmarried; and Barbara (born 
April 4, 1839) married John Singer. 

3. Anna married John Conrad. 

4. Maria (born May 11, 1778 — died 
Feb. 22, 1864) married John Server, and 
lived in Fulton county. 

5. Catherine (born Aug. 21, 1779 — 
died Feb. 15, 1865) married, Aug. 21, 1798, 
Christian Lesher. 

6. Magdalen a^ born March 4, 1781, 
died April 18, 1864, 

Christian Streit married (second) Bar- 
bara Sharer, daughter of John Sharer; they 
had one daughter : 

I. Barbara. 

(II) JOHN STRITE (born in Lan- 
caster county, March 28, 1775 — died Nov. 

21, 1840) son of Christian and 

(Myers) Streit, removed to ^Vashington 
county, Md., about 1796, and settled one 
mile north of Leitersburg, Md. He married 
Elizabeth Eshleman (born Feb. 3, 1767 — - 
died May 4, 1844), daughter of Ulrich and 
Feronica (Herr) Eshleman. Ulrich Eshle- 
man is said to have emigrated from Switzer- 
land at the age of seventeen years, and settled 
in Manor township, Lancaster county, where 
he died in 1802. John and Elizabeth (Eshle- 
man) Strite had issue: 

1. Abraham (born Jan. 31, 1795 — 
died Nov. 14, 1863) married Elizabeth 
Mentzer (born May 3, 1798 — died May 19, 
1879) • they had no issue. 

2. John (III). 

3. Christian (born Dec. 6. 1798 — 
died April 15, 1862) lived near Leitersburg, 
Md. He marriefl Catherine Snively (born 



Aug. 22, 1810 — died Jan. 18, 1862); they 
had no issue. 

4. Samuel (born Dec. 10, 1800 — died 
May 1, 1878) lived at Clear Spring, .Md. He 
married Martha Snively, daughter of John 
and Anna (Hege) Snively; they had issue: 
John ; Anna married Abraham Ditto ; Henry ; 
Elizabeth married Philip M. Bell; Samuel; 
Martha married Joshua Ditto; and Maria 
married Alartin Whitmore. 

5. Nancy (born June 6, 1803 — died 
Feb. 19, 1832) married in 1820, Jacob 
Miller (born July 17, 1797 — died Sept. 7, 
1868): they had issue: Elizabeth married 
David Summer; Jacob; John; Nancy; Jo- 
seph and Susanna. 

6. Joseph (born Aug. 31, 1805 — died 
June 8, 1858) married Elizabeth Strite 
(born Feb. 7, 1808— died Dec. 21. 1884), 
daughter of Christian and Eliza (Eby) 
Strite; they had issue: Elizabeth married 
Adam Baker, and lived at Shadv Grove; 
Abraham married Fanny Hoover, and lived 
at Leitersburg; Joseph married Catherine 
Lesher ; Joseph ; Catherine married Tobias 
Shank ; Christian ; ]\Iartha married Noah 
Shank; John S. ; and Mary married Chris- 
tian Shank. 

(Ill) JOHN STRITE (born Oct. 25, 
1796 — died Feb. 19, 1854), son of John and 
Elizabeth (Eshleman) Strite, married Eliza- 
beth Summers, (born Jan. 21, 1799 — died 
Dec. 19, 1866) ; they had issue : 

1. David (born Jan. 6, 1822) married 
Elizabeth Horst, and had issue, Mary .Vnn, 
Martha L., John A., Elizabeth C, David 
G., Franklin Monroe, Ida C. and Emma S. 

2. Nancy. 

3. John (born July 19, 1825 — died 
Oct. 19. 1870) married (first) Catherine 
Horst (born Sept. i, 1830 — died Oct. 7, 
185 1 ) ; no issue. He married (second) Eva 
Shank (born Oct. 31, 1834 — died Feb. 7, 
1864). and had issue, Henry Clinton and 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



.Samuel Harvey. By his third wife, Mary 
Shank, he had issue, John F., and Benjamin 
(deceased). 

4. Elizabeth (born Sept. 14, 1827 — 
died Feb. 10, 1862) married John Eshleman, 
and had issue: Daniel, John S., Samuel P., 
]\Iary and Elizabeth. 

5. Jacob. 

6. Martha married Jacob Shank, and 
they had issue : Kate married Samuel H. 
Martin ; Elizabeth is deceased ; Mary married 
Isaac Myers; Jacob; Samuel; Martha mar- 
ried John H. Grove; David; Emma; Ida 
married J. W. Eby; and Rebecca is de- 
ceased. 

7. Catherine (born Dec. 5, 1834 — 
died Sept. 30, 1861) married Lewis Har- 
baugh, and had issue : Daniel, Alice, Clara, 
Melchor and John. 

8. Samuel (IV). 

9. Daniel married Jennie Young, and 
had issue, one son, Daniel D. 

10. Mary married in 1864, J. Lemuel 
Gilbert (born June 12, 1840 — died Feb. 7, 
1895), son of David and Elizabeth (Lecron) 
Gilbert, and had issue, Lewis De Loyd. D. 
-Clayton, Myrtle E. and David Allen. 

(IV) SAMUEL STRITE (born ^lay 
23, 1837) son of John and Elizabeth (Sum- 
mers) Strite. removed to Washington 
-county, Md., in 1859. where he still lives. 
He was elected a county commissioner of 
Washington county, in 1871. It was dur- 
ing his term that the Hagerstown Court 
House was built. He subsequently served 
four years as one of the Judges of the Or- 
phans' Court, and was for fifteen years one 
of the five school commissioners of Washing- 
ton county. He was for some years a jus- 
tice of the peace and is now serving as direc- 
tor of the poor of Washington county. He 
has always been a Republican and active in 
party work. He is affiliated with the Men- 
nonite Church. He married in 1858, Esther 



Ann, daughter of Jacob R. and Mary 
(Hoover) Shank; they have issue: 

1. Abraham C. (born July 10, 1856) 
was graduated from Dickinson College in 
1882. He afterward studied law with the 
Hon. Louis E. McComas, and was admitted 
to the Washington County (Md. ) Bar, in 
1886. He married Louella Claggett, and has 
one child, born May 2, 1905. 

2. J.ACOB Aaron (V). 

3. Samuel M. (born June 2, 1866) 
was appointed to the United States Naval 
Academj- at Annapolis by Hon. Milton G. 
Urner, where he was graduated in 1886, 
with the rank of cadet. He has made sev- 
eral voyages to China and Japan, and par- 
ticipated in the naval battle at Manila, May 
I, 1898. He recently retired with the rank 
of Lieutenant Commander. 

4. Mary E., born Oct. 6, 1867. 

5. Emma K. (born July 15, 1869) 
married Frank D. Bell. 

6. John C. (born Feb. 28. 1871) is a 
miller near Leitersburg, Maryland. 

7. Louis E. INIcComas (born Aug. 19, 
1872) was graduated from Dickinson Col- 
lege in 1893, was instructor in the Wash- 
ington County High School. 1895-98, and is 
now teller of the Hagerstown Bank. 

8. \\'illiam a., born Sept. 3, 1875. 

9. Clarence E. (born Sept. 12, 1877) 
was graduated from the Baltimore Medical 
College in 1902. and is assistant surgeon in 
the United States Xavy. 

10. Cora M., born Jan. 24, 1884. 
(V) JACOB AAROX STRITE (born 

in \^'ashington county, Maryland, June 19, 
1864), son of Samuel and Esther A. 
(Shank) Strite, was prepared for college in 
the public schools of Leitersburg, Md. He 
entered Dickinson College at the age of sev- 
enteen, and was graduated in 1884. Later 
he took a post-graduate course at Johns Hop- 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRAInKLIN COUNTY. 



quently eng-aged in teaching in the schools at 
Leitersburg, and then studied law with the 
Hon. Louis E. McComas, at Hagerstown. 
He was admitted to the Washington County 
Bar in August, 1886, and to the Franklin 
County Bar in September, 1888. He has 
since been in active practice in Chambers- 
burg. In 1896 he succeeded the Hon. John 
Stewart as president of the Chambersburg 
& Bedford Turnpike Road Company. He 
was one of the organizers and is a director of 
the Chambersburg Trust Company; he is 
also a director of The Wolf Company. Fra- 
ternally he belongs to George Washington 
Lodge, No. 143. F. & A. M. and also to 
George Washington Chapter; he is also a 
member of Columbus Lodge and Olive En- 
campment I. O. O. F., of the Knights of the 
Golden Eagle, the Royal Arcanum, the B. P. 
O. E., the Heptasophs and the I. O. R. He 
is a member of the Central Presbyterian 
Church, Chambersburg. Mr. Strite mar- 
ried May 21, 1 89 1. Emma N. Durboraw, 
daughter of Daniel W. and Martha L. 
(Slick) Durboraw, of Washington county; 
Maryland ; they have issue : 

1. Edwin D., born May 2, 1892. 

2. Albert^ born May 2. 1897. 

3. Robert, born June 27, 1901. 

BRECHBILL FAMILY. The Brech- 
bill family is of Swiss origin and forms a 
large connection that settled in Lancaster 
county at a very early period. The first of 
the name of whom there is anv knowledge 
was Ulrich Brechbill, who was a Mennonite 
minister before 1725. He was accidentally 
killed Oct. 19. 1739. while driving his team 
on the road to Philadelphia. Later Brechbill 
immigrants were Johannes Brechbill and 
Wendel Brechbill. both of whom came over 
on the ship Samuel of London, landing at 
Pliiladelphia, Aug. 11, 1732; and Jacob, 
Hans Peter, Benedict and Hans, who emi- 



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grated on the ship "Pink John and Will- 
iam," and were landed Oct. 17, 1732. It is 
probable that all these were sons of Ulrich 
Brechbill, who followed their father to Penn- 
syhania, but there is no proof of it. 

(II) BENEDICT BRECHBILL, one 
of the immigrants on the ship "Pink John 
and William," was the ancestor of the Brech- 
bill family of Franklin county. Of this there 
is a well defined tradition that has been pre- 
served from generation to generation. He 
had issue, probably among others, a son, 
Christi.-\x (III). 

(III) CHRISTIAN BRECHBILL 
(born April 30, i743_died March 12, 
1786), son of Benedict Brechbill, lived in 
Lancaster county. He was enrolled in Capt. 
Casper Stoever's company in Col. Philip 
Greenawalt's battalion, Lancaster County 
Associators, but being a non-resistant he was 
not in active service. Mr. Brechbill married 
May 4, 1766, but the name of his wife, who 
was born Aug. 15, 1743, has not been ascer- 
tained. They had issue : 

1. John, born Oct. 7, 1767. 

2. Anna, born Nov. 28, 1768. 

3. Christian, born April 4, 1770. 

4. Barbara, born June 22, 1771. 

5. Henry, born Dec. 12, 1772. 

6. Abraham (IV). 

7. Elizabeth, born March 17, 1775. 

8. A daughter, born May 13. 1776. 

9. Jacob, born Sept. 10, 1777. 

10. ^Iagdalena, born June 13, 1779. 

11. Christian, bom Jan. 7, 1781. 

12. Mary, born Aug. 11, 1782. 

(IV) ABRAHAM BRECHBILL 
(born in Lancaster county. Feb. 15, 1774 — 
died April 3, 1821), son of Christian Brech- 
bill. removed from Lancaster to Franklin 
county, and settled in Hamilton township. 
He was a farmer. In religion he was a mem- 
ber of the River Brethren denomination. He 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



married Feb. 15, 1801, Veronica Lesher 
(born Feb. 17, 1777— died April 7, 1869), 
a native of Lancaster county, her name being 
written Leschrin in the "P^amily Record" in 
an old Sauer Bible, now the property of her 
grandson. Abraham and Veronica Brechbill 
had issue : 

I. Elizabeth (born Feb. 21, 1806) 
married Henry Wingerd, of Antrim town- 
ship. They had issue : Jacob, Fanny, Eliza, 
Mary, Sarah. Catharine, Samuel, Martha 
and Susanna. 

2. Jacob (born June 16 1808 — died near 
Orrstown) married Barbara Hoover, and 
they had three children : John, I\Iary and 
Fanny. 

3. Abraham (born Nov. 16, 181 1 — 
died in Hamilton township) married Mary 
Hoover, and they had issue : Susanna, 
Fanny, Henry, Abraham and Mary. 

4. Christian (born April 7, 1816 — 
died Oct. 25. 1844) married Catharine 
Hoover, and they had a daughter, Mary. 

5. Henry (V). 

(V) HENRY BRECHBILL (born in 
Hamilton township, Dec. 4, 1818 — died July 
18, 1894), son of Abraham and Veronica 
(Lesher) Brechbill, was a farmer in Antrim 
township, where he owned a farm of 140 
acres near the Greenwood school house. Late 
in life he bought a farm on the road from 
Chambersburg to Greencastle. where the 
Southern Pa. Railroad crosses the road, on 
which he remained until his death. In poli- 
tics he was a Republican, but he never as- 
pired to or held public office. He was all his 
life a member of the River Brethren denom- 
ination. Mr. Brechbill married. Feb. 23, 
1843, Catharine Gsell (born Jan. 23. 1825 — 
died Feb. 6, 1903), daughter of John and 
Susan (Roehrer) Gsell, of Antrim township. 
They had issue : 

I. Fanny (born May 17, 1844) lives 
in Antrim township. 



2. Eliz.\beth (born May 4, 1847) 
lives in Antrim township. 

3. John G. (VI). 

(VI) JOHN G. BRECHBILL (born 
June 24, 1853), son of Henry and Catharine 
(Gsell) Brechbill, owns the old Brechbill 
place in Antrim township at the Greenwood 
school house, Init li\es in the village of 
Marion, where he has made his home since 
1 901, He is living in retirement, and gi\es 
his attention to his farm. He is a Republi- 
can in politics, and has served on the Antrim 
township school board. In religion he is a 
member of the German Baptist Brethren. 
Mr. Brechbill married Jan. 8, 1880. Alice M. 
Kauffman, daughter of Samuel and Annie 
(Byers) Kaufifman. They have issue : 

1. Annie Catharine. 

2. Emma Grace. 

3. H. Harper R. 

SAMUEL HOEFLICH. one of the 
most prominent and influential citizens of 
Waynesboro, was born on the old Samuel 
Royer farm two and one-half miles from 
Waynesboro, between Fairview and Mid- 
vale, Washington township, Franklin coun- 
ty. Pa.. Dec. 21, 1831, son of W^illiam and 
Susan (Royer) Hoeflich. The origin of the 
family is German. 

(i) PETER HOEFLICH was one of 
the very early settlers of Waynesboro, where 
he became a large landowner. He was the 
father of a son John (II). 

(II) JOHN HOEFLICH was prob- 
ably bom in Carroll county, Md. He re- 
sided in Baltimore for a time, but later 
moved to Franklin county, and lived for a 
time along the mountain, but afterward 
moved to A\'aynesboro, where he died. His 
children were : 

1. Catherine died unmarried. 

2. Elizabeth married Thomas Hnl- 
lingsworth. 




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3. Frederick died unmarried. 

4. William (III). 

5. Joel married Catlierine Xull. He 
was a musician in the Union army during 
the Civil war, and was taken prisoner, dying 
at Andersonville. 

6. David married Catherine Adams. 

(III) WILLIAM HOEFLICH was 
torn in Carroll county. Md., in 1800, and 
died in Franklin county in 1885. He mar- 
ried Susan Royer, who was born near Mid- 
vale, Washington township, Franklin coun- 
ty, in Jtme, 1807, and died in 1875. She 
was a daughter of Samuel Royer. whose 
father was a native of Switzerland, of 
French Huguenot stock. The children of 
Samuel Royer were as follows : Nancy, who 
died immarried ; Daniel, who married Eliza 
Maxwell ; Elizabeth, who married Samuel 
Needy ; Susan ; John, who married Char- 
lotte Johnson, and is now living aged ninety- 
five years ; Jacob, who married Eliza Zim- 
mennan : Samuel, who married Mary Ham- 
maker ; and David who died in boyhoijd. 
Both William Hoeflich and wife were Ger- 
man Baptists. To them were born the fol- 
lowing children : 

1. Samuel (IV). 

2. Susan, deceaseil, married Melchcu" 
Spillman, of Upton, Pennsylvania. 

3. Nancy R., unmarried, resides in 
Waynesboro. 

4. Mary died single. 

5. John R. lives in Wayneslioro. 

6. Sar.\h, unmarried, resides in Balti- 
more. 

7. Charlotte married John Secrest. of 
Upton. Pennsylvania. 

(IV) S A:\IUEL HOEFLICH was 
educated in the public schools, and came to 
Waynesboro when he was about sixteen years 
of age, to clerk in the store of Peter Fahne- 
stock, and there he continued until 1849, 
when the business was' closed. In 1850 he 

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entered the store of Besore & Balsy, and con- 
tinued with it through several changes in 
ownership until the Ci\il war. In 1862 he 
became a private in Company E, 158th P. 
V. I., and when the company was organ- 
ized he was made orderly sergeant, and sub- 
sequently promoted to be second lieutenant, 
ser\'ing as such for ten months. Returning 
from the front in 1863, he again took up 
clerking in his old store. That wintef 
Josiah Besore died, and Mr. Hoeflich was 
encouraged by George Besore to take the 
deceased's interest in the business. This he 
did. and subsequently Joseph Price, another 
merchant, consolidated under the name of 
Price & Hoeflich, which continued until 
1879, when Mr. Price was succeeded by D. 
M. Good, Jr. In 1883 Mr. Hoeflich sold to 
him and several other of his clerks who 
formed the firm of Good, Besore & Unger. 

Mr. Hoeflich is one of the original direc- 
tors in the Frick Manufacturing Company, 
but retired in 1896. although he is a stock- 
holder. He was also a director of the First 
National Bank of W'aynesboro, and when 
that institution was consolidated with the 
People's National Bank, he continued as a 
director, and is now secretary of the board. 
Mr. Hoeflich was one of the organizers of 
the Green Hill Cemetery Association in 
1873. was made a director at the beginning, 
and for twenty years has held the office of 
secretary of the association. He is inter- 
ested in the other leading industries of 
Waynesboro, being a stockholder in the 
Geiser Manufacturing Company, the Landis 
Tool Company, the Landis Machine Com- 
])any, and the Waynesboro Water Company. 
In politics he is a Repul)lican. and has served 
as chief burgess of \\'^aynesboro. and has 
been a member of the city council several 
times. For twenty-five years he has been an 
elder in the Reformed Church. 

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married to Maria, widow of Benjamin Ment- 
zer, and daughter of William Vandrau, of 
Franklin county, near Greencastle. She 
died March 6, 1896. On April 12, 1898, 
he married Emma, widow of Thomas J. Fil- 
bert, and daughter of John Saylor ; she was 
born in Berks county, Pennsylvania. 

JOHN P. YOUNG, one of the most 
progressive and enterprising farmers of 
Marion, Guilford township, Franklin Co., 
Pa., was born in Antrim township, this 
county, Nov. i, 1856, a son of John S. and 
Eliza (Phillippy) Y^oung. 

(I) JACOB YOUNG, grandfather of 
John P., was of German birth, and came to 
Franklin county about 1831, buying the farm 
now owned by John P. Y^oung. He became 
the father of the following children : 

1. Ephraim. 

2. Jacob. 

3. John S. (H). 

4. Eliza married John Miller. 

V Nancy married Christian Stoner. 

All this family were members of the 
'German Baptist Church, and all are now de- 
I ceased. 

(H) JOHN S. Y'OUNG was born in 
Lancaster county about 1826, and was 
brought to Franklin county when a child. He 
married in Guilford township about 1844, 
Miss Eliza Phillippy, of Antrim township, 
and she survives him. In 1848 he purchased 
•the homestead from his father. To this 
marriage came two children : 

1. Susan married John W. Singer, of 
ICauiifman's Station, Franklin Co., Penn- 
sylvania. 

2. John P. (III). 

(Ill) JOHN P. Y'OUNG was reared on 
the homestead, and attended the public 
schools of the neighborhood. As he grew 
older he went to Chambersburg, and clerked 
■in the Phillippy dry-goods house, but later 



returned to the fann. His farm of 126 acres 
is one of the best in the neighborhood, and 
he gives considerable attention to fruit grow- 
ing, which is proving so profitable an invest- 
ment in his portion of the State. On Dec. 
7, 1876, he married Miss Lucy J. Adams, of 
Antrim township, a daughter of William 
and Ann M. (Stahley) Adams, deceased. 
They have the following children, all bright, 
intelligent young people, of whom any pa- 
rents might well be proud : 

1. William Lesley. 

2. Annie E. married Adam K. Baum- 
baugh, of W'ashington county. Maryland. 

3. J. Edgar is bookkeeper in the First 
National Bank, Greencastle, and lives at 
home. 

4. Lulu B. lives at home. 

In politics Mr. Y'oung is a Democrat, and 
he served as postmaster of Clarion under 
President Cleveland during his last term. He 
is one of the leading members of his party in 
his section, and always active in local affairs. 
All of the family are members of the Re- 
formed Church, of which Mr. Y'oung is a 
very liberal supporter, and he is an elder in 
said church. He and his excellent wife are 
highly respected, and they make welcome 
their many friends to their comfortable 
home. 

JACOB SHANK WITMER, a retired 

grain and warehouse merchant of ]\Iercers- 
burg, is a son of Abraham Witmer. 

(I) JOHN WITMER. grandfather of 
Jacob Shank Witmer, was born in Lancaster 
county about the middle part of the eigh- 
teenth century, and both he and his wife re- 
membered well the time when the Indians 
would come for food. By occupation Mr. 
Witmer was a farmer. His death was the 
result of an accident, a branch of a tree blow- 
ing off and injuring him so severely that 
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seventeen or eighteen years, and was much 
beloved by her children and grandchildren. 
She was the mother of four sons and two 
daughters who lived : 

1. Jacob (deceased) married a Miss 
Summers (also deceased) and had four chil- 
dren, of whom the youngest, Lydia, married 
Samuel Shank and is still living. 

2. John died unmarried aged seventy- 
fi\e years. 

3. D.wiD married a widow, Mrs. 
Rhodes, and of their children about seven 
are living. 

4. Abr.\ham was the father of Jacob 
Shank (11). 

5. Elizabeth died single at the age of 
eighty-eight years. 

6. Nancy married George Stech and 
both are now deceased. 

(II) ABRAHAM WITMER was born 
on the farm in Lancaster county, and he re- 
ceived his early education in the German 
schools of his native county ; at the age of 
twelve years, his father ha\-ing moved to 
Welsh Run, Franklin county, he received 
further instruction in English. He then 
worked for his father until he was twenty- 
five years of age, when in February, 1826, 
he married Elizabeth Shank, whose father 
was a nurseryman near Welsh Run and 
afterward removed to near Middleburg, in 
Antrim township. Abraham Witmer then 
mo\-ed there with his wife, and commenced 
farming. In 1830 he moved back to Welsh 
Run and purchased a farm which he contin- 
ued to manage until his death. He bought 
naked land and improved it, building barns, 
house, etc., and the farm is now the property 
of Elizabeth ^^'itmer. Politically he was an 
old-line ^^'l^ig. and afterward became a Re- 
iniblican, while in religion he was a Mennon- 
ite of the old faith. His children, eleven in 
number, were as follows: 

I. Jacob S. (III). 



2. John M., born in 1828, married 
Catharine Reed, and with his wife and chil- 
dren moved to Hancock County, Ohio. 

3. David R., born in 1830, now de- 
ceased, lived in Seneca county, Ohio, and 
married first Catherine Miller, who died 
young leaving two children, antl second 
Clematine Eichelberger, by whom he had one 
child. 

4. Abraham S., born about 1832, mar- 
ried Miss M. Ilawbaker, and lives near Ran- 
toul, Illinois. 

5. Nancv^ born about 1834, married 
John Hawbaker, a brother of Miss M. Haw- 
baker, and lives at Dallas Center, Iowa. 

6. Elizabeth^ born about 1836, is un- 
married and lives on the farm. 

7. Daniel, born in 1839, married Ann 
Shoemaker, of Montgomery township, and 
with their four children, two sons and two 
daughters, they now live in Shippensburg. 

8. Andrew H., born in 1841. married 
Susan Dulavohn, and they and their two 
children are deceased. 

9. Mary Ann, born in 1843, married 
Meiancthon Young, by whom she has three 
children, and they live near Welsh Run. 

10. Henry C. born in 1S45, died single 
at the age of about forty-one. 

11. Susan, born in 1848. married 
Daniel \V. Hess, and they live in Waynes- 
l)oro. 

(Ill) JACOB SHANK WITMER was 
bom Dec. 16, 1826, near Middleburg, in An- 
trim township, on the farm owned by his 
.grandfather, Abraham Shank. His parents 
moved from Middleburg when he was four 
vears of age and he went to school near 
Welsh Run. He then taught school for 
about six years at Welsh Run, two or three 
of the terms being after his marriage with 
Miss Susan Dibelbiss, which took place in 
1851. Five children who are living were 
born to them as follows : 



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(i) Elizabeth, born in 1852, married 
(first) the late Thompson St. Claire, an.l 
had three children, Annie, Louisa and Hazel, 
and she married (second) Z. C. Grove. They 
live at Greencastle. 

(2) Kate, born in 1855, married H. 
M. Curley, who died leaving four children, 
May, Orra J., John W. and Emma. Mrs. 
Curley lives at Mercersburg. 

(3) Annie E., born in 1857, married 
Daniel H. Grove, has seven or eight children 
and lives near Shady Grove, Antrim town- 
ship. 

(4) Ida B., born in 1861. married Will- 
iam C. Cantner. of Greencastle, and they 
have two children, a son and a daughter. 

(5) Emma A., born in 1864, married 
George F. Grove, of Greencastle, and they 
have two children, Linn W. and Charles. 

Mrs. Susan (Dibelbiss) Witmer died in 
1868, and Mr. Witmer married for his sec- 
ond wife Melinda Myers, daughter of Sam- 
uel Peckman, of Letterkenny township, 
about seven miles west of Chambersburg. 
No children were born to the second mar- 
riage. 

After teaching at Welsh Run and farm- 
ing at the same time Mr. Witmer turned his 
attention strictly to farming, which he began 
in the spring of 1852, continuing until 1871, 
when he sold his farm and moved to Aler- 
cersburg. There he resided until 1875, when 
he purchased his present residence. In 1874 
Mr. Witmer became engaged in the grain 
and commission business, handling coal, 
lumber, etc. This he continued to run until 
July I, 1902, when he retired from active 
work in that field. 

Mr. Witmer was burgess of ^lercersburg 
in the early eighties, serving a three-years 
term, and he was elected to the town council 
three terms, completing his last term in 1902, 
being president of that body until March of 
that vear. For twentv-one vears he served as 



school director. Politically he is a Republi- 
can, but has never aspired to political pref- 
erment, and has the reputation of never hav- 
ing sought a vote. For about fifteen years 
he has served as a director of the Farmers 
Bank of Mercersburg, during which time the 
bank has been eminently successful. Mr. 
Witmer is a Lutheran in religious thought 
and in much respect among the members of 
that denomination, in which he has served as 
trustee. Social, genial and generous, he has 
won the highest respect of his fellow citi- 
zens and enjoys his advancing years amid the 
smiles of fortune and friends. 

JEREMIAH S. YAUKEY, a promi- 
nent contractor and builder of Fayetteville, 
as well as dealer in lumber, proprietor of a 
sawmill, and public-spirited citizen, was born 
on a farm in Guilford township, Oct. 4, 1849, 
son of Daniel and Mary (Somers) Yaukey, 
deceased. 

(I) JEREMIAH YAUKEY, the 
grandfather of our subject, is supposed to 
have emigrated from Germany to Franklin 
county, and was numbered among its earnest 
settlers. He died in Ohio, the father of the 
following family, all now deceased. 

1. John. 

2. Joseph. 

3. Henry. 

4. Daniel (II). 

5. Sarah married Jacob Nicholas. 

6. Elizabeth married Jeremiah Har- 
mon. 

(II) DANIEL YAUKEY was born on 
the old Yaukey farm in Guilford township, 
June 9. 1809, and died at Fayetteville, May 
19, 1886. He had lived retired for some 
years, the last six years he having been 
blind. He was one of the thrifty and active 
farmers of Guilford township during his 
younger days, and he was a true Christian 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLLN COUNTY. 



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Bretliren in Christ Church of Fayetteville, 
where for many years he was one of the 
pillars of that faith. He married a Miss 
Somers, who was born Nov. 9. 181 1. and 
wlio died near Altenwald. Pa., Aug. 24, 
1863. His children were as follows: 

1. Hiram, born Feb. 25, 1839. died 
Aug. 17, 1 86 1. 

2. Daniel, born Feb. 25, 1841, is a 
business man of Fayetteville. 

3. Amanda, bom July 26, 1843. mar- 
ried Emanuel ]\liller. 

4. Hezekiah, born April 27. 1846. is 
a farmer of Fayetteville. 

5. Jeremiah Somers (HI). 

6. Rebecca, born April 19. 1853, died 
in childhood. 

(HI) JEREML\H S. YAUKEY was 
reared upon the Yaukey homestead in Guil- 
ford township, and attended the public school 
of his neighborhod. Later he went to Stras- 
burg Normal School, and still later to the 
Lebanon \*alley College at Annville, Pa. 
After finishing his courses, he taught school 
in bVanklin county with marked success, but 
in 1870, he removed to Fayetteville, as a 
book agent. Proving successful in this line, 
he later became the representative of a well 
known manufacturer of farm machinery, and 
still later he went into a warehouse business 
with his brother Daniel. Li 1876 he built a 
warehouse with a capacity of 15,000 bushels 
of grain. In 18S6, he began contracting and 
building, and has carried out contracts for 
some of the best houses and churches 
throughout Franklin county. Naturally, he 
soon thereafter became interested in handling 
lumber, and saw milling, and he now oper- 
ates one of the best equipped sawmills in the 
township, while his lumber operations are 
very large. In 1889, his other interests con- 
suming so much of his time, he retired from 
the grain and warehouse business. 

On Jan. 13, 1889, Jeremiah S. Yaukey 



married Miss Margaret Immel, of West 
Salem, \Vayne Co., Ohio, daughter of 
Michael Immel, formerly of Franklin county. 
Two children ha\'e been born of this union : 

1. Franklin B., deceased. 

2. Hattie Bell is attending school at 
Fayetteville, and is a promising young lady. 

Mr. Yaukey is a man of great business 
al)ility, keen judgment and executive force. 
By his excellent management, he has built 
up a verv extensive business in his several 
lines, and controls a very enviable amount of 
trade. As a contractor and builder his work 
does him credit, his buildings being substan- 
tial, well constructed and modern in every 
respect. In all his dealings with his fellow 
men, Mr. Yaukey has always been strictly- 
honorable, and his word is regarded as an- 
other's bond. This method of doing business 
has naturally gained for him the full con- 
fidence of the community at large, and his 
success is certainly well merited. Both Mr. 
and Mrs. Yaukey have many warm personal 
friends in Fayetteville and vicinity, and they 
are regarded as leaders in the social life of 
the place. 

LLOYD FAMILY. Morris Lloyd 
(born in Camden, N. J., Oct. 8, 1856), 
son of Isaac and Carrie W. (Butcher) 
Lloyd, is the owner and editor of the Peo- 
ple's Register. Chambersburg. Mr. Lloyd's 
father, Isaac Lloyd (born in 1800 — died in 
1876), was a son of Isaac Lloyd, a native of 
Philatlelphia of Welsh origin and a promi- 
nent Quaker. Isaac Lloyd, Jr., was twice 
married. His first wife was a Bolton. They 
had children: 

1. Eliz.\betii married Newton Orrick, 
of Philadelphia. 

2. Bolton died aged twenty-one years. 

3. Frank died in Michigan. 

4. William lives in Philadelphia. 

5. Clement lives in Philadelphia. 



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6. Horace is presiilent of tlie First X::- 
ional Bank of Phoenixville. 

7. Fannie died aged tliirteen years. 
Isaac Lloyd married (second) Carrie W. 

Butcher, by whom he liad issue : 

1. Morris, of Ciiambersburg. 

2. Charles W. died aged eighteen 
years. 

MORRIS LLOYD was educated at 
Swarthmore College, but he withdrew be- 
fore being graduated to learn the printing 
business in Philadelphia. Later he went to 
West Grove, Chester Co., Pa., where he 
started the West Grove Independent, which 
he conducted fi^r seventeen years. Early in 
1901 he sold his paper at West Grove and 
came to Chambersburg, wdiere he purchased 
the People's Register, which at that time was 
owned by J. E. Roberts, of Camden, X. J- 
He took charge of the paper in April, 1901, 
and has since conducted it with great suc- 
cess. In equipment the plant stands first 
in the Cumberland Valley. It may be said 
of the People's Register that it occupies and 
always has occupied a unique place in local 
journalism in Pennsylvania. It was founded 
by Rev. J. G. Schaff in 1876, and ever since 
it has filled a field until then unoccupied. 
The paper from its foundation has been 
truthful but not aggressive, independent, 
but not neutral when duty required it to 
.speak plainly. These (|ualities soon met with 
a favorable response from the community 
and gave it a constituency of its own. \\.a 
circulation grew rapidly and steadily and in 
a few years passed the high water-mark 
previously attained by weekly newspapers in 
the Cumberland \^alley and Pennsylvania. 
Under Mr. Lloyd's management the Peo- 
ple's Register has almost doubled the large 
circulation that it had when he obtained it, 
and he has gi\en it increased character and 
prestige. In politics he is independent, and 
he conducts his newspaper ui)on the basis 



of his personal independence in politics. Mr. 
Lloyd married Annie M. Ambler, daugh- 
ter of John and Harriet Ambler, of Philadel- 
phia : they have one son, 
Robert L. 

JOHN A. JOHNSTOX, one of the 
well-known farmers of Washington town- 
ship, Franklin county, residing on his fine 
farm near the Maryland line and about one 
mile from Rouzerville, was born X"ov. 12, 
1846, on the Johnston farm, in the same 
neighborhood, .son of William and Susan 
(Harbaugh) Johnston. 

(I) ROBERT JOHNSTON, the pa- 
ternal grandfather, was a native of Scotland 
and an early settler in Franklin county. 

(II) WILLIAM JOHNSTON (born 
near Rouzerville, May 13, 1808 — died 
March 31, 1882) married Susan Harbaugh 
(born March 18, 18 10— died Feb. 8. 1888), 
and their children were as follows : 

1. George H., born July 26. 1833. 

2. NancYj born Feb. 12, 1835. 

3. Washington, born Oct. 22, 1836. 

4. Catherine, born Dec. 21. 1838. 

5. William, born Sept. 24, 1840. 

6. Susan L., born Oct. 14, 1842. 

7. Mary E., born Oct. 26, 1844. 

8. John Aaron (III). 

9. Margaret C, born March 3, 1848. 

10. S.\RAH, born Jan. 14, 1850. 

11. Margaret married Henry Leckron. 

12. S.-\RAH married Rev. A. K. Kline. 

13. Marth.\ married L. F. Benchoff. 

(III) JOHN A. JOHNSTON was mar- 
ried April 10, 1871, to Mary E. Brown, born 
Jan. 15, 1847, "i Frederick county. Md.. 
daughter of John and Mary ( Delauter) 
Brown. The father was born in 1805 in 
Frederick county, and died in 1848; he was 
a son of William Brown., also a native of 
Frederick county. The mother of Mrs. 
Jtjhn.ston was born in 181 7 in Frederick 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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county, and died in 1S58. Mr. and Mrs. 
Brown liad three children hesides Mrs. 
Johnston, as follows : Hannah, who mar- 
ried James Benchoff, of Washington town- 
ship, Franklin county ; Ignatius, who mar- 
ried Annie Dickey, of Chattanoooa, Tenn, ; 
and Erias. The chililrcn horn to our suhiect 
and his wife were nine in numher, as f(.)llows : 

1. Catherine Pauline. 

2. Maude Belle married Henry K. 
Lehman, of Washington township. 

3. F. May. 

4. Bertha. 

5. Stanley. 

6. Martha Louise. 

7. Mary Susan. 

8. John Robert. 

9. Charles Leon. 

Mr. Johnston has been a farmer all his 
life. He remained on the home place with 
his parents until 1870, and then farmed there 
for himself until the death of his father, 
when he bought the property. After the 
death of his uncle, George Harbaugh, he also 
bought his farm, and now owns and operates 
both, being one of tlie extensive farmers of 
his vicinity. In 1S85 he completed his fine 
brick residence and moved into it the same 
year. It is one of the most complete country 
homes in the county, fitted up with all mod- 
ern improvements and conveniences, includ- 
ing steam heat and hot and cold water, all 
over the house. It is surrounded with hand- 
some grounds and is an ideal rural home. 

Mr. Johnston has taken an active part in 
local matters and has served several terms as 
school director. He is one of the substan- 
tia] and representative men of his township 
and in all public movements looking to the 
betterment of agricultural conditions, good 
roads, or educational advantages, his ad\ice 
is sought and acted upon. Both he and his 
wife are consistent members of the Reformed 
Church, to which he is a liberal contributor. 



On the maternal side Mr. Johnston is a great- 
great-grandson of 

(I) YOST HARBAUGH, record (jf 
whom is found in the land office at Harris- 
burg, where it is shown that in 1739 Joast 
(as the name was then spelled) Harbaugh 
owned a tract of 100 acres of land in what 
is now Berks county. He is supjwsed to have 
come to America in 1736. Yost Harbaugh 
was twice married, and to his first marriage 
were born children as follows: 

1 . George. 

2. LunwiG. 

3. Jacob (II). 

4. John. 

5. Henry. 

6. Yost. 

Yost Harbaugh's second wife, as given in 
his will, was "Mary Lizzie," and to that 
marriage these children were born : 

1. Mary. 

2. Elizabeth. 

3. Anna Margaret. 

4. Ann Catherine. 

(II) JACOB HARBAUGH, the great- 
grandfather, was born Feb. 5, 1730, and was 
six years old when the family emigrated. 
He came to Harbaugh Valley, Md.. in 1761, 
the year he married, having previously pur- 
chased land in Frederick county, and there 
he passed his life, dying April 28, 1818. 
In April, 1761, he married Anna Margaret 
Smith (born April 3, 1740), daughter of 
George Smith; she died March 8, 1803. The 
children of this marriage were : 

1 . Anna Margaret. 

2. Jacob. 

3. John. 

4. Susannah. • . 

5. Catherine. 

6. Barbara. 

7. Anna Maria. 

8. Henry. 

9. George (III). 



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(Ill) GEORGE HARBAUGH, grand- 
father of Mr. Johnston, was born March 17, 
1774, on the homestead in Harbaugh Valley, 
Md., and on Jan. 2, 1801, married Anna 
Snyder, daughter of Jacob Snyder, of Mary- 
land. Soon after marriage they removed to 
Washington township, Franklin county, set- 
tling near the Maryland line, at the foot of 
South mountain, on a tract containing 200 
acres of new and unimpro\ed land, a part 
of a tract called "The third re-survey of 
Sarah's Delight, granted by patent to Chris- 
topher Shockey in 1768." Shockey sold it to 
Jacob Harbaugh, Sr., in 1787, for one thous- 
and pounds; on Sept. i, 1804, Jacob Har- 
baugh Sr., sold it to George Harbaugh for 
twelve hundred pounds. The children of 
George and Anna Harbaugh were : 

1. Catherine (born Sept. 9, 1801) 
married Abraham Welty (born March 18, 
1798). 

2. Elizabeth (born Dec. 13, 1802) 
married D. M. Livers. 

3. Nancy (born May 21, 1805), mar- 
ried Jacob Hoover. 

4. Jacob died March i, 1808, aged one 
year, one month, twenty days. 

5. Rebecca (born Oct. 13, 1808). 
married Samuel Barkdall. 

6. Susan (born March 18, 1810) mar- 
ried William Johnston. 

7. John B. (born Jan. 25, 1812) mar- 
ried Mary Livers. 

8. Leonard (born Jan. 8, 1814), mar- 
ried Rebecca Helwig. 

9. George (born Oct. 28, 181 5) mar- 
ried Nancy Hoover. 

10. Henry (born Oct. 28. 1817) stud- 
ied at Mercersburg (Pa.) College, and be- 
came an eminent minister of the Reformed 
Church : he married Louisa Goodrich. 

I 1. Washington (born Jan. 6, 1821) 
read medicine in Philadelphia, and practiced 
his profession first in W'aynesboro, then in 



Bedford county, Pa., and then went to 
I'dorida. 

12. David (born Nov. 29. 1823) stud- 
ied theology at Springfield. Ohio, and be- 
came a minister of the Lutheran Church ; he 
married Margaret Augustine. 

J. ELMOND KEMPTER, M. D., one 

of the leading physicians of Chambersburg, 
Franklin county, was born in 1868 at Mun- 
ich, Germany, a son of Ambrose Kempter, 
the latter of whom came to the United States 
in 1 87 1, and locating at Baltimore engaged 
in the jewelry business. 

He received his education in the schools 
of Baltimore and Washington. At the age 
of eighteen he entered in the employ of a 
wholesale drug store, but not liking a com- 
mercial life he began the study of medicine 
under the preceptorship of Dr. \\'illiam C. 
Jones, and later entered the Medical De- 
partment of the University of Maryland, 
from which institution he was gratluated 
with honors. After serving se\eral years in 
the hospitals of Baltimore and Washington 
and on the stafif of the Brooklyn Sanitarium, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.. he went to Cuba, and prac- 
ticed as physician and surgeon during the 
Spanish-American war. On his return, in 
1898, he acted as a substitute for Dr. J. S. 
Garthwaite, a classmate, located at W^ebster 
Mills, Fulton Co.. Pa. Finding country 
practice congenial, he took up the practice of 
medicine in St. Thomas,. Pa., in the spring 
of 1899: in this field he enjoyed a large 
practice and his success as a practitioner be- 
came known throughout the county. After 
a stay of six years he decided on entering a 
larger field and took up the practice of medi- 
cine in Chambersburg, in which place he is 
now (1905) located. 

In 1 90 1 Dr. Kempter was married to 
Miss Grace L. Guyton, of Sioux City, Iowa, 
daughter of a prominent physician of that 



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place. They have two sons, Guyton and 
Richard. 

Dr. Kempter is a member of tiie Na- 
tional, State and County Medical Societies, 
and is a physician thoroughly modern in all 
of his methods, a man of wide experience and 
deep reading; he has attained high rank as a 
physician and his devotion to his chosen pro- 
fession is being rewarded by the esteem of 
his contemporaries and the love of his 
patrons. 

HENRY MUHLENBERG HIESTER, 
Montgomery township, Franklin county, is 
the son of Joseph Muhlenberg Hiester. His 
ancestry is as follows : 

(I) Three brothers, John, Daniel and 
Joseph Von Heister, students at Halle, Ger- 
many, were obliged to leave the country on 
account of their political convictions about 
the middle of the eighteenth century. They 
escaped to England. There they were fur- 
nished with funds from Germany to go on to 
America where John, the oldest brother, pur- 
chased a large tract of land near Reading, 
Pa., naming it Bern. Land was also pur- 
chased at Tulpehocken, near Philadelphia, 
in that city, and near Harrisburg. 

(II) John had one son, Joseph, who at 
the outbreak of the Revolution raised a reg- 
iment in Reading for the Continental army, 
■declining the command, however, as he 
thought others better fitted to the position. 
He served as captain in this regiment, rising 
afterward to the rank of general. In the 
•campaign of Long Island he was opposed to 
his cousin. General Von Heister, who com- 
manded the Hessian troops. During the 
war Captain Heister was captured and 
•placed on the "Jersey" prison ship. There 
"General Von Heister visited him. offered him 
much kindness, also ofifering him a com- 
mand in the English service if he would 
desert the American cause. This he refused 



to do, and was so indignant that he changed 
the spelling of the name to Hiester and 
dropped the Von. This spelling has since 
been used by the family. He was a member 
of the Convention of 1787 to consider and 
ratify the Constitution of the United States, 
and was also a member of the convention 
that framed the Constitution of Pennsyl- 
vania. For thirty years he served either as a 
member of one or other of the legislative 
houses of Pennsylvania, or in the Congress 
of the United States, finally resigning his 
seat in the lower house of the United States 
Congress, after occupying it for a score of 
years, to become governor of Pennsylvania, 
in 1820. An old watch bearing his name, 
and the date of his military service and gov- 
ernorship, is in the possession of the family. 
He married Elizabeth Whitman, of Penn- 
sylvania, who bore him one son, John Syl- 
\-ester, and several daughters. 

(Ill) JOHN SYLVESTER HIESTER 
was born in Reading, Pa., July 28, 1774. He 
was educated at Princeton, graduating with 
Iionor in 1794. He afterward studied law 
in F'hiladelphia under the liirection of Jaret 
Ingersol, Esq., and was admitted to the Bar. 
During his life he was called to various sta- 
tions of responsibility. For nine years he 
held the offices connected with the courts of 
Berks county now distributed among five 
persons. His business habits were of pecu- 
liar value in the station of cashier of 
The Farmers Bank of Reading, a station 
he held during a most critical financial 
period, and to which, after resigning, he was 
recalled. 

John Sylvester Hiester married Maria 
Catharine Muhlenberg, daughter of Fred- 
rick .\ugustus Muhlenberg, S[>eaker of the 
First and of the Third Congresses of the 
L'uited States. He w^as educated at the Uni- 
versity of Halle, Germany, where on ac- 
count of his scholarship he was presented 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



with a snuff box by Frederick the Great of 
Prussia. This box is still in the possession 
of the family. His father, Henry Melchior 
Muhlenberg, was sent over from Germany 
to America to establish the Lutheran Church 
in America. Another son, Peter Muhlen- 
berg, a clergyman of the Lutheran Church, 
rose to the rank of major general in the Con- 
tinental army, serving on General Washing- 
ton's staff, and his statue, representing Penn- 
sylvania, with that of Fulton now stands in 
the Hall of Fame in the capitol at Wash- 
ington. 

John Sylvester Hiester had five children, 
four of whom married, Joseph M., Fredrick 
A. M., Eugenia and Catharine. 

1. Fredrick A. M. married Lydia 
Garretson, of Georgia. He had one son, 
John S., who married Emily Gelston, of 
Reading, Pa. ; he has no children. 

2. Eugenia was twice married, first to 
her cousin, William Sheaf, of Philadelphia, 
by wiiom she had two daughters, Catharine 
and Ellen. Catharine married Murray 
Stewart, of Maryland, and left two children 
• — Murray Stewart, of Wilmington, Del., 
who married Julia Mcllvaine, of Wilming- 
ton (they had no children) ; and William 
Hiester Stewart, who married Anna Carter, 
of Virginia, and has one daughter. Anna 
(William H. Stewart is a surgeon in the 
U. S. navy and is now resident at Rio 
Janeiro, in Brazil). Ellen married General 
David McMurtre Gregg, of the United 
States army, by whom she had two sons. 
George Sheaf Gregg and David McM. 
Gregg, neither of whom are married. The 
family is resident in Reading, Pennsylvania. 

Eugenia Hiester married a second time 
Murray Rush, of Philadelphia, by whom she 
had one son, Richard Rush, now commander 
in the U^. S. navy. Richard Rush married 
Ella Camp Day, of New York, and has one 
child living, a daughter, Ella Day Rush. 



3. Catharine married Judge Pringle 
Jones, of Pennsylvania. She had no 
children. 

(IV) JOSEPH MUHLENBERG 
HIESTER, eldest son of John Sylvester 
Hiester, was educated at Princeton and at the 
Jefferson Medical school, of Philadelphia, 
graduating with honors. He resided at Read- 
ing and Philadelphia, and at his place at 
Millmont, in Franklin county, engaging oc- 
casionally in the practice of his profession as 
consulting surgeon. He was much abroad 
and was appointed commissioner to the first 
Paris exposition. He married Isobel Craig 
McLanahan, of Franklin county, Pa., daugh- 
ter of William and Mary (Gregg) McLana- 
han, of whom the mother, Mary Gregg, was 
a daughter of Andrew Gregg, who served 
in the Senate and Congress of the L^nited 
States for thirty-five consecutive years and 
was a life-long and warm personal friend of 
Governor Hiester. Three children were 
born to Joseph M. and Isobel C. Hiester : 

1. Eugenia died in infancy. 

2. Maria Catharine Muhlenberg. 

3. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg 
(V). 

(V) HENRY M. HIESTER was born 
Aug. 4, 1852, He was educated at Prir.ce- 
ton and at the Columbia Law School of New 
York, graduated in 1876, and was admitted 
to the Bar of New York in that year. He 
practiced his profession in the city of New 
York for a number of years, but on ilie 
death of his mother, in 1891, lie returned to 
Millmont, Franklin Co., Pa., where he has 
since lived with the exception of years spent: 
in Europe. Mr. Hiester is unmarried. He: 
is an independent in politics. 

Millmont. one of the family homes, came 
into the possession of Governor Hiester 
about 1 819 and has since been held by the- 
family. It is one of the most beautiful coun- 
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The Hiester family can be traced back in 
German history to the twelfth century, and 
its records teem with gallant and inspiring 
deeds, which demonstrate tlie noble character 
of those who accomplished them. 

PHILIP S. HOCH, farmer and stock 
raiser of Southampton township, h'ranklin 
county, was born -Vug. 30, 1846, in South- 
ampton township, Cumberland Co., Pa., son 
of Abram and Magdalene (Shoemaker) 
Hoch. 

(I) HENRY HOCH and Rachel 
(Faulkner) Hoch, the paternal grandpa- 
rents moved from Dauphin to Cumberland 
county and settled permanently in South- 
ampton township, where they ranked among 
the prominent and substantial citizens. 

(II) ABRAM HOCH was born in 
1809, in Dauphin county, and died in 1894. 
He married Magdalene Shoemaker, who was 
bcirn in 181 8, in Franklin county, daughter 
of Philip and Elizabeth (Foglesanger) 
Shoemaker, and died in 1897. Both Mr. 
and Airs. Hoch were buried in the Ridge 
Church cemetery. They were consistent 
members of the German Baptist Church. 
They had a large family, the nine who sur- 
vived to maturity being : 

1. Elizabeth married Joseph Paxton. 

2. R.\CHEL P. became the wife of Wil- 
liam Zeigler, an enterprising business man of 
Middle Spring. 

3. Philip S. (III). 

4. M.\RY M. married Martin S. Tay- 
lor, a teacher in the Harrisburg public 
schools. 

5. B. Kate^ at home, is a teacher, and 
a graduate of the Cumberland Valley State 
Normal School. 

6. S. Jennie is the wife of Jacob Foust, 
of Franklin county. 

7. Martha Ann is the wife of Gilson 
Hammond, of Waynesboro. 



8. David M. is a resident of C"umber- 
land county. 

9. Jacob .\. is of Newburg. 

(Ill) PHILIP S. HOCH passed his 
boyhootl in assisting on the farm and in at- 
tendance upon the public schools, and later 
became a pupil at Whorley's school, in 
Franklin county, where he remained until 
his eighteenth year. Upon his return he con- 
tinued to assist his father until his majority. 
After his marriage he settled on the hr)uie- 
stead for six years and then moved to 
Franklin county, locating on a farm adjoin- 
ing the Shoemaker farm, where he remained 
for twenty-five years. In 1894 he purchased 
the McCullough farm and also the Shoe- 
maker farm, thus becoming the owner of a 
fine tract of 150 acres. The latter farm is 
well improved, with a fine brick residence and 
a substantial bank barn 65x95 feet in dimen- 
sions. Mr. Hoch has his farm well stocked 
with high-grade cattle, and carries on large 
agricultural operations. In addition to be- 
ing the owner of this property he is interested 
largely in the manufacture of hardwo<id 
lumber, holding a timber tract on the Xnrth 
Mountain and owning and operating a ])ort- 
able sawmill. He is one of tlie directors nf 
the Lurgan Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, a concern which has a directing 
board of eight members and seven 
thousand risks, and one which stands well 
among the leading companies of tlie State. 
Mr. Hoch married .\deline Mowery, 
daughter of George and Susan (Leedy) 
Mowery, of Franklin county, and they have- 
two children : 

1. Charles E. 

2. Ira Alonzo. 

Both sons are teachers, and graduates of 
the Cumberland Valley State Normal 
School. Both Air. Hoch and wife are promi- 
nent members of the U. B. Ciiurch, in which 
he is choirmaster and teacher in the Sunday- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



school. He is a man of influence in the 
community, one whose influence is ever di- 
rected toward its moral and educational de- 
velopment. 

DEVILBISS FAMILY. ADAM 
DEVILBISS, a farmer of Frederick county, 
]Md., was of German ancestry, and was a 
soldier in the war of 1812. He married 
Annie Campbell, a native of Frederick 
county, and they had issue: 

1. Ruth married John Fetterling. 

2. Sar.\h married John Hartsock. 

3. Rosa married Wesley Forrest. 

4. George W. (II). 

5. Reuben married Lizzie Fetterling. 

6. Basil P. married Susan Naile. 

7. William married Catharine Hart- 
sock. 

(II) GEORGE W. DEVILBISS (born 
in Frederick County, Md., died in June, 
1854), son of Adam and Annie (Campbell) 
Devilbiss, was a miller in his native county. 
He married Miranda Devilbiss, daughter of 
George Devilbiss, also a miller in Frederick 
county, Md. George W. and Miranda Devil- 
biss had issue : 

1. RuFUS W. (born in Frederick 
county, Md., Sept. 10, 1846), attended the 
coimtry schools, and the Libertytown Acad- 
emy. He has engaged in farming and mer- 
chandising alternately. In 1881 he removed 
to Dickinson county. Kans., remaining there 
until 1888, when he went to Calcasieu Par- 
ish. La. In 1901 he returned to his native 
State. He is an active worker in either the 
Methodist Episcopal or United Brethren 
church, whichever he found most convenient 
to his location. In 1871 he married Rachel 
R. Norwood, daughter of the late Isaiah and 
Ann Norwood, and they have five children : 
Jesse Winfield, Cora Vivian, Grace Alton, 
Clintie Irene and Clifton Norwood. 

2. Henry Clay (III). 



3. Annie M. (born in Frederick 
county, Md., March 26, 1851), received a 
public school education. On July 9, 1874, 
she married James Yeats, a native of Scot- 
land, and they have issue: James Wilber, 
Annie Jane, Edward Clay, Marie Agnes, and 
George Thomson. All are members of the 
Presb3^erian Church. 

4. George W. Devilbiss (born in 
Frederick. county, Md., Feb. 28, 1853) was 
yet an infant when his father died and only 
a small boy when his mother passed away, 
and he was reared by his uncle, John Hart- 
sock, of Johnsville. Md. He was educated 
in the public schools and at Western Mary- 
land College at Westminster, Md., graduat- 
ing in 1875, after which he taught in that 
institution for the next eight years. He then 
conducted private academies at Millersville, 
Md., Fawn Grove and Shrewsbury, Pa. For 
three years he was merchandising and was 
postmaster at Norrisville, Md. In 1903 he 
moved to Stewartstown where he now re- 
sides and is engaged in the canning business. 
He is a member of the Methodist Protestant 
Church, and has held various offices in the 
church, including superintendent of the Sun- 
day school and president of the Christian En- 
deavor Society. In 1878 he married Miss 
Laura A. Edie, of Harford county, Md., and 
t(i them have been born three children, Pearla 
M., Leonard E. and Ralph W. 

(Ill) HENRY CL.\Y DEVILBISS 
(born in Frederick county, Aid., Aug. 26, 
1848), son of George W. and Miranda Dev- 
ilbiss, was educated at a public school in his 
native county known as Central Chapel, and 
afterward at Johnsville Academy. He 
worked on a farm until 1872, and then went 
West for a brief visit. Upon his return 
home, in 1873, he began the study of medi- 
cine with Dr. C. Maynard, and was gradu- 
ated M. D., at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, of Baltimore, in 1877. He prac- 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FIL^NKLIN COUNTY. 



575: 



ticed liis profession at Johnsvillc, Md., 1877- 
83, and then came to Chambersburg, where 
lie lias since been in active practice. He was 
physician to the Franklin county jail, 1898- 
1903. He is a member of the FrankHn 
County Medical Society, and of the State 
Medical Society and the American Medical 
Association. He served as State delegate to 
the American Medical Association in 1898. 
He is a ruling elder in the Central Presbyte- 
rian Church, Chambersburg. On Aug. 20, 
1S78, Dr. Devilbiss married Florence M. 
Foltz. a daughter of William and Julia Ann 
(Lysinger) Foltz, of Saxton, Bedford 
county, Pennsylvania. 

JAMES M. McCLEARY. Some of 
our most substantial, reliable and solid men 
of to-day trace their origin to Scotland's 
shores, and among the representative men of 
Guilford township. Franklin Co., Pa., may 
be mentioned James M. McCleary, a retired 
farmer, who was born in Quincy township. 
this county, Nov. 21, 1825, a son of John 
and Nancy (McCoy) McCleary, now de- 
ceased. 

(I) ROBERT McCLEARY. the 
grandfather, came from Ireland to Franklin 
county about 1770, and located in Quincy 
township, being one of its early settlers. His 
death occurred in 1827. During his long 
residence in the New World he was a farmer, 
and became one of the wealthy men of the 
community. The children born to him 
were: 

1. Nancy married William McDowell. 

2. John (II). 

3. Alexander. 

4. Robert. 

5. William. 

6. Catherine. 

7. Jane. 

8. Molley. 

In religion the children, like the father 



and mother, were Presbyterians. In politics 
the men were Democrats, and firm in their 
views. 

(II) JOHN McCLEARY, the father 
of James M.. had children as follows: 

1. Sarah married Henry Laker. 

2. Ja.mes M. (III). 

3. Robert A. is a retired farmer of 
Quincy township. 

4. William J. 

5. John ]\I. 

6. Daniel is deceased. 

7. M.\Rv Jane. 

8. George W. 

9. Samuel. 

(III) JAMES M. McCLEARY was 
born and reared upon his father's farm, 
working hard and receiving but scant educa- 
tional advantages. For a numljer of years 
he worked among the farmers for wages, 
and had a hard struggle to obtain any foot- 
ing. In 185 1 he married Miss Mary A. 
Gehvicks, a daughter of Frederick and Mary 
(Dick) Gehvicks, of Quincy township, and 
of the children bom to this union three died 
in infancy. We ha\e the following record 
of them : 

1. Sarah A. is deceased. 

2. Henry S., at home, married and 
has a son, Ciiarles R. 

3. ]\Iary Jane married C. C. Miller, 
of Guilford Springs. 

4. John F. is deceased. 

5. LiLLiE M. married Edward Hollin- 
ger, of Guilford township, and has a daugh- 
ter, Nellie. 

6. J. McClellen is deceased. 

Mr. McCleary purchased his present farm 
in 1877. It consists of seventy-five acres of 
excellent farming land, which he has largely 
improved, and has upon it good buildings 
and all necessary appliances. On June 27, 
1885, Mr. McCleary lost his wife, and he 
has since lived upon his home place, with 



574 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

his son. In politics he has been a hfelong 9. Martin married (first) Emma 

Democrat. His rehgious affihations are with Maxheimer, and (second) Jennie Ferry, 
the Lutheran Church of Marion. During I1:e father of this family was a farmer 

the war Mr. McCleary was drafted twice in St. Thomas township, and Ijecame a \ery 
and it cost him $2,400 to purchase sul)Sti- prosperous man. In religious matters he 
tutes. Having lived an industrious, upright was a member of the Dunkard Church. His 
life, he is now enjoying his ease in his com- death occurred in 1875, when he was seventy- 
forital)le home, and has many warm friends three years of age. His widow survived un- 
throughout the county. til 1900, and died aged eighty-eiglit years and 

nine months. She lived to see many de- 
LEVI C. BRANDT, the genial proprie- scendants, being the mother of nine chil- 
tor of the "Millers Hotel" at Chambersburg, dren, grandmother of seventy-three, great- 
Pa., was born Nov. 24, 1845. in St. Thomas grandmother of one hundred and forty, and 
township, Franklin county, son of John and great-great-grandmother of three. 
Mary (Christman) Brandt. (Ill) LEVI C. BRANDT attended 

(I) DAVID BRANDT, his paternal school in St. Thomas township, and worked 
grandfather, lived first at Hummelstown, upon his father's farm as was the custom, 
Pa., but subsequently moved to St. Thomas and thus continued until 1864, when he en- 
township, and bought a large tract of land, listed in Company .\, 15th Pennsylvania 
The children born to himself and wife were Cavalry, and served in the Army of the 
as follows : Cumberland under General Thomas in the 

1. D.wiu luarried a Miss Stoner, of campaign against General Hood, proving 
Franklin county. himself a bra\e and gallant soldier. Return- 

2. John (II) married a Miss Christ- ing from the army, he farmed for a time in 
man, of Franklin county. St. Thomas -township, then engaged in 

3. ALxRTiN died when a young man. butchering for nine years, and later operated 

(II) JOHN BRANDT, son of David, a hotel at St. Thomas for seven years. At 
had children as follows: the end of that time, he came to Chambers- 

1. D.wiD married (first) Lizzie Bear, burg, and in 1897 took charge of the "Mil- 
(second) Hettie Statler and (third) Eliza lers Hotel," a well known and popular 
West, all being from Franklin count)-. hostelry, and has successfully conducted it 

2. Catherine married Rev. .Xdam ever since, making it one of the best patron- 
Pheil, of St. Thomas, Franklin county. ized houses in the city. The rooms are com- 

3. Henry married Elizabeth Stauft'er. fortable, the service as near perfect as possi- 
and is deceased. ''I*?' while the cuisine is excellent. 

4. Barbara married Henry Grove, a In 1866 Mr. Brandt married Emma, 
farmer of Antrim township. daughter of John and Henrietta (Herr) 

5. Mary married John Kreiner a Sites of iM-anklin county. Seven children 
farmer of Peters township, Franklin county, liave been born of this union : 

6. Sarah married Jacob Stotler, a i. Mary E. married H. S. Eberly of 
farmer of Antrim township. St. Thomas township. 

7. John married .Annie Dash. 2. Carrie G. married Dr. J. W. Croft 

8. Levi C. (Ill) married Emma M. of Waynesboro. 

5it;es 3. SiiELBv B. is at home. 



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4. Jessie B. is at home. 

5. Ida M. died in infancy. 

6. John R. died in infancy. 

7. L.\UR.\ A. died in infancy. 

Mr. Brandt is a member of the Knights 
of the Golden Eagle; G. A. R. Post, No. 
578, St. Thomas, and also of the American 
Relief Association. For eighteen years, Mr. 
Brandt was one of the most popular and suc- 
cessful auctioneers of Franklin county, and 
he has always made and retained friends 
where\-er he has gone. He is very highly 
esteemed in Chambersburg, and the success 
which has attended him is certainly well 
merited. 

MARTIN S. FUNK, a leading and suc- 
cessful farmer of Washington township, 
Franklin county, was born Sept. 8, 1844, 
in the old Funk homestead about one and a 
half miles from Waynesboro, son of Jacob 
S. and Catherine (Shelly) Funk. 

The origin of the Funk family was in 
Gerniany, from which country three broth- 
ers emigrated to the United States prior to 
the Revolutionary War. From that period 
until some time after the close of the war, 
the family can not be authentically traced 
until we come to Henry Funk, the grand- 
father of our subject. 

( I ) HENRY FUNK was born in Lan- 
caster county, and came to Franklin county 
soon after its organization, purchasing sev- 
eral hundred acres of land on what is known 
as the Big Spring, in the marshes west of 
Waynesboro. He married a member of the 
Miller family of Lancaster county, and they 
had born to them two sons : 

1. Henry died in 1849. 

2. Jacob (II). 

(II) JACOB FUNK, father of our 
subject, was born Feb. 15, 1803. on the old 
Funk farm at Big Spring, and died Feb. 5, 
1850. He married Catherine Shelly, born 



Jan. 15, 1806, on the old Shelly homestead 
between Wayneslx)ro and Grcencastle, 
Washington township, and died in 1890. 
Their children were as follows : 

1. Elizabeth (born Nov. 8, 1825) 
married Samuel Hollinger, of Franklin 
county. 

2. Henry (bom May 14, 1827) mar- 
rjed a Miss Stauffer, and resides at Waynes- 
boro. 

3. Rebecca (born Oct. 8, 1829) mar- 
ried Daniel Shank. 

4. Mary (torn April 30, 1831) mar- 
ried Dr. David Newcomer, of Mt. Morris, 
Illinois. 

5. D.wiD (born Nov. 14, 1832) mar- 
ried a Miss Koons, and is deceased. 

6. Jacob (bom Oct. 29, 1834) mar- 
ried Maggie McAfee, and resides in Franklin 
county. 

7. Abraham, torn Feb. 15, 1836, died 
Feb. 14, 1838. 

8. Nancy, bom June 26, 1837, died 
July 19, 1838. 

9. Chrlstian (torn Nov. 25, 1838) 
married Miss Beaver, and lives in Ohio. 

10. Joseph (torn July 14, 1840) mar- 
ried Miss Wetter, and resides in Ohio. 

11. Cyrus (born Dec. 2, 1841) married 
Miss Hollinger, and resides at Kansas City, 
Missouri. 

12. Annie C. (torn March 10, 1843) 
married Rev. Martin S. Newcomer, and 
died in 1892. 

13. Martin S. (HI), born Sept. 8, 
1844. 

14. Susanna (torn June 15, 1846) 
mlarried John Shank, of Washington town- 
ship, Franklin county. 

15. Martha, born May 24, 1847, cl'^^I 
Dec. 21, 1847. 

After Jacob l'"unk, father of our subject, 
was married, he purchased what was known 



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as the Nicodennis farm, whicli liccame liis 
home place, and whicli is now the home of 
our subject. On this he erected a commod- 
ious brick mansion, and there lived out the 
balance of his days, following- agricultural 
pursuits. He was thrifty and successful, 
and at the time of death owned fully 500 
acres of good land. On this place, at the 
time of purchase, stood a barn erected during 
the time of slavery in Pennsylvania, which 
still stands, and which is in use. Besides his 
farms he owned also a mill in Washington 
county, Md. His religious connection was 
with the River Brethren Church. 

(Ill) MARTIN S. FUNK was reared 
on the old homestead and attended the com- 
mon schools of the neighborhood. He has 
occupied his present farm all his life, pur- 
chasing it at the death of his mother. It 
contains 175 acres of the 500 owned by his 
father, and in its situation and cultivation, 
ranks with the best in the county. Mr. Funk 
carries on general farming, raises consider- 
able stock, and is a large fruit grower, par- 
ticularly of grapes. He is one of the best 
farmers as well as one of the most sub- 
stantial men of the township. 

Mr. Funk was one of the first directors 
of the Bank of \Vayneslx)ro, and held the 
position two years, at present being one of 
the directors of the Citizens National Bank, 
of which he was one of the original incor- 
porators. He is also a shareholder in some 
of the leading industries of Waynesboro, and 
is one of the intelligent and progressive citi- 
zens. For several terms he efficiently served 
the township as school director. 

In December, 1864, Mr. Funk married 
Elizabeth Sarbaugh, born in York county, 
Pa., daughter of George and Sarah (Her- 
man) Sarbaugh, who remov'ed to I'ranklin 
county and there spent their remaining years, 
having been the parents of ten chiUlren as 
follows : Solomon ; William ; George ; Hat- 



tie : Reljecca : Sarah ; Elizabeth : Jacob ; John, 
and Elmer. 

Martin S. Funk and wife have had issue : 

1. Edmund L., born Aug. 6. 1865, died 
Dec. II, 1869. 

2. Minnie B. (born Feb. 17. 1867) 
married Harry D. Morgol, a merchant of 
Washington township, Franklin county, and 
they have children : Clair Funk ; Ada Eliza- 
beth and Jessie Blanche. 

3. Lillian May (torn Sept. 25, 
1869) married L'. G. Stover, dealer in wood, 
coal and luml^er at Wayneslioro, and they 
ha\-e children as follows : Raymond L.,. 
Martin Funk and Lillian Marie. 

4. Cora C.vtherine (IxDrn Dec. 5, 
1872) married Edwin B. Fahrney, of 
Wayneslx)ro, and they have children as fol- 
lows : Floyd I'\ink and Edwin Maxwell. 

Both Mr. and Airs. Funk are members 
of Trinity Reformed Church, of W'aynes- 
boro. They are well and widely known, and 
are among the most highly esteemed resi- 
dents of \\'ashington township. 

JOSEPH HENRY CREBS, one of 
Waynesboro's oldest and most proiuinent 
citizens, was born Dec. 9, 1818, on a farm 
in Dickinson township, Cumberland Co., 
Pa., son of David and Elizabeth (Clippin- 
ger) Crebs, both of whom were natives of 
that county. 

(I) HENRY CREBS, the paternal 
grandfather of Joseph Henry, was a native 
of Germany who emigrated to America and 
settled in Dickinson township, Cumljerland 
county, where he became the owner of two 
farms, and was a very influential man. His 
children were : 

1. Joseph H. 

2. David (II). 

3. John. 

(II) DAVID CREBS was a fanner 
and merchant and died in i860. He mar- 




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ried Elizabeth Clippinger, daujjliter of An- 
tliony Clippinger, the latter a native of Ger- 
many who emigrated to America, and lo- 
cated in Cumberland county. Pa., where he 
engaged in agricultural pursuits, dying on 
his farm near Shippensburg. To David and 
Elizabeth (Clippinger) Crebs were born 
children as follows : 

1. Margaret married David M. 
Cloddy, and both are deceased. Their son 
died out West. 

2. Joseph H. (III). 

3. David resides in Frankford, Ind., and 
has one son, Frank. 

4. Rel'ben resides at Fort Madison, 
Iowa. 

5. Solomon, who lived in Cumberland 
county, is deceased. 

6. William, a minister of the Luth- 
eran faith, resides in Upper Pennsylvania. 

7. Fredericka married Alexander 
Bishop, and is deceased. Her son, John, 
lives in Carlisle. 

(Ill) JOSEPH HEXRY CREBS was 
reared upon the farm until he was fifteen 
years old, attending the common schools, 
and receiving only meagre advantages. At 
that age he went to Centerville, and there 
began an apprenticeship at cabinetmaking. 
A year later found him in Carlisle, where he 
finished his trade. On July 3, 1840, he left 
Carlisle for Waynesboro, arriving the fol- 
lowing day, and since then he has made this 
city his permanent home — a period of sixty- 
five years. Upon first locating in Waynes- 
boro Mr. Crebs worked at his trade for 
Jacob Bender, but at the end of two years he 
bought out Adam Trake, and in partnership 
with his former employer, Mr. Bender, be- 
gan business for himself. He. carried on the 
cabinetmaking business until 1885, at which 
time he disposed of his concern, and retired 
from active work. Mr. Crebs is fond of 
relating that when he arrived in Waynes- 
37 



boro his entire stock in trade consisted of a 
good suit of clothes, his set of tools (worth 
from twenty to twenty-five dollars), and 
about fifteen dollars in cash. From year to 
year he managed to add to liis store, by 
hard work and thrift, so that now in his old 
age he is enjoying well earned wealth, and 
excellent health in spite of the fact that be 
ne\er spared himself, but always lalxjred 
early and late. He owns some very valua- 
ble realty in Waynesboro, as well as good 
farming lands. Mr. Crebs is one of the 
original organizers and directors of the Peo- 
ple's National Bank, in which he is still a 
director. He is interested in the Water 
Compan}-. the Frick Manufacturing Com- 
pany, the Landis Tool Company, and is 
treasurer of the Green Hill Cemetery Com* 
pany. He has always been a consistent mem- 
ber of the Lutheran Church, of which he 
is an elder. For many years he has been an 
ardent advocate of temperance, and has 
worked hard for the advancement of the 
Prohibition party, as well as for the exten- 
sion of his church. 

On Feb. 22, 1844, Mr. Crebs was uni- 
ted in marriage with Anna Jane Brotherton, 
daughter of Dr. James Brotherton, who was 
born in Wayneslxjro, and died Xov. 13, 
1899. Four children were born of this 
union, three dying in infancy. Tlie other, 

Helen E., married Jason Bell, of 
Waynesboro, and has two children : Joseph 
C, who married Caroline Trone; and Car- 
rie A., who married Bernard Foreman, of 
^^'aynesboro, and has two children, Helen 
C. and Adele B. 

FLETCHER FAMILY. COL. JOHN 
FLETCHER (born in Adams county) was 
among the early residents of McConnells- 
burg, where he was a merchant. He was a 
man of extensive reading, was especially well 
versed in the Bible and well-informed on all. 



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theological questions. For many years 
he was a prominent member of the Masonic 
fraternity. He was twice married. The 
name of his first wife was Ann Moore; they 
had issue : 

1. Ann (born at McConnellsburg) 
married March 17, 1819, William Duffield 
(born at Welsh Run in 1786 — died in 1848). 
son of Dr. Samuel and Eleanor (Elliott) 
Duffield. and grandson of William Duffield, 
one of the pioneers of the West Cono- 
cocheague, a soldier in Col. Bouquet's expedi- 
tion, a member of the Pennsylvania Con- 
vention of 1776. and a member of the As- 
sembly 1776-77. Eleanor Elliott was a 
daughter of Johnston Elliott, a Revolution- 
ary soldier. Mr. Duffield went to McCon- 
nellsburg in 1810, and engaged in mercan- 
tile pursuits. In 1812 he enlisted in Captain 
Beckwith's company and was appointed a 
quartermaster under General Harrison. 
He was afterward engaged in business as a 
merchant at McConnellsburg until 1836. 
William and Ann Duffield had issue : Samuel 
E. (born May 13, 1820). a physician at Mc- 
Connellsburg and superintendent of the doc- 
ument room of the House of Representa- 
tives, Washington. D. C, 1861-74; John T. 
(born Feb. 19, 1823 — died April 10, 1901), 
professor of mathematics at Princeton; 
Mary E. who married John Robinson ; Ann 
E-, who married Hon. Francis Jordan; and 
Emma R., who married Samuel Lyon, an 
attorney. 

2. Ch.\rles Augustus (II). 

3. Ch.\rlotte died unmarried. 

4. Rebecca died unmarried. 

Colonel Fletcher married (second) Jan. 
24. 1815, :Mrs. Elizabeth (Gaff) Scott,'^ 
widow of John Scott, and daughter of John 
and (Rule) Gaff; they had issue: 

I. JouN C.'M.viN (Ixirn at McConnells- 
burg )was graduated at the West Point Mil- 



itary Acadeni}- in 1838, and appointed sec- 
ond lieutenant in the 6th United States In- 
fantry, July I, 1838, and first lieutenant Nov. 
I, 1838. He served in the Cherokee Nation, 
(luring the emigration in 1838; in the Flor- 
ida War, 1838-40, and was adjutant of the 
6th infantry at regimental headquarters, 
1839-40. He resigned Nov. 10, 1840, and 
engaged in business as a merchant at McCon- 
nellsburg. 

2. William Scott (born January, 
1819), was a merchant at McConnellsburg, 
and later a member of the banking firm of 
Austin, Elder & Fletcher, Chambersburg. 
He was a member of the board of trustees of 
Wilson College, and was its treasurer, and 
when the college was in financial straits his 
exertions and business ability helped to save 
it. Fletcher Hall is a worthy memorial of 
his services. 

3. James, a minister of the Lutheran 
Clnuxh. 

4. Robert. 

5. Elizabeth married James C. Aus- 
tin (born Oct. i, 1823 — died Nov. 7, 1889),. 
son of James and Rebecca (Harris) Austin. 
He was a prominent business man of Fulton 
and Franklin counties ; a member of the Leg- 
islature, 1861-62; and major of the 126th 
P. \'. I. They had issue : Rebecca, who 
married Dr. Johnston McLanahan. 

( II) CHARLES AUGUSTUS 
FLETCHER (born in 1804— died in 1846), 
son of Col. John and Ann (^loore) Fletcher, 
was a merchant and prominent business 
man at Leitersburg, jMd. He was a member 
of the Maryland Legislature, and died while 
serving in that body. In 1829 he married 
Elizabeth Ziegler, daughter of Frederick and 
Elizabeth (Leintz) Ziegler, of Lancaster 
county; they had issue: 

T. Georce. 

2. Helen died young. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



579 



3. Marv. 

4. AxME married D. Watson Rowe 
[Rowe Family]. 

5. Louis Henry (HI). 

6. Emma died aged three years. 

7. Charles Frederick, born Nov. i, 
1S43, li^'ss at Greencastle. 

(HI) LOUIS HENRY FLETCHER 
(born at Leitersburg. I\Id., April 24, 1839), 
son of Charles A. and Elizabeth (Ziegler) 
Fletcher, came to Greencastle after his fath- 
er's death to live with his uncle. George \\'. 
Ziegler. He was educated in the public 
schools and served in his uncle's store until 
he was twenty-three years old. .\fter his 
marriage he went to Lancaster, where he 
was a clerk in the store of Martin & Lantz 
for three years. While thus engaged he was 
chosen cashier of the First National Bank of 
Greencastle, a position that he held for six- 
teen years, 1865-81. He was afterward en- 
gaged in business as a grain dealer at Ship- 
pensburg with Gambrill & Co., of Baltimore. 
In 1884 he entered the Auditor's office of the 
Cumberland \'alley Railroad at Chambers- 
burg, where he remained for eighteen years. 
He attributes his success in life to hard work 
and close attention to business. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and has always been 
an active party worker. He served as a 
school director at Greencastle for si.x years, 
and in 1902 was elected county treasurer of 
Franklin county, an office that he now holds. 
He is a ruling elder of the Presbyterian 
Church of Greencastle. On June 5. 1862, 
Mr. Fletcher married Martha Ellen Rowe. 
(born June 22. 1840). daughter of Hon. 
John and Elizabeth (Prather) Rowe. They 
had issue : 

1 . Charles died aged three years. 

2. Lillian- died at the age of twenty- 
one. 

3. John Rowe, president of the city 
council, Harrisburg, married Elizabeth Hot- 



ter, and they have t\\ o children, John M. and 
Martha Ann. 

4. Mary Ziegler married J. 1". Mar- 
tin, of Jacksonxille. Fla. : and they have is- 
sue : John v., Henry I'"., Lillian F., and Mary 
Ann. 

5. Emily married Pitt F. Carl, of 
Greencastle, and they have three children, 
Charles W., Pitt F. and Mary Lillian. 

6. Henry Pr.vther (born April 10, 
1873), was educated in the public schools 
and at the Chambersburg Academy. He 
studied law under his uncle. Judge D. Wat- 
son Rowe. and was admitted to the Franklin 
county Bar. in 1894. He was a volunteer 
in the "Rough Riders" in the Spanish-Amer- 
ican War, in 1898. and was in the actions of 
San Juan and El Cany, Santiago de Cuba. 
He is now Secretary of the American Lega- 
tion, at Pekin, China. 

7. J. GiLMORE is a member of the 
Franklin county Bar, and is court stenog- 
rapher. 

8. George Frederick is of Mobile, 
Alabama. 

9. David ^^'ATSON is with the S. P. 
Shotler Company, Philadelphia. 

10. Florence Isabel is at home. 

GEORGE F. BLOSER, a successful 
jeweler and prominent resident of Green- 
castle, Pa., is a native of Newville, Cumber- 
land county, where he was born Oct. 28, 
1866. son of Peter anrl Catherine (.Alex- 
ander) Bloser. both deceased, natives of 
Cumberland county. The parental ancestry- 
is supposed to be of German e.xtraction. while 
on the maternal side the forebears came from 
England. 

(I) ALEXANDER BLOSER emi- 
grated from England to this countn-. al- 
though from what exact county is unknown. 
He settled in Cumberland county, Pa., 
bought a farm and followed farming the re- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL AXXALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



mainder of his life. The Bloser family num- 
bered many farmers among its members, al- 
though Peter Bloser (H), son of Alex- 
ander and father of George F., was a car- 
penter and contractor in his early life. 

(II) Peter Bloser passed his later life en- 
gaged in farming, and he died at the age of 
seventy-two years from an accident. His 
wife, Catherine Alexander was seventy-four 
years of age when she died, and both were 
consistent members of the Lutheran Church. 
While a contractor and builder, Peter Bloser 
carried on an extensive business, erecting 
many dwellings as well as business blocks, 
and he controlled a large and profitable trade. 
He had issue: 

1. Ellen married George Stover, of 
Plainfield, Pennsylvania. 

2. John, of Heberling, Pa., a merchant. 

3. Simon is a contractor and builder of 
Bloserville. 

4. Solomon B. is a tanner of Cumber- 
land county. 

5. Elias a. is a jeweler at New Ken- 
sington. 

6. Harry is a contractor and builder 
at Newville. 

7. James^ deceased. 

8. George F. (III). 

(III) GEORGE F. BLOSER, being 
the youngest of the family, remained upon 
the home farm where he was reared, and at- 
tended the public schools until he was seven- 
teen years of age, at which time he started to 
learn the jeweler trade at Newville. After 
completing his apprenticeship he came to 
Greencastle in the spring of 1889, and lo- 
cated on the corner of Center Square, where 
he is to be found today, and started as a jew- 
eler on a comparatively small scale. However, 
he has built up his business most remark- 
ably, and he now enjoys a very gratifying 
trade, carrying a fine line of goods, embrac- 
ing everything in his line, all of the best 



(juality. He is a thorough mechanic and 
the repair department is in good hands, a 
specialty being made of watch work. 

^Ir. Bloser is active in local afYairs, and 
afiiliates with the Democratic party, being 
at present a member of the school board, and 
the only Democrat upon it. Fraternally he 
is a member of the Masonic order, Mt. 
Pisgah Lodge, No. 443. On May 29, 1902 
he married Miss H. ^lay \\'hite. daughter of 
John White, of Greencastle. They are at- 
tendants of the Presbyterian Church, of 
Greencastle, of which he is trustee, and they 
are numbered among the leading factors 
in the social life of Greencastle. where they 
have many warm, personal friends. 

JOHN R. EBERLY. one of the leading 
fruit growers of Franklin county, now re- 
siding in St. Thomas township, was 
lx)rn Feb. 17. 1835. near Chamliersburg. on 
the farm now occupied by Congressman 
]\Iahon, son of Jacob and Hannah (Reed) 
Eberly. 

(I) PETER EBERLY, great-grand- 
father of our subject, came from Switzer- 
land, and took up land in Lancaster county. 
Pa. He was either a Lutheran or Mennonite, 
and was a \-ery honorable and upriglit man, 
and died in Lancaster county. He was the 
father of : 

I. Peter (II). 

(II) PETER EBERLY son of Peter 
the emigrant, moved to Chambersburg, be- 
came an extensive real estate dealer, and re- 
sided upon the present location of Hoke's 
store at Chambersburg. He married twice, 
but there was no issue by his first marriage. 
His second wife bore him children as fol- 
lows : 

1 . Peter. 

2. Katie married (first) John McFar- 
land, and (second) John Deming, a printer 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



581 



time of the Gen. Harrison campaign. She 
married (tliird) a farmer liy the name of 
McGili. 

3. Maria married a Mr. Cummings. 

4. John married a Miss Lydick. 

5. Henry married Annie Hoke, of 
IMercersburg. With William Gilman he 
built the foundry now owned by Woods 
Sons, of Chambersburg, at the Cumberland 
\'alley Railroad depot, but later he sold his 
interest, and after studying dentistry, prac- 
ticed his profession at Mercersburg. where 
he died in 1903. 

6. Joseph married Roseanna Spar, of 
Chambersburg-. 

7. Peter married Paley Rife. 

8. Jacob (III). 

(Ill) JACOB EBERLY married 
(first) Hannah Reed, daughter of Michael 
Reed a farmer, and his wife, who was a 
member of the Klupp family. Michael Reed 
Avas the father of the following children : 
Isaac married Mary Converer; William mar- 
ried Mary Miller: Hannah: John married 
Catherine Snider ; Michael married Elizabeth 
Branthafer; Rebecca married George 
Sowers: Susan was unmarried; Eliza mar- 
rietl Dr. Jacob Benedict ; Reuben was twice 
married, his second wife being a Miss Lamb: 

Benjamin married Harriet : and 

Frank married a Miss Keefer. All of these 
children prospered, and were important 
factors in the several communities in which 
they lived. 

Jacob and Hannah (Reed) Elierly had 
issue: 

1. Elizabeth married William Keefer. 

2. Catherine marrietl John Keefer. 

3. John R. (IV). 

4. Maria married C. H. Gorden of 
Chambersburg. 

5. Hannah married William A. 
Myers, of Philadelphia, formerly of Cham- 
bersbursr. 



6. Emma marrie<l (lirst) Cyrus Gin- 
gcrich and (second) Samuel Thomas. 

7. Henry J. married (first) Laura Sil- 
liman, and (second) Mary Seibert. 

Jacob Eberly married (second) Mary A. 
Scriba, who is now (1905) in her eighty- 
eighth year; she bore him one child: 

I. Mary Scriba, who died in child- 
hood. 

During his younger years, Jacob Elierly 
was a farmer, and resided in Guilford town- 
ship for about twenty years. He built the 
first steam sawmill in I'ranklin county, lo- 
cating it in Hamilton township, near Keefers, 
and continued in the sawmill business for 
eight years. Plis next business was farming 
near Chambersburg, and he thus continued 
the remainder of his life. Always taking an 
interest in educational matters, he acted upon 
the school board for several terms, and he 
was a stanch Republican. A Lutheran in 
faith, he was very prominent in Trinity Lu- 
theran Church, and for many years was one 
of its oflicial Ijoard. .\ most e.xcellent man, 
earnest and hard working, he was successful 
in a material way, and also made many 
friends in his social and church life. 

(I\') JOHN R. EBERLY -was given 
the advantages of a common school education 
in Guilford township, and a course at Cham- 
bersburg Academy, and u])i>n his return 
home, worked with his father on the farm. 
Later lie engaged in manufacturing bricks 
for two years at Chambersburg, when he 
returned to the homestead, and farmed for 
six years. At the e.xpiration of that time, 
he bought the Gen. Campbell farm near St. 
Thomas, comprising 160 acres, a portion of 
the original Campbell Immestead, and this 
he farmed for thirty-three years. Mr. Eberly 
then moved to Chambersburg, and spent a 
year, when he embarked in the fruit-growing 
business, planting an orchard of i.ooo trees 
on his farm in 1888, and in the spring of 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



1889. lie planted 1,000 more. In the spring- 
of 1892 he put in 1,200 trees; in the spring 
of 1893 he put in 500 more, and now has 
3,700 peach trees. This orchard is one of 
the first planted for commercial purposes this 
side of the valley. So successful has he heen 
with his fruit, that he is purposing putting in 
a larg'e numher of apple trees. Mr. Eberly, 
like his father, has served upon the school 
board, and aside from supporting the Re- 
publican party, is interested in local politics. 
In 1859, Mr. Eljerly married (first) 
Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Deitrich, and 
ten children were born of this marriage, four 
dying in infancy. The others were: 

1. Florence married George Walker. 

2. John J. married Alice Graves, of 
the State of Washington. 

3. M.\RY died aged thirty, wife of Juhn 
Keefer. 

4. Daisy B. married Charles Sellers. 

5. Harry S. married Elizabeth Brant. 

6. Walter R. married Anna Reichard, 
of New York. 

On March 13, 1883, Mr. Eberly married 
(second) Emma F. Kieffer, daughter of 
Abraham and Frances (Hassler) Kieffen 
Mrs. Eberjy is a memljer of the Reformed 
Church, and a most estimable lady. Mr. 
Eberly has long been recognized as one of 
the leading men of St. Tiiomas township. 
Not only is he a man of wealth and business 
importance, hut he has made himself felt 
in townsJiip affairs, and endeared himself to 
a wide circle nf friends by his pleasant, cor- 
dial manner and kindness of heart. His 
wife is a lady well-fitted for her position, and 
she seconds him in extending gracious hospi- 
tality to their numerous visitors. His chil- 
dren are now useful members of the com- 
munities in which they live. Mr. Eberly can 
also congratulate himself upon being one of 
the first to intnxluce i)each growing into the 
valley, am! many now doing a thriving busi- 



ness along this line, have him to thank for 
opening up the way, and demonstrating the 
wonderful possibilities to farmers that can 
be turned to account in the proper raising of 
fruit. 

HAFER FAMILY. EVERHART 
HAFER ( born in Germany, July 8, 1 792 — 
died in St. Thomas township, June 12, 1880) 
emigrated to Pennsylvania as a young man, 
and settled near Cashtown, now Housum, 
where he was a distiller and an extensive 
property owner. He was twice married. By 
his first wife, Elizabeth (born Jan. 6, 1795 — 
died Nov. i, 1854), he had issue: 

1. WiLLL^M married (first) Sarah 
Diehl; (second) Mrs. Bell Gillan (born 
Shlichter). 

2. S,.\Mt.;EL married Sarah Dietrich. 

3. Jacob (II). 

4. Peter, born Oct. 24, 1825, died 
Nov. 25, 1872. 

5. Daniel, living in the West. 

6. George, living in the West. 

7. .'\braham married (first) Hetty 
Binkley, (second) Sadie Hutton, (third) 
Lucy Newman. 

8. David married Sarah Bowers. 

9. Catherine married Samuel Holler, 
and died a young woman, leaving four chil- 
dren. 

(II) JACOB HAFER (born near Hou- 
sum, Feb. 22, 1823 — died April 23, 1855), 
son of Everhart and Elizabeth Hafer, was 
educated in the public schools and began life 
by learning the trade of a blacksmith. He 
subsequently engaged in farming. Mr. 
Hafer married Catherine Holler, a daugh- 
ter of Peter and Elizabeth Holler, of Lur- 
gan township. Jacob and Catherine (Hol- 
ler) Hafer had issue : 

I. Anna married Jacob Christman, of 
St. Thomas township: they have issue: 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



583 



J. Willis^ of Letterkcnny townsliip, 
married Alary Stouffer; they have issue: 
Alvin, in the West; Elsie, of Roberts, Wis.; 
Russell, and Grace. 

3. Zach.\ri.-\s, living- near Shijipcns- 
burg, Cumberland CDunty, married Rebecca 
Crider; they ha\-e issue: Dessie (married 
Samuel Clay), Lou Gertrude (married Sam- 
uel Snoke) ; Dorothy, ALay, Jane, John and 
Carl. 

4. Emm.\ married Henry C. Snyder; 
they have issue one child : Harvey, who mar- 
ried Mary Wagner. 

5. Jeremiah died young. 

6. Samuel J. (III). 

(Ill) SAMUEL J. HAFER (born in 
Guilford township, Oct. i, 1855), son of 
Jacob and Catherine (Holler) Hafer, was 
brought up on a farm in Lurgan township. 
He was educated in the public schools and 
began life as a farmer. In 1879 he took up 
auctioneering as a calling, which he has since 
followed with great success. He is well and 
favorably known all over his native cnunty, 
and his reputation as an auctioneer extends 
to Cumberland, Huntingdon and l'\ilton 
counties, in this State, and to Washington 
county, Md. He owns a farm, "Fairmmmt," 
in Hamilton township, near Chamberslnu"g, 
on which he lives, but during the sale sea.sons 
he gives his entire time to his business as an 
auctioneer. In politics he is a Republican 
and has served as tax collector for Hamilton 
township, but he has no political aspirations 
ami refused a second term as tax collector; 
he also declined a nomination for county 
commissioner. With his family he attends 
the United Brethren Churcli in Chambers- 
burg, this being the church in which lie was 
brought up. Mr. Hafer married, in 1879, 
Jennie Hamilton, daughter of James and 
Sarah Hamilton, of Lurgan townslii]). Mr. 
Hamilton was a landowner and farmer. Sam- 



uel J. and Jennie (llamilton) Hafer have 
issue one son : 

I. Hamilton Rush (l)orn May 30, 
1881), lives at home, and gives liis attention 
to "b'airmount farm" in his father's aljsence; 
he married Miss Bessie M. Greenawalt. 

JOHN BURGER, one of the leading 
farmers of Quincy townshii). Franklin coun- 
ty, residing on what is known as the old 
Stull farm, near the village of Quincy, was 
born at Flopewell Mill, Washington town- 
ship, Franklin county, Feb. 4, 1850, son of 
Josiah and Susan (Oiler) Burger. The 
name of his great-great-grandfather is un- 
known, but he founded the family in Amer- 
ica, and was a native of the Rhine Provinces, 
coming to America with two brothers, and 
settling near Charlestown, W. Va. 

(li) SAMUEL BURGER, son of the 
emigrant, was born near Charlestown, W. 
Va. He grew to manhood, married and be- 
came the father of David (HI). 

(Ill) DAVID BURGER, son of Sam- 
uel, was born on a farm near Hopewell Mill. 
He married and had a son Josiah (IV). 

(IV) JOSIAH BURGER (born near 
the village of Quincy in 1825) married Su- 
san Oiler, (born within three miles of 
Waynesboro, in 1827, and still living), 
daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Sponer) 
Oiler and a si.ster of the late Rev. Jacob F. 
Oiler of Waynesi)oro. Her father was born 
in Maryland, and her mother in Franklin 
county. Pa. Josiah Burger and wife had 
issue as follows : 

1. Mary Ann, born in 1848. died in 
1862. 

2. John (V). 

3. Rebecc.\, born in 1851. died in 
1862. 

4. Elizabeth married Henry X. 
Sto\er, of Wavnesboro. 






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BIOGRAPHICAL ANXALS OF FRAXKLIX COUXTY. 



5. Prudence, unmarried. 

6. Anna married A. J. Middower. 
Josiah Burger farmed until about 1864 

when he engaged in milling at the "Xun- 
nery" near Quincy, but later went to a mill 
at Five Forks, Quincy township, and thence 
to Hopewell Mill, where he continued mill- 
ing until 1872, when he retired from acti\e 
life, and he now resides in Waynesboro. 

(V) JOHN BURGER was educated in 
the common schools and the select schools of 
his neighborhood, and in the fall of 1867 he 
went to the Xormal School in jMillersville. 
After this preparation, he taught school at 
what is now Russell's Station, on the West- 
ern Maryland Railway. In 1869 he engaged 
with his father at Five Forks, but thence 
went to the "Nunnery," near Quincy, and 
from thence to the Hopewell Mill, continu- 
ing at the latter place until 1883, when he lo- 
cated in Waynesboro. In the spring of 1S84, 
however, he began farming near Prier".-^ 
Church, Quincy township, and in the spring 
of 1889, he purchased and moved to his 
present fine farm, where he has since made 
his home, devoting his attention to culti- 
vating his land and improving the property. 

Mr. Burger married Elizabeth Benedict 
(lx)rn two and one-half miles northwest of 
the village of Quincy), daughter of Daniel 
and Eliza (Dunkle) Benedict. Her father, 
one of the leading citizens of Quincy town- 
ship, was born on the old Benedict home- 
stead in that township in 181 2, son of John 
and Nancy (Mack) Benedict. Mrs. Burger 
is a member of the German Baptist Church. 
The children born to John Burger and wife 
are : 

1. Anna, born Nov. iq, 1874, died 
aged twenty-five days. 

2. Phoebe, born .April 4, i88i, mar- 
ried D. L. Miller, a member of the firm of 
Eortham & Miller, druggists, Waynesboro. 



D. H. YAUKEY, one of the ambitious 
and enterprising young business men of Al- 
tenwald, Franklin Co., Pa., dealer in general 
merchandise, grain, proprietor of one of the 
largest warehouses in this commtmity, as 
well as of a creamery, was born in Guilford 
township, on a farm, June 13, 1869. son of 
Daniel Y'aukey, a leading warehouseman and 
grain dealer of Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. 

(I) JEREMIAH Y'AUKEY' is sup- 
posed to ha^e come from Germany to Frank- 
lin county, and was numbered among its 
earliest settlers. He died in Ohio, the father 
of the following family, all now deceased : 

1. John. 

2. Joseph. 
Henry. 
Daniel (II). 
Sarah married Jacob Nichols, de- 



3- 

4- 

5- 

ceased. 
6. 



Eliz.xbeth married Jeremiah Har- 
mon, deceased. 

(II) DANIEL Y'AUKEY (born on the 
old Yaukey farm in Guilford township, June 
g. 1809 — died at Fayetteville, May 19, 
1886) lived retired for some years, and the 
last si.x years of his life he was blind. He 
was one of the thrifty and active farmers of 
Ciuilford township during his younger days, 
and he was a true Christian man, and a con- 
sistent member of the United Brethren 
Church of Fayetteville, in which for many 
years he was one of the pillars. His wife, 
whose maiden name was Somers, was born 
Nov. 9, 181 1, and she died near Altenwald, 
Aug. 24. 1863. Their children were as fol- 
lows : 

1. Hiram, born Feb. 2-,. 1839, died 
.\ug. 17, 1 861. 

2. Daniel (III), born Feb. 2^. 1841, 
is a business man of Fayetteville. 

3. Amanda, torn July 26, 1843, "■'''^''" 
ried Emanuel Aliller. 



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4. Hezekiah, born April 27, 1846, is 
a farmer of Fayetteville. 

5. Jeremiah Somers, a prominent 
business man of Fayetteville, born Oct. 4. 
1849. 

6. Rebecca, born April 19, US53, died 
in childhood. 

(III) DANIEL YAUKEY. father of 
our subject, was educated in Guilford town- 
ship, and married Sarah J. Small, of the 
same township, a daughter of Adam Small 
of Guilford township, an old settler of 
Franklin county. They had five children : 

1. Adam died in childhood. 

2. ]\Iarg.\ret E. married John L. 
Alyers, of Guilford township. 

"3. D. H. (IV). 

4. Sadie M. married John W. Garber. 

5. Carrie A. married D. O. Garber, 
partner with Daniel Yaukey, Fayetteville. 

In politics Daniel Yaukey is a Republi- 
can, and has been one of the active business 
men and leaders of his party in Fayetteville 
for the past thirty years. In religious affili- 
ation he is a member of the United Brethren 
Church. 

(IV) D. H. YAUKEY was reared upon 
a farm, and received the usual education of a 
•country boy until he was nineteen years of 
age, when he went to the Westchester Nor- 
mal school for a year, and then became a 
teacher in the public schools of Franklin 
-county. Being ambitious, after two years, 
he took a commercial course at a business 
•college of Pittsburgh, and going to Alten- 
wald, in 1891, he formed a partnership with 
his father Daniel Yaukey in the grain ware- 
house and feed business, and thus continued 
for ten years, when in 1901, he bought his 
father's interest, and formed the firm of D. 
H. Yaukey & Co., and carries on a general 
merchandise, feed and creamery business. 
So prosperous has this firm been from its in- 
ception that it is one of the largest of its 



kind in the county, and the volume of busi- 
ness is steadily and rapidly, increasing. In 
politics, Mr. Yaukey is a Republican, but as 
yet has taken but little part in local affairs, 
aside from casting his vote for the candidate 
of his party. He is a member of the Luth- 
eran Church of Fayetteville, and is a highly 
esteemed factor in its workings. 

On Oct. 29, 1903, Mr. Yaukey married 
Miss Bessie Brindle, of Greene township, a 
most charming young lady, with many 
friends throughout the county. Mr. Yaukey 
has a brilliant future before him, and has 
already won the entire confidence of business 
men by his honorable, upright and modern 
methods of transacting business. 

REV. WILLIAM A. ANTHONY, !)orn 
Feb. 10, 1857, in Washington county, IMd., 
is now a Bishop of the Dunkard Church, hav- 
ing been ordained to that high office. May 
10, 1902. 

(I) GEORGE ANTHONY, grand- 
father of Rev. William A., was lx)rn in Ger- 
many, but came to the United States in 1825, 
locating at Hanover, Pa., and there passed 
the remainder of his days working at his 
trade of cabinetmaking. His children were: 

1. ^^'ILLIAM. 

2. George. 

3. Jacob. 

4. John was a soldier, anrl was killed at 
the battle of Antietam. 

5. Albert was also a soldier in the 
Union army. 

6. Agnes married Henry Eckenrode. 

7. David (II). 

(II) DAVID ANTHONY, father of 
our subject, was a blacksmith, learning his 
trade at Hanover. He located near Hagers- 
town, Md., where he resided for thirty years, 
engaged at his trade. In religious matters 
he was a devout Dunkard. His wife Nancy 
A. (Boward) .Anthony had been previously 



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married, her first husband being Roljcrt 
Clugston, of Frankhn county, by whom slie 
had two cliil(h"en : Delilah A., who married 
Charles Fouke; and Franklin Pierce, who 
died at the age of eight years. The chil- 
dren born to Mr. and Mrs. David Anthony 
were ; 

1. John C. married Emma Perdue, of 
Indiana. 

2. William A. (III). 

3. Emma Kate married B. Frank 
Shadrach. 

4. Sarah Ella married Rev. Calvin 
Byers, a preacher of the Dunkard Church. 

5. Margaret II. married Alonzo Spiel- 
man. 

6. D. Harry married Maggie, daugh- 
ter of Elder Nichols Martin. 

7. Charles E. married Hattie Brock- 
elsby, of Marion, Ohio. 

8. Effie L. married Henry Byers. 

9. Fred D. married Susan Shriner, and 
is a Dunkard preacher, and a most excellent 
man. 

10. Thomas died in infancy. 

11. Elmer C. married Maud Troxell. 

1 2. Mary E., twin sister to Emma Kate, 
died at the age of three years. 

(Ill) BISHOP WILLIAM A. AN- 
THONY attcndt.I t'lie Imme schools only a 
few months, working upon the farm until 
he was twenty-four years of age. At that 
time he had only sixty-three dollars, and at- 
tended a select school at Hagerstown, and 
remained there seven months. He then 
taught school one winter, and the following 
summer went to the Washington county 
high school, teaching the following winter. 
So he continued teaching and attending 
school for twenty years, se\en years in Alary- 
land and thirteen years in Pennsylvania. 

On May 19, 1883, he was ordained a 
minister of the Dunkard Church by Bishop 
Daniel F. Stouffer of Washington county, 



Md., and he was in the ministry in Maryland 
for five years, and then for fifteen years he 
served in Franklin county, Pa. On "Slay 10, 
1902, he was ordained bishop of the church 
by Elder C. L. Pfoutz and John H. Lehner, 
and in addition to serving his fourth term 
upon the Pennsylvania board of missions, he 
is engaged in evangelistic work during the 
winter, session of each j'ear. 

On Oct. II, 1883, Bishop Anthony was 
married to Miss Annie M. Friedly, daughter 
of John Friedly, of Franklin county. Two 
children have Ijeen born of this union : 

1. Edgar F. 

2. Ira S. W. 

Bishop Anthony has been secretary of 
the Southern district of Peimsylvania of his 
church for ten years, and secretary of the 
Sunday School association of the Southern 
district for four years. Successful in his 
work, progressive in his ideas, a kind- 
hearted, open-handed man. Bishop Anthony 
has made a great success of his calling, and 
can look back with happiness upon his lators. 
Few men hampered as he was in the begin- 
ning, have been able to accomplish so nnich 
good, and to bring it alx)ut within so lim.ited 
a time. He is honored and beloved by all 
who know him, and his presence is sought 
wherever earnest, helpful, pur])oseful evan- 
gelistic work is desired. 

JOHN R. McELROY. one of the lad- 
ing citizens and active business men of Fay- 
etteville. Franklin county, for many years- 
has been successfully engaged in handling- 
general merchandise, and is now a \er\- pros- 
perous merchant. He was born in F'ayette- 
ville, April 22, 1854, son of Robert F. and 
Agnes Jane (Renfrew) McElroy, deceased.. 

(I) WILLIAM McELROY. the grand- 
father, was an old settler of Franklin county, 
coming of Irish ancestry. He was a faith- 
ful minister of the Church of God, and a 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



587 



very excellent man. His wife bore the 
maiden name of Elizabeth Beatty, and they 
IkkI children as follows: 

1. JosiAH was an engineer and died in 
Virginia. 

2. Robert F. (II), an employee of 
Pennsylvania Steel works, died in Steelton, 
Pennsylvania. 

3. John was a printer, and died in 
Philadelphia. 

4. Mary Ellen married David Byers, 
of Fayetteville. 

5. Elizabeth married E. H. Mc- 
Knight, a merchant. 

(II) ROBERT F. McELROY married 
Miss Agnes Jane Renfrew about 1852, she 
being a member of the old Renfrew family of 
Franklin county, and a daughter of John and 
Nancy Jane (Thompson) Renfrew, of Guil- 
ford township. Five children were born to 
the marriage of Robert F. McElroy and 
wife : 

1. John R. (HI). 

2. J. Beatty, of Philadelphia, a prom- 
inent merchant. 

3. Frank T., of Steelton, Pa., conduct- 
ing a hosiery mill. 

Two died in infancy. 

Robert F. McElroy was a prosperous 
farmer of Greene township, but later in life 
he removed to Steelton, where he died in 
1 90 1, aged about seventy-three years, having 
been born in 1828. His first wife died in 
1862, and he married Miss Margaret E. 
Black, in 1867. She was a daughter of 
Adam Black, of Adams Co., Pa., who was 
well known in this vicinity. The following 
children were born of the second marriage : 

1. Jennie married John McKinzie, of 
Kaufifman Station. 

2. Stewart died young in 1900. 

3. Charles, of Steelton. 

4. Gertrude, a resident of Philadel- 
phia, married William Fritz, a machinist. 



(Ill) JOHN R. .McELROY, the sub- 
ject proper of this biography, was reared 
upon his father's farm, learning the trade of 
a carpenter, and attending the public schools. 
From the time he w'as se\enteen years of age, 
until he was twenty-two, he followed his 
trade, but in 1876, he embarked in a general 
merchandise business, and has continued in 
this line with marked success ever since. He 
also learned surveying, and is often called 



upon 



to exercise his knowledc'e in tliis direc- 



tion, when expert work is desired. 

On Oct. I, 1873, Mr. ^McElroy married 
Miss Alice M. Baughman, of Greene town- 
ship, a daughter of John and Susan Baugh- 
man, of the same township. Mr. Baughman 
is one of the old settlers of the township and 
for many years was the leading miller of his 
cominunity. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
McElroy has resulted in twelve children : 

1. Ernest B., torn Feb. 19, 1875, a 
bookkeeper of Steelton, Pennsylvania. 

2. Elsie J., born Dec. 3, 1876. 

3. Harry B., born June 26, 1881. 

4. Milton R., bom Sept. 10, 1882, 
now a bookkeeper in New York. 

5. Milton R., born in 1884. 

6. Mary R., born in 1886. 

7. Nellie, born in 1887. 

8. Frank, born in 1889. 

9. Florence, born in 1890. 

10. Bessie, born in 1893. 

11. Robert S., born in 1894. 

12. Margaret Helen, born January 
1897. 

In politics, Mr. McElroy is a stanch Re- 
publican, although he has never sought for 
public honors. He and his w-ife are con- 
sistent members of tlie Lutheran Church of 
Fayetteville, in which he has been deacon and 
elder for a numl)er of years. Not only is he 
a successful business man, but he has gained 
the full confidence of the community by his 
honorable methods, his square dealings and 



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clean manner of living. Mr. McElroy is a 
man who carries his religion into his daily 
life, and does not keep it exclusively for Sun- 
day. Both he and his wife have a host of 
warm, personal friends not only in Fayette- 
ville, but throughout Franklin county, where 
they are well and favorably known. 

JOHN S. NIMMON, one of the suc- 
cessful young farmers of Metal township, 
comes of an old Pennsylvania family, of 
Irish stock, and was born on the farm he 
now owns Dec. 2. 1869, son of Major John 
S. and Sarah (Flickinger) Nimmon. 

(I) GEORGE NIMMON. the Irish 
ancestor, came from Belfast and was a sol- 
dier in the Revolution. He settled in Cum- 
berland county. Pa., and married a Miss 
Adams, of Quaker stock. They had two 
sons : 

1. Adam (II). 

2. John settled in Ohio. 

(II) ADAM NIMMON settled in Cum- 
berland county. He married Mary Morris 
Skinner, and had four children, of whom 
M.\j. John S. (Ill) was the eldest. The 
fatlier died in Shippensburg, where he re- 
sided, in 1843, ^ged sixty-seven years and 
his wife followed him a few years later. 

(Ill) MAJOR JOHNS. NIMMON 
left home while still a child and began work- 
ing for his uncle, a tanner, at four dollars 
a month. Having learned the trade he car- 
ried it on for himself several years, until the 
Ci\'il war broke out and he enlisted. He 
served three months in Company B, 2d P. 
V. L, then entered the nth Pa. Cav. and in 
time was successi\-ely promoted to be first 
sergeant, first lieutenant, captain, and at the 
battle of Five Forks, to be major. He serveil 
till September, 1865. being detained after 
the close of the war to settle up the aft'airs 
of the regiment. That fall he settled in 
Fannettsburg. engaged in trade as a mer- 



chant, and remained there five years, after 
which he sold out to Mr. Wineman, re- 
nioved to his present residence, and has since 
been occupied in farming. He was married 
in 1867 to Sarah, daughter of Joseph Flick- 
inger, but his wife died in 1876, leaving him 
the one son, John S. Maj. Nimmon has 
always been a stanch Democrat, a prominent 
and active member of the Lower Path Val- 
ley Presbyterian Church, and a leading citi- 
zen of Metal ownship. He married Sarah 
Flickinger, and they became the parents of 
John S. (IV). 

(IV) JOHN S. NIMMON was reared 
on the farm which is still his home, and was 
educated in the public schools. He has made 
farming his chosen occupation, and is in 
charge of the family homestead. Like his 
father he is a Democrat in his political views, 
and a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
A successful and well-to-do farmer, he is 
also a wide awake, progressive citizen and a 
popular man in the locality. He was mar- 
ried in 1898 to Miss Ella A. Shearer, daugh- 
ter of William C. and Martha A. (Kirk- 
patrick) Shearer, of Fannett township. One 
son has been born to the young couple : 

I. Bruce S., born Feb. 14, 1901. 

PATTON FAMILY. WILLIAM 
PATTON (born in 1 731— died March 2^, 
1/77), the ancestor of one of the noteworthy 
Patton families of Franklin county, was an 
early settler in Peters township. He was 
probably a son of John and Susanna Patton, 
who were among the early settlers of the 
West Conococheague. He was a member of 
the L'^pper West Conococheague Presbyterian 
Church under the Re\-. Dr. John King, by 
whom his two youngest sons, twins. Joseph 
and Benjamin, were baptized. Mr. Patton 

married Aug. 5, 1754. Elizabeth ■ 

(born in 1738 — died June 11, 18:9). sur- 
name not ascertaineil. Thev had issue ; 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



589, 



1. Mary, bom Oct. 2, 1755, died Sept. 
27, 1756. 

2. Eliz.\betii, born Jan. 25, 1758, died 
Sept. 25, 1758. 

3. John, born Sept. 24, 1759. 

4. James (H). 

5. Letzey, born June 14, 1769. 

6. Benjamin, born July 14, 1770, died 
July 24, 1770. 

7. Joseph, born April 23, 1772. 

8. Benjamin, born April 23, 1772. 

( II ) JAMES PATTON (born Feb. 20, 
1763 — died April 24, 1823), son of William 
and Elizabeth Patton, was a farmer. He 
married Aug. 9, 1785, Sarah Dumviddie 
(bom February, 1768 — died April 18, 
1831), and had issue : 

1. Jane (Ixirn July 5, 1786 — died April 
18, 1808) married Nov. 16, 1805, D. Hether- 
ington. 

2. William (HI). 

3. John, born Jan. 26, 1790. 

4. Hugh, born Dec. 2, 1791 — died June 
3, 1822. 

5. Elizabeth (bora Oct. 6, 1793 — 
died March 15, 1825) married James Davi- 
son. 

6. Isabella (born Aug. 5, 1795 — died 
Sept. I, 1873) married Samuel Ruthrauff 
(born in 1796 — died in 1862), son of the 
Rev. John and Maria (Hanime) Ruthrauff. 
They had issue : John ; Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried Washington Crooks; William; Anna 
M. ; Sarah, who married Washington 
Crooks ; and Charles. 

7. Margaret (born July 19, 1797 — 
died March, 1871) married June 26, 181 7, 
Martin Rouch. 

8. Samuel Mark (born Oct. 24, 1799 
— died Aug. 30, 1832) married April 26, 
1 82 1, Jane Hege. 

9. James (born Nov. 14, 1801 — died 
April 2, 1844) married (first) March 30, 



1826, Amelia Coffroth (died Aug. 29,, 
1 831), and (second) Jan. 7, 1836, Margaret 
Campbell (died Jan. 19, 1855). 

10. Sally, born Jan. 27, 1804, died 
April 9, 1804. 

11. Sarah J. burn .\ug. 3. 1809, died 
Aug. 15, 1809. 

(HI) WILLIAM PATTOX (bom 
Feb. 19, 1788 — disappeared while tra\eling 
in the South in 1821 — believed to have been 
murdered), son of James and Sarah (Dun- 
widdie) Patton. He served in the \\'ar of 
1812-14 as Second Lieutenant of the 
Waynesburg Company, being mustered into 
service March i, 181 4. He married June 
4, 1816, Margaret Davison (born July 17, 
1794 — died Oct. 8, 1820). They had issue: 

1. James (IV). 

2. Margaret Jane married William 
Barnet. 

3. William (died in infancy). 

4. Sarah Belle (born June 21, 1820 
— died March 7, 1885) married John T. 
Lindsay. 

(IV) JAMES PATTON (born March 
17, 181 7 — died Nov. 20, 1880). son of Wil- 
liam and Margaret (Davison) Patton, was a 
farmer and a leading citizen of Franklin 
county. In politics he was a Republican, and 
after filling the various ofifices of his town- 
ship he was a county commissioner, 1876-79. 
He married May 28, 1846, Man,- P. McCoy 
(born May i, 1819 — died Dec. 12. 1880), 
and had issue : 

1. William F. (V). 

2. John Samuel (born Nov. 7, 1849) 
went to Nebraska, where he is now living. 
He married Mary Holmes McDowell (bom 
in 1854), daughter of Capt. E. and Rebecca 
Jane (Gillan) McDowell. They had issue: 
James McDowell, John McCoy, \\'illiam 
Alexander, Washington Irwin and Mary Re- 
becca. 



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3. James McCoy, born March 4, 185 1. 

4. Elizabeth Belle, lx)rn June 15, 
1S53, died April 2, 1863. 

5. Mary Jane, born March 11, 1855, 
■died April i, 1863. 

6. Alexander Nelson, born Sept. 25, 
1857, died Jan. 16, 1861. 

7. Washington D., born May 11, 
1859, married Emma Gillan (born 1861 — 
died Feb. 7, 1902), daughter of Matthew 
Gillan. 

(V) WILLIAM F. PATTON (born 
March 12, 1847 — c'ied May 12, 1882), son 
of James and Mary (McCoy) Patton, was 
educated at Elder's Ridge Academy and at 
Lafayette College. He left school in 1864 
to enlist in Company H, 195th, P. V. I., 
and was mustered out after serving three 
months in the Army of the Potomac. Upon 
his return home from the army he resumed 
his studies at Elder's Ridge Academy, and 
upon completing the course there entered 
Lafayette College, East on. Pa. In 1868 he 
withdrew from college, and took up the 
study of the law in the office of Judge ¥. yi. 
Kimmell, in Chambersburg, and was admit- 
ted to the Bar, Jan. 18, 1870. He began 
the practice of his profession with Henry 
Grove, Esq.. at Peoria. 111., but in a few 
years returned to Greencastle, and took up 
liis profession in his native county. He was 
an earnest Republican, and was chairman of 
the Repul)lican CDunty committee. -\Ir. Pat- 
ton married Elizaljeth M. Hostetter. of 
Greencastle. They had issue: 

I. William J. (born June 18, 1878) 
was educated at the Chambersburg Academy. 
and was graduated from Lafayette College 
in 1898. He studied law with Sharpe & 
Sharpe at Chambersburg, and was admitted 
to the Franklin County Bar, in April, 1900, 
since which time he lias practiced his pro- 
fession in Greencastle. He is also one of the 
•editors and owners of the Echo-Pilot, the 



leading paper of Greencastle, which he pur- 
chased in 1901. He is one of the young 
acti\e Republican workers of the county. 
He married Nov. 26, 1902, Elinor A. Bamet, 
daughter of H. C. and Ellen Bamet, of 
Easton, Pa. They have issue one daughter, 
Edith. 

2. Mary McCoy, born March 3, 1881. 

JOHxV R. HOEFLICH, one of the 
well known citizens of Waynesboro, Pa., and 
a prominent general insurance agent, was 
born about one-quarter of a mile east of 
Waynesboro, Feb. 2, 1840, son of William 
and Susan (Royer) Hoetlich. and brother 
of Samuel Hoeflich. 

The early life of John R. Hoetlich was 
spent upon the farm, and he attended school 
first in the country, and later in Waynesboro. 
In 1854 he began clerking in the store of 
Josiah Besore, which was located on the Dia- 
mond, North Church street, upon the present 
site of the residence of Dr. A. H. Strickler. 
Later the store was removed across the Dia- 
mond to the corner of South street, and 
}-oung Hoeflich continued to clerk in the es- 
tablishment until 1857. In that year he re- 
sumed his studies, but continued to work at 
whatever he could find to do. part of the 
lime being employed in a mill. In Septem- 
ber, 1863, he entered the L'uion army as 
corpora! of Company E, 158th P. \'. I., and 
ser\ecl nine months. In 1865 he served from 
March to July in Company E. 99th P. V. I.. 
after which he was honorably discharged. 

Returning home he took a position in the 
dry goods store of J. \V. Miller, of Waynes- 
boro, Ixit in the spring of 1867 he went to 
Pittslnirgh, south side, where for three years 
he was a clerk in the house of George B. 
Johnson & Co. In the spring of 1870 he re- 
turned to \\'aynesboro. and again clerked for 
J. W. INIiller. Finally, leaving the latter, he 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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iiig bookkeeper and kiter seci"ctar_v of the 
Waynesboro Mntual Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, and in 1881 he engag-ed in a general 
insurance business, in whicli lie has since 
continued, representing the following com- 
panies : American, Philadelphia: kire Asso- 
ciation, Philadelphia; Underwriters, Phila- 
<lelphia ; Hartford, Hartford, Conn. ; Na- 
tional, Hartford, Conn. ; German American, 
New York; German American, P)altimore, 
]\Icl. ; Phoenix, Brooklyn ; l-'ireman's k'und, 
California ; Commercial Union, London ; 
London Assurance Corporation of England ; 
Providence Washington of Rho'le Islanil; 
National Union, Pittsburg; Provident Life 
& Trust Compan}-, Philadelphia; Aetna Life 
& Accident, Hartford, Conn. ; and Lloyd 
Plate Glass Insurance Company, New York. 

From 1884 to 1889 Mr. Hoeflich was 
superintendent of the Waynesboro Water 
Company, and also of the Waynesboro Gas 
Company, and is still collector of the Water 
company. For two terms he served as chief 
burgess of Waynesboro, and has also served 
as a niemlier of the school board. Fraternally 
lie is a member of Capt. John E. Walker 
Post, Xo. 287, G. A. R., and of Waynestoro 
Council, No. 993, Royal Arcanum. His re- 
ligious afifiliations are with St. Paul's Re- 
formed Church. 

On Oct. 16, 1869, Mr. Hoellich married 
Mary Catherine, daughter of Jacob B. and 
Elizabeth (Roberts) Resser, born in 
Wayneslxiro March 27, 1843. Their chil- 
dren are : 

1. Ll'ell.-k married V. A. Perhani. of 
Wilmington, Del., and has three children, 
Mildred, Harold and John. 

2. Mary R. married Emmet D. Fahr- 
ney, superintendent shipping department of 
the Geiser Mfg. Co., and has a son, Robert. 

3. Nettie H. married Harry M. Un- 
ger, of Waynesboro, and has a daughter, 
Louisa. 



4. Ruiiv M. 

5. Charles Edwin. 

Mr. Hoelhch is one of the solid, sul>- 
.stantial men of W^aynesboro, and one who 
has tirmly established himself in the confi- 
dence of the business world of this place. 
His business is one of the largest in his line 
in Franklin county, and the companies he 
represents are beyoufl question the best in 
the world. While not a politician in any 
sense of the word. Mr. Hoethch takes an in- 
terest in local affairs, and in all matters calcu- 
lated to prove a benefit to the community at 
large he may be counted upon for a public- 
spirited support. 

DANIEL JOHNSTON. Among the 
old families of I-'ranklin county are the John- 
stons, who settled here at the end of the 
eighteenth century. The progenitor of the 
family in America, from whom the descent 
is traced, was 

(I) ROBERT JOHNSTON, who was 
born about 1775, in County .\ntrini, Ire- 
land, of Scotch-Irish parentage. With two 
brothers and a nephew he emigrated to 
.America some time in the latter part of the 
eighteenth century, landing at New York. 
There Robert separated from the others, go- 
ing to Virginia, and it seems he was never 
afterward able to locate the other members 
of the family. By trade he was a cooper, 
presumably having learned that business dur- 
ing the long voyage on shipboard, on his way 
to America, the tri]) often taking several 
months on the water in those days. In Vir- 
ginia he married Nancy Howell, whose 
father was a sea captain and a resident of 
Virginia, where Nancy was born. The How- 
ells were also of Scotch-Irish descent, .\bout 
the close of the eighteenth century or at the 
beginning of the nineteenth Robert Johnston 
and his wife came into Franklin county. 
Pa., and located in .\ntrim township, where 



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he followed coopering. He became locally 
prominent and served for a time as justice 
of the peace. He next removed to the foot 
of the Blue Ridge, on the pike, three miles 
west of Waynesboro, where he spent the bal- 
ance of his life, dying there Oct. 29, 1846, 
and he was buried at that location. On the 
death of his wife, in 1868, his remains were 
disinterred, and both were laid away in the 
shadow of Harbaugh's Church. Their chil- 
dren were as follows : 

1. Catherine, born Oct. 18, 1803, 
married (first) a Hale, and (second) a 
Lentz, and lived to reach her eightieth year. 

2. William, born May 13, 1808. 

3. Charlotte, born April 3, 1810, is 
the widow of John Royer, and resides in 
Baltimore. 

4. John (II). 

5. Nathaniel, torn Aug. 2, 1814, 
lived to the age of twenty. 

6. Alexander, Wmi Jan. 19, 1818, 
lived to be over eighty years old. 

7. Robert, born June 22, 1825. 

8. Josephine, born May 19 1831. 
(II) JOHN JOHNSTON, .son of 

Robert, was born May 6, 1812, in the home 
at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in 
Washington township, Franklin county. He 
learned the cooper's trade with his father 
and also all kinds of brickmaking. and oc- 
cupied himself with the latter in summer and 
the former in winter. In the spring of 1842 
he came to Waynesboro, and worked in the 
brickyard of Daniel Tritle until 1843. when 
he engaged in the business for himself, lo- 
cating his yard at what is now the corner 
of Broad and Fifth streets, then an open 
space. During the Civil war he suspended 
business, but resumed as soon after its close 
as there was a demand for brick, and he con- 
tinued until 1872, when he retired from 
active business. 

On Nov. 14, 1833, John Johnston mar- 



ried Sarah Hartman, born Nov. 11, 1812, in 
Adams county, Pa., daughter of George 
Hartman. John Johnston died Feb. 27, 
1888, and his widow passed away June 4, 
1899. Their children were as follows: 

1. Daniel, torn Aug. 22, 1834 (III). 

2. Elizabeth, torn Dec. i. 1836. mar- 
ried Thomas \\'allace. son of John and 
Esther (Burns) Wallace, and a member of 
the family which founded Waynesboro, 
Thomas Wallace, an uncle of his father, hav- 
ing laid out the town. 

3. William, born April 6, 1839, died 
Nov. 18. 1857. 

4. John F.. born Aug. 8. 1842. 

5. Samuel, torn March 11. 1846. 

6. Sarah C. bom April 2. 1848, died 
April 17, 1849. 

7. Ch.^rlotta, born April 5. 1850, died 
Feb. 15. 1864. 

(Ill) DANIEL JOHNSTON, son of 
John, was torn Aug. 22. 1834. in the same 
location as were his father and grandfather. 
He received a common school education, at- 
tending the schools at the foot of the moun- 
tain and also in Waynestoro. being eight 
years old when his parents moved into the 
town, and later he learned the trades of 
coopering and brickmaking from his father, 
with whom he worked until 1S56. He then 
began working for himself, going through 
the country making kilns of brick for dif- 
ferent parties who wanted to build. His first 
kiln was burned for David Strife, in Antrim 
township, in 1856. In the fall of that year 
he fell ill with typhoid fever, and following 
that serious sickness was taken with malaria, 
or, as it was denominated in those days, the 
"ague." He was ill all that winter and into 
the next summer, only those who have ex- 
perienced a like sickness toing able to realize 
its seriousness. In the summer of 1857 he 
removed to a farm owned by his father, 
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remained for one year, returning tlien to 
A\'ayneslxiro, where he resumed brickmaking 
with his fatlier. There lie continued in busi- 
ness for two years, and then made another 
trip tin-ongli tlie country making brick, and 
followed the same line until 1871, wlien he 
moved back to town, continuing to make 
brick. In 1879 Mr. Johnston purchased his 
present property, on South Potomac avenue, 
and engaged there in brick manufacture for 
twenty years, retiring from active business 
in the spring of 1899, when he was suc- 
ceeded by his son, ^V. H. Johnston. In 
1882 he erected his large and handsome resi- 
dence on South Potomac avenue, which is 
one of the most commodious and comfortaljle 
homes in Waynesboro. Mr. Johnston has 
Ijeen a very successful business man and is 
possessed of large means, owning valuable 
rentable property in the city. He has Ijeen 
jirominent in local affairs, and has served 
two one-}ear terms and one three-year term 
in the borough council. He was a member 
of that body when tlie impro\-ements were 
made which gave Waynesboro her present 
good and substantial streets. On numerous 
occasions he has been called upon, as a reii- 
resentati\e man. to serve on various boards, 
and at all times has been equal to the occa- 
sion. In politics he is a Democrat and stands 
high in his party's councils. Fraternally he 
belongs to George Washington Lodge. Xo. 
487. Knights of Pythias, being one of the 
cliarter members of the lodge and the second 
oldest member, and was the first master of 
the exchequer, holding that honorable office 
for sixteen vears. 

Mr. Johnston has been twice married. 
On Dec. 6, 1855. 1^^ married Catherine Barn- 
hart w^ho was born about four miles south of 
Waynesboro. Jan. 12. 1834. daughter of 
George and Elizabeth (Beaver) Barnhan. 
She died Sept. 19. 1866. leaving five chil- 
dren, as follows : 

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1. Mary Wilson, born Sept. 26, 1856, 
married Daniel Koontz. and now lives in 
Philadelphia. 

2. Hek.\i.\ ViRr.i.\i.\, Ijorn Nov. 6, 
1858. married Walter McGee. and now lives 
in Washington. D. C. 

3. Sar.mi Elizabkth. lx)rn May 3, 
1861, died Feb. 7. 1892; she married 
Charles Bowen. of Waynesboro. 

4- Minna S., bt)rn Dec. 6. 1863. died 
May 13, 1898; she married William 
Keafager, of Hagerstown, Maryland. 

5. William H.. born March 13. 1866, 
married Mary Kaufman. 

Mr. Johnston's second marriage to(jk 
place Aug. 25. 1868. to Mary A. Bowman, 
born about one and a half miles west of 
Waynesboro. March 29, 1850. daughter of 
David and Mary Bowman. Children as fol- 
lows blessed this union : 

1. John F.. born March 2-. 1869. mar- 
ried Addie Talbot. 

2. Alice M., born Nov. 30, 1870, mar- 
ried R. B. Haffner. of Waynesboro. 

3. Mls-souri, born Sept. 10. 1872. mar- 
ried William Haffner. of York. 

4. Daniel Vernon, Ixjrn March 22, 
1876. died Jan. i. 1880. 

5. Martha J., born Jan. 17. 1878, 
married George Ensminger. of Waynestoro. 

6. Ida Idella. born Dec. 8, 1879, is at 
home. 

7. Ada Grace, torn Jan. 15. 1882. 
married Henry Grove, of Waynesboro. 

8. Charles Cleveland, born Feb 12 
1885. 

9. Roy S.. born June 28, 1886. 

10. Jennie A., born June 14, 1889. 

11. Mary Alice, born Feb. 6, 1893. 

Mr. Johnston has l>een blessed with num- 
erous descendants and at this writing has 
thirty-eight living grandchildren and three 
gre.-it-grandchildren. After a life of activity 
and usefulness be is now surrounded bv 



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peace and plenty, and is regarded with af- 
fection by his family and with respect and 
esteem l)y his fellow citizens. 

JACOB LEIDIG, a retired farmer of 
Staufferstown. I-'ranklin Co., Pa., was born 
in this county in 1820. 

The founder of the Leidig family in 
Franklin county was Michael Leidig, the 
grandfather of our subject, who located along 
the pike near Staufferstown and erected a 
small log cabin about 1745, or 1750, which 
property is now in the possession of Augus- 
tus Farmeyer. The origin of the family is 
German, although there are no data at hand 
relative to the first member who came to 
America from Germany, but its representa- 
tives are always found among the solid, 
reputable, prominent people of any commun- 
ity in which they are found, an honor to their 
name and to their country. 

(II) JACOB LEIDIG, Sr., son of 
Michael, married, April 9. 1818, Mary Niss- 
\ej. They had issue : 

1. Henrietta. 

2. Jacob (III). 



0- 



Elizabeth. 



4. Herman. 

(Ill) JACOB LEIDIG, son of Jacob, 
Sr.. married, in 1849, Elizabeth Fass, daugh- 
ter of Joseph and Nancy (Whitmer) Fass, 
of Franklin county, the former, however, a 
native of Adams county. Joseph and Nancy 
Fass had ten children: Eli, Joseph, John. 
Elizabeth. Mary, Sarah, Nancy. Jeremiah 
and two who died in childhood. Seven chil- 
dren were born to :Mr. and Mrs. Leidig, 
namely : 

1. Joseph H. 

2. Jacob, of Virginia. 

3. D. Milton, of Vancluse, Virginia. 

4. Sarah married Christian Metz. 

,. ^Martha married Aaron HofYman, 
of Washington county, Maryland. 



6. Cyrus, of Winchester, \'irginia. 

7. Annie married Jacob S. Lehman, 
Jr., of Staufferstown, Pennsylvania. 

Jacob Leidig followed farming on the 
Falling Spring road until 1871, when he 
went to Frederick county, Va., but returned 
to Guilford township, Franklin Co., Pa., lo- 
cating in Staufferstown, where he now lives 
retired. He and his wife ha\"e lieen mem- 
bers of the New Mennonite Church for forty 
years, and are very- prominent in that denomi- 
nation. Mr. Leidig is noted for his solid, 
temi>erate, upright qualities, which make his 
word as good as his bond, and have gained 
for him the fullest confidence of the neigh- 
borhood. 

D. O. CUSHWA, one of the leading 
citizens of Mercersburg, Pa., is a son of 
Capt. John Cushwa, of Washington county, 
Md. The family record of the Cushwa fam- 
ily is as follows : 

(I) CAPT. DAVID CUSHWA. the 
grandfather of David O.. was a native of 
Maryland, and married a Miss Resley. They 
had children as follows : 

1. Benjamin married and left a fam- 
ily in Ohio. 

2. David married and left a family. 

3. John was the father of our subject 
(Ilj. 

4. George died unmarried. 

5. William married and left a family. 

6. J.-vmes married and left a family. 

7. Eliza married and left a family. 

8. Catherine married and left a 
family. 

9. Mary married and left a family. 
ID. . 

Capt. David Cushwa. the father of this 
family, was a landowner in Maryland, and 
jiarticipated in the War of 1812. being cap- 
tain of a Company of militia engaged in the 
defence of the capitol, in 1812, and he was 



RIOGFL^PHICAL ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIN COUNTY. 



595 



tliei'e wounded. His death occurred in 
^^'ashington county, Md., his wife survi\ing 
liini. 

(II) CAPT. JOHN CUSHWA, father 
■of David O. Cuslnva, was born in Maryland 
in 1802, and received his education there. 
He resided in Maryland until he had reached 
middle life, and then moved to Franklin 
county. Pa. He represented Washington 
county, Md., in the Legislature for a term or 
two, and also became a prominent citizen of 
his adopted State, Pennsylvania. A\'hile a 
resident of Washington county, Md., he mar- 
ried Elizal)eth Brewer, a nati\e of Pennsyl- 
vania, and five children were born to their 
uni(_)n : 

1. Amanda married D. B. Martin and 
resides at Waynesboro, children: John C. 
Bruce, Rose, Marie, Flossie and Jessie. 

2. Ann Catherine married S. C. 
Crumbaugh, of Frederick county, ]Md., and 
both are now deceased. 

3. Brewer married Laura Brewer and 
lives in North Carolina. 

4. Eliza J. resides with D. O. Cushwa 
in Mercersburg. 

5. David O, (HI). 

(HI) D. O. CUSHWA was born Nov. 
17, 1834. in IMaryland, and received his early 
education in that State, later attending Mar- 
shall Academy, at Mercersburg. After his 
school days were over he engaged in farm- 
ing, but later moved to Mercersburg and 
became one of the leading hardware mer- 
chants of the place. For a number of years 
he has teen identified with the best interests 
of the town, and has always been very actix'e 
in promoting all measures calculated to prove 
beneficial. His interest in educational mat- 
ters has been specially marked, and he has 
ser\ed on the school Ixiard for a long time, 
and has filled many other town ofifices, ably 
and conscientiously. In politics be has al- 
ways been a very stanch Republican, and 



supports the candidates and platforms of 
that party upon all occasions. 

The religious afifiliations of Mr. Cushwa 
are with the Reformed Church, and so valued 
are his ser\-ices that lie has been made a 
trustee of that body. Mr. Cushwa lias never 
married, but lives with his si-Ster Eliza J., 
who ministers to him and makes him a 
pleasant and happy home. Both brother and 
sister are sincerely attached to each other, 
and they enjoy in highest degree the esteein 
and respect of those among whom they have 
lived for so many years, and to whom they 
have proved themselves kind neightors and 
true friends, in ad\'ersity as well as in good 
fortune. 

CALVIN J. SHEELY, one of the 
prosperous farmers of Antrim township, 
Franklin county, was born Aug. 11, 1846, 
upon the homestead farm, a son of Joseph 
and Mary (Byers) Sheely. 

(I) 'FREDERICK SHEELY, the 
grandfather of Calvin J., engaged in farm- 
ing in Antrim township. He married Mary 
Barntizer, who lived to be eighty-seven 
years old ; issue : 

I: Samuel enlisted in an Illinois regi- 
ment. 

2. John (known as Capt. John Sheely) 
married a Miss Hollinger. 

3. Jacob married Kate Carl. 

4. Frederick died at the age of twen- 
ty-eight. 

5. Marv married \\'illiam Henneber- 
ger. 

6. Susan married Isaac Henneberger. 

7. Barbar.\ married Henry Oaks. 

8. Sarah married William Brown. 

9. M.\RG.-\RET married .Abr.ini Gear- 
hart. 

10. Joseph (II). 

(II) JOSEPH SHEELY was a suc- 
cessful farmer of .\ntrim township. He 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



married Mary Byers, daughter of Philip 
Byers; the Byers family came from the vi- 
cinity of Brown's Mills. Joseph Sheely and 
his wife had children as follows : 

1. Joseph married Harriet Donahue, 
of Washington county, Maryland. 

2. Calvin T. married Susanna Reiff 
(III). 

3. Ellen married Jacoh Baumbaugh 
of Lancaster county. 

4. Jacob married Maggie Gossard and 
is residing near Greencastle. 

5. Annie married Charles McDade. 

6. Elizabeth married Samuel Hough. 

7. Amanda married Daniel Rice. 

8. Jennie married Jacob Teach, of 
Washington county, Maryland. 

(Ill) CALVIN J. SHEELY, the 
subject proper of this biography, attended 
the public schools of Antrim township, and 
resided upon the old homestead until 1876, 
when he and his wife moved to the place 
where they now reside, near Mason and 
Dixon, which is a pleasant home, in excel- 
lent condition. He and his wife dispense a 
gracious hospitality. In December, 1874, 
Mr. Sheely married Miss Susanna ReifY, 
daughter of John and Magdelena (Whit- 
more) Reiff, of Washington county, ]\Id., 
who formerly lived in Lancaster county Pa. 
Children were born of this marriage as fol- 
lows : 

1. Emmert is teller of the Citizens 
National Bank of Greencastle. 

2. Clinton is a student at the Cum- 
berland Valley State Normal School. 

3. Alta married Albert Nicewander, 
of near Welsh Run. 

4. Annie is at home. 

5. Joseph died at the age of twelve. 
Mr. Sheely is a consistent member of the 

German Baptist Church, and he and his 
familv are prominent in their community. 



BENCHOFF FAMILY. JOHN BEN- 
CHOFF, the grandfather of Prof. Loudon 
F. Benchoff, of Chambersburg. was a farmer 
for many years near the Franklin and Adams 
county line. He married Sarah Miller, and 
they had the following children : 

1. David married May Eyler. 

2. Mary married John Sechrist. 

3. Rebecca married J. Beard. 

4. John M. (II) married Elizabeth 
Anderson. 

5. William married INIary Crawford. 

6. James died unmarried. 

7. Washington married Hester 
Brown. 

8. Elizabeth married John W'atson. 

9. Harriet married John W. Brown. 

10. Harrison married Jennie Frey. 
(II) JOHN M. BENCHOFF was born 

in Franklin county, Dec. 15. 1823. was 
reared on the farm there, and followed farm- 
ing until 1872, when he became proprietor of 
the "Rouzerville Hotel," near the State line. 
He conducted this hotel for a considerable 
length of time. About 1846 he married Miss 
Elizabeth Anderson, who was also a native 
of Franklin county, and was a daughter of 
John Anderson. They had issue twelve chil- 
dren, of whom eleven grew to maturity, viz : 

1. William H., a farmer on the old 
homestead in Adams county, married Emma 
Burman, of that county, and they have had 
issue: Daniel, Charles (deceased). Lilly, 
Victor and Albert. 

2. Mary Ellen is the widow of John 
Crilly, of Waynesboro, Pa. They had is- 
sue: Frank C, Ida, Albert, Ira and Jessie 
(deceased ). 

3. Loudon Francis (III). 

4. Sarah A. married W. W. Davis, of 
Waynes1x)ro; they had issue: Alfred, Hat- 
tie and Guy (deceased). 

5. J. E. (deceased) was a teacher in 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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6. James M.. a farmer of I*"ranl<lin 
county, married Hannah Brown. They have 
issue: Walter B., Blanche B., Maude, 
Thompson and Omar. 

7. \^\LENTiNE, a farmer near Tiffin. 
Chid, married Katharine Shawl. They have 
had issue: William, an infant son deceased, 
Martha, Rose and Alice. 

8. Hattie is the wife of James Hosier, 
of Tiffin, Ohio. They ha\e issue: Lloyd, 
Loudon Willard. Alvey, Susie (deceased), 
Guy and Frank. 

9. Albert is deceased. 

10. Emma inarried Ira Hosier, of Ohio, 
and they have issue one daughter. 

11. Alice (unmarried) is a resilient of 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

(Ill) LOUDON FRANCIS BEN- 
CHOFF was born Jan. 2^. 1851, on a farm 
in Hamiltonlxm township, Adams county, 
and was reared as a typical farmer's son, as- 
sisting with the work at home in summer, 
and attending public school in winter. ,\t 
the age of sixteen he became a stutlent in 
a select school at Fairfield, to prepare himself 
for teaching, which he began at the age of 
seventeen in his native county. After two 
years in Adams county he came to Franklin 
county, where he taught for two years before 
entering the National Normal School at 
Lebanon, Ohio. In that institution he took a 
commercial and normal course, after which 
he returned to the vicinity of his home, re- 
suming teaching in Washington county. ]\Id., 
wdiere he was engaged for some time. There 
he became principal of the Ringgold schools 
in Washington county, Aid. Returning to 
Franklin county. Pa., he taught until he en- 
tered upon the duties of his present incum- 
bency, being principal of the Rouzerville 
Academy and the North street scliools of 
Waynesboro, and finally in the Waynesboro 
high school. In 1902 he was nominated and 
elected county superintendent of the public 



scliools of Franklin county and in that posi- 
tion has proved to be one of the most capable 
friends of public education that the county 
h;is e\er had. In i\Iay, 1905, he was re-elected 
for a term of three years. His own exper- 
ience as an educator has fitted him to judge 
correctly of the i)raclic;d needs of the present 
generation, and bis energy and executive 
ability have enabled him to put many excel- 
lent plans into immediate operation. In poli- 
tics Mr. Benchoff is a stanch Republican. 
He is a member of the Reformed Church, 
and in every respect a citizen of good stand- 
ing, especially as he may be called a self- 
made man in the best sense. 

For the past twenty years Mr. Benchoff 
has given considerable attention to farming 
and fruit growing on his well cultivated farm 
of 75 acres in Washington townshi]), one and 
one-half miles east of Waynesboro. This is 
one of the most productive farms of its size 
in Franklin county. Mr. Benchoff is one of 
the leading members of the Reformed 
Church, and takes an active part in church 
work, having been an elder and deacon for 
twenty-five years. 

On Aug. 25, 1875, Mr. Benchoff was 
married to Miss Martha Belle Johnston, of 
I-'ranklin county, niece of Dr. Henry Har- 
l)augh. They have bad issue : 

I. Howard Johnston, born July 15, 
1876, attended the public schools of Waynes- 
boro, and graduated from the \\'aynesboro 
high school at the age of fifteen years, in the 
class of 1892. He taught school for two 
years, and in 1894 entered Franklin and Mar- 
shall College, from which he graduated in 
1898. In 1 899- 1 900 he was vice-principal 
of the Chamliersburg high school, of which 
he was subsequently principal until 1903, 
W'hen he entered Columbia University of 
New York City, from which institution he 
received his master's degree. He is now 
principal of the schools at Breckenridge, 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Colo. In 1904 he married Kathryn Mahon. 
of Chambersburg. He merits the liigh es- 
teem in which he is held, both as an educator 
and as a man. In politics he is a Republican, 
and in religion a member of the Reformed 
Church. 

2. George H., born Nov. 19, 1879. 

3. Ross Edgar^ born Feb. 8, 1884. is 
a medical student at the LTniversity of Penn- 
sylvania, Philadelphia. 

4. Guy A., torn Jan. 10, 1889, is a 
student in the Chambersburg high school. 

(I) JOHNSTON. The Johnston Fam- 
ily is one of the most numerous in Franklin 
county, and ranks among the oldest settlers. 
ROBERT JOHNSTON came to Franklin 
county, Pa., from Belfast, Ireland, in the 
early days of the count}'. He married Nancy 
Troup, of North Carolina, but of English 
extraction. They had issue : 

1. John married Sarah Hartman. 

2. Nath.\n. 

3. Alexander married Tina Sharp. 

4. Robert married ^Margaret -. 

5. William (II). 

6. Charlotte married John Rover, 
and is the only survivor, being now aged 
ninety-six years. 

7. Catherine married A. Lantz. 

(II) WILLIAM JOHNSTON, son of 
Robert, was a farmer by occupation. He 
married Susan Harbaugh, and became the 
father of eleven children, nine of whom 
reached maturity : 

1. Rev. G. H. married Mary Baer, sis- 
ter of George F. Baer, president of the Read- 
ing railroad : they had issue : Anna, George, 
Walter and Robert. 

2. Nancy married Lewis Stephey, de- 
ceased; they had issue: William. Albert, 
Theodore, Mary, Margaret and Harry. 

3. Washington married Phoebe 
Brown: they had issue: Blanch, George, 



Charles, William, John. Mary and Alice. 

4. Catherine married Henry Hoover; 
no issue.- 

5. William married Susan Pawling, 
and they have Frank, Grace and Mannie. 

6. Mary married Levi Fisher, deceased. 
They had issue: Sallie. Harry. William. 
Nevin and Flora. 

7. John A. married Mary Brown. 
They have issue : Catherine, Maud, May, 
Bertha, Stanley. Louise, Mary, Rotert and 
Charles. 

8. Margaret married Henry Lecrone, 
and they have: Laura, William, Daniel, 
Lester, Dora, Anna, Edith and Ernest. 

9. Sarah married Re\'. A. K. Kline; 
no issue. 

10. Martha married L. F. Benchoff. 

WTLLIAM E. GLASS, baker and con- 
fectioner and one of the prominent residents 
of Greencastle, Franklin Co., Pa., is a native 
of that city, born Nov. 7, 1863. He was 
educated in the public schools of Scotland, 
Franklin Co., Pa.. Chambersburg Academy, 
and the Cumberland Valley State Nonnal 
School, from which latter he was graduated 
in 1894. Prior to entering the normal 
he taught school for seven or eight years in 
Kansas, where he took up a homestead in 
Meade county. He lived seven years in 
Kansas, proving up two claims, pre-empting 
the first 160 acres, then proving it and ob- 
taining a warranty deed. He also proved 
up his second 160 acres, but the end of the 
seven years found him back in his old home, 
he having disposed of his property at a good 
figure. Going to Ohio, he took a course at 
the Delaware (Ohio) Business College, and 
then returned to Pennsylvania and entered 
the Cumberland \"alley State Normal 
School, as before stated. Succeeding his 
graduation he spent three years teaching in 
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Greencasile ami succeeded John W'liite in 
the bakery and confectionery business, to 
wliich he lias since devoted all of his time, 
making of it a marked success. He also 
handles Christmas toys in the season. He 
has a large trade in ice cream, putting up his 
own supply, both wholesale and retail, and 
his ice cream parlors are the finest in the 
cit}' and ver\- largely patronized. His bak- 
ery is very large, and he handles a good 
wholesale and retail trade in bread and cakes, 
giving employment to several competent 
bakers. 

In 1895 Air. Glass was married to Miss 
Alice Dissinger. a daughter of John and 
Julia (Pentz) Dissinger, and she was born 
in Greene township in 1865. One child 
has been born of this union, John Lloyd. 
The family all attend the Methodist Church. 
They are very highly esteemed throughout 
the community, and the success which is 
attending Mr. Glass's efforts is certainly 
merited, for he is bending every energy 
toward improving and enlarging his busi- 
ness consistent with good service and honor- 
able methods. 

. JOHN A. HECKMAN. The Grand 
Army of the Republic has many noble repre- 
sentatives among the agricultural class, es- 
pecially in Pennsylvania, which State poured 
regiment after regiment of lo\^al enthusias- 
tic young men into the Union ranks. To- 
day these young men are white-haired ; their 
step has learned to follow the plow as well 
as martial music, and their ambitious spirits 
to grapple with and conquer the enemy of 
adversity. Such a man is John A. Pleck- 
man of St. Thomas, Franklin county. Pa., 
born March 18. 1837, at Brant's Church, 
St. Thomas township, a son of Henry and 
Sarah (Garver) Heckman. 

(I) HENRY HECKMAN. his grand- 
father, probably born in Germany, took up 



land in Hamilton township, Franklin county, 
Pa. There he married a Miss Unaungst. 
He is buried at the First Lutheran Church 
on Queen Street, Chambersl)urg. dying when 
about eighty-four years of age. His family 
was as follows : 

1. Henry married Sarah Garver (II). 

2. John. 

3. Catherine married Christian Deck. 

4. Susan married Jacob Wall. 

(II) HENRY HECKMAN was bom 
in Hamilton township, and after his mar* 
riage purchased a farm, where he made his 
home all of his life. The maiden name of 
his wife was Sarah Garver, and they are 
buried at the Lutheran church in St. Thomas. 
They had the following children : 

1. Elizabeth married Daniel Kunkle. 

2. Susan married David Geib. 

3. Sarah married Cyrus Gingrich. 

4. Jacob married Catherine Krine. 

5. Henry married Anna Stoner. 

6. John A. married Maggie Gcl- 
wicks (III). 

7. Samuel married Mariah. daughter 
of Henry Hege. 

8. Benjamin married Annie StauiYer. 

9. George married Nannie Cough. 

The maternal grandfather of our sub- 
ject, named Garver, came of good substan- 
tial Franklin county stock. The children in 
his family were: 

1. John. 

2. Samuel. 

3. Joseph. 

4. Daniel. 

5. Benjamin. 

6. Susan married Abraham Rebnck. 

7. Sarah was the mother of our sub- 
ject. 

(III) JOHN A. HECKMAN had the 
advantage of attending the common school 
of St. Thomas township, and worked upon 
the farm until 1863, when, during the in- 



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vasion of Pennsylvania, several horses be- 
longing to him were stolen. Going to 
Chambersburg, he found his horses, but had 
the misfortune of being taken for a spy and 
was made prisoner. However, the follow- 
ing- evening he was released, and then he 
enlisted in Company H, 2ist Pennsylvania 
Cavalry. Six months later, in December of 
the same year, the regiment was re-organ- 
ized, and he re-enlisted in Company K, same 
regiment, and at an engagement was pro- 
moted to sergeant on account of his bravery. 
While he was acting as sergeant of the 
skirmish line at Petersburg the mine was 
blown up. and he was near the mine at the 
time, but fortunately escaped any serious 
injury. 

Returning from the war, Mr. Heckman 
located on a farm in Cumberland county, 
near Shippensburg, and there remained two 
years, then buying the old Walker farm, St. 
Thomas township, where he was very suc- 
cessfully engaged in farming for twelve 
years. He then bought ten acres of unim- 
proved land, a portion of the Wilson estate, 
upon which he built his fine house and mod- 
ern barn, and has made it his home ever 
since, now having one of the best farm homes 
in Franklin county. 

On Sept. 3, 1865. the gallant young 
sergeant married Margaret Gelwicks. daugh- 
ter of John and Clara Gelwicks. One 
daughter was born of this marriage : 

I. Minnie Irene, who died .\ug. 3, 
1896, aged twenty-four years, a charming 
young lady of sweet. Christian character, 
whose loss is still deeply felt. 

Mr. Heckman has always been a Repub- 
lican, and has been upon the Republican 
ticket as candidate for the office of school 
director upon several occasions. He has 
been a member of the Lutheran Church 
since 1856, and has served several years as 
deacon. Fraternally he is a member of the 



I. O. O. F. and the St. Thomas G. A. R., 
Col. James G. Elder Post, and he is now 
holding the office of chaplain of that body. 

JAMES B. AMBERSOiN, M. D., a 
practicing physician of Waynesboro, was 
born in that city May 14, 1845, eldest in 
the family of William S. and Rosanna 
(Burns) Amberson. His ancestors were 
the first settlers in Amberson \'alley, Frank- 
lin county. Pa., and his great-grandfather 
enlisted from that locality in the Revolu- 
tionary war. He was a commissioned offi- 
cer and served as ensign on Gen. Washing- 
ton's stafif. At the close of the war he re- 
sided for a time in Pittsburgh, but subse- 
quently removed to Mercer county. 

WILLIAM SMITH AMBERSON, 
father of Dr. James B., was born in Mercer 
county. Pa., Nov. 11, 1816. son of Presley 
N. and Sarah (Cunningham) Amberson, 
natives of Pennsylvania, of English and 
Welsh descent, respectively. Presley N. 
Amberson was in early life a tanner, but 
later a farmer. William Smith Amberson 
was the eldest of six children born to his 
parents. He received his education in the 
common schools and at the academy in Mer- 
cer county. Pa. He remained on the farm 
with his parents until he was twenty-six 
years of age, when he engaged as clerk in a 
store for two years. He came to Waynes- 
toro in 1840, and was in the mercantile busi- 
ness. For thirty-two years he was a partner 
of Peter Benedict in the dry-goods business, 
but after 1883 he dealt in grain and coal. 
He married, July 30. 1844, Rosanna Burns, 
and they had five children, three of whom 
are now living — one daughter and two sons. 
For several years Mr. Amberson was presi- 
dent of the First National Bank of Waynes- 
boro. Politically he was a Republican, and 
served two terms as county auditor of Frank- 
lin county; was on the school board; and a 




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member of town cuuncil. He was a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, and an 
elder. 

Dr. Amberson was reared in Waynes- 
boro, where he attended the public and pri- 
vate schools and the academy. Tlie year 
186061 he spent at Mercersburg Academy, 
then under the care of Rev. Mr. Loose, and 
in 1861 he entered Westminster College, 
New Wilmington, Lawrence Co., Pa., as an 
irregular Sophomore, and was graduated in 
1865. He entered the office of Drs. Benja- 
min Frantz and L N. Snively (then part- 
ners), as a student of medicine the same 
summer, and in the fall of 1865 entered the 
Aledical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and graduated in March, 
1868. He commenced to practice in 
Waynesboro in 1868, and till 1876 carried 
on a drug business in connection with his 
practice. In the spring of 1877 he located 
at \\'alnut Bottnm, Cumberland Co., Pa.. 
and engaged in the practice of his profession 
e.xclusively until the spring of 1880, when he 
returned to Waynesboro. In 1882 he went 
into partnership with Dr. A. H. Strickler, 
Avith whom he practiced until 1887. 

Since 1887 Dr. Amberson has practiced 
alone, meeting with success, and to-day is 
one of the recognized leaders in the profes- 
sion in Franklin county. He is a member 
■of the Academy of Medicine (local), of 
which he was one of the organizers and of 
which he was secretary for several years and 
is now president ; he is first vice-president 
of the Franklin County Medical Society, and 
is a member of the State Medical Society. 

Dr. Amberson married, Dec. i, 1873, 
Mary K., daughter of David M. Good, a 
farmer and merchant, of Swiss origin. To 
this union children were born as follows: 

1. Mary Eva. 

2. WiLLi.\ii Smith. 

3. GuRNEY Good. 



4. KuTH Deitrich, deceased. 

5. James Burns. 

6. CATHERINE Good. 

7. Jean Downey. 

Dr. Amberson is a Republican in his 
political views, and has served as city audi- 
tor of Waynesboro. The religious connec- 
tions of the family are with the I'resbyterian 
Church, in which Dr. Amberson is an elder. 
The Doctor is a member of the Fraternal 
Mystic Circle, and is the examining physi- 
cian for Waynesboro. While at Westmin- 
ster College, during the threatened invasion 
by the Confederates, he joined the State Re- 
serves of Pennsylvania. 

DANIEL W. HESS, a prominent citi- 
zen of Waynesboro, Pa., the leading con- 
tractor, and president of the Waynesboro 
Bank, was born in Greene township, Frank- 
lin Co., Pa., Jan. 19, 1843, 'i"'' '^ descended 
from early German settlers of the county. 

SAMUEL HESS, his father, was born 
in Washington township, this county, in 
1799. After his marriage to Susan Storer, 
who was born in 1801, he removed to Greene 
township, where he farmed for some time. 
He then removed to Letterkenny township, 
lint returned to Greene, and followed farm- 
ing for twenty years, his farm lying between 
Scotland and Chambersburg. His death 
occurred March 2, 1884, in New Ffanklin, 
Guilford township, whither he had moved 
some time previously. His wife passed 
away in 1885. 

Our subject gained his educatinn in the 
])ul)]ic schools. Early in life he followed 
farming, but in 1865 he began an apprent- 
iceship to the carpenter's trade, and that same 
year located at Scotland and engaged in 
general contracting. In 1886 he l)uilt a 
steam planing-niill at Scotland which he 
owned and operated, until it was burned 
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for liis l)uilding operations in Waynesboro, 
at wliich place lie is now rebuilding. As 
early as 1885 Mr. Hess began his career as 
a contractor in this city, and in the spring 
of 1895 located here. He is by all means 
the leading contractor of Waynesboro. 
Among other Iniildings of which he has been 
the contractor may be mentioned : The Peo- 
ple's National Bank building, the Wayne 
building, the Bank of Waynesboro building, 
many others, both for office and residence 
purposes, and the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church. Mr. Hess was vice-president of the 
Bank of Waynesboro from Jan. i, 1901, 
until lie was made president, in June, 1903, 
and he has been vice-president of the Em- 
niert Manufacturing Co. since Jan. i, 1902. 
On Dec. 20, 1870, Mr. Hess married 
Susan A., daughter of Abraham and Eliza- 
beth (Shank) Witnier, and they have the 
following family : 

1. ]""lorence May. 

2. .'\lbert T. married Minnie Tracy, 
and has one .son, Daniel W. 

3. Arie Gertrude. 

4. S. Enw.ARD married Miss Haley, 
and they have one son, Robert. 

5. Elsie Mabel. 

FOSNOT F.XMILY. CONRAD FOS- 
NACHT, the ancestor of the Fosnot famil- 
ies of Franklin, Cumberland and Milllin 
counties, emigrated from Germany as a 
young man with two lirothers, one of whom 
settled in Lancaster county, and the other in 
Washington county, Md. Conrad lived 
near the line of Franklin and Cumberland 
counties. He is known to have had one son. 

(II) CONRAD FOSNACHT, son of 
Conrad, was a weaver near Orrstown. He 
was twice married. By his first wife he had 
issue : 

1. Mary married \\'illiam Ijaughman. 

2. Jacob (III). 



3. Conrad (IV). 

By his second marriage he had two 
children : 

1. John married Eliza Hurley. 

2. Elizabeth married John Kunkel. 
(Ill) JACOB FOSNOT (born in 

1798 — died Jan. 26, 1850), son of Conrad, 
was a contractor. He died while building 
the Huntingdon & Broad Top Railroad. 
He married June 6, 1826, Mary Vanderbilt 
(born in 1804 — died Aug. 3, 1871), 
daughter of Cornelius and Mary (Steal) 
V;ni(Ierbilt, of Cumberland county ; they had 
issue : 

1. William C, born 1829, died Feb. 
23, 1894. 

2. John C. (born Oct. 2},, 1831), 
editor of the Newville Siar and Enicrpr'ise. 
He married (first) Oct. 5, 1885, Elizabeth 
Ferguson, and they had issue : Laura Belle, 
Maggie R., Lou Ella, George B. McClellan 
and William J. He married (second) Belle 
Rutherford. 

3. Mary J. (born 1833 — died Nov. 24, 
1886) married Jacob M. Wagner, and had 
a daughter, M. Alice, who married John (j. 
Stoufifer. 

4. Joshua V. married Margaret Mar- 
tin. 

5. Edward W. married Jennie S. Mell. 

6. Lewis C, editor of Record and 
Star, Watsontown. He married Lera B. 
Westhafer. They had one son John Clyde- 

7. Henry J. (born March 29, 1850),. 
is editor of the Democrat and Sentinel, Lew- 
istown. He married Jan. 27. 1874. Jennie- 
IT. Walker, daughter of Ezekiel Walker,. 
Shippensburg. 

riV) CONRAD FOSNOT (born 
near Orrstown, March 24, 1802 — died in 
1872). son of Conrad, was a wea\-er un- 
til 1853, when he engaged in the huck- 
stering business for a few years, running a 
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C^oy, 



bouylit four railroad cars, and engaged in 
the forwarding and commission business at 
Shippensburg, until i860. During the rest 
of his life he was a grocer there. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Jacoby. daughter of Christian 
Jacoby; they had issue: 

1. John R. (born Feb. 13, 1833 — 
died Dec. 22, 1903) married Charlotte 
Rodes, and had five children. 

2. David S. (born May 12, 1835 — 
died 1886) married Miss Hepfer, and had 
four children. 

3. Jacob H. (V). 

4. William R. died in infancy. 

(V) JACOB H. FOSNOt (born 
near Shippensburg, Aug. 3, 1837), son of 
Conrad and Elizabeth (Jacoby) Fosnot, 
was educated in the public schools, and as a 
youth assisted his father in his business. 
Later he was a fanuer in Cumberland 
county in partnership with his brother Da- 
vid. In 1857, the brothers went into the 
grocery business at Shippensburg for a year, 
after which Jacob H. conducted the business 
alone until i860. In 1862 he came to 
Chambersburg. where he found employment 
with George Dietz in the forwarding and 
commission business. In July 1863 he be- 
gan working for the Cumberland Valley 
Railroad. After he had been in the employ 
of the company six months, he was made 
brakeman on a mixed train, and a year later 
a brakeman on a passenger train. After 
serving in the latter position for a year he 
was made baggagemaster, at which he con- 
tinued for seven years. In 1873 he was pro- 
moted to conductor, his being the first pro- 
motion under Superintendent Boyd, and he 
has been a conductor for more than thirty 
3ears. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. 
including the Encampment. Knights of 
Pythias. Order of Railroad Conductors, and 
the C. V. Relief Association. He is a mem- 



ber of the Central Presbyterian Cliurch, 
Chambersburg. 

Mr. Fosnot married (first) March 18, 
i860, Mary Elizabeth Carbaugh (died Aug. 
31. 1863). daughter of Adam Carbaugh, of 
Shippensburg. They had two daughters 
who died in infancy. He married (second) 
March 18, 1862, Annie E. Newman, 
daughter of A. Hamilton Newman, a promi- 
nent citizen of Chambersburg; they had is- 
sue : 

I. George N., chief clerk in the Mas- 
ter Mechanic's ofifice, Cumberland X'alley 
Railroad. 

I 

GEORGE F. SMITH, one of the well-- 
known citizens of Washington township, 
Franklin Co., Pa., and the leading dairyman 
of the eastern part of the township, proprietor 
of Smith's Springl)rook Dairy, was lx)ni at 
Waldorf, Sachsen-Meiningen, Germany, 
Nov. 15, 1856. 

Mr. Smith is the son of Charles and 
Elizabeth (Schultz) Smith, both born in 
Germany, in the vicinity of Waldorf. In 
1858-59 the mother and two children immi- 
grated to America, sailing from Bremen to 
Baltimore, the voyage lasting ten weeks. 
From Baltimore they came by the way of 
Frederick to the vicinity of Waynesboro. 
The father had died when George was about 
a week old, the mother and her two children 
coming to America with her sister and 
brother-in-law. They settled alx)Ut one and a 
half miles east of Waynesboro, near Price's 
Church, and in that vicinity our subject was 
reared. 

George F. Smith received a common 
school education, besides some special 
instructions. He was bright, and learned 
easily. After leaving school, when he was 
about thirteen, he went to work on the farm 
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year. He then went to work for George J. 
Royer, on the same farm, Mr. Price leaving 
and Mr. Royer moving in. After two years 
there lie was for a number of years with 
1. X. Price. Next he went to work for B. 
E. Price, with whom he remained two years. 
His next \-enture, undertaken when he was 
about twenty years old, was to rent a farm, 
what was known as the Phillip farm, or 
Fairview h'arm. now Fairview Station, on 
the Western AIar}'land railroad, where he 
farmed for two years. He then rented the 
Hamilton farm, at Ouincy Station, Ouincy 
township { ni)\\ the site of the U. B. Or- 
phanage), where he stayed for several years. 
He next gave up farming and moved onto 
the home place, opposite George Foltz. He 
married in 1884, and the next spring went 
to the Stefifey farm, then owned l)y his father- 
in-law, David Barkdoll, where he has since 
resided, carrying on farming and the dairy 
business. He engaged in the latter business 
in 1895, 'i"*^^ 'ii the summer, season it is very 
extensive, as he handles from 100 to 120 
gallons dailv. most of which is sold on the 
Mountain at "Buena ^'ista Hotel." In win- 
ter he supplies the village of Rouzerville. 
Mr. Smith is an acti\-e Democrat in politics, 
and has filled various electi\e offices, includ- 
ing those of judge, inspector and clerk of 
elections. 

On Nov. 29, 1884, Mr. Smith married 
Anna M., daughter of Da\'id Barkdoll, a re- 
tiretl farmer of Washington township. 

David Barkdoll was born in Washington 
county, Md., Jan. 17, 1817, son of John and 
Christiana (Hevel) Barkdoll, natives of 
Maryland, of German descent. David re- 
ceived a common school education, and 
learned the tanner's trade; he followed that 
trade and farming until 1851, from wliich 
time on he ga\e his whole attention to farm- 
ing until he retired from active life, in 1878. 
Mr. Barkdoll married, in 1844, Catharine, 



daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Whippel) 
Summers, of English and German descent, 
respecti\'ely. To this union were born the 
following children : 

1. Elizabeth married James W. Scott, 
of W^ashington township. 

2. Salena married Dax'id Bachel, and 
is residing near Cave Town, Maryland. 

3. Anna M. is Mrs. George F. Smith. 
Mr. and Mrs. Barkdoll are still living, 

and are members of the Lutheran Church. 

J. WALKER CROFT, M. D., member , 
of the medical profession of Waynesboro, j 
Pa., was born north of St. Thomas, about 
one and one-half miles, in Franklin county, 
Pa., Nov. 6. 1874, son of George W. Croft. 

(I) JOHN CROFT, his paternal 
grandfather, was one of the early settlers 
of Franklin county, and a very prominent 
man of his day. 

(II) GEORGE W. CROFT was born 
on the old Croft homestead in 1844. He 
followed farming until his retirement to 
\\'aynesboro. He married Sarah Jane 
Walker, daughter of Ji ihn Walker, also 
prominent in the history of F'ranklin county. 
Her death occurred Feb. 18, 1899 when she 
was only forty-six j'ears of age. The children 
born to Mr. and Mrs. George Croft were: 

1. J. Walker (III). 

2. Clarence, a druggist in Philadel- 
]jhia, was educated at St. Thomas, where he 
afterward taught school, and he was then 
graduated from the Philadelphia School of 
IMiarmacy. 

3. Martha E. 

(III) J. WALKER CROFT, M. D., 
was reared on his father's farm, and given 
the advantages of a common school educa- 
tion. He then taught school for a year, when 
he began reading medicine with Dr. F. W. 
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College in 1895, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1899. The summer of the same year 
he located in Waynesboro, and began the 
practice of his profession. Dr. Croft is a 
member of Franklin County Medical Society, 
of which he was vice president in 1901 ; 
Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Elks and 
the Royal Arcanum. He is examiner for 
Hartford Life Insurance Company, the 
American Relief Association Co. and the 
Pacific Mutual of California. Religiously 
he is a member of the Lutheran Church, and 
is very active in its good work. 

Dr. Croft was married to Carrie G. 
Brandt, daugher of Levi and Emma ( Seitz ) 
Brandt, of Chambersburg. The Doctor and 
his wife are numbered among the leading 
young people of Waynesboro, and he has 
firmly established himself among the leading 
lights of his profession in Franklin county. 

GEORGE W. RAHAUSER. Among 
the extensive and progressive farmers of 
Guilford township, Franklin Co., Pa., may 
be mentioned George W. Rahauser who was 
born in Antrim township, near Greencastle, 
this county, Aug. i, 1856, a son of Gideon 
and Margaret (Stover) Rahauser, of the 
same township. 

(I) JONAS RAHAUSER the grand- 
father, was born near Little York, York 
county, but came to Franklin county while 
a young man. His parents came from Ger- 
many and were among the early settlers of 
York county. Jonas Rahauser was a farmer 
by occupation, and he was a worthy and suc- 
cessful man. In religion the entire family 
were members of the Reformed Church, and 
lived according to their creed. The child- 
ren were as follows : 

1. Catherine^ unmarried, is living at 
the age of eighty-seven years. 

2. Gideon, bom in 181 1, died in i8s9 
(II). 



3. Jo.VATH.\N died young. 

(II) GIDEON RAHAUSER became 
the father of the following children : 

1. Susan Ameli.x married John .\. 
Nicodemus, of Maryland. 

2. William S., of Greencastle, Pa., 
married Isabella Wetzel of the same county. 

3. Joseph is also of Greencastle. 

4. George W. is a resident of Guilford 
Springs (III). 

5. Gideon is a resident of Greencastle. 
The father of this family was a farmer 

by occupation. In politics he was a Demo- 
crat, but not an office seeker, and like the 
remainder of his family, he was devoutly 
attached to the Reformed Church. 

(III) GEORGE W. RAHAUSER 
married Dec. 17, 1885, Miss Ida Miller, of 
Antrim township, daughter of Adam and 
Elizabeth (Wolf) Miller, all settlers of 
Franklin county. The following children 
have been born of this marriage : 

1. Mary. 

2. Catherine. 

3. David. 

4. Margaret. 

5. Joseph. 

6. Ruth. 

7. Esther. 

8. William. 

George W. Rahauser devoted his boy- 
hood to farming and attending the common 
schools, and until 1894 followed farming in 
Antrim township. In that year he bought 
the old Bitner farm of 173 acres in Guilford 
township, near Guilford Springs, the pro- 
perty comprising one of the best farms and 
sets of buildings in this portion of the 
county. Probably the barn upon this pro]3- 
erty is the largest and most substantial of 
any in Franklin county. In 1899 Mr. 
Rahauser bought ninety-two acres adjoining 
his farm, making 265 acres in all. which he 
owns. In politics Mr. Rahauser is a stanch 



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Republican, and he is now one of the school 
directors of Guilford township. He is ener- 
getic, progressive, an excellent farmer, good 
citizen and representative resident of the 
Keystone State. 

SAMUEL E. WALKER, a prosperous 
merchant of Fannettsburg, Metal township, 
Franklin county, and a representative busi- 
ness man of that place, was born May 15, 
1872, a son of John H. Walker. 

(I) JOHN H. WALKER had child- 
ren as follows : 

1. James A., born Nov. 25, 1857. 

2. Mary C., born Aug. 5, 1858, is de- 
ceased; she married A. W". Pomery. 

3. Robert, born June 7. 1861, is de- 
ceased. 

4. William H., born Aug. 7, 1865, 
married Margaret, daughter of F. W. El- 
liott, of Chambersburg. 

5. Charles, bom Aug. 28, 1867. 

6. John S., and 

7. Annie M.. twins, born Sept. 6, 
1870, are deceased. 

8. Samuel E. (II)- 

(II) SAMUEL E. WALKER was 
educated in the public schools of Metal town- 
ship, and at the Bloomfield Academy in 
Perry county. After graduation he entered 
upon mercantile life, in partnership with his 
father at Fannettsburg, and thus continued 
from 1892 until the death of the latter, in 
December, 1900, when the young man as- 
sumed sole charge. He has since then been 
conducting the business alone, meeting with 
marked success. In August, 1902, he began 
the manufacture of harness, and conducts 
this industry in conjunction with his other 
business. On April 14, 1897, Mr. Walker 
married Miss Adeline K. Seibert, daughter 
of James B. and Priscilla (Skinner) Sei- 
bert. of Mercersburg, and they have liad 
issue :■ 



1. Walter S., deceased. 

2. Caroline G. 

3. Eveline P. deceased. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walker are prominent and 
highly esteemed members of the Lower Path 
\"alley Presbyterian Church, of which he 
has been trustee for se\eral years. 

HOWARD B. McNULTY. The name 
of IMcNulty is one which is connected with 
the history of the historic town of Chambers- 
burg, Pennsylvania, in the distinguished per- 
son of the father of Howard B. McNulty, 
Gen. William C. McNulty, Brigadier-General 
of the Fifth Brigade of Pennsylvania Militia 
for the counties of Fulton, Bedford, Somer- 
set, Blair and Cambria, and proprietor of the 
"Franklin Hotel," of Chambersburg. when 
the town was destroyed by the Confederates 
in 1864. Gen. McNulty was a native of 
Adams county. Pa., but spent his business 
life in Fulton and Franklin counties. He 
served as property registrar, and recorder, 
and clerk of courts of Fulton county, dur- 
ing 1860-63. H^ received his appointment 
as brigadier-general in 1858. During his 
long life he was a man whose patriotism was 
unflagging; whose integrity and sincerity 
were ne\er questioned, and one who ably 
discharged the many responsibilities laid up- 
on him. His wife was Catherine A. Mc- 
Nulty. 

Howard B. McNulty, the subject proper 
of this sketch, was born at McConnellsburg, 
I-"ulton Co., Pa., and was carefully educated 
in the public schools and the Chambersburg 
.\cademy, the latter being one of the oldest 
institutions of its kind in the United States. 
He began his business career as a grocer, 
but in 1885 he was appointed deputy re- 
corder of Franklin county, and in 1888 was 
elected justice of the peace for the Fourth 
ward, which office he still holds, and to 
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McNulty is also extensively engaged in the 
real-estate business and is manager of the 
United Telegraph & Telephone Company. 
In politics he is a Republican, one of the 
leading members of the party in his county, 
and has been twice chosen chairman of the 
Franklin County Republican Committee, 
now serving his second term as one of the 
secretaries of the committee. In 1900 he 
was selected to choose a delegate for his dis- 
trict to the National Republican Convention 
at Philadelphia. 

In fraternal matters Mr. McNulty is a 
member of George Washington Lodge, No. 
143, A. F. & A. M., of George Washington 
Chapter, No. 176, R. A. M. ; of Continental 
Commandery. No. 56, K. T. ; of the Royal 
Arcanum; and of several other organiza- 
tions. At present he is Grand Regent for 
the State of Pennsylvania for the Royal 
Arcanum. 

On Jan. 4. 1883. Mr. McNulty married 
M. Virginia, daughter of J. Warren Seibert, 
of Chambersburg. Issue: 

1. Herbert L. 

2. Mildred. 

3. Ruth. 

4. Edg.\r L. 

5. ]M.\riox. 

6. Bennett. 

t 
HAR\'EY THOMAS ROUSTON, one 
of the well-known citizens of Waynesboro, 
Pa., was born at Uniontown. Carroll Co., 
Md., Dec. 21, i860, a son of George H. and 
Annie A. (Roop) Rouston. The maternal 
grandfather, Jesse Roop, was of Scotch-Irish 
descent, and was a school teacher and sur- 
veyor. The maternal grandmother is still 
living, aged eighty-four years, and possessed 
of all her faculties. 

GEORGE H. ROUSTON was born in 
Uniontown, Md., in 1836. son of Henn- 
Rouston, a German by birth and a tailor by 



occupation, who was engaged in a tailoring 
and dry-goods business in Uniontown for a 
long while. He died in his seventy-seventh 
year, a devout Lutheran. His wife was also 
of German birth. George H. Rouston in 
early life became a carpenter, working at his 
trade for a number of years, after which he 
embarked in a tanning business, and for 
some time was foreman for G. L. Hoffman & 
Co. Since leaving the employ of this com- 
pany he has been retired. He married Annie 
A. Roop, who died April i, 1894. and they 
had children : 

1. Ch.\rles W. is a druggist on the 
corner of Pearl and FVanklin streets, Bal- 
timore, Maryland. 

2. Harvey Thomas. 

3. Grover ]M. is at Uniontown, Mary- 
land. 

4. John Kennedy, now a bookkeeper 
in Baltimore, was a lieutenant in the 4th 
Maryland Regulars and won a medal in 
competition drill in Baltimore. 

5. Jesse is superintendent of the Buck- 
ingham school for boys in Frederick county, 
Maryland. 

6. Melville W. is at home in Union- 
town, Maryland. 

7. Frank I. died in 1896. 
HARVEY THOMAS ROUSTON was 

reared in Uniontow-n, Md., attending the 
common schools. At the age of seventeen 
years he began the butchering business in 
Uniontown with his uncles John and Thomas 
Rouston, but after three years he engaged 
in that line of business for himself for sev- 
eral years. He ne.xt spent about four years 
in a cigar business, and at the same time had 
charge of the Union Bridge band. His next 
change was made when he removed to Ha- 
gerstown, where he took charge of the band 
of that city, and also carried on a successful 
meat Inisiness, continuing for a year. Mr. 
Rouston then returned to Baltimore, where 



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he had been engaged for a short time as clerk 
in the "Pennsylvania House" and stayed un- 
til 1 891, when he located in Waynesboro to 
take charge of the band of the place. How- 
ever, not being satisfied, he went to Cham- 
bersburg, but after remaining two months 
he returned to \\'aynesboro and engaged 
with W. T. Koons, continuing with him for 
eighteen months. At the expiration of that 
time he bought his partner out, and contin- 
ued business alone. In 1895 he came to the 
Diamond, and has become the leading 
butcher of Waynesboro, enjoying the 
very best trade of the city. 

Mr. Rouston is a natural musician; he is 
a first-class cornet player and has done a 
great deal of solo work. The first band of 
which he had charge was that of Uniontown : 
then he took charge of the Union Bridge 
band; next that of the First Regiment of 
Maryland; then the Hagerstown band; the 
Waynesboro band : the Uniontown city band 
(for three years) ; and in October, 1899, or- 
ganized the Wayne band, of thirty-nine 
pieces, which is one of the best in the State. 
He is its director and manager, and is also 
manager of the Philharmonic orchestra, and 
has been for the past ten years. In Febru- 
ary, 1900, he was elected to the borough 
council from tJie First ward, the honor being 
entirely unsolicited. In 1902 he was made 
president of the council, and then elected 
chief burgess by the handsome majority of 
255, over three other candidates — Demo- 
cratic, Union and Prohibitionist. Frater- 
nally he is a member of Acacia Lodge, A. 
F. & A. M., the Elks, Knights of Pythias, 
Junior Order of L'nited American Mechan- 
ics, the order of True Blue, and the Mystic 
Circle. 

On April 26, 1897, Mr. Rouston married 
Bessie Gilbert, who was born at Leitersburg, 
Md., daughter of William and Alice Gilbert, 
and to this union one son has come, 



Harvey Thom.\s Rouston, Jr., born 
Nov. 5, 1899. 

Mr. Rouston is one of the most jovial of 
men, kind-hearted and generous to all who 
know him. His wonderful musical ability 
and knowledge of his art are such as to ex- 
cite admiration from all music lovers, and his 
band is the pride of the State. As a busi- 
ness man, a public ofiicial and a friend Mr. 
Rouston has proven himself worthy of all 
trust reposed in him, and his success in ife is 
well merited, for he is a self-made man in 
the true sense of the word. 

JEREMIAH DULL, a prosperous mer- 
chant and one of the enterprising young 
business men of Fayetteville, Greene town- 
ship, Franklin Co., Pa., was bom in Guil- 
ford township, this county, Sept. 24, 1865, 
son of Abraham and Annie (Wingert) 
Dull, who are now deceased. 

(I) GEORGE DULL, grandfather of 
Jeremiah, came with his wife from Germany 
and settled in Franklin county. He was a 
man of thrifty habits, sober and industrious, 
and became well-to-do. He belonged to the 
Baptist Church, and was among the highly 
esteemed citizens of his community. His 
children, all now deceased except Mary, 
were : 

1 . Peter. 

2. George. 

3. Abraham (II). 

4. Mary married Robert Kirkpatrick, 
of Franklin county. 

5. Susan. 

6. Elizabeth. 

7. Lydia. 

(II) ABRAHAM DULL, the father 
of Jeremiah, was born in Guilford township, 
near Fayetteville, Jan. i, 1818, and died in 
that township, Feb. 10, 1893. -"^t the time 
of his death he was the owner of three fine 
farms, all well improved. In his demise 



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his church, liis family and his community 
lost a faithful, honest, upright man and true 
Christian. About 1847 'i^ married Annie 
Wingert, and they had hve children to 
grow to maturity, and seven who dietl in 
infancy. 

1. Mary is deceased. 

2. William is a farmer of Fayette- 
ville. 

3. Catherine is unmarried. 

4. Jeremiah (III). 

5. John W. 

(Ill) JEREMIAH DULL was reared 
upon the farm, and like the other manbers 
of his family was educated in the public 
schools of the township, and for several 
years after attaining to manhood's estate 
worked on his father's farm. On Feb. 14, 
1895, he married Miss Mary A. Small, of 
Guilford township, a daughter of .\dam and 
Adeline ( \\'ingert j Small, of the same town- 
ship, old settlers of Franklin county. This 
marriage has resulted in the birth of a son: 

Leslie S. 

In 1891 Mr. Dull came to Fayetteville 
with his father, who was then in very poor 
health, and cared for him until his death. 
In' 1894 he formed a partnership with his 
brother-in-law, Albert Sowers, in a general 
merchandise business, which has been con- 
tinued with astonishing success to the pres- 
ent day. The young men are ambitious, 
enterprising and accommodating, and as 
they carry an excellent stock of goods, and 
quote low prices, they enjoy a large and 
constantly increasing patronage from the 
very best people in Fayetteville, and the sur- 
rounding district. In politics Mr. Dull is a 
stanch Republican, although he has never 
aspired to public office. In his religious 
views he is something of an independent, 
trying to follow the Golden Rule of life, 
without any definite creefl. 

Mr. Dull and his wife are numbered 



among the social leaders of h'ayetteville, 
where they are very popular, and their 
pleasant home is the scene of many delight- 
ful entertainments, as they are very hospi- 
table. In business circles Mr. Dull is highly 
regarded and his future is a bright one, 
judging by present indications. 

Mrs. Dull is a member of a large family 
born to her parents, of which eight grew to 
maturity : 

1. Martin Small is a farmer of 
Greene township. 

2. Annie married Samuel Ankerbrant, 
of Greene township. 

3. Maggie married Dr. A. B. Grove, 
a physician of New Franklin, Pennsylvania. 

4. Harry A. Small of Fayetteville. 

5. Mary A. is Mrs. Dull. 

6. William Small, of Fayetteville. 

7. Alice married William Kirkpat- 
rick. 

8. Roy Small is at home. 

Air. and Mrs. Small are very highly 
respected residents of Guilford township, 
where they are well and favorably known. 

JAMES SWENEY, one of the best 
known and most popular citizens of Frank- 
lin county, now postmaster and general mer- 
chant at Black's Gap, is a native of the 
county, born .\pril 26, 1845, i" Qnincy 
township, son of John and Elizabeth 
(Tarman) Sweney, and grandson of Daniel 
and Mary Sweney. 

(T) DANIEL SWENEY and his wife 
were among the early settlers in Hamilton- 
ban township, at w hat is known as Sweney's 
Cold Springs, in Adams county. They 
came originally from Ireland, being of the 
good substantial Scotch-Irish stock. Of 
their children, four grew to maturity. 

(II) JOHN SWENEY was born at his 
father's home in Hamiltonban township in 
1820, and he died at Chambersburjr in 



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1897. He was a millwright by trade, and for 
some years was manager of the Mont Alto 
Iron Furnaces, and at one time he held a 
similar position at the Caledonia Iron Fur- 
naces, owned Ijy the late Thaddeus Stev- 
ens. In 1874 he was elected sheriff of the 
county, and in 1878 he was elected to the 
State Legislature — a high tribute to his pop- 
ularity, as he was a Democrat in a Republi- 
can district. At the close of his term as rep- 
resentative, he retired to private life, and 
made his home in Chambersburg. About 
1844 he married Elizabeth Tarman, who 
bore him two children : 

1 . Margaret. 

2. James (HI). 

(Ill) JAMES SWENEY found in the 
public schools ample facilities for a good ed- 
ucation, and by diligent effort made the most 
of his opportunities. As a young man he be- 
came a clerk for his father at the iron fur- 
naces, and later held a similar place in the 
Richmond furnaces. When his father was 
.elected sheriff he became his deputy, and 
:served as same until the close of his father's 
iterm of office. When Michael Gable was 
:sheriff, Mr. Sweney was his deputy for the 
last year of his term, and when W. C. Skin- 
ner became sheriff Mr. Sweney held again 
Jiis old position of deputy. In 1881 he was 
nominated by the Democratic party to fill 
the office of prothonotary and elected for 
.three years, and in 1886 he was appointed by 
President Clexeland, postmaster of Chani- 
Jbersburg, serving there until 1891, and giv- 
ing good satisfaction to all. For another time 
he then became deputy sheriff, this time 
under J. C. Gerbig. For thirty years he had 
been active in politics, and with it all had 
managed to keep his name clear of all shadow 
•of underhandedness, and to keep the good 
will and esteem of all men regardless of 
party affiliations. In 1897 he moved to 
iGreenwood, now Black's Gap, and that year 



was appointed postmaster, an office in which 
today he is performing the duties with his 
usual care and fidelity. Mr. Sweney has, in 
connection with his store, at Black's Gap, 
about tift)- acres of good farm land under 
cultivation. 

In 1896 Mr. Sweney was married to 
Annie McDannell, of Shippensburg, a mem- 
ber of an old and respected family of Cum- 
berland county. Socially Mr. Sweney be- 
longs to the I. O. O. F. His genial person- 
ality and his fine ability as a conversational- 
ist, coupled with the native humor of the 
Irish race, make him a delightful compan- 
ion, and he is very popular socially. 

Mrs. Sweney is of a family of five chil- 
dren, viz.: Sara, the wife of John Gribble; 
IMollie, wife of Charles M. Cressler; Annie 
M. ; George, of Chicago: and Grace, at home, 
with her parents in Shippensburg. 

DENTON O. SHEARER, one of the 
leading and widely known citizens of Frank- 
lin county, is a farmer and business man of 
Dryrun, Fannett township. He belongs 
to the well-known Shearer family of Penn- 
sylvania and is several generations removed 
from the first one of the name to come to 
America. That progenitor came from Ger- 
manv and settled in Berks county, but his 
son Jacob (II), moved into Franklin county, 
where the family has been prominent ever 
since. 

(II) JACOB SHEARER married 
Elizabeth Bottar, and their son 

(III) JACOB SHEARER married 
Elizabeth Bossart, by whom he had twelve 
children. One of these, presumably was 

(IV) CHRISTOPHER SHEARER, 
grandfather of Denton O.. who married an 
English wife anil became the father of nine 
chiltlren, all now deceased, namely: 

1. William (V). 

2. Samuel. 



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,3. Benjamin. 

4. Ann never married. 

5. Polly. 

6. Rebecca. 

7. Susan. 

8. Adaline. 

9. Kitty. 

(V) WILLL\M SHEARER, father 
•of Denton O.. was born near Strasburg, 
F"ranklin county, in 1809. He was one of 
the substantial and honored citizens of L"p- 
per Path \'alley. served as school director 
for several terms, and was one of the prom- 
inent members of the Presbvterian Church 



there. He died in li 



His wife was 



Miss Emma Xeil, daughter of David Neil, 
a prominent citizen and churchman of Path 
Valley, and they were united Alay 12. 1837. 
She was born in Path Valley, March 12, 
181 1, and sur\ived her husband, dying April 
21, 1898. A family of thirteen children 
was born to William and Emma Shearer, 
but only five lixed to grow up, viz : 

1. Samuel, now deceased. 

2. Denton O. (VI). 

3. Margaret married William F. Kolb. 

4. Susan A. married Daniel Wolff, ex- 
postmaster and a prominent merchant of 
Spring Run. 

5. John is now deceased. 

(VI) DENTOX O. SHEARER was 
born on the J. -Miller farm, July 29, 1844. 
He grew up there, receiving his education 
in the public schools and in the Path Valley 
Academy, afterward teaching for five years, 
thereby attaining a professional certificate. 
On Dec. 29, 1870, he was married to Miss 
Mary A. Elder, the only daughter of Joseph 
and Mary (Wolff) Elder, of Path Valley. 
After his marriage Mr. Shearer resided for 
a number of years with his wife's parents 
and engaged in farming as his main occu- 
pation. In addition to that he has always 
been somewhat extensively engaged in such 



business as tiie management and settlement 
of estates and has acted in the various capac- 
ities of guardian, trustee, executor, adminis- 
trator and assignee. 

On Jan. 30, 1890, Mr. Shearer was left a 
widower, with no children by his first wife, 
and nearly three years later, Nov. 24, 1892, 
he was again married, this time to Miss 
Laura Elizabeth Wolff, daughter of John 
and Margaret Ann (McCurdy) Wolff, 
of Dryrun. By this union there have been 
born three children : 

1. Olive Lenore. 

2. John Waldo. 

3. Janet Elizabeth. 

The family are prominent in the Presby- 
terian Church, in which Mr. Shearer has 
been acti\e for many years. He is one of 
the leading elders, has been for thirty-five 
years either assistant or superintendent of 
the dift'erent Sunday schools the church has 
supported in the \'alley. has Ijeen chorister 
for nearly as long, and acted as trustee for a 
long period. For some years past he has 
been a Prohibitionist, and he is one of the 
few men in the county who are deeply inter- 
ested in the cause and who give their services 
to it. Mr. Shearer has always been alive to 
all questions of the general welfare and be- 
fore joining the Prohibitionists was an active 
Democrat. For six years he was a school 
director, served as registry assessor one 
year, and in March, 1884. was elected dele- 
gate to the State convention held at Allen- 
town. Another public matter, though not a 
political one, in which he has taken much in- 
terest is the Children's Aid Society of Frank- 
lin county, which he helped organize in 
Chambersburg. in 1884, and of which he is 
still one of the directors. Mr. Shearer's in- 
fluence for good is felt in many directions 
and he is one of the powers in the county, 
looked up to and respected by all. He is an 
extremelv well-read man and so strong an 



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interest in educational subjects has remained 
with him ever since his own days of teach- 
ing that for forty years he has been a fre- 
quent attendant upon tlie Franklin County 
Teachers' Institute, a remarkable record 
even for one in the profession. 

J. A. BURK may be mentioned very ap- 
propriately among the experienced and suc- 
cessful farmers of Fannett township, Frank- 
lin county. He was born on the old Joseph 
Kilgore farm, near Willow Hill, June i, 
1862, a son of James and Mary Ann 
(Brandt) Burk, of Fannett township. 

(I) JOHN BURK, grandfather of J. A. 
Burk, came of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and 
was one of the early settlers of Franklin 
county. 

(II) JAMES BURK, father of our sub- 
ject, was born in south Franklin county, near 
the Mason and Dixon line, in 1820, and died 
in Fannett township March 22, 1886. In 
1846 he married Mary Ann Brandt, of 
Franklin county, a daughter of Joseph and 
Hannah (Rhine) Brandt, prominent people 
of Franklin county, and of German ancestry. 
Joseph Brandt was a native of Franklin, and 
a most excellent man. Mrs. Burk still sur- 
vives, and makes her home with her daughter 
Mary E. About the time of his marriage 
James Burk located in Path Valley. He and 
his wife became the parents of the following 
children : 

1. WiLLi.'VM H. is a farmer of South- 
ampton township. 

2. J. C. is a prominent farmer of Fan- 
nett township, near Spring Run, a sketch of 
whom appears elsewhere. 

3. Ett.\ married William Gribble, of 
Fort Scott, Kansas 

4. Lemuel, of Willow Hill, a farmer, 
married Rachel Morrow. 

5. Mary E., unmarried, is living with 
her mother near Willow Hill. 



6. Jennie H. married WiUiam W. 
Crause, a farmer of Path Valley. 

7. J. A. (III). 

In politics the men of the Burk family 
have generally been Democrats, and all of 
them are Presbyterians in religious affilia- 
tions. 

(Ill) J. A. BL'RK was reared upon a 
farm, and has spent his life in agricultural 
pursuits.. On ]\Iarch 27,. 1885, he married 
]\Iiss Clara S. Flickinger, of Metal town- 
ship, a daughter of Jacob and Lavina Flick- 
inger, coming of an old and well known fam- 
ily of Path Valley. Six children have been 
born of this marriage : 

1. Archie. 

2. Victor. 

3. ^Iarion. 

4. Hazel. 

5. Adeline. 

6. Alice. 

Mrs. Burk is one of a family of ten chil- 
dren born to her parents. Of these, 

1. Edgar is a farmer of Fannett town- 
ship. 

2. Mary Ellen married J. Mack Wil- 
helm, of Path Valley. 

3. William is a resident of Kansas. 

4. Anna married George Shearer, of 
Path Valley. 

5. .\. A. married Annie Neil, of Path 
ValW. 

6. Clara S. is 'Sirs. Burk. 

This family is at Scotch-Irish origin, 
and is one of the oldest in Franklin county. 
Its members have always been closely iden- 
tified with the Presbyterian Church. 

]\Ir. Burk started out in life with nothing 
but his energy and ambition for capital, and 
now owns a fine farm of 150 acres, once 
known as the old Gamble farm. L'pon it he 
has recently built a very comfortable modem 
home, and put up other buildings, all sub- 
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brothers, he has always been a stanch Demo- 
crat, and has taken an active part in the 
work of his party, being justly recognized as 
leader in his vicinity. His services on the 
school board of Metal township, he having 
been a director for several years, are of a 
character to merit special mention, he hav- 
ing been instrumental in effecting a number 
of needed improvements. Enterprising, pub- 
lic-spirited and successful, he is an excelllent 
example of the best class of farmers of his 
locality. With his wife he extends to his 
many friends a generous and much appre- 
ciated hospitality, their beautiful home being 
a favorite gathering place upon festive occa- 
sions. In their church they are also much 
appreciated, and Mr. Burk is one of the lib- 
eral contributors toward its support. Few 
measures come before the people of Fannett 
township for their consideration in whicli he 
•does not take a prominent part, and his influ- 
ence is the just reward of his never-tiring 
and intelligent efforts to better the existing 
conditions of township, county and State. 

GEORGE \V. HASSLER, a young 
farmer citizen of Guilford township, Frank- 
lin county, was born in Antrim township, 
this county. Dec. 26. 1866, a son of .\braham 
and Sophia (Sowers) Hassler, and a mem- 
ber of the fifth generation of the family in 
this country. 

(I) The great-great-grandparents of 
George W. Hassler (names unknown) came 
from Germany to Lancaster county, and 
were among the earliest settlers of that por- 
tion of Pennsylvania. 

(II) ABRAHAM HASSLER, the 
great-grandfather, son of the German emi- 
grants bearing the name, was one of the 
early settlers of Franklin county, and prob- 
ably was lx)rn in Lancaster county. He is 
buried in Guilford township, at what is 
known as Grindstone Hill Church. 



(III) JOHN HASSLER, the grand- 
father, son of Abraham Hassler, married 
Catherine Clugston, and they had the fol- 
lowing children, four of whom are now de- 
ceased, but they grew to maturity : 

1. Abr.vii.vm (IV). 

2. John. 

3. C.\TH.\RINE. 

4. M.\RV. 

5. Augustine. 

6. Nancy. 

7. Samuel. 

8. David. 

(IV) ABRAHAM HASSLER was 
born in Guilford township March 22, 1826, 
and died March 10, 1898. He and his wife 
a most estimable woman, who passed away 
Oct. 2. 1892, were the parents of nine chil- 
dren : 

1. Solomon M. is a farmer of Dickin- 
•son county, Kansas. 

2. EuwARD A. is of Dickinson county, 
Kansas. 

3. John C. lives in the same county in 
Kansas. 

4. Adeline married Hiram K. Small, 
of Antrim township. 

5. Emma K. married B. F. Grenoble, 
of Michigan. 

6. Abraham is a farmer of .Antrim 
township. 

7. George W. (V). 

8. Annie M. married John F. Phillipy. 

9. Rebecca is deceased. 

(V) GEORGE \V. HASSLER, the sub- 
ject proper of this biography, was reared and 
educated in Antrim township, and thor- 
oughly learned how to conduct a farm prop- 
erly. On Jan. 19. 1888, he married Annie 
Garman, a daughter of John and Catherine 
Garman, of Franklin county, old and hon- 
ored settlers of this county and earlier of 
Lancaster county. Ten children were born 
to the parents of Mrs. Hassler : 



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1. Aaron of Antrim township. 

2. Elizabeth married M. AI. Gillan, 
of Antrim township. ,,, 

3. Catharine. 

4. Martin, of Guilford townsliip. 

5. Amos. 

6. Emma married Abraham Wingert. 

7. Alice married D. W. Singer, of 
Quincy township. 

8. Annie married George W. Hassler. 

9. Martha married James Barnhart, 
of Wilhamson, Pennsylvania. 

10. Elam, a farmer of Illinois. 

Air. and Mrs. Hassler became the parents 
of children as follows : 

1. Ruth S. 

2. Florence K. 

3. Mary A. 

4. John A. 

5. William Edward. 

6. Paul. 

7. Anna Jannett. 

In politics Mr. Hassler is a Democrat. 
He has served ably as judge and inspector of 
elections, and has always taken an active part 
jn local affairs, being a public-spirited and 
progressive man. In religious matters he is 
a member of the Grindstone Hill Reformed 
Church. Mr. Hassler owns the old Sowers 
farm, which is one of the oldest settled 
farms in the township, and upon it are some 
of the first buildings erected in this locality. 
He is a man widely and favorably known, 
and his life has been such as to win for him 
the confidence of all who know him. 

PAUL JOHN, proprietor of the "Hotel 
John" of Chambersburg, Pa., comes of an 
old and honorable family, and he was born 
May 26, 1850, in Peitz, Germany. 

(I) CHARLES JOHN, father of Paul, 
married Rosa Wildov, and they had nine 
children : 



1. Charles, a bartender at Chambers- 
burg. 

2. Paul (II). 

3. Emil, in the restaurant business at 
Chambersburg. 

4. Albert^ in the saloon business at 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

5. GusT.w, in the saloon business at 
Baltimore, Alaryland. 

6. Augusta, wife of J. P. Jacoby. 

7. Bertha, deceased. 

8. Emm.\, deceased. 

9. Henry, a tailor at Chambersburg. 
(II) PAUL JOHN emigrated to the 

United States in 1868, landing in New York, 
whence he went to Pittsfield, Mass., and en- 
tered a woolen mill as finisher. After a year 
thus spent, he came to Chambersburg, and in 
1869 was employed as foreman in the finish- 
ing department of the Chambersburg woolen 
mill. After about four years, in 1873, '^^ 
went into a saloon business on Alain street, 
between Queen and Washington streets, and 
there remained three years, when he remoxed 
to the northwest corner of Queen and ATain 
streets. In April, 1881, he bought the 
"American Hotel," corner of Queen and Sec- 
ond streets. This he named the "Franklin 
House." In 1892, he remodeled it and 
called it the "Hotel John." This hotel is 
fully supplied with all modern appliances, in- 
cluding electric light, gas, bathrooms, tele- 
phones, etc., and in connection with the bar, 
there is an excellent restaurant. This hotel 
enjoys a wide-spread popularity, and is a 
fine source of income to the genial host. 

On Oct. 10, 1871, Air. John married 
Aliss Alary Falkenstein, daughter of Leon- 
ard Falkenstein, of Chambersburg. Mrs. 
John died Oct. 18, 1897, a devoted wife and 
mother and is sadly missed by her family. 
The following children were born to Air. 
and Airs. John : 

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daugliter of Solomon Pogiie, of Mont Alto, 
Pa., and they have issue: Mary, Thclnia and 
Rosa. 

2. Rosa married John B. Gable, of 
Chambersburg. and has a son Paul. 

3. Charles married Cora Smith, 
daughter of George Smith, of Chambers- 
burg. No issue. 

4. Mary, twin to Charles, married J. 
F. Phillipy, of Chambersburg. Nn issue. 

5. Edith. 

6. Lottie. 

7. Minnie. 

8. Paul, Jr. 

Mr. John is a member of George Wash- 
ington Lodge. No. 146, F. & A. M.; 
of the Mystic Shrine; and of the I. 
O. O. F. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, although he has never aspired 
to any political office. He has torn down 
the old residence adjoining the hotel and 
has erected on a 200-foot lot a handsome 
double dwelling house, well equipped with 
all modem improvements. The family is an 
honored one in this vicinity, and the sons and 
daughters have grown up to be a credit to 
the parents who bore and reared them. 

WASHINGER FAMILY. JOHN 
WASHINGER (born Oct. 1795— died June 
5, 1876) was a farmer and shoemaker near 
Roxbury. His father, Michael Washinger, 
was a native of Germany, who emigrated 
to Pennsylvania and settled on a farm near 
the Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church aljout 
the time Franklin county was organized. 
He was a consistent member of the German 
Lutheran Church in Chambersburg. and \vas 
buried in the old graveyard recently removed 
by the Cumberland Valley R. R. John 
Washinger and his wife, Elizabeth h'ran- 
ciscus (born Sept. 2, 1803 — died Oct. 18, 
1877), were buried in the graveyard at 
Keefer's Church. They had issue : 



1. Jacob (II). 

2. Eliza married Captain I'^lias K. Leh- 
man, who commanded Company .\. lo^cl 
P. V. 1.. upon the re-organization of the 
regiment in March, 1863. They had issue: 
Jacoi), who married Alice Zullinger; He:iry ; 
Ella, who married James Elder; Lizzie, who 
married John .\llcn; and John, wlm married 
Miss Whisler. 

3. C.\TiiARi.\K married William Bitncr, 
and they had issue ; Albert, who n>arricd 
Miss Hoke; and Samuel and Evans. 

4. Leah married .\braham Bender ; no 
issue. 

5. Solomon married Anna Grove, and 
they have had four children : Kate : Big- 
ham, who married Miss Miller; and William 
and John, deceased. 

6. Simon, lx)rn April 26, 1831, died' 
May 26, 1852. 

7. John, born Nov. 30, 1838. died Aug. 
21, 1854. 

(II) JACOB \\'ASHINGER (bom 
near Rocky Spring Church. Sept. 2S. 1822 — 
died June 6, 1883). son of John and Eliza- 
l)eth (Franciscus) Washinger, was educated 
in the public schools, and afterward was a 
teacher for a number of years. Later he 
became a clerk for the late James D. Scott, 
at Bridgeport. Peters township, and then 
removed to Jacksonville. Cumberland Co., 
where he formed a partnership with James 
Kyle, in the general merchandising business. 
This ])artnership lasted fi>r fifteen years, 
after which Mr. ^^'ashinger conducted tljp. 
business alone for twelve years. .-Xfter his 
retirement as a merchant lie returned to 
Roxbury. where he died. In politics he was- 
a Democrat, and in religious connection a 
member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. 
Washinger married. Sept. 12. 1848. Sarah 
Warner (iKjrn July 15, 1825 — died April 
4. 1882), daughter of Isaac Warner. They 
had issue : 



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1. Laura Jane (tern Jan. 26, 1851) 
married, Dec. i, 1868, William A. Prynr. 
and tliey had issue : Alda, who married John 
Swigert ; Milly, who married William 
Weaver: James, who married I-annv Swi- 
gert: George, who married Miss Kissel: 
Helen, who married Harry McCurd\' ; and 
Clark, William and Florence. 

2. Simon Warner (born Oct. 9, 1832) 
married Sept. 29, 1872, Anna L. Snyder, 
and they have had issue: \\'illiam, John, 
David and Mary, living, and Etta and Fliza- 
beth, deceased. 

3. George M. (born Oct. 2, 1854) 
married, Dec. 11, 1884, Minnie E. Reed, ami 
they have issue : Cora and Herbert. 

4. John A. (born Sept. 24, 1858) mar- 
ried, Oct. 29, 1878, Annie E. Minnick, 
daughter of David and Catherine Minnick. 
They have issue : Albert, who married Elsie 
Ycxler: Roy, who married Lizzie Barclay: 
and Anna, Bertha, Paul, Newton and John. 

5. Linnie C, born Sept. 17, i860, died 
unmarried, in September, 1899. 

6. William H. (III). 

7. Brenton McClellan (born Nov. 
14, 1864) was educated in the public schools 
and at a select school at Orrstown. He be- 
came a teacher, and has taught in the schools 
of Letterkenny township eight years, in 
Hamilton township six years, and in the 
borough of Chambersburg six years. He 
married Nov. 12, 1885, .\nnie M. Creamer 
(born Nov. 25, 1866). daughter of George 
and Elizabeth Creamer, and they have one 
son: Guy Raymond, l)orn Feb. 13, 1889, 

8. Cora \^. (torn Dec. 13, 1867) mar- 
ried, June 16, 1886, Edgar L. Miller, son of 
Samuel Miller. They have issue: Carl, 
Erna, ^laud, Bessie, Dean, Nellie, Hazel and 
a son. not yet named. 

(Ill) WILLIAM H. WASHINGER, 
A. M., son of Jacob and Sarah (Warner) 
Washinger, was brought to Franklin county 



b\' his parents when only seven years old, 
and spent his boyhood near Roxbury. He 
attended the public schools in winters, and 
worked on a farm in summers until his.. 
eighteenth year, when, after passing a credit- 
able examination, he began teaching. He 
taught school in Franklin county for fiv;e 
successive terms, and attended a select 
school at Orrstown in the summer of each 
year. One year after his marriage, he be- 
lieved himself called to the ministry of the 
United Brethren Church, and in the autumn 
of 1886 he entered Lebanon X'alley College 
to pre])are for his life work. His means 
were limited and he knew that to complete 
the college course, it must be done by hard 
work and the practice of strict economy. He 
was graduated in 1891, his wife being en- 
titled to equal credit with himself for his 
success. In the spring of 1890 he assisted 
in the Normal Department of the college, 
and during the vacation of that year he or- 
ganized the Derry Street United Brethren 
Mission in Harrisburg. His first appoint- 
ment, in February, 1891, was to the Otter-" 
bein L-nited Brethren Church, Harrisburg. 
His salary was only $700 but it was volun- 
tarily increased to $900 by the congregation, 
and in 1894, his people offered to make it 
$1,000 if he was returned to the charge. 
In that year he was assigned to the First 
L^nited Brethren Church, Chambersburg, of 
which he was pastor for eight years. The 
salary paid by the Chambersburg congrega- 
tion at that time was $800. with the parson- 
age, but it was increased to $1,200. Soon 
after he came to Chambersburg, Mr. Wash- 
inger found the church built in 1882 too 
small to accommodate the people, and it was 
detemiined to erect a new and larger edifice 
of more modern design. The original 
churcli site was not large enough for a build- 
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cliase of tlie old Methodist j^rax-eyard north 
of the church lot, which had long' hecn dis- 
used as a hurying ground. The fru'ewell 
services in the old church were held April i), 
1899, and the new church was dedicated Sept. 
2, 1900. The cost of the new church was 
$49,875.38. The church has a frontage 
of 139 feet, and is 97 feet in depth. It is 
supplied with a large pipe organ, said to he 
the finest in the Cumberland Valley, and in 
the tower of the new edifice is a chime of 
ten bells, the first in the town, which cost 
$5,000. In the building of this church and 
securing the funds necessary for its comple- 
tion, Mr, Washinger was indefatigable, and 
for the success of the undertaking much of 
the credit must be given to his earnest zeal 
and untiring labors. But Mr. W'ashinger's 
\\-ork in Chambersbiu'g cannot Ije wholl}' 
measured b_\- his success as a church builder. 
During his ministry of eight years the con- 
gregation increased from moderate numbers 
Avith such rapidity of growth, that it is now 
the largest in the town. .After completing 
his laborious undertaking he remained pastor 
•of the I'^irst Church only one year. At the 
Annual Conference held at York, in March, 
1902, he was elected Presiding Elder of the 
Chambersburg district, and he was re-elected 
Oct. 14, 1903, and at the Annual Conference 
at Red Lion, Oct. 13. 1904, he was elected 
presiding elder of the entire Pennsylvania 
Conference, which office he is at present fill- 
ing. He is a man of pleasing address, and is a 
•close student and an untiring worker. His 
sermons show thought and care in their 
preparation, but are delivered without the 
use of manuscript in an attractive and im- 
pressive manner. In his care of the large 
district over which he presides he is laborious 
and self-sacrificing. Few men in his de- 
nomination can equal him in tact, and none 
in the willingness to respond to the call of 
the i)eople. He has often been asked to enter 



the educational field of the United Brethren 
Church, and he has l)een suggested for the 
presidencv of the Otterbein University at 
W'estervillc. Ohio, the Lebanon Valley Col- 
lege, at Annville, Pa., his Alma Mater, the 
State Central University, Indianapolis, and 
Lane University, Kans., but he has stead- 
fastly refused to allow his name to l)e used, 
as he believes his special w^ork is the Gospel 
ministry. Air. Washinger married in 1885, 
Romaine E. I'unkhouser, daughter of Ben- 
jamin S. and Catharine Funkhouser, and 
granddaughter of the Re\'. Daniel Funk- 
houser, a prominent and successful minister 
of the United Brethren Church in the early 
days of its history. Mrs. Washinger is a 
true helpmate of her husband in his arduous 
labors. 

GEORGE ZULLINGER, a veteran of 
the Civil war, and a heavy dealer in horses 
and stock, was born in 1846, in Upper Stras- 
burg, Franklin Co., Pa., son of hVederick 
and M 



— (Wilson) Zullinger, and now 
is one of the representative men of Cham- 
bersburg, Pa. The Zullinger family is of 
German extraction, and doubtless represen- 
tatives of it participated in the Revolution- 
ary war, 

' (I) FREDERICK ZULLINGER, 
grandfather of George, was a farmer by oc- 
cupation. He married Margaret Shay, and 
they had issue : 

1. Jeremiah^ deceased. 

2. Elias, deceased. 

3. Nicholas, deceased. 

4. John, deceased. 

5. Frederick (II), deceased. 

6. David, deceased. 

7. George, living at Greenvillage, 
Franklin Co., Pennsylvania. 

8. Margaret, who married Philip 
Shumaker, the first county superintendent of 
Franklin county, Pennsylvania. 



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(II) FREDERICK ZULLINGER 
married M Wilson, daughter of Will- 
iam Wilson, of Irish descent, whose other 
children were: William, deceased; James, 
deceased; John, deceased; and Sai'ah, who 
married a Mr. McCurdy, and moved to Ohio. 
Frederick and M Zuliinger had issue : 

1. Margaret married Samuel Rife, 
both deceased. 

2. George (III). 

3. David is a merchant at Lanark, 
Illinois. 

4. Mary E. died when eight years of 
age. 

5. Sarah Jane died at the age of six 
years. 

6. James is a dealer in feed at Junction 
City, Kansas. 

7. Martha married James P. Kell, a 
farmer at Five Forks, Franklin county. 

The death of Frederick Zuliinger oc- 
curred in 1892, while his wife died 1876-77. 

(III) GEORGE ZULLINGER at- 
tended the public schools of Franklin county, 
and at the age of twenty-one years, he began 
farming, thus continuing until 1882, when 
he engaged in the hotel business, operating 
Vifhat is known as the "Linion House" at 
Chambersburg. After about six years, he 
took charge of the "National House," Jan. 
I, 1888, the latter having a capacity of forty 
rooms, and good stabling for seventy-nine 
horses. Mr. Zuliinger has been a heavy 
stock and horse dealer for the past twenty 
years, and for a number of years has been in 
partnership with ex-sheriff S. G. Greena- 
walt. They hatidle mainly, western stock, 
shipping from Ohio, Illinois and other 
States, selling on an average 400 horses an- 
nually. In 1867, Mr. Zuliinger was married 
to Amanda, daughter of Jeremiah Ashwav, 
of Franklin county. She died in 1889, the 
mother of the following children : 

I. Mamoe is the widow of Jesse Mittan. 



2. AIixNiE married Albertus Gerbig, 
and has one child, George Albert. , 

3. Willis married Emma Durbey, and 
is deceased. 

4. Rose is at home, unmarried. 

In 1890, Mr. Zuliinger married Alto, 
daughter of David Stauffer of Franklin 
county, and they have had two children : 

1. George. 

2. Violet, deceased. 

Fraternally, Mr. Zuliinger is a member 
of the A. F. & A. M. and the Red Men. in 
which he is deservedly popular. He is an 
ideal hotelman, being cordial, genial and 
courteous, thoroughly understanding the art 
of making his guests feel at home. His 
house is excellently managed, the cuisine is 
very good, and the hotel is largely patronized 
by the people of Chambersburg, as well as by 
the traveling public. 

During the Civil war, Mr. Zuliinger was 
among the defenders of the Union, enlisting, 
in 1862, in Company B, 158th Pennsylvania 
Militia, and after serving a term of nine 
months he returned honie and re-enlisted 
in the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry. Subse- 
quently he was transferred to the 148th P. 
V. I., and thus continued until the close of 
the war, when he was once more transferred, 
this time to the 53d P. V. I., and was hon- 
orably discharged in August, 1865. He was 
wounded at the battle of Five Forks. 

GEORGE M. JOHNSTON, farmer 
and distiller of Antrim township. Franklin- 
county, and one of the leading business men- 
of Greencastle, was torn March 3, 1864. in 
Ouincy township, Franklin county, son of 
Robert and Margaret (Stoops) Johnston.. 

(I) ROBERT JOHNSTON (horn 
June 22. 1825) was a farmer and distiller 
all his life. During Ix^yhood he was educrited 
in Ouincy township, this county, where his 
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Alexander, he learned the trade of a distiller, 
and worked for different parties until 1S44, 
when he hegan husiness for himself hv rciU- 
ing a distillery in Qnincy townshij), where 
he continued until the fall of 1866, when he 
1x)ught the Spring Grove Distillery from 
John Hartle, and successfully carried on this 
business until his death, which took ])1ace 
Feb. 7, 1902. He married ^largaret Stoops, 
daughter of John Stoops of German an- 
cestry. They had issue : 

1. Annie married Solomon Whitmore. 

2. Charlotte married James Gillan. 

3. Katie married William T. Phillipy. 

4. Alice married Abraham Foreman. 

5. George M. (H). 

6. Samuel R., deceased. 

John Stoops had, l>esides Mrs. Johnston, 
the following children : ReJDecca, who mar- 
ried James Carbaugh; Mary A., who mar- 
ried James Bryson ; Jane, wdio married Cliris- 
tian Hellinger; Sarah, who married Joseph 
Miller; William, who died in young man- 
hood ; George, wdio died in young manhood ; 
John, who married in the West ; and Colum- 
bus, who also married in the West. 

(II) GEORGE M. JOHNSTON be- 
gan working for his father when only fifteen 
years of age, and from October, 1891, until 
the death of his father, he was manager of 
the business. Since then, he has been .sole 
proprietor, and operates his business under 
the name of George M. Johnston, Distiller. 
In addition he operates the farm of his 
fatlier. and large gristmills in connection 
therewith, the entire property being known 
as the Spring Grove Mills. The.se mills 
are very old, and their history forms part 
of the records of Antrim township. The 
success which has attended Mr. Johnston is 
certainly well merited, for he has worked 
hard and faithfully, and now^ places ui)on the 
market goods noted far and wide for their 
purity, excellence and high grade. He is 



popular with his fellow townsmen, and is 
justly recognized as one of the substantial 
men of this locality. 

^Ir. Johnston married Alice Gcirman,. 
daughter of Thomas Gorman. 

McILVAINE FAMILY. ROBERT 
McILVAINE, the ancestor of the Mcllvaine 
family of Lancaster and I'ranklin counties, 
was a merchant in Philadelphia and an elder 
in the Third or old Pine Street -Presbyterian 
Church, of which his brother-in-law, the Rev. 
George Duffield, chaplain of the ContineiUal 
Congress, was pastor. Mr. Mcllvaine mar- 
ried Mary Duffield, daughter of George and 
Margaret Duffield, of Pequea, Lancaster 
county. They had issue : 

1. Robert (II). 

2. William. 

3. Andrew. 

4. George married a daughter of Col. 
James Hamilton, of Lancaster. He served' 
in the war of the Revolution as lieutenant. 
They had issue : Jane, Elizabeth, Mary and 
Robert. 

5. M.\RV married George McCieehan. of 
Cumberland county. 

(II) ROBERT McILVAINE. son of 
Robert and Mary (Duffield) Mcllvaine, was' 
a farmer in Lancaster county and served as 
adjutant in the war of 1812. He was fond 
of hunting, kept good horses and was a 
splendid shot. He was an elder in the Pres- 
byterian Church. He married (first). Jan. 
18, 1770, Jane Slemmons, daughter of 
Thomas and Margaret (Brown) Slemnmns, 
of Virginia. They had issue : 

1. Thomas Slemmons, married Susan- 
na Lightner, of Lancaster county, and they 
had issue : Maria, Nathaniel, Thomas, 
Susanna, Sarah, George, Jane. Ferree. Ed- 
ward and Kate. 

2. George Duffield (III). 

3. William B.. a Presbyterian minis- 



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2. John Stauffer (IV). 



ter, for tliirty-nine years pastor of the East 
Liberty Church, married (first) Mar>' Duf- 
field and (second) Ehzabeth Brading, of 
Pittsburgh. By his second marriage he had 
issue: George H. and Sophia. He married 
(third) Margaret AIcGiffin of Washington, 
Pa., and they had is.sue: Thomas, a physician 
at Peoria, Illinois. 

4. AxDREW died young, unmarried. 

5. Jane married James Slaymaker, oi 
an old Lancaster county family. 

6. John D. married Catharine Slay- 
maker, of Lancaster county and they had is- 
sue: John, Samuel, William and Kate (who 
married John Wilson, a lawyer of Chicago). 

7. Sarah, twin sister of John D., mar- 
ried Isaac Walker, noted for his rare knowl- 
edge of the early history of Chester and 
Lancaster counties. They lived in Peoria, 
111., where he died. 

Mr. Mcllvaine married (second) Abigail 
Whitall, of Marietta, Lancaster county, and 
they had issue : 

I. Mary married James Mehaffey, son 
of James and Mary (Cochran) Mehaffey, of 
an old Marietta family, extensively engaged 
in the lumber laisiness. James Mehaffey, 
Sr., was an elder in Donegal Presbyterian 
Church. 

(Ill) GEORGE DUFFIELD Mc- 
ILVAINE, son of Robert and Jane (Slem- 
mons) Mcllvaine, was a farmer in Lancas- 
ter county, where he owned a farm Cdutain- 
ing 100 acres. He was at one time a captain 
in the militia, and was a man of strong char- 
acter, and a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. He married Sarah StautYer, daugh- 
ter of John and Sarah (Deshong) StaufTer, 
of Lancaster county, and they had issue : 

1. Robert Slemmons (died August, 
1896) married Josephine Byers. of Lancas- 
ter county. They had issue: Cora, who mar- 
ried Calvin Ryeburn : Winfield Kennedv: 
;and Jennie, who married William Moore. 



3. Sarah Jane married Charles Seely, 
of Pittsburgh, and they had issue : William 
who died in infancy; and Charles and Sarah. 

4. William Duffield served his ap- 
prenticeship in the American Machine Shops 
at Springfield, Mass., and took a mathemati- 
cal course at Harvard Cniversity. At the be- 
ginning of the Civil war be entered the 
United States Navy as an engineer, and 
served four years. He participated in the 
naval actions at New Orleans, Baton Rouge 
and \^icksburg. After the war he was a 
draughtsman in the Navy. He is now a 
retired business man of Chicago. He mar- 
ried Mary Warren, and they had issue: 
Robert S., Charles, Julia and William. 

5. M.\RY D. married Rev. Calvin Heil- 
man. of Greencastle, antl they had issue : 
Alice, George M. and Mary. 

6. George Duffield, married Ella 
Hoopes. They had issue : Wharton Stock- 
ton, who married Ellie Emhardt : George 
Duffield, deceased ; and Ella, Frank and 
Mabel. 

(IV) JOHN STAUFFER McIL- 
V.\INE (torn near Gap, Lancaster county, 
son of George D. and Sarah (Stauffer) Mc- 
llvaine, was educated at the Academy at 
New London, Chester county, and was then 
engaged as clerk in a store and warehouse at 
Gap. He afterward served his apprentice- 
ship in the machine shops at Parkesburg, and 
then worked at his trade for several years, 
including one year at Peoria, 111. When he 
returned to Gap, he engaged in the general 
merchandising business, in partnership with 
his brother Robert, .\fter three vears he 
retired and worked for a year at his trade. 
He then became a clerk in the Philadelphia 
National Bank, at 4th and Chestnut streets, 
where he remained ele\en vears. nine of 
them as general iKJokkeeper. He came to 
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of the National Bank of Chamliersburg, and 
at the death of the cashier, George R. Mes- 
sersmith, in 1881, he became cashier. He 
has been a member of the Presbyterian 
Chnrch since the age of twenty-one, and lias 
been a ruling elder of the Falling Spring 
Presbyterian Church since 1883; lie is now 
superintendent of the Sunday School, in 
which he was a teacher for many years. He 
is also a member of the F. & A. M., and of 
the Royal Arcanum. He is an active mem- 
ber of the Kittochtinny Historical Society, 
and contributed a \aluable paper on the 
"Banks of Chambersburg" to the archives 
of the Society. In politics he is a Republi- 
can. Mr. Mcllvaine married Nov. 2/. 1861. 
Mary Frances Culbertson, of Peoria, 111., 
daughter of Dr. William and Nancy (Mc- 
Culloh) Culbertson. They had issue: 

1. Nellie Belle married Charles 
Hoopes, and they had one daughter, Helen. 

2. William Culbertson died in in- 
fancy. 

3. George Duffield married Sarah 
Lightcap, and they have one son, John S. 

4. John Stauffer, Jr., married Bessie 
S. McGowan, daughter of Col. Theodore 
McGowan, and granddaughter of William 
L. Chambers, of Chambersburg, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

JOHN FRANTZ KAUFFMAN, one of 
the highly esteemed residents of Greencastle, 
Franklin county, is a member of an old 
and representative family of this portion of 
the State, whose founder, a native of Swit- 
zerland, came to America and located in Lan- 
caster Co., Pa., near East Berlin, at a \ery 
early day. 

(I) ANDREW KAUFFMAN, grand- 
father of John F., was born in Dauphin 
county. Pa., lived some years in Dau- 
phin county, and was the first of his 
familv to locate in Franklin county. 



which he did about 181 6, locating 
with his family at Brooks' Mills, 
near C"hambersl)urg. i^rominent alike in 
church and ci\'ic affairs he became very well 
known, and although he did not join himself 
to any denomination, he ga\e liberally to 
the church of which his wife, whose maiden 
name was .\nn Grow, was a member, the 
River Brethren. .\t his death, which oc- 
curred in 1850, when he was aged about 
seventy years, he was interred in the Sto\er 
graveyard, fnur miles northeast of Green- 
castle. His wife died in 1873, aged ninety 
years and was buried at the Ri\er Brethren 
Baptist Church graveyard eight miles south- 
east of Chamljersburg, at which jilace he was 
reinterred in 1885. They h.id children as 
follows : 

1. Abram died in 1884, aged seventy- 
six years. 

2. Christian died in 1884, aged 
se\enty-five years. 

3. John (II) died in 1881, aged sev- 
enty years. 

4. Maria died in 1886, aged seventy- 
three years. 

5. Andrew died in 1885, aged seventy- 
one years. 

6. S.\Mi.'EL died in 1901, aged eighty- 
three years. 

7. Jacob died in 1893, aged seventy- 
three years. 

8. Henry died in 1897, agetl seventy- 
four years. 

(II) JOHN KAUFFMAN. father of 
our subject, was born in Adam county in 
181 1, and in 1816 was brought to I'ranklin 
county, and there spent the remainder of his 
life. After attaining manhood's estate he 
taught school for a time, and also learned the 
trade of a saddler and harness maker, and 
was engaged in that line of business in Green- 
castle for some years. For thirty-five years 
he held the ( ffice of justice of the peace at 



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Greencastle, and only one of all his decisions 
was reversed by any of the courts. Being a 
man of high principles and very conscien- 
tious, he endeavored to keep peace among his 
fellow men. Broad and liberal in his \-iews, 
although not a member of any religious de- 
nomination, he attended the services of the 
Reformed Church. He was a man of in- 
fluence, and when he gave his support to a 
moveiuent, there was no doubt but that it 
would succeed. However, when he was con- 
vinced that a certain course was the right one, 
he was very firm in maintaining his posi- 
tion. He married Susan Carbaugh, who died 
in 1894, aged sixty-nine years, while he died 
in 1 88 1 at the age of seventy years. Both 
are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Green- 
castle. Their family numbered eight chil- 
dren : 

1. A son that died in infancy. 

2. A daughter that died in infancy. 

3. Abraii.'XM, who died at the age of 
three years. 

4. HoR.\CE G., an attorney-at-law, of 
Ogle county, Illinois. 

5. Christian C, a prosperous mer- 
chant of Greencastle, has children : Jeremiah 
D., George R., Charles C, Lily E., Ida E. 
and Helen S. 

6. John Frantz (HI). 

7. Oscar is a prominent resident of 
Antrim township, where he operates a fine 
farm belonging to his brother John F. He 
has children : Carrie E., Elva I\I., Horace 
B. and Susan A. 

8. Susan A. is unmarried. 

(Ill) JOHN FRANTZ KAUFFMAN 
was born Nov. 14, 1862, and when only 
eight years of age he went to make his home 
with an uncle and aunt, John and Maria 
(Kauffman) Frantz, and he lived upon their 
farm in .\ntrim township until their death. 
His education was received in the comuKin 



and select schools, and when only twenty 
years of age he began teaching, which profes- 
sion he followed eight years in Franklin 
county. At the expiration of that time, he 
Ijegan farming, operating his uncle's farm, 
and the following year he came into posses- 
sion of this valuable property, his uncle, 
John and the latter's brother, Jacob Frantz 
ha\ing deeded him all their property for his 
kindness and care of them. He engaged in 
farming for five years, and then located in 
Greencastle, where he now owns one of the 
most beautiful homes in the town. It is 
conveniently located on South Carlisle street. 
.At present he is living retired from active 
life, spending his time looking after his many 
holdings. Mr. Kauffman is one of the pro- 
gressive, public-spirited men of the county. 
He was one of the organizers of the Citizens 
National Bank, and was one of the origina- 
tors, and since its institution he has been a 
director as well as stockholder. He is also 
a stockholder of the Bank of Waynesboro, 
and has been from the very first. Politically 
he is a Republican. 

On Sept. 29, 1 89 1, Mr. Kauffman was 
married to Miss Minnie E. Snively, of Wash- 
ington township, daughter of David and 
.\nna E. Snively, whose other children were: 
Margaret F. ; Frank M., who died in 1875, 
aged sixteen years; Alice M., who died in 
1883, aged twenty-three years; Daniel B. ; 
.Vnnie G., and David S. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kauffman ha\-e two children : 

1. J. Harold, born June 28, 1894. 

2. Robert S., born April 29, 1897. 
^Ir. and Mrs. Kauffman are members of 

the Lutheran Church. Mrs. Kauffman is a 
woman of much intelligence and refinement. 
She is a graduate of the Cumberland Valley 
State Normal School, Shippensburg, Pa., 
graduating with honors in the class of 1887. 
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fession of teaching with much success. She 
is of quiet tastes and sincerely devoted to her 
family. 

JACOB FRANTZ was born in Berks 
county, Pa., and was one of tlie \ery early 
settlers of Franklin county, coming here 
from Lebanon county, Pa., with his wife 
Magdalena (Miller) Frantz. They made 
their removal about 1816, and located some 
four miles east of Greencastle, in Antrim 
township. By occupation he was a black- 
smith, and he followed his trade through 
life. In time he came to own a small tract of 
land upon which he lived and died. All of 
his family belonged to the Reformed Church. 
Four children were born to himself and wife : 

1. Joseph went South about 1850, and 
built up a large business at Natchez, Miss., 
as a wagon maker became quite prominent. 
was elected to several county offices, and died 
there about 1865 unmarried. 

2. John died in September, 1893, aged 
eighty-two years and six months. He learned 
the blacksmith business with his father, who 
died when John was eighteen years of age, 
and the young man, who was a fine mechanic 
and an expert in his line, took charge, young 
as he was. and there continued in business 
until 185 1, when he purchased and moved to 
a farm near by and engaged in farming with 
much success until 1869. Having then pur- 
chased another farm adjoining, he retired 
from acti\-e business, except to superintend 
his two farms, which he did with pleasure, 
remaining at the old homestead until his 
death. He was a very generous and public- 
spirited man, liberal in his support of the 
church and all charitable enterprises. His 
property he turned over to our subject, whom 
he tenderly loved. His judgment was good, 
and faculties clear up to his death. Having 
no children he and his most excellent wife, 
Maria Kauffman, lavished their affection 



upon their nephew. Mrs. Frantz passed 
away Aug. 31, 1886, aged seventy-three 
years. 

3. Jacob, the youngest son and the only 
one living, was born Aug. 2, 181 3. By trade 
he was a blacksmith, and a farmer. He was 
never married, and during all their lives he 
and his brother John lived together and held 
all their property in common. Since 1893 
he has made his home with John F. 
Kauffman. and at this writing. May, 1905, 
at the advanced age of ninety-two years is 
in fairly good health. During a long and 
useful life Mr. hVantz has been a devoted 
member of the Reformed Church, a good. 
Christian man, and very successful in his 
business relations. Although his active life 
is over, he exerts a very strong influence 
among his friends, and is deeply revered 
and tenderly loved by his immediate family, 
who are bound to him by ties of affection 
and gratitude, if not by blood. 

4. Leah, who lived with her brothers 
and was a very lovable, kindhearted lady, 
died unmarried Nov. 3. 1879, ^g^d sixty- 
three years, eight months and twenty-nine 
days. 

HENRY GOOD STONER. superinten- 
dent of the Landis Tool Co., of Waynes- 
boro, Pa., was born at Falling Spring, Guil- 
ford township, Franklin Co., Pa., June 23, 
1874, tlie son of Jacob S. and Christiana 
(Good) Stoner. On both sides of the fam- 
ily he comes of German ancestors who were 
among the early settlers of Pennsylvania. 

(I) ISAAC STONER, his grandfather, 
was a farmer and miller, and at his death, in 
1850. he was the owner of 200 acres of fine 
land in Guilford township. He married 
Martha Stouffer, and his family consisted of 
five children, of whom Jacob S. is the fourth. 

(II) JACOB S. STONER was torn 
Feb. 26, 1845, ^t Falling Spring, and spent 



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the early years of his Hfe upon the home 
farm, attending the common schools. Leav- 
ing the farm, he learned the trade of pattern 
making with George Frick, of Waynesboro, 
founder of the F^rick Co., but preferring 
country life he soon returned to the farm and 
has since given all his time to farming and 
stock raising, being a prominent resident of 
Guilford township, at Falling Spring. ^Ir. 
Stoner was twice married, his first wife be- 
ing Christiana Good, daughter of Henry 
Good. She died in 1875, leaving him two 
children : 

1. Alice. 

2. Henry G. (III). 

The second wife of Jacob S. Stoner was 
Kate, daughter of Jacob Strickler, and to 
this marriage were born : 

1. Amos. 

2. Frank. 

3. Paul. 

4. Anna. 

(Ill) HENRY GOOD STONER re- 
ceived a common school education, while 
residing on the home farm. In July, 1892, 
he left home and came to Waynesboro, 
where he served an apprenticeship to the ma- 
chinist trade with Landis Bros. Finishing his 
apprenticeship, he spent several months in 
the New England States working at his 
trade, and w'hile there took a commercial 
course at a business college. He then re- 
turned to Waynesboro and entered the em- 
ploy of Landis Bros, once inore, occupying a 
position as one of their draughtsmen. When 
the plant was destroyed by fire he continued 
in the drawing room, until 1900. In May of 
that year the Landis Tool Works were or- 
ganized, and he became master mechanic for 
the company, holding the very responsible 
position of superintendent. 

On Dec. 12, 1900, Mr. Stoner married 
Blanche Lucile Plank, who was born in 
Churchtown, Cumberland Co., Pa., daugh- 



ter of Samuel C. Plank, of Waynesboro. 
Fraternally Mr. Stoner is a member of 
Acacia Lodge, No. 586, A. F. & A. M. His 
record is one of which he may well be proud. 
He is devoted to the interests of his com- 
pany, and they fully appreciate his untiring 
efforts in their behalf. Among his fellow 
tow nsmen he is respected and esteemed, and 
his future prospects are very bright, judg- 
ing by his present success. 

S. S. LEDY, retired merchant and 
farmer of Guilford township, Franklin 
county, is one of the best known residents of 
that section of the county. As business man, 
public official and successful agriculturist he 
has taken an active and useful part in the 
affairs of the commvniity for many years, 
and no citizen stands higher in the esteem of 
his fellow men generally. Mr. Ledy was 
born Sept. 3, 1839, in Guilford township, 
near New Franklin, and the family is of 
German and Scotch-Irish origin. 

(I) HENRY LEDY, grandfather of 
S. S., was born in Lancaster county. Pa., 
and came to Franklin county while a young 
man, in the early days owning a farm near 
Waynesboro. His children, now^ all de- 
ceased, were : 

1. Henry. 

2. Joseph. 

3. Samuel (II). 

4. Daniel. 

5. Mary. 

6. Catherine. 

7. SUS.'VN. 

8. Barb.\ra. 

(II) SAMUEL LEDY was born in 1808, 
in Washington township, Franklin county, 
near Waynesboro, and in early life moved to 
Guilford township, later settling in Antrim 
township, where he resided for thirty years. 
In 1886 he returned to Guilford township, 
where he remained until his death, which 



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-occurred in 1894. Samuel Ledy married 
Catherine Snider, who was born in 1812, 
and died in 1896, and they became the par- 
ents of three children, namely : 

1. Daniel died after reaching maturity. 

2. Samuel S. (HI). 

3. Elizabeth is the widow (jf Samuel 
Hollinger, and resides in Marion. 

The father of this family was a member 
of the Reformed Church, and in political 
faith a stanch Republican. Farming was his 
life work, 

(III) SAMUEL S. LEDY was reared 
on the farm and received his education in 
the public schools. His school days over, 
he continued at farming until the outbreak 
of the Civil war, in the summer of 1862 
enlisting as a member of Company D, 126th 
P. V. I., under Col. Elder. He took part in 
all of the battles in which his command was 
engaged up to and including Fredericks- 
burg, where he was wounded by a spent 
shell and sent to hospital. In time he was 
transferred to a hospital at Washington, 
D. C, where he received his honorable dis- 
charge in the summer of 1863, with the rec- 
ord of a good and faithful soldier. His 
service included action in the battles of Sec- 
ond Bull Run, Antietam and other import- 
ant engagements. Returning home he re- 
sumed farming on his father's place, later on 
the Joseph Hade place, which he now owns, 
and he continued to make agriculture his 
sole occupation until the spring of 1885, 
when he purchased the general store of 
Manon & Statler, at Marion, continuing in 
the mercantile business until 1893. He met 
with success in that line as he had in farm- 
ing, by thrift and close attention to business, 
and he was an important figure in the com- 
mercial life of Marion during his connection 
therewith. While conducting the store he 
also acted as postmaster and express agent 
at Marion, and with all his duties was a very 

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busy man. Selling out the mercantile Inisi- 
ness in 1893, Mr. Ledy resumed the active 
management of his farm, which is less than 
a mile south of Marion, and where the fam- 
ily had continued to reside. The place com- 
prises 235 acres, and is a valuable tract, 
which under his luanagement yields a good 
income. The house is one of the oldest in 
the county, and is said to have been visited 
by Washington. 

For the past forty years Mr. Ledy has 
been one of the working members of the 
Republican party in Franklin county, and 
though he has not been an office-seeker he 
has been honored with election to various 
positions of tnist. He served nine years 
as school director, and was postmaster at 
Marion from 1885 to 1892, discharging the 
duties of both these incumbencies in a man- 
ner creditable alike to himself and to those 
who chose him. He is one of the leading 
members of the Reformed Church of Mar- 
ion, where he has been elder and leader in 
the Sabbath school for many yeaxs. He 
has been president of the Franklin County 
Agricultural Association since its organiza- 
tion. 

In October, 1863, Mr. Ledy married 
Miss Sarah E. Hade, daughter of Joseph 
and Hannah (Stover) Hade, of Antrim 
township, and two children came to this 
union : 

1. Joseph Hade is a prominent busi- 
ness man of Marion, and an extensive fruit 
grower and dealer; while his father was in 
the mercantile business he was junior mem- 
I)cr of the finn of S. S. & J. H. Ledy, and 
he also acted as assistant postmaster. For 
a number of years he has been active in the 
public afifairs of Marion and Franklin 
county, having served as justice of the 
peace, and as county registrar and recorder. 

2. Minnie Belle is the wife of Abra- 
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fanners of Antrim township, and has had 
three ciiildren, Nelhe, Mabel and Edna. 

Airs. Ledy, who was born Jan. 20, 1838, 
passed away Sept. 6, 1901. Slie, too, was 
a member of the Reformed Church. 

J. H. LEDY, justice of the peace and 
one of the weU-known business men of 
FrankHn county, has long been prominent 
in his section, ranking among the leading 
citizens. He was born Aug. 3, 1864, in 
Guilford township, Franklin county, and 
comes of an old-established family of Ger- 
man and Scotch-Irish origin. 

<I) HENRY LEDY, great-grand- 
father of J- H., was one of the early settlers 
in Franklin county, he owning a farm near 
Waynesboro. His family consisted of eight 
children, all now deceased, namely : 

1. Joseph. 

2. Henry. 

3. Samuel (II). 

4. Daniel. 

5. Mary. 

6. Catherine. 

7. Susan. 
■S. Barb.\ra. 

((II) SAMUEL LEDY, the grand- 
father of J. H., was born in 1808, in Waynes- 
boro, was engaged in farming in Antrim 
township, Franklin county, and died in 1894. 
He married Catherine Snider, who was l)orn 
in 18 1 2 and died in 1896, and they became 
the parents of three children : 

1. Daniel. 

2. Samuel S. (HIj. 

3. Eliz.\beth. 

i(III) SAMUEL S. LEDY was mar- 
ried in October, 1863, to Miss Sarah E. 
Hade, of Antrim township, daughter of 
Joseph and Hannah ( Stover) Hade, and to 
their union were born two children : 

1. Joseph H. (IV). 

.2. Minnie Belle is the wife of .\bra- 



ham Hassler, one of the prominent farmers 
of Antrim township. 

Mrs. Sarah E. (Hade) Ledy is de- 
ceased, and Mr. Ledy, who was formerly 
engaged as a merchant at Marion, is now 
retired from that business, and carries on his 
farm in Guilford township. 

(IV) JOSEPH H. LEDY received his 
early education in the public schools of Guil- 
ford township, and later attended Chambers- 
burg Academy. For seven years after com- 
mencing the active work of life he was en- 
gaged with his father in the mercantile busi- 
ness at Marion, but at present he devotes 
his principal energies to the growing of fruit, 
being one of the most extensively interested 
in that line in Franklin county. He has 
several hundred acres under cultivation, on 
which are twenty-eight thousand fine trees. 
He has been very successful in all his busi- 
ness undertakings, and as a man of ability 
has been several times called ujjon by his 
fellow citizens to serve in public capacities. 
In 1894 he was elected to the ot¥ice of regis- 
trar and recorder of Franklin county, re- 
taining that incumbencv until 1897, and he 
is at present serving as justice of the peace 
for Marion, in which position he has given 
universal satisfaction. In all his public 
duties he has demonstrated to his fellow cit- 
izens that their confidence in his fitness has 
not been misplaced, his services having been 
marked by fidelity and upright conduct. His 
political connection is with the Republican 
party, and for twenty years he has been ac- 
tive in party work, for six years being secre- 
tary of the I-"ranklin county organization, for 
two years a member of the advisory commit- 
tee, for nearly twenty years a member of the 
county committee, and for the same length 
of time has been delegate to nearly all the 
county conventions. He has numerous so- 
cial connections, being a member of the I. 
O. O. F., Jr. O. U. .\. M., Royal Arcanum, 







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Knights of the Golden Eagle, Modern 
Woodmen of America, and several other 
secret societies. He has always been espe- 
cially interested in matters agricultural, is 
one of the leading members of the State 
Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania, and 
for several years was one of the lecturers of 
the State Board of Agriculture. All in all. 
he is one of the best known citizens of P'rank- 
lin county. 

On Oct. 17, 1889. Mr. Ledy was mar- 
ried to Miss Emma E. AIcFerren, of Mont 
Alto. Guilford township, Franklin county, 
only child of William ^L McFerren, one of 
the prominent and successful farmers of Guil- 
ford township. Mr. Ledy's religious con- 
nection is with the Heidelberg Reformed 
Church, of Marion. They ha\-e issue : 

1. Carrie Ethel. 

2. William Joseph. 

SUESSEROTT FAMILY. (I) 
CHRISTIAN L. SUESSEROTT (born 
in Hanover, Germany, Sept. 8, 1791 — died 
March 18. 1833) emigrated to Pennsylvania 
and settled at Chambersburg, where he was 
a hardware dealer. Christian L. and Elea- 
nor Suesserott had issue : 

1. Jacob Lewis (II). 

2. Charles P. was a hardware mer- 
chant in Chambersburg and afterward in 
Philadelphia. 

3. LucRETi.\ died unmarried. 

4. Eleanor married Mr. Boyer. 

(II) JACOB L. SUESSEROTT (born 
Feb. 20, 1829 — died July 16, 1886), son of 
Christian L. and Eleanor Suesserott. was ed- 
ucated at the Chambersburg Academy, and 
was graduated M. D. at Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 1851. After re- 
ceiving his degree he began the practice of 
his profession in his native town, combining 
with it the practice of dentistry. In 1857 he 
accepted the Chair of Pathology and Thera- 



peutics in the Pennsylvania College of Den- 
tal Surgery, Philadelphia. He resigned this 
position in 1862 because his home was 
threatened by the Confederates, and returned 
to Chambersburg to protect his property so 
far as possible. He afterward devoted him- 
self exclusively to medicine, engaging in 
general practice. During the latter part of 
the Ci\il war he was surgeon to the district 
board of enrollment: he was also for 
many years surgeon to the United States 
Pension Bureau. He was a memljer 
of the Pennsylvania State and Franklin 
County Medical societies, and in 1877 was 
president of the latter organization. Dr. 
Suesserott married, Oct. 12, 1852. Julia E. 
Smith (died May 4, 1886), daughter of 
Frederick and Catherine (Smith) Smith; 
they had issue : 

1. Charles .\. (born May 7, 1854) 
was educated at the Chambersburg .Acad- 
emy, and was graduated at Pennsylvania 
College, Gettysburg, in 1874. He was ad- 
mitteil to the Franklin County Bar, June 26, 
1877. He was District .Attorney of Frank- 
lin county, 1881-84: he has been a school di- 
rector of Chambersburg for nine years, and 
for five years president of the board. He 
married Sept. 25, 1879, Lily Kennedy, 
daughter of William B. Kennedy, of Ha- 
gerstown: they have issue: William Ken- 
nedy. Jacob Lewis and Charles A. 

2. Lewis F. (Ill ). 

3. Julia married Rev. Herbert C. 
Alleman (born May 13, 1868), son of Rev. 
Benjamin F. and Charlotte L. (Benson) 
.Alleman ; he was graduated at Pennsylvania 
College, Gettysburg, and is a Lutheran min- 
ister. 

(Ill) LEWIS FREDERICK SUES- 
SEROTT (born Sept. 5. 1856). son of Dr. 
Jacob L. and Julia E. (Smith) Suesserott, 
was educated in the high school at Cham- 
bersburg and at the Chambersburg .Acad- 



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eniy. In 1874 he began the study of mei'.l 
cine with his fatlier, and was graduated at 
the Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1879. He practiced his pro- 
fession with his father until the elder Sues- 
serott's death, and since has practiced alone. 
He is a member of the American Medical 
Association and the Franklin County Medi- 
cal Society. He was physician to the Frank- 
lin county jail for six years and was coroner 
of Franklin county in 1886-1902. He is 
a member of the I. O. O. F.. and also of the 
I. O. O. F. Encampment. He is a member 
of the First Lutheran Church, Chambers- 
burg, and has always taken much interest in 
the Sunday-school, of which he is librarian. 
Dr. Suesserott married Jan. 10, 1884, Minnie 
Gilbert, daughter of Capt. Calvin Gilbert ; 
they have one daughter : 
I. Julia E. 

DR. C. L. SIEBERT, the well known 
dental surgeon for many years a resident of 
Mercersburg, Pa., is a son of Samuel Over- 
ton and Martha Siebert. His paternal 
grandfather, a native of Germany, with his 
wife and family emigrated to Franklin 
county. Pa., and there he reared his three 
children, namely : 

1. John died leaving a son. Smith. 

2. Samuel Overton. 

3. Sarah. 

SAMUEL OVERTON SIEBERT was 
reared in Franklin county and received a 
public-school education in his home locality. 
He then followed the trade of stonemason, 
continuing same until his death. His wife 
was Martha Miley. daughter of Curtis and 
Catherine Miley. By trade Mr. Miley was 
a cooper, but engaged quite extensively in 
farming at one time of his life. He was en- 
titled to the title of colonel, having served in 
the militia and been elected to that rank. He 
lived about six miles from Mercersburg, near 



L'pton, near the Pinefield schoolhouse. Mrs. 
Miley's maiden name was Tritte and she 
came of a good Franklin county family. 
Curtis and Catherine Miley had eight child- 
ren, as follows : 

1. John George, deceased. 

2. Jacob, deceased. 

3. WiLLL^M, deceased. 

4. Reuben T., living. 

5. Hannah, deceased. 

6. Eliza, deceased. 

7. Martha, deceased. 

8. Rebecca, deceased. 

9. Susan, deceased. 

The children born to the father of Dr. 
Siebert were : 

1. Curtis Luther. 

2. Rebecca Catherine, born in 1841, 
living in Mercersburg, unmarried. 

3. James B., born in 1836, is in Fan- 
nettsburg, this county, following his trade of 
harness-maker. He married Priscilla Skin- 
ner and has children : Anna, Carrie, Maggie, 
Lula, Lillie, Nellie, Erdman, and two who 
died in infancy. 

CURTIS ' LUTHER SIEBERT was 
born March 17, 1842, near Lemasters, 
Franklin Co., Pa., and attended the public 
school of Mercersburg, and afterward the in- 
stitution now known as Mercersburg Col- 
lege. At the age of fifteen years he com- 
menced to learn tlie trade of cabinetmaking, 
serving an apprenticeship of three years 
under Thomas Wadell, of Mercersburg. 
He then worked for about two years as a 
journeyman, when the war broke out and he 
enlisted in the L^nion army and saw three 
years of active service in the Western Army, 
under Gen. Sherman. He participated in the 
battle of Shiloh, and that of Stone River, 
near Murfreesboro ; then at Liberty Gap he 
received two severe wounds, and after three 
months in the hospital was sent home on a 
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for a year, and was at the siege of Atlanta, 
Ga. Coming home he began the study of 
dentistry with Dr. A. R. Long, of Mercers- 
burg. After a year he went up the valley, 
where he practiced until he went to Pitts- 
burgh, and lived in that city nine years. He 
returned to Mechanicsburg and since then has 
been successfully engaged in the practice of 
his profession here. 

In 1870 Dr. Sieliert married, in Pitts- 
burgh. Christine Develin. daughter of Den- 
nis Develin, of Wellsville, Ohio. Three chil- 
dren were born to this union : 

1. ]M.\BEL Emma^ born June 29, 1871, 
died June 28, 1896. 

2. Anna Rebecca, born Dec. 29, 1872, 
married David Hummelllxiugh. of Mercers- 
burg, and has one child, Anna Christine. 

3. Edwin Luther, born Jan. 24. 1877, 
is studying at the Aledico-Chirurgical Col- 
lege, Philadelphia., to fit himself for the 
medical profession. 

For many years Dr. Siebert has been 
closely identified with tlie Jjest interests of 
Mercersburg and is well known as an earnest 
and conscientious member of his profession 
and public-spirited man. In politics he is a 
Democrat, but does not aspire to office. In 
religious matters he is a member of the Re- 
formed Church. 

JOHN M. HESS, one of the old and 
most highly respected citizens of Waynes- 
boro. Pa.,, was born in a house which stood 
on the site of the present residence of John 
M. Bonebrake. on West Main street, 
Waynesboro. Sept. 17, 1828, son of John 
and Catherine (Miller) Hess. 

(I) JOHN HESS was born on \vhat is 
now the Midhour farm in Washington town- 
ship, Franklin Co.. Pa., and died in 1866, 
aged sixty-nine years, four months and twen- 
ty-eight days. His remains were tenderly 
interred in the old Hess homestead cemetery, 



near the Daniel Hess residence, about three 
miles from Waynesboro. The mother was 
born near Salem Church, Washington town- 
ship, and is buried in the same graveyard as 
her husband. To their union were born 
these children : 

I.* Elizabeth, deceased married John 
Morter. 

2. C.vtharine, deceased, married Will- 
iam Lehman. 

3. Christine, deceased, married John 
Coler. and had issue : Two sons that died in 
early life, leaving widows, and one son living 
in xArizona. 

4. Polly, deceased, married Henry 
Oaks, and has issue : Two daughters, Annie 
and Kate: each married a Mr. Bell, and both 
live somewhere in the West. 

5. John M. (II). 

6. Leah married Michael Morgal, and 
has six daughters and one son. 

7. Barbara, unmarried, died in early 
spring in 1904. 

8. Henry, deceased, married Lizzie 
Kentiec. No issue. 

9. Joseph, deceased, married Xancy 
Bonebrake. and has three sons and three 
daughters. 

John Hess married (second) branny 
Miller, and to this marriage five sons were 
born, all now deceased. By his third wife 
Barbara (Snoberger) Hess, there was no 
issue. 

(II) JOHN M. HESS was only a boy 
when his father moved to the farm near the 
lime kiln in Washington township, where he 
followed the life of an agriculturist until his 
death. By trade he was a weaver, and in 
his early life he followed that calling. Being 
very successful, at one time the father owned 
three farms, which he gave to his children 
before his death. He was a member of the 
River Brethren Church. 

From his eighth year our subject was 



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reared upon the Hess farm, attending the 
common schools. On Nov. 18, 1852, he mar- 
ried, and the following spring he went on a 
farm of ahout eighty acres adjoining the 
he lived for forty years. From the time he 
took possession, Mr. Hess added to his prop- 
erty, and now owns three fine farms, embrac- 
ing his home farm of 150 acres; the Miller 
farm of 136 acres, and the Stauffer farm of 
eighty acres. As soon as he began to con- 
duct afifairs for himself, he commenced the 
burning of lime and found it very profitable, 
continuing it for forty years. 

In 1893 he retired from farming and lo- 
cated in Waynesboro, purchasing the fine 
brick residence of George Harbaugh. at No. 
122 East Main street, where he made 
his home until he sold it to the 
Geiser Manufacturing Company, buying 
property on the opposite side of the street, 
which he improved with a fine brick resi- 
dence, complete with all modern improve- 
ments, and there he now resides. He owns 
property in Waynesboro as follows : two 
houses on Grant street ; two on Chestnut 
street, South Waynesboro, as well as other 
very valuable realty. He has been a mem- 
ber of the River Brethren Church since he 
was twenty-three years of age. 

Mr. Hess married Catherine Bonebrake, 
who was born on what is now the Daniel 
Bonebrake farm, east of Waynesboro,- Dec. 
I, 1834, daughter of Henry and Annie 
(Stewart) Bonebrake. The family is an old 
one in Washington township, and its mem- 
bers are very highly esteemed by, the entire 
neighborhood. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. John M. Hess were : 

1. Jacob, born Oct. 6, 1854, married 
Amanda Thompson, and has issue : Katie, 
Bessie, Clara, Clarence, Cora, and Marie, 
and they all reside on the Hnltzburger farm. 

2. Anna, born Dec. 26, 1858, is un- 
married. 



3. Henry Clinton born Jan. 14, i860, 
married Alice Stockey, and resides on the 
Miller farm. They have issue : Earl. 

5. Samuel, born April 22, 1863, mar- 
ried Salley Baer. and resides at Watertown, 
South Dakota; they have issue: Arbie and 
Howard. 

6. John, born Dec. i, 1869, is de- 
ceased. 

7. Daniel, twin brother of John, mar- 
ried Carrie Bonebrake. and they have issue: 
Mabel, Nellie, Grace, Floyd, Pauline and an 
infant. 

8. Edwin, born Nov. 23, 1866. mar- 
ried Frances Wingert, and resides near 
Browne Mill, this county. They have issue : 
Lester, Ira, Edna, Stein and Franklin. 

9. Aaron, born June 15. ^1872, married 
Gertie Harbaugh, and resides in Mechanics- 
burg, where he is principal of the high school. 
They have one son, Paul. 

10. Amos, born Feb. i, 1876, unmar- 
ried, is agent for the Frick Company, being 
in charge of their ofiice at Nashville, Ten- 
nessee. 

HENRY G. CHRITZMAN, M. D., a 
physician of widespread popularity, residing 
at Welsh Run, Antrim township, Franklin 
Co., Pa., was born Nov. 22. 1837. at Har- 
risburg. Pa., a son of Henry and Margaret 
(Zeigler) Chritzman, the latter a daughter 
of John Jacob Zeigler. 

( I ) The Doctor's paternal grandfather 
had the following children : 

1. John resided at Gettysburg. 

2. George also resided at Gettysburg. 

3. Henry (II). 

(II) HENRY CHRITZMAN resided 
for many years at Harrisburg. dying there. 
By trade he was a carpen'er. In time he 
became very prominent, serving one term as 
sheriff of Dauphin county. Pa., being elected 
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years he was clerk at the capitol. at I larris- 
burg, and was one of the well known men 
of his time. His family was as follows: 

1. Maria married Albert Bigler. 

2. Charlotte married Josq)h lUack. 

3. Jacob. 

4. Christian died unmarried in Wash- 
ington, where he bad been for twenty-bve 
years in the Government employ. 

5. George. 

6. Henry G. (III). 

(Ill) HENRY G. CHRITZMAN first 
attended school at Greencastle, and took an 
academic course at the Greencastle Academy. 
Later be entered Pennsyhania College, at 
Gettysburg. Having completed his literary 
course he studied medicine with Dr. William 
Grubb. of Greencastle, and was graduated 
from the Pennsylvania Medical College, Phil- 
adelphia, in 1859. Immediately thereafter 
he commenced the practice of his profession 
at Keedysville, Washington Co., Md., where 
he remained until the beginning of the war. 
when he entered the army as contract sur- 
geon. During and after the battle of Antie- 
tam lie had charge of the Hagerstow-n Hos- 
pital, but in 1863 he went into the volunteer 
Service. On March 14, 1863, he was com- 
missioned assistant surgeon of the 8th Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry, and was with the regiment 
until October, 1864, when he was promoted 
to surgeon, and appointed with the rank of 
major to the 57th Pennsylvania Infantry, 
remaining until 1865. when he was appointed 
brigade surgeon of the 2d Brigade, ^^A Divi- 
sion, 2d Army Corps; be continued thus un- 
til the close of the war. When that great 
strife was over he located at Welsh Run, 
and has since then made that place bis home, 
building up a practice which has liecome al- 
most too large for him to manage, so much 
beloved is he. 

In 1863 Dr. Chritzman nnrrietl Miss 
Emma Newcomer, a daughter rif Joseph 



Newcomer, of Baltimore, Md. The follow- 
ing children were lK)rn to them : 

1. Nin.i.iK R. married John S. Brewer, 
of W'elsb Run. 

2. HARK'i' Braxt is mentioned be- 
low. (IV). 

3. Joseph Edgar died in infancy. 

4. Clarence A. 

Dr. Chritzman is a member and presi- 
dent of the Franklin County Medical So- 
ciety ; member of the State Medical Society, 
and member of the .American Medical .Asso- 
ciation. He is also a i)ast, master of the 
A. F. & A. M., Mount Pisgah Lodge, and a 
member of George W'ashington Chapter, of 
Chaml)ersburg. During 1885-87 he served 
in the Pennsylvania Legislature, as the Re- 
puljlican rei)resentati\e from his district. 
For several years he acted as president of 
the Montgomery township school toard. In 
religious matters he is a mem1)er of the Re- 
formed Church of Mercersburg. Dr. Chritz- 
man was a])pointed by President Harrison 
a member of the board of pension examiners, 
and was subsequently re-a])pointed by Presi- 
dent McKinley. Further comment than that 
given 1)}- the mere facts seems almost an 
impertinence when writing of a man of such 
reputation as Dr. Chritzman. Suffice it to 
say that, whenever either country or private 
individual has had need of his services, the 
good Doctor has gi\'en them gladly and wil- 
lingly, and has warm personal friends 
throughout the length and breadth of tlie 
land. 

(IV) HARRY BRANT CHRITZ- 
MAN. M. D.. son of Dr. Henry G. Chritz- 
man, was l«rn Oct. 20. 1868. at Welsh Run. 
and was carefully educated at the Welsh 
Run Academy, and at Mercersburg College, 
from which he was graduated in 1884. He 
then attended Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 
and Icaxing there in 1887 entered Jefferson 
Medical College, from which be graduated in 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



1889. He located at Greencastle, remaining 
there engaged in successful practice until 
May, 1896, when he came to Welsh Run to 
assist his father, whose practice was growing- 
too large. The younger physician is very 
popular, both professionally and socially. He 
belongs to the Franklin County Medical So- 
ciety and to the I. O. O. F. 

LESLEY FAMILY. (I) PETER LES- 
LEY (born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 
1738 — died in Philadelphia, March 31, 
1816), the ancestor of the Lesley family of 
Pennsylvania and Delaware, was descended 
from Bartholomew Lesley, to whom was 
granted a coat of arms — a demi-griffin, 
rampant: motto "grip fast" — by Queen 
Margaret of Scotland, whom he rescued 
from drowning while crossing a swollen 
stream by seizing her by the girdle. While 
Lesley held her by the girdle the Queen fre- 
quently told him to "grip fast," which was 
the origin of the motto. The Lesley family 
was Scotch, but a branch of it was settled in 
Ireland in the seventeenth century. Peter 
Lesley was the third of his name. He emi- 
^ -\ grated to Pennsylvania and settled in Phila- 
V^^f^h delphia. He married (first) Margaret Ball; 
' -^ and they had issue: 

1. John, born Sept. 9, 1773. died June 
22, 1774. 

2. Margaret, born May 14, 1775. 

3. Ann, born Sept. 19, 1777, died Aug. 
18, 1818. 

4. Eleanor, born Jan. 30, 1780, died 
Oct. 24, 1798. 

5. Peter, bom Aug. 8, 1784; died Oct. 
17, 1784. 

6. Mary (born Feb. 13, 1786) married 
a Garnett. 

Mr. Lesley married (second), Catharine 
Kitler (born in 1757 — died Dec. 26, 1832), 
and they had issue: 



1. Elizabeth, born July 20, 1788, 
died July 24, 181 2. 

2. Sarah, born Nov. i, 1790, died July 

5' 1795- 

3. Peter (II). 

4. James (HI). 

5. John, born March 10, 1796, died 
Aug. 30, 1808. 

6. Joseph, born April 21, 1800, died 
March 14. i860. 

7. Robert, born May 2, 1802, died 
July 15, 1 86 1. 

(II ) PETER LESLEY^ (born in Phila- 
delphia. June 19. 1793 — died March 6, 
1855), son of Peter and Catharine (Kitler) 
Lesley, was for many years secretary and 
treasurer of the Chesapeake & Delaware 
Canal Company. He married (first), May 
14, 181 5, Elizabeth Oswald Allen (born in 
Philadelphia, May 20, 1793 — died Aug. 17, 
1832), daughter of John Wincull and Sarah 
(Rand) Allen, of English descent. They 
had issue : 

1. Elizabeth (born Feb. 9, 181 6 — 
died Aug. 11, 1895) married June 15, 1843, 
Elias Stillwell (born Nov. 9, 1805 — died 
March i, 1863), and had issue: Henry Voor- 
hees, Elizabeth Allen. Ellen Lesley and Mary 
Hall. 

2. Allen, born Aug. i, 1818, died 
Aug. 27, 1818. 

3. J. Peter (IV). 

4. Allen Voorhees (born June 17, 
1822 — died Nov. 7, 1881 ). a physician, mar- 
ried June 10, 1S44, Jane Lesley Voorhees 
(born April 7, 1816 — died July 31, 1874), 
daughter of Henry P. Voorhees, of Fulton- 
ville. N. Y. They had no issue. 

5. Henry \"oorhees (V). 

6. William Wood (born July 5. 1827 
— died Jan. 5, 1901) married Feb. 27, 1877, 
Sarah Stewart Bates (born May, 1828 — 
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7. Alexander, born July 11, 1829, 
died Dec. 24, 1831. 

8. Joseph (VI). 

Mr. Lesley married (second) Susannah 
Elizabeth Robbins (died Jan. 8, 1857). and 
had issue : 

I. Alexander, born Dec. 3, 1838, died 
Jan. II, 1876. 

(III) JAMES LESLEY (born in Phil- 
adelphia. June 9, 1795 — died July 14. 1863). 
son of Peter and Catharine (Kitler) Lesley, 
was trained to the banking business, and was 
connected with Harrisburg banks until 1845, 
when he was chosen cashier of the Bank of 
Chambersburg. He resigned this position 
in 1858 to become cashier of the Union 
Bank, of Philadelphia. He was a man of 
high character, and a strong anti-slavery 
man at a time when it required courage to 
oppose the slave system. It is a tradition in 
Chambersburg that many Virginia runaways 
received his assistance in making the perilous 
journey over the "L^nderground Railroad." 
Although he was never active in politics, Mr. 
Lesley was appointed consul at Lyons, 
France, by President Lincoln. 

Mr. Lesley married (first) Elizabeth S. 
Cone (died April 24. 1823), and they had 
issue : 

1. Edward Anderson (VII). 

2. Catharine N. died June 7, 1849. 

3. James (VHI). 

Mr. Lesley married (second), Nov. 30. 
1824. Ellen Hayes (born in 1805 — died Feb. 

16, 1872), and thev had no issue: 

(IV) PETER LESLEY, better known 
as J. P. Lesley (born in Philadelphia, Sept. 

17. 1819), son of Peter and Elizabeth O. 
(Allen) Lesley, was graduated at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1838, and was 
employed in the geological survey of Penn- 
sylvania, 1838-41. He was graduated at the 
Princeton Theological Seminary, in 1844, 
but spent nearly the whole of his active life 



in geological work. His surveys were very 
extensive, and he became the leading author- 
ity on coal formations of North .:\.merica. 
His published writings on scientific subjects 
were very voluminous. He was secretary 
and librarian of the American Philosophical 
Society, 1858-85. Mr. Lesley married Feb. 
13. 1849, Susan Inches Lyman (born April 
7. 1823), daughter of Judge Joseph Lyman, 
of Northampton, Mass. They had issue : 

1. Mary (born Nov. 4, 1853) married 
June 25, 1883, Charles W. Ames (born 
June 20, 1855), and had issue: Charles Les- 
ley, Margaret, Catharine, Alice, Elizabeth 
and Theodore. 

2. M.^RG.-\RET White (born May 19, 
1857) married April 7, 1886, Henry K. 
Bush-Brown (born April 21, 1857), and had 
issue : Lydia, Harold, Malcom Lesley and 
James Lesley. 

(V) HENRY VOORHEES LESLEY 
(born Aug. 28, 1824 — died Dec. 30, 1898), 
son of Peter and Elizabeth O. (Allen) Les- 
ley, married June 8, 1846, Ellen Cozens 
Stewart (born Feb. 24, 1828), and they had 
issue : 

1. Ann.\ Stew.\rt, born March 12, 
1847, fl'^d Jan. 20, 1865. 

2. Jane, born Sept. 2;^, 1849. 

3. Harry Stewart, born July 6, 1851, 
died Sept. 18, 1864. 

4. Norman, born Feb. 6, 1854, died 
Dec. 23, 1872. 

5. Ellen (born Nov. 17, 1857 — died 
March 21, 1880) married Jan. 23, 1877, 
George W. Simons (born March 20, 1852 — 
died May 5, 1888), and had issue: Marian 
Lesley and Mary Elizabeth. 

6. Marian Darrah (born Feb. 17, 
i860) married March 15, 1885, Frederick 
M. Simons (born March 19, 1856). and had 
issue : Frederick M., Ellie Lesley, Lillian, 
Marian, Catharine Wood, Mary Elizabeth 
and Dorothy. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



7. William Wood (born Nov. 11. 
1862) married Nov. 11, 1891, Lillian Filler 
Clothier (bom Nov. 22, 1865), and had is- 
sue : Victoria Clothier and Conrad Clothier. 

(VI) JOSEPH LESLEY (born Dec. 
2, 1831 — died Feb. 9, 1889) married (first) 
Nov. 25, 1865. Emily Louise Davis (born 
Sept. 15, 1842 — died June 12, 1872), and 
they had issue : 

1. Hugh (bom Aug. 10, 1867) mar- 
ried, Feb. 9, 1893, Cecelia Katharine Aus- 
tin (born in October, 1865 — died Sept. 9, 
1898), and they had one son, Joseph Davis, 
who died in infancy. 

2. Allen (born Nov. 22, 1869) mar- 
ried, Feb. 24, 1894. Jessie Ware Sanger 
(born May 7, 1871 — died Oct. 8, 1894), 
and they had no issue. 

(VII) EDWARD ANDERSON LES- 
LEY (born in Philadelphia, April 11, 1820 
— died Oct. 20, 1867), son of James and 
Eliza S. (Cone) Lesley, was educated at the 
Harrisburg Academy, and was graduated at 
Dickinson College, Carlisle. He was al- 
ways a close student, and became a linguist 
of unusual proficiency. As a young man he 
went to Philadelphia, where he became a suc- 
cessful lawyer. He was counsel for the Sec- 
ond and Third Street Railway Company for 
six years before his death. In politics he 
was a Republican. I-Vaternally he w-as an 
Odd Fellow and a Mason. Mr. Lesley mar- 
ried. May 17. 1855, Matilda Kennedy 
(born Oct. i, 1827), daughter of Dr. Stew- 
art and Ann (Ferguson) Kennedy, of Cham- 
bersburg [Sec Kennedy Family]. Edward 
A. and Matilda (Kennedy) Lesley had 
issue : 

1. J.AMES, bom Feb. 10, 1856, died Jan. 
II, 1858. 

2. Ellen (born Nov. 28, 1857) is an 
artist, living in Chambersburg. 

3. Matild.'\, born Nov. 9, 1859, died 
March 21, 1861. 



4. Florence Carroll (born Nov. i, 
1 861 ). is an artist living in Chambersburg. 

5. Edith Stewart (born Feb. 19, 
1864) is an artist living in Chambersburg. 

6. Edward A., born Feb. 19, 1864, 
died Feb. 19, 1864. 

(VIII) JAMES LESLEY (born in 
Philadelphia. ]\Iarch 23, 1823 — died at Nice, 
France. !\Iarch 15, 1865), son of James and 
Eliza S. (Cone) Lesley, married (first), in 
1845, Catharine Elizabeth Kennedy (died 
Jan. 7. 1849). They had no issue. He mar- 
ried (second) Sept. 27, 1852, Elizabeth 
Thomson (born Dec. i, 1830), daughter of 
Judge Alexander and Jane (Graham) Thom- 
son, of Chambersburg. They had issue : 

1. Robert W. (born July 4, 1853) 
was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar. Feb. 
I, 1879. He married Oct. 10, 1879. Eulalia 
Wilcox (bom April i. 1858), and they had 
issue: Marie Eulalia (born July 30, 1880), 
married Jan. 11. 1905. Richard Berridge. of 
Castle Ballvnahinch, Count v Galway. Ire- 
land. 

2. Percy D.. born April 9, 1855, died 
Aug. 5. 1878. 

3. Annie Cecile, born Sept. 4, 1865,. 
died April 23, 1887. 

S. R. SHANK, a successful farmer of 
(juilford township. Franklin county, located 
(jn the New Franklin and Falling Spring 
road, was born in Washington county. Md... 
April 22, 1824, a son of John .\. Shnnk. 

(I) ANDREW SHANK, his grand- 
father, who was also a native of Maryland, 
came of Scntch-Irish ancestry. He had three- 
sons, all now deceased, and who were all 
Mennonites in religious belief: 

1. John A. (II). 

2. Andrew. 

3. Daniel. 

( II) JOHN A. SHANK, the father of 
our subject, was born in Maryland, anil 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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came to Franklin county when our suV)jcct 
was only six years of age, locating near 
Waynesboro. He was a farmer, and at one 
time was a commissioner of Franklin coun- 
ty. He was a Dunkard in religion. His 
family comprised twelve children : 

1. Sar.^h R. 

2. Andrew. 

3. John, of Ohio. 

4. Ephraim, deceased. 

5. Hezekiah. 

6. Isaac, of Ohio. 

7. Benjamin, of Ohio. 

8. Susan married Charles Wilson. 

9. Sarah married Christian Stover, 
and is now a widow. 

10. Catherine A. is a widow residing 
at Shady Grove. 

11. Elizabeth married Luther Greene- 
wait. 

12. S. R. (III). 

(Ill) S. R. SHANK was reared from 
the age of si.x years in the county of Frank- 
lin, and on the homestead farm. All of his 
life has been spent in farming. His education 
was received in the neighborhood schools. 
In February, 1853, he was married to Miss 
Lydia Whitmer, of Washington county, Md. ; 
they have no children. Mrs. Shank's father. 
Jacob \Vhitmer, had a family of four chil- 
dren : Andrew, deceased ; Elizabeth, de- 
ceased ; Martha, unmarried who resides with 
Mrs. Shank ; and Lydia, Mrs. Shank. 

Mr. Shank owns two excellent farms in 
Guilford township in one tract, consisting of 
220 acres, well improved. He is one of the 
large landowners in the township. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. For the past forty- 
five years he has been a member of the (jer- 
man Baptist Church, and he is an honorable, 
u])right man, a good farmer and excellent 
citizen. At the age of over eighty years he 
continues to manage his large farm, and to 



take part in the life of the neighborhood. 
Such a man. looking back ujxin a life well 
spent, can feel satisfied with liis success, and 
contented that his efforts have not been put 
forth in vain. 

HOLLINGER FAMILY. The Hollin- 
ger family of Adams and Franklin counties 
is descended from (I) JACOB HOLLIN- 
GER. who is said to have been the first of 
the name to emigrate to Pennsylvania. His 
name is found on the list of Palatines on the 
ship "Hade." Captain Ralph Harle. which 
arrived at Philadelphia from Rotterdam., 
Sept. I, 1736. Another Jacob Hollinger 
came on the ship 'A'irginus Grace," Capt. 
John Bull, which arrived Sept. 24. 1737. It 
is probable that the former of these was the 
Hollinger ancestor, as he brought with him 
his .wife and children, some accounts saving 
that he was the father of twenty-four sons 
and daughters. The "Harle," on the voyage 
of 1736, was noteworthy as a family ship. 
It 1)rought over three hundred and eighty- 
eight immigrants, of whom one hundred and 
fifty-six were men, si.xty-five women and 
one hundred and sixty-seven boys and girls. 
Something is known of the descendants of 
fourteen of Jacob Hollinger's sons. Their- 
names were : 

1. Philip. 

2. Christian. 

3. Jacob. 

4. Daniel. 

5. Nicholas. 

6. John. 

7. Christopher ( II). 

8. Thom.\s. 

9. Joseph. 

10. Tobias. 

11. Adam. 

12. D.WID. 

13. George. 

14. \'alenti.\e. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



(II) CHRISTOPHER HOLLINGER 
(born in Lancaster county in 1753), son of 
Jacob Hollinger, the emigrant, married 
Amanda Lavvver, and they had issue: 

1. Samuel (HI). 

2. John married a Miss Holhnger, 
probably his cousin. 

3. Jacob. 

4. David married Miss Hersliey, and 
they had issue: Betsy, Samiiel, Daniel and 
Lydia. 

5. Christopher married, according to 
■tradition, a Hollinger. 

6. Catharine married Daniel Baker, 
and they had issue : George, Daniel, David, 
Samuel, Catharine, Mary, Elizabeth and 

-Anne. 

(III) SAMUEL HOLLINGER (born 
in Lancaster county), son of Christopher 
and Amanda (Lawver) Hollinger, settled in 
Adams county, near Abbottstown. He mar- 
ried Hettie Ann Shultz, and they had issue : 

1. Jacob Shultz (IV). 

2. Catharine married Adam Gardner, 
and they had issue : Samuel, who married 
Sarah Bowser; and David. 

3. Leah married Peter Rafifensberger. 
and they had issue : Hettie, Mary, Christo- 
pher and David. 

4. D.wtd married Martha Wilson, and 
they had issue: Wilson, who married Anna 
'Gitt ; Samuel ; William, who married Jennie 
Hafer; and Clayton, who married Martha 
Gitt. 

5. Samuel. 

6. Mary married Augustus Deatrich. 
and they had issue : Elsie Louisa married 
Martin Thomas; Samuel died young; Eha 

'Guilielma married Dr. Rhea ; Hilary married 
Dr. Rhea; Curtis; Jacob; David; and 
Augustus. 

(IV) JACOB SHULTZ HOLLIN- 
■'GER (born in Adams county, September. 



1820), son of Samuel and Hettie A. 
(Shultz) Hollinger, was engaged in general 
merchandising at Abbottstown early in life, 
and later in the warehouse business at Gettys- 
burg. He subsequently removed to a farm 
that he owned near Gettysburg, and was a 
farmer for many years. He was a meml)er 
(if the German Baptist Society, known as 
the River Brethren. He married Sarah A. 
Diehl (born April, 1822), daughter of John 
and Julia Ann (Snyder) Diehl. Tliey had 
issue ; 

1. John D. died in infancy. 

2. Jacob Augustus (V). 

3. Liberty A. married, Sept. 4, 1872, 
Jacob Abraham Clutz (born in Adams coun- 
ty. Jan. 5, 1848), son of Henry and Hannah 
Clutz. He was graduated at Pennsylvania 
College, Gettysburg, in 1869, and at the 
Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, in 1872. 
He was pastor at Newville. Pa., and Balti- 
more, Md., and is now president of Midland 
College, Atchison, Kans. They have issue: 
Frank Hollinger. Paul (died young), Ralph, 
Claude, Buffington, Julia, Tro.xel and Ruth. 

4. JuLi.\ Catharine married. June 7, 
1 87 1, Aaron Stewart Hartman (born in 
Adams county, Dec. 19, 1843). son of Moses 
and Elizabeth Hartman. He was graduated 
at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 
1868. and he studied theology at the Gettys- 
burg Seminary and Union Theological Sem- 
inary, N. Y., and was licensed to preach in 
1 871. He has ser\ed congregations at 
Ghent, N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., Chambers- 
burg, Pa., and Baltimore, Md. They had 
issue : Robert Nelson married Charlotte Ely 
and has a son, Wilson Stewart ; Beulah Au- 
gusta married Granville Meiksell ; Julia Lu- 
cile; and Herbert Hollinger. 

5. Esther Annie married Thomas M. 
Nelson. [See Nelson Family.] 

6. Sarah A. marrietl S. D. Reifsnider, 



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and ihcy have had issue : Nelson ; Naomi : 
Robert ; and Miller and Benning. who died in 
infancy. 

(V) JACOB AUGUSTUS HOLLIN- 
GER (born in Adams county, March 13. 
i860), son of Jacob S. and Sarah A. 
(Diehl) Holhnger, was educated at the 
Gettysburg Academy. After leaving school 
he was for two years a public school teacher. 
He came to Chambersburg in 1882. as an 
apprentice in the lumber ami planing mill 
of Craig & Nelson. As apprentice and em- 
ploye he worked in the various grades of the 
establishment, thoroughly acquainting him- 
self with e\"erv branch of the business. He 
was promoted from one position to another 
until Thomas M. Nelson retired from the 
firm, when he became a partner in the busi- 
ness with J. \^'■atson Craig. In 1898 he 
purchased ]\Ir. Craig's interest, and has since 
conducted the business alone as J. A. Holhn- 
ger & Co. He has a well-equipped mill, and 
he manufactures all kinds of interior work 
for building, carrying a large stock of ma- 
terial and furnishing employment for thirty- 
five men. In politics he is a Republican, but 
not active in party work. He was appointed a 
member of the Chambersburg Borough 
Council in 1900, and served until 1902. So- 
cially he is a member of Lodge No. 600, 
B. P. O. E. and the Royal Arcanum. He is 
a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, 
and served in the Church Council. Mr. Hol- 
linger married Feb, 25, 1885, Emma Taugh- 
inbaugh (born Nov. 12, i860), daughter of 
Theodore and Catharine (Livingston) 
Taughinbaugh, of Adams county. They 
have issue : 

1. Emilie born Aug. 16, 1887. 

2. Margerite^ born Oct. 29, 1892. 

3. J. Richard, born Jan. 9, 1896. 

4. Edwin T., born Oct. 19, 1902. 

5. Thomas Nelson, born Oct. 19, 
1902. 



GEORGE W. SMITH, one of the well 
known .and prosperous manufacturers of 
Waynesboro, was the founder of the Smith 
Mfg. Co., manufacturers of iron fence,, 
bridges, architectiu-al and general structural 
work, and general workers in metal. He was 
born near Westminster, Md., .\ug. 8, 1866, 
son of Robert T. and Hester A. (Burns) 
Smith, both natives of Carroll county, Md. 
The father is connected with the sales depart- 
ment of the Smith Mfg. Co. The mother 
passed away in 1900. 

Mr. Smith was educated in the ])ublic 
schools and the Reisterstown Academy. He 
early learned telegraphy at Owings Mills, 
and on May 30, 1883, entered the service of 
the Western Maryland Railroad Co. He 
was night operator for four and one-half 
years at Westminster, Md., and for several 
seasons was assigned to Blue Mountain, one 
of the most exacting stations along the line. 
In 1887 he came to Waynesboro and took 
charge of the Western Maryland and Wes- 
tern Union office. Even the confining and 
laborious duties of the telegraph office could 
not exhaust Mr. Smith's natural energy or 
completely satisfy his ambitions. Having 
more or less leisure, in the evening and be- 
fore beginning his day's tasks, he began in a 
small way the manufacture of iron fencing. 
So successful was he that in 1900 he started 
a very small shop in the rear of his resi- 
dence on North Franklin street, Waynesboro. 
This shop, however, was equipped witii good 
hand tools and one man was employed. In 
1894-95 he began the building of lawn furni- 
ture in addition to fencing, cellar doors, and 
other articles of like nature, soon adding fire 
escapes to his list. In the year 1900 a stock 
company was formed with a capital stock of 
$30,000, with Mr. Smith as president. The 
first large contract of the company was 
closed that same year with the Geiser Mfg. 
Co., for equipment for their boiler shops, and 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



the Landis Tool Co. In 1902 the company 
bnilt 10,000 feet of iron fencing for the Park- 
way Drive, Bayridge, Brooklyn, N.Y.,and in 
1903 they built 13,000 feet of fence for 
Thomas Jefiferson Park. During 1902-03 
they also built 1,500 feet of fence for Everett, 
Mass., just across from Boston, and 3,000 
feet for Druid Ridge cemetery, Baltimore. 
They also make a specialty of building gal- 
vanized steel ice cans for use in the manu- 
facture of artificial ice, having built 10,000 
of these in 1902. Among their other pro- 
dttcts are pump basins, fences, gate entrances, 
fire escapes, cellar doors, window shutters, 
window guards, basement guards, pavement 
grates, area gates and enclosures, lock-up 
cages, jail cages, smoke stacks, hog troughs, 
towers, tanks, veranda railings, pipe rail- 
ings, feeding racks, double swings, lawn 
settees, tree guards, scalding vats, highway 
bridges, structural steel work, and general 
and ornamental hon work of all kinds. The 
W'Orks are thoroughly equipped with all 
modern machinery, and steady employment 
is given to thirty-five men. 

Mr. Smith was elected a member of the 
\\^aynesboro board of education in 1896, 
and in 1898 was made president of the 
board. He was re-elected in 1899, and again 
chosen president of the board, he being the 
first president to succeed himself in thirty- 
five years. During his term the compulsory 
school law was vigorously enforced for the 
first time in the history of the city, and many 
important changes were inaugurated which 
worked great benefit to the school system. 

In addition to other interests, Mr. Smith 
was one of the organizers of the Bank of 
\\'ayneslx)ro, and was elected a member of 
its first board of directors. He is a memljer 
of the local board of directors of the Cum- 
berland Valley & Waynesboro Railroad. 
Fraternally he is a member of the Door to 
Virtue Lodge, No. 46, F. & A. M., of West- 



minster, Md., and his religious alliance is 
with the Methodist Church, toward which 
he gi\'es liberally. 

In 1888 Mr. Smith married .\gnes 
Stocksdale, of Thurmont, Md., a daughter 
of George W. Stocksdale. The following- 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Smith : 

1. Mazie. 

2. Louise. 

3. Robert. 

4. Richard. 

Mr. Smith has worked steadily forward 
until he is now regarded very justly as one 
of the leading business men and capitalists 
of Waynesboro, and it is a satisfaction to him 
as well as to his friends that this success 
has been wrought through his energy and 
ability. Few men would have had the cour- 
age to attempt to build up a great enterprise 
in the moments usually devoted l.i recreation, 
and yet this flourishing business of his was 
started by Mr. Smith as an opportunity for 
the utilization of his surplus activity. 

( 
DUNCAN FAMILY. SETH DUN- 
CAN (born in Scotland about 1724) went 
to County Donegal, Ireland, but about 1750 
eiuigrated to Pennsylvania. He first settled 
in Lancaster county, but late in life removed 
to Abbottstown, York (now Adams) county. 
He was twice married. The name of his 
first wife was Reinhold, and she was of a 
noteworthy German family of Lancaster 
county. They had issue : 

1. James was appointed secoiul lieu- 
tenant in the 2d Canadian (Hazen's) Regi- 
ment, Nov. 3. 1776: he was promoted to l)e 
first lieutenant. April 8. 1777, antl cajjtain. 
March 2^, 1778. He retired Jan. i, 1783. 

2. Matthew was a volunteer in the 
Canada expedition, under Col. Benedict Ar- 
nold, in 1775, and was taken prisoner in the 
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year. \VliiIe he was a prisoner he was com- 
missioned. Jan. 5, 1776. captain in the 3th 
Pennsyhania Battalion, Col. Magaw. and 
was reported in the roils of the 6th Regiment. 
Pennsylvania Line, I-'eh. 18. 1777. a prisnner 
on parole. 

3. William (Ijorn in .\dams county, 
Oct. 14, 1772 — died Feh. 16. 1864) was a 
merchant in Philadelphia. He was super- 
intendent of L'. S. military stores at the 
Philadelphia arsenal in 1812, and held the 
office of adjutant-general, 1813-14. Later 
he was one of Gov. Simon Snyder's special 
aides, and commanded a brigade at Camp 
Dupont. For many years he was a member 
of the Legislature from Philadelphia. He 
was surveyor of customs at the port of Phila- 
delphia, 1829-38. He was one of the found- 
ers of Jefferson Medical College. He mar- 
ried (first) Oct. 31, 1792, Mary Moulder 
(died in 1818), daughter of William 
Moulder; (second), 1822, Sarah Moulder 
(died in 1832), sister of his first wife; and 
(third) Anna C. (Peale) Staughton. daugh- 
ter of James Peale, and widow of William 
Staughton, D. D. 

4. Abner L. was admitted to the Phila- 
delphia Bar, Feb. 26, 1 798 ; he removed to 
New Orleans, w here he rose to eminence at 
the Bar. He was one of Gen. Jackson's 
aides at the battle of New Orleans, and was 
counsel, with Edward Livingstone, in Jack- 
son's trial before Judge Hall for proclaim- 
ing martial law. 

5. H.\NN.-\H married John Nicholson, 
comptroller-general of Pennsylvania. 1782- 
94, and escheator-general. 1787-95. He 
was an extensive landowner in Pennsyl- 
vania, his holdings at one time embracing 
3.700,000 acres in thirty-nine counties of 
the State. .Among these lands was nearly 
the whole of Mt. Parnell. Franklin county. 
Owing to the vastness of his holdings and 
political persecutions he 1)ecame very much 



embarrassed, and the greater ])arl of his land 
reverted to the Commonwealth. Among 
these were two tracts sold in Chami)ersburg 
July 15. 1807, the original warrants for 
which were in the names of Matthew and 
Seth Duncan. These tracts were described 
as on the "head waters of Conedwinnett." 
Mr. Nicholson died in the debtors' prison 
in Philadelphia, in 1800. 

6. M.ARTH.'V married June 27,, 1791, 
William Moulder. He was appointed an 
associate judge of the court of Common 
Pleas of Philadelphia, Aug. 2. 181 3, and 
he w-as treasurer of Philadelphia county, 
1827-30. 

Mr. Duncan married (second) Chris- 
tiana Bedinger (Bittinger), of Adams 
county ; they had issue : 

1. John (born in 1779 — died in 1851) 
was a physician; he lived at Duncan's Mill, 
on the Falling Spring, until late in life, 
when he removed to Adams county, where 
he died. He amassed a large fortune for 
that period, amounting to alx)ut $200,000. 
He never married. 

2. Polly died in 181 7. 

3. Adam S. E. (II). 

(II) ADAM SETH ENOS DUN- 
CAN (Iwrn in Adams county, in 1789 — 
flied in 1840), son of Seth and Christiana 
(Bedinger) Duncan, .served in the war of 
18 1 2 and participated in the battles of 
Lundy's Lane and Chippawa. He was 
wounded three times in the Chippawa fight. 
After the war he taught school for a while, 
and later returned to Adams county, where 
he was a farmer and merchant at Cashtown. 
in Franklin township. He married (first) 
Mary White, of Lancaster county ; thev had 
issue : 

I. Mary married (first) Mo.ses B. 
Meals; (second) John W. Reges. 

Mr. Duncan married (second), in 1815, 
Mary Mark (born in 1798 — died in 1880), 



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daughter of Peter and Anna Maria Mark^ 
they had issue: 

1. Martha (born April 16, 1816 — 
died 1859) married Oct. 2, 1847, George 
Smith (born Feb. 16, 1818 — died 1898), 
son of Jacob and Margaret (Fleeger) 
Smith, of Adams county. He was a 
farmer. In 1852 he settled on the farm 
near Mont Alto, Quincy township, which 
he afterward owned. He also acquired the 
ownership of Duncan's Mill, on the Falling 
Spring, now known as Smith's Mill. 
George and Martha Smith had issue : Mary 
Ann L. married John R. Avery; Clara D. 
died unmarried ; and Lunnetta M. married 
James K. Zug. 

2. Susan Eliza, born July 8, 1819; 
died in infancy. 

3. Anna Maria, born Dec. 8, 1822, 
died Dec. 9, 1843. 

4. John Monroe, born May 6, 1825, 
died Oct. 8, 185 1. 

5. Abner Jackson, born Sept. 15, 
1827, died in infancy. 

6. Augustus (HI). 

7. Calvin Mark (born May 28, 183 1 
— died March 22, 1894) was graduated at 
Franklin and Marshall College in 1856. He 
studied law in Chambersburg, and was ad- 
mitted to the Franklin County Bar, April 
12, 1858. He was elected to the State 
Senate in 1865, and re-elected in 1868. He 
married Dec. 16, 1858, Mary Grace Metz- 
ger (born in 1840), daughter of Jacob and 
Anna (Downing) Metzger, of Lancaster; 
they had issue : William Augustus, born 
Oct. I, 1859, died Sept. 22, 1893; Cal- 
vin Mark, born Aug. 31, 1861 ; Francis 
Metzger, born Sept. 1 8, 1 865 ; Robert 
Spencer, born Sept. 30, 1868; and John 
McClurg, born Nov. 9, 1874. 

8. Joanna, born Nov. 21, 1833, died 
aged nine years. 

9. William Addison (born Feb. 2, 



1836 — died Nov. 14, 1884) was graduated 
at Franklin and Marshall College in 1857, 
and was admitted to the Adams County 
Bar in 1859. He was prosecuting attor- 
ney of Adams county, 1862-65, and 1868- 
71. He was elected to the XLVIIIth Con- 
gress in 1882, but died liefore the expira- 
tion of his term. He married Catherine 
Schmuker, daughter of Dr. Samuel S. and 
M. Catherine (Sheenberger) Schmuker; 
they had issue: Charles M., born April 2, 
1864, a lawyer at Gettysburg; William M., 
born July 14, 1865; John S., born July 7, 
1 867 : and Schmuker. 

(Ill) AUGUSTUS DUNCAN (born 
at Cashtown, Adams county, March 8, 
1829), son of Adam S. E. and Mary 
(Mark) Duncan, is the only survivor of 
his family. He was educated in the public 
schools and in the preparatory department 
of Marshall College, at Mercersburg. In 
1853 he came to Guilfortl township, where 
he took charge of the Duncan !\Iills, on the 
Falling Spring, which he conducted until 
i860, doing an extensive milling business. 
After relinquishing the mill he removed to 
Chambersburg. In 1867 he became one of 
the purchasers of the J 'alley Spirit news- 
paper, which he conducted in conjunction 
with John M. Cooper and William S. Sten- 
ger, and later under the firm name of Dun- 
can & Stenger, until 1876. Since the latter 
year he has led a retired life, caring for his 
farms in Guilford township. He was a 
member of the Chambersburg town council, 
from the Second ward, 1882-83. and in 
1884 he was appointed one of the Commis- 
sioners of Fisheries, by Gov. Pattison. To 
the latter position he gave much intelligent 
attention, being especially qualified therefor 
as a lifelong disciple of Izaak Walton. 
Politically he has been a lifelong Democrat 
and his religion is that of the Reformed 
Church, though he is not a member. He 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



serx-ed as a director of the National Bank 
of Chambersburg, and of the Chambers- 
burg Gas Company. He has been one of 
tlie active citizens of FrankHn county for 
half a century. He resides on his farm, 



641 
1902. 



ick Gelwicks, and siie died Dec. 
Tliey had : 

I. Frederick Gelwicks (IV). 

(IV) FREDFRICK G. STROCK 
first attended the puljhc schools of St. 



known as "Coldbrook," in Guilford town- Thomas, then the Chambersburg Academy, 

and Gettysburg College. After tiiis he 
studied medicine with Dr. R. W. Ramsey, 
and entering Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, was graduated therefrom in 
the spring of 1886. That same year he be- 

Mr. Duncan married, in 1853, Florence gan practice at St. Thomas in partnership 



ship, adjacent to Chambersburg. The 
mansion house was built by Judge James 
Riildle, and is one of the noteworthy man- 
sions of the county. It is fully described 
in the article relating to the Riddle family. 



Rowan (died in January, i860), daughter 
of Mrs. Catherine Rowan. Children: 



years. 



Annie Helen died aged fifteen 



Jeanette died aged three years. 
Florence died when one year old 



FREDERICK GELWICKS STROCK. 



with Dr. R. W. Ramsey, but after two 
years he began practice alone, and has since 
so continued. He is a member of the 
County Medical Society, and is recognized 
as one of the reliable, skillful physicians of 
his locality. He is very pojjular and en- 
joys a large practice. 

In 1891 Dr. Strock married Annie Max- 



M. D., a representative physician of Frank- heimer, daughter of John Maxheimer, of 

lin, residing at St. Thomas, was born at St. St. Thomas. 

Thomas, Aug. 19, 1862, a son of Jacob F. 

and Rachel E. (Gelwicks) Strock. His 

great-grandfather took up a large tract of 

land in St. Thomas township, in partnership 

with Alelkin Brindle, which farm is now 

owned by Joseph Miller. His issue was : 



1. John. 

2. Jacob. 

3. Joseph (II). 

4. Daniel. 

5. Mary married Frederick Raymer. 

6. A daughter married Henry Betz. 

7. A daughter married Christ Hoover. 
(II) JOSEPH STROCK was killed 

bv the kick of a horse, and his loss was 



BURKHOLDER FAMILY. The Burk- 
holder family of Franklin county is de- 
scended from L'lrich Burkholdcr, a native of 
Switzerland, who emigrated to Pennsvlvania 
on the ship "Samuel," landing at Philadel- 
phia, Aug. II, 1732. He settled in Lan- 
caster county where two generations of his 
decendants were bom before the migration 
of members of the Burkholder family west- 
ward began. 

( I) ULRICH BURKHOLDER (born 
in Lancaster county in 1786 — died in l-Vank- 
lin county), second in descent from Ulrich 
Burkholder, the emigrant, settled at Cham- 



felt throughout the communitv, for he was bersburg where he lived until his death. He 



a man of prominence. His wife was Sarah 
Weaver, and their children were : 

1. Susan married Peter Owen. 

2. Jacob F. (III). 

(Ill) JACOB F. STROCK married 
Rachel E. Gelwicks, a daughter of Freder- 

41 



had a brother John, who owned the farm on 
which Isaac Strite was shot by the Confeder- 
ates in 1863, and a sister Maria, who mar- 
ried Jacob Nicklas and lived in Guilford 
township, near the Almshouse. Jacob and 
Maria Nicklas had a daughter who married 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



John Bowman, and was the mother of Prof. 
John C. Bowman, of Frankhn and Marsliall 
College. Ulrich Burkholder married, April 
14, 1807, Catharine Fahrney (born in 1792 — 
died in 1832). daughter of Dr. Peter Fahr- 
ney, the "little Dutch doctor," by his first 
wife, Eve (Dernbaugh) Fahrney. Dr. Fahr- 
ney was the first of a family of remarkable 
physicians. He practiced his profession in 
Chambersburg for a number of years and 
later at his farm near Boonsboro, where the 
battle of South Mountain was fought in 
1862. His formulas, mainly botanical com- 
pounds, some of which he obtained from the 
Conestoga Indians that were his faithful 
neighbors, are still in use as popular family 
medicines. Ulrich and Catharine (Fahrney) 
Burkholder had issue. 

1. J.\C0B, (born in Chambersburg, 
Sept. 2j, 1808), was a potter. 

2. Eliz.\beth, born in Chambersburg, 
Sept. 30, 1 810. 

3. John (II). 

.4. Susanna, born June 19, 1813, died 
]!slo,y. 5, 1813. 

5. Anna, born Oct. 15, 1815. 

6. Lucinda, born Sept. 26, 18 17. 

7. Susan, born Dec. I, 1819, died Sept. 
I, 1881. 

8. Peter died aged four years. 

9. David went to California in 1849, 
and never returned. 

(II) JOHN BURKHOLDER (born at 
■Chambersburg, Jan. 15, 1812 — died at his 
"home near Ouincy, Feb. 17, 1877), son of 
Ulrich and Catharine (Fahrney) Burk- 
holder. at the age of twelve years went to 
live with his uncle. Dr. Jacob Fahrney, near 
Quincy, in Ouincy township, by whom he 
was educated and initiated into the myster- 
ies of the Fahrney pharmacopoeia. He suc- 
ceeded to his uncle's large practice, and be- 
came one of the leading physicians of the 



county. Among his students of medicine 
was Dr. P. Fahrney, of Chicago. Dr. Burk- 



holtler married March 



1840, Susan 



Yockey (born May 20, 1820 — died Sept. 30, 
1S94), daughter of Joseph and Nancy 
(W'ertz) Yockey; they had issue: 

1. Nancy, born Sept. 9, 1842 died 
.\pril 12, 1862. 

2. Benj.amin, born May 2"/, 1846. 

3. C.-^TH.^RiNE, born Nov. 10, 1847, 
died March 1 1, 1849. 

4. John, bom Jan. 30, 1850, died Feb. 
5- 1850. 

5. D.AVID H. (III). 

6. Joseph .Alfred, born Aug. 30, 
1856. died May 8, 1858. 

7. Aaron W. born May 4, 1858, died 
March 31, i860. 

8. Sus.\N Emma, born March 21, i860. 
(III). DAVID H. BURKHOLDER 

(born April 13, 1854), son of Dr. John and 
Susan (Yockey) Burkholder, was educated 
in the public schools of Ouincy township. 
One year after his marriage he went to 
Staufferstown, where he was engaged in sell- 
ing medicines made from his father's recipes, 
1876-81. He then took up the growing of 
water-cress, conducting his business under 
the firm name of Shank Bros., 1S81-85, and 
as Shank & Burkholder, 1885-89. In 1889 the 
partnership was dissolved but the business 
was continued by D. H. Burkholder until 
1897. From May, 1894, to December, 1896, 
Mr. Burkholder was engaged in the grocery 
business at Staufferstown. He li\-ed on the 
John Yockey property, Staufferstown, for 
twenty years, purchasing it in the autumn of 
1894. The ne.xt year he purchasetl the John 
R. Yockey farm on the Falling Spring, where 
he has been engaged in farming since 1897. 
He is a Republican in politics, and a memiier 
of St. John's Reformed Church, Chambers- 
berg. Mr. Burkholder married Nov. 4, 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FR.\NKLIN COUNTY. 



643 



1875. Margaret Seilhamer (torn Nov. 24, 
1855), daughter of George and Catharine 
( Rodes) Seilhamer ; they have issue : 

1. Susan (born Oct. 17, 1876) married 
Dec. 10. 1896. J- Calvin Potter, son of 
Jacob and Rebecca (Sourbaugh) Potter; 
tliey have a daughter, Rebecca. 

2. C.ATHARixE (born Nov. 19, 1878) 
married Nov. 21, 1900, Charles W. Saum. 
son of John and Anna Margaret (George) 
Saum : they ha\-e two daughters, Margaret 
and Catharine. 

3. Willis A. (born Oct. 27, 1880), 
married Nov. 20, 1902, Katie, daughter of 
Jolm and Frances (Wingert) Wingert. 

4. A daughter, born Oct. 5. 1884, died 
in infancy. 

5. f\\uL born ]\Iarch 13, 1886. 

6. John D., born June 4. 1888. 

7. Ella Eva, born May 26, 1891. 

8. Maurice, born Feb. 16, 1893. 

9. Margaret, born Oct. 9, 1896. 

10. Mary, born July 25, 1899. 

RE\\ CASPER F. HOSFELD. a 
prominent divine of the Dunkard faith, 
whose years of successful work in the min- 
istry have been passed in Cumberland and 
Franklin counties, comes of God-fearing par- 
entage, as well as a long line of honorable 
ancestry. The name was originally spelled 
Hossfeldt. 

(I) SEBASTIAN HOSFELD, his 
grandfather, resided within six miles of the 
old house of Martin Luther, which is still 
standing. He was an active supporter of the 
Lutheran faith. By trade he was a shoe- 
maker. He had nine children. 

(II) DAVID G. HOSFELD, son of 
Sebastian, learned the shoemaker's trade 
under his father in Germany. On Marcli 12, 
1836. he left the Fatherland to find a new 
home on the hospitable shores of the western 
^vorld, landing at Baltimore, Md., May 3, 



1856. He located at Cleversburg. Cumljer- 
land county, where lie worked at his trade. 
In Germany he had been a member of the 
Lutheran Church, but after coming to Amer- 
ica he united with the Dunkard Church, and 
in that faith he died in March, 1890. He 
married Catherine Elizabeth Rossbaugh, 
who died Dec. 10, 1888, and both are buried 
in the cemetery at Foglesonger's Church. 
Their children were: 

1. Sebastian died in infancy. 

2. Casper died in infancy. 

3. Christopher married Julia Netta- 
myer. 

4. B.\rbar.\ a. married Henry H. 
Clever. 

5. Casper F. (HI). 

6. Catharine E. (deceased) married 
Byron Pennypacker. 

7. G. Louis, who died in March, 1900, 
married Dora Getter. 

8. David S. married Jennie Maurer. 

9. Isabella died at the age of three 
years and ten months. 

(Ill) CASPER F. HOSFELD was 
born in Sa.xony, Germany, Jan. 22, 1849. 
He attended the public schools of his native 
land one term, and after coming to America 
attended the schools of Cleversburg. Later 
he attended, for two winters, the old brick 
schoolhouse on the Pine Road near Lees- 
burg, Cumberland county, and one term at 
the Center schoolhouse on the Pike. All his 
life he has engaged in farming. 

In his vouth Mr. Hosfeld l^ecame a mem- 
ber of the Dunkard Church and soon deter- 
mined to give up his life to the service of his 
Master. In June, 1893, he was ordained a 
minister of the Dunkard Church by Bishop 
Jacob Hollinger. and his ministerial duties 
have taken him over both Cumberland and 
Franklin counties. He is sincere and earnest 
in his work, and rigid in his adherence to the 
strictest teachings of the faith, being much 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



more charitable, however, to the shortcom- 
ings of others than his own. He is conscien- 
tious in liis work, and never seeks to spare 
his strength where the good of the Church 
or its members is concerned. He is pubHc- 
spirited, and has served Soutliampton town- 
ship as a school director. 

In August, 1875, Rev. Mr. Hosfeld was 
married to Anna Mary Zern, daughter of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Lede) Zern. She has 
proved an admirable helpmeet in all his 
work, and has reared her children in Godly 
faith and fear. These children are : 

1. Dora Luella married Samuel K. 
Nole. 

2. Nannie Elli-S married Frederick 
Newcomer. 

3. Anna Elizabeth. 

4. Mary May married Harry .\ugh 
Neff. 

5. George F. 

6. David Arthur. 

7. Sarah H. 

8. Fredith Ruth. 

9. Paul. 

FRANK H. SLYDER, a successful and 
popular teacher, ex-county superintendent of 
Franklin county, and a prosperous farmer of 
Letterkenny township, Franklin Co., Pa., 
•was born Oct. 23, 1853, in Hamilton town- 
ship, near Chambersburg, at old Slyder Hill, 
son of James S. and Catherine V. (Van- 
derau) Slyder. 

(I) WILLIAM SLYDER, the grand- 
father, was a farmer and had a rope walk 
in Hamilton township. 

(II) JAMES S. SLYDER also had a 
rope walk and engaged as a farmer at Slyder 
Hill. His death occurred in 1897, and he 
was interred at Chambersburg. For several 
years prior to his death he was in the mer- 
cantile business. His children were: 



1. Albert. 

2. Susan died in infancy. 

3. James died at the age of eight years. 

4. Frank H. (III). 

(Ill) FR.\NK H. SLYDER received a 
very liberal education in the common schools, 
and later at the normal school at Shippens- 
burg, and after completing his course of 
study commenced teaching. Since 1873 he 
has been continuously engaged as an in- 
structor, with the exception of the session of 
1874-75. In 1887 he was honored by being 
elected county superintendent, and after 
serving most acceptably and ably he was re- 
elected, in 1890, and continued in office until 
June, 1893. In politics he is a stanch Re- 
publican. In 1893 Mr. Slyder took charge 
of the homestead farm and has been farming 
and teaching ever since. Mr. Slyder is a 
prominent member of the Lutheran Church,, 
of which he is an elder, and he was super- 
intendent of the Sunday-school at Orrstown 
for eight years. In every respect, he is a 
man of prominence and intelligence, well 
read, and a leader in educational lines. 

In 1878 he was united in marriage with 
Miss Lyda B. Zimmerman, daughter of 
David and Maria (Cramer) Zimmerman, of 
Franklin county. Their children are : 

1. Jennie. 

2. James served two years in the Phil- 
ippines in the infantry. He married Miss 
Estelle Brake, daughter of Solomon Brake. 

3. Jessie. 

4. C.\therine. 

5. Alice. 

6. S.\rah. 

SAMUEL B. RINEHART, president 
of the Frick Manufacturing Company, and 
president of the Citizens' National Bank, of 
Waynesboro, Pa., was born Jan. 5. 1839, 
on a farm in Washington township, Frank- 



BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



^M5 



lin cijunty, tlie son of Samuel and Catlicrine 
(Bonebrake) Rinehart. both of wlioni were 
German descent. 

(I) LEWIS RINEHART. the pa- 
ternal grandfather, moved from Virginia to 
Franklin county. Pa., in 1828. settling on 
a farm one mile east from Waynesboro. 

(II) SAMUEL RINEHART, the 
father, born May 12, 181 1, in Virginia, 
was a farmer by occupation. He married 
March 13, 1831, Catherine Bonebrake, born 
June 13. 1807, in Pennsylvania, daughter 
of Conrad Bonebrake. To their union 
came the following issue: 

1. John. 

2. Susan 

3. Mary. 

4. Samuel B. (III). 

5. Lewis. 

6. Henry. 

7. Daniel. 

8. Catherine. 

(III) SAMUEL B. RINEHART was 
reared on the farm near Waynesboro, and 
attended the schools of the district and 
city, and the Millersville State Normal 
School. He gave his attention solely to 
farming until 1859, and then for five years 
spent the winters in teaching. In 1865 he 
engaged in the hardware business in 
Waynesboro, and followed this for several 
years, in 1883 selling this interest and going 
to Kansas for some time. In 1883 he was 
appointed purchasing agent for the Frick 
Company of Waynesboro, in which capac- 
ity he served until 1886, when he was elected 
president of the company. Mr. Rinehart 
was one of the organizers of the Citizens' 
National Bank, was elected its first presi- 
dent, and has continued in that position. 
He is also a director in the Landis Tool 
Works. 

On Sept. 29, 1868. Mr. Rinehart mar- 
ried Lizzie, the daughter of Rev. Joseph 



V. Rohrer. a nati\e of Maryland. Mrs. 
Rinehart died lea\ing the following chil- 
dren : 

1. Elmer. 

2. Rohrer. 

3. Archie Vard. 

On Sept. 29. 1868. Mr. Rinehart mar- 
ried for his second wife Elsie Shriner Grif- 
fin, of Linwood. Mar\land. 

KYNER 1 AMILV. (I) MICHAEL 
KEINADT, now Kyner (born at Winter- 
lingen, King(U)m of Wurtemberg, Germany, 
Jan. 2y, 1720 — died in Virginia, Nov. 7, 
1796), son of Conrad Keinadt, emigrated 
to Pennsyhaiiia about 1740. and settled 
near New Holland, in Lancaster county. 
Later he removed to the Cumberland Val- 
ley, and lived on the Yellow Breeches creek 
for a number of years, but be finally went to 
Virginia, where he remained until his 
death. He married, in 1749. Margaret 
Diller (born in 1734 — died in Virginia, 
Nov. 18. 1813). daughter of Casper Diller; 
the\- had issue : 

1. George .\dam (II). 

2. Conrad (HI). 

3. George Michael. 

4. Elizabeth. 

5. Mary. 

6. C.VSPER. 

7. Cath.vrine. 

S. John. 

9. Martin. 

10. Jacob. 

1 1. Christian. 

12. Philip. 

13. Frederick. 

(II) GEORGE ADAM KYNER 
(born in Lancaster county, .Aug. 7. 1753 — 
died in Virginia, in 1820), son of Michael 
and Margaret (Diller) Keinadt, was a 
Revolutionarv soldier. He married Bar- 



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bara Smith, daughter of John Smith; tiiey 
had issue : 

1. John B. (born in Cumberland 
county, Aug. 7, 1780 — died in Va., July 11, 
1 81 6) married Catharine Spotts (born 
June 2T,. 1785 — died July 24, 1822), and 
had issue: Jane (married James Moore), 
Archibald S., William L., Harrison H., 
George D. and Mary. 

2. George (Big George). 

3. Catharine. 

4. Elizabeth. 

5. Margaret. 

6. Jane. 

7. Mary. 

(Ill) CONRAD KYNER (Ixirn in 
Lancaster county in 1755 — died March 11, 
1816), son of Michael and Margaret (Oil- 
ier) Keinadt, remained in the Cumlserland 
Valley, and purchased from his father, in 
1787, the farm in Culbertson's Row that the 
elder Kyner had bought from Samuel Cul- 
bertson, in 1776. He was ensign of Capt. 
William Denny's Company, Cumberland 
County Associators, 1777-80, and was in 
active service. In the "Pennsylvania Arch- 
ives" his name is spelled Coiner and Koiner. 
He married Elizabeth Stumbaugh ; they had 
issue : 

1. John, a teacher, who went to Ohio, 
married Susan Myers, of Adams county; 
they had issue : Jacob, Margaret, ]Mary, 
Michael, George, Lawrence, Philip, Wil- 
liam, Casper, Samuel and John. 

2. George (IV). 

3. Philip, a farmer near Shippens- 
burg, married Miss Marin ; they had issue : 
Conrad, Elizabeth and Margaret. 

4. Jacob married Rebecca Myers, near 
Harper's Ferry; they had issue: Samuel, 
David, Elizabeth and Margaret. 

5. Michael lived on the Conrad Kyner 
homestead. He married (first) Lvdia Bit- 



tie, and had issue : Lydia, John and 
Thomas; (second) Susan Weigert, and had 
issue: Michael, Eliza, William and Mary. 
6. Casper (born March, 1795) re- 
moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1825. He 
married, in 1818, Elizabeth Mock; they had 
eleven children. 

(IV) GEORGE KYNER (died aged 
ninety years), son of Conrad and Elizabeth 
(Stumbaugh) Kyner, was a farmer and 
owned a farm in Southampton township-. 
He married (first) Miss Nye; they had 
issue : 

1. Mary married Samuel Thomson. 

2. Margaret married Joseph Coiner, 
of Virginia, and removed to Jacksonville, 
III. ; they had issue : 

3. Cath.^rine married John Cold- 
smith. 

4. John died unmarried. 

Mr. Kyner married (second) Dec. 10, 
1822, Mary Shields (died at Shippensburg, 
aged eighty-five years), daughter of John 
and Jane (Thomson) Shields: they had 
issue : 

1. Jane A. married Thomas Marshall. 

2. EuPHEMiA C. married Alexander 
Duncan. 

3. Anna married James McCormick. 

4. David T. became a physician. 

5. Alex.^nder W. (V). 

(V) ALEXANDER W. KYNER 
(born Jan. 16, 1825), son of George and 
Mary (Shields) Kyner. is a farmer in South- 
ampton township. He is a Republican in 
politics and is a man of high standing in 
the community in which he lives. Mr. 
Kyner married (first) Elizabeth Fogel- 
songer (died aged twenty-five years), but 
they had no issue. He married (second) 
Elvira Reed, daughter of Joseph Reed, of 
a pioneer Scotch-Irish family of Adams 
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1. Elizabeth A. is living at home. 

2. EuPHEMiA C. is living at home. 

3. George A. (VI). 

(VI) GEORGE A. KYXER (born in 
1864) was educated in the public schools 
of Southampton township and at the Cham- 
bersburg Academy, and was graduated at 
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 1889. 
After leaving college he studied law with 
J. C. Neely, Esq., at Gettysburg, and was 
admitted to the Adams County Bar in Oc- 
tober, 1 89 1. Returning to bis native county 
he was admitted to the Franklin County 
Bar in December, 1891, antl has been in ac- 
tive practice in Chambersburg ever since. 
In politics he is an active Republican worker, 
and has served as a member of the execu- 
tive committee of the Franklin County Re- 
publican Committee. Mr. Kyner entered 
the volunteer service of the United States, 
May 10, 1898, as a private in Company C, 
8th Regiment, P. V., and was promoted to 
be corporal. He was mustered out with 
his regiment, March 10, 1899. He served 
as solicitor to the County Commissioners, 
1900-02, and was District Attorney of 
Franklin County, 1902-05, elected as a 
Republican. Mr. Kyner is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church ; he is also a member 
of one of the college fraternities of Pennsyl- 
vania College, Gettysburg, and a member of 
the Order of Elks, being an officer of the 
latter order. 

WILLIAM H. BROSIUS, M. D., one 
of the leading physicians of Franklin county, 
residing at Mont Alto, was born aliove 
Welsh Run, near Mercersburg, Franklin 
county. May i, i860, a son of Emanuel and 
Jane A. (Hayes) Bro.sius. 

(I) GEORGE BROSIUS, his grand- 
father, a native of Maryland, became the 
father of children as follows : 

I. William, deceased. 



2. Jane married Jackson Brosius and 
lives in Baltimore. 

3. Samuel died in Baltimore. 

4. George died in G;dlipi)lis. Ohio. 

5. Emanuel (II). 

(II) EMANUEL BROSIUS, the father 
of William H., was born in 1808 at Clear 
Spring, Md. He was a tanner by trade and 
worked in his father's steam tannery at Clear 
Sjjring, Md. He moved to Franklin county 
about 1850, settling first near Mercersburg, 
where he farmed. He then located at Mc- 
Connellsburg. Fulton Co., Pa., and pur- 
chased the "Fulton House," which he oper- 
ated very successfully for five years, after 
which he sold the property, and removing to 
Greencastle, Antrim township, he lived re- 
tired for a number of years. About seven- 
teen years after selling his hotel he settled in 
Hagerstown, Md., and made that city his 
home for two years. His next change was 
made when he moved to Martinsburg, W^ 
Va., and spent a year, after which he located 
at Mont Alto, where his death occurred in 
May, 1895. His first wife bore the maiden 
name of Mary Duffield, from near Upton, a 
sister of the wife of Col. Wengert, of Green- 
castle. To this union si.x children were 
born : 

I. Lillie married Samuel Williams, 
now of Virginia. 

2. Emma married George A. Smith, at- 
torney, of Rogersville, Tennessee. 

3. Sallie married Rev. Derbin G. 
Miller, a minister, of Baltimore. 

4. Annie died unmarried. 

5. Jenxie married and resides in Ne- 
braska. 

6. Clara, her twin sister, is unmarried. 
The second wife of Emanuel Brosius was 

Jane A. Hayes, born near Shippensburg, 
Pa., in 18 1 6. a daughter of Robert and 
Nancy (Wilson) Hayes. She died in Feb- 
ruary, 1 901. She and her husband were con- 



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sistent members of tlie Presbyterian Cluircli. 
To this union four children were born : 

1. Martha B. married Alonzo Kuhn, 
of Hancock, Maryland. 

2. William H. (III). 

3. Wilson L. unmarried, of Mercers- 
burg. 

4. Samuel died in infancy. 

(Ill) WILLIAM H. BROSIUS was 
reared in McConnellsville and Greencastle, 
and in addition to instruction received in the 
public schools spent a year at the Shippens- 
burg State Normal, and was a pupil at the 
private school of G. Fred Zeigler. In 1882 
he began reading medicine with Dr. Bert 
Miller of Greencastle, and later studied with 
Dr. Frank A. Bushey. He attended JefTer- 
son Medical College, Philadelphia, from 
1883 to 1886, in wliich year he was gradu- 
ated. Returning to Greencastle, he prac- 
ticed for ten months, and then moved to 
Mont Alto, where he has since resided, build- 
ing up a large and lucrative practice. Pro- 
fessionally he is a member of the Franklin 
County Medical Society and the Pennsyl- 
vania State Medical Society. Fraternally he 
is a member of the I. O. O. F., Greencastle 
Lodge, No. 228. He attends the Reformed 
Church. 

Dr. Brosius married Laiu^a F. Rouse, 
born in Mont Alto, daughter of Joseph 
Rouse, an Englishman who had charge of 
the Mont Alto mines. To this union the fol- 
lowing children have been born : 

1. Claude Hayes died in 1889, aged 
eleven months. 

2. P.\NSY R.. born in 1890. 

3. William Hayes, born in 1892, died 
aged six months. 

4. Glen W., born in 1894. 

5. Edward, born in 1897, died at the 
age of five months. 

Dr. Brosius is a man of deep erudition, 
large experience and natural inclination for 



his chosen profession. Not only is he well 
fitted by training and experience, but he also 
possesses the manner which encourages his 
patients and wins him many friends outside 
his practice. 

CHARLES MICHAEL McLAUGH- 
LIN, A. M., M. D., physician and surgeon 
of Greencastle, is a native of Washington 
county. Md., born at the old McLaughlin 
farm. Mason and Dixon, June 13, 1861, 
fourth son of Perry B. McLaughlin (son of 
Henry McLaughlin, of Mason and Dixon), 
and his wife, Cornelia J. Hostetter (daugh- 
ter of Samuel Hostetter, of Greencastle), all 
farming people, of German and Irish de- 
scent. The McLaughlins were intimately 
associated with the early history of the Ma- 
son and Dixon line. The old homestead 
there has remained in the family for three 
generations. In 1861 Perry B. McLaugh- 
lin retired from the farm, and he then 
erected the large brick residence and store 
building at Mason and Dixon. He died in 
1875, ^nd his death marked the close of an 
active life, and removed froiu the commu- 
nity a man well known and highly respected. 
His wife, Cornelia J. Hostetter, was a 
■woman of education and refinement, and 
during the latter years of her life proved her- 
self to be possessed of remarkable business 
ability. When her husband died her chil- 
dren were small, and for the remaining quar- 
ter of a century of her life she reared and 
educated her family, and most commendably 
and successfully managed the estate en- 
trusted to her. She died suddenly in 1899. 
Five children were born to Perry B. Mc- 
Laughlin and wife: Frank Howard, a 
farmer of Cearfpss, Md. ; Henry Prather, 
owner of an elevator at Mason and Dixon, 
Md. : William Perry, who died in 1892; 
Charles Michael; Mollie, who died in 1862. 

Dr. C. M. McLaughlin spent his boy- 




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hood days at Mason and Dixon. His early 
education was secured in tiie public schools 
of Washington county, Md. Later he en- 
tered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, 
from which he was graduated with the de- 
gree of A. B., in 1885, and in 1888 the 
degree of A. M. was conferred upon him 
by the same institution. The year following 
his graduation he taught school in his native 
county. In 1887 he entered Jefferson ^led- 
ical College, from which he was graduated 
in 1889, and he then located in Greencastle 
where he has since resided. His profes- 
sional success began in the first half year 
of his practice. In the epidemic of la grippe 
that swept the country in the fall and winter 
of 1889-90, his results were so brilliant that 
a large and lucrative practice was attracted 
to him, and he has held it ever since. While 
he has always been a general practitioner, 
from the beginning his natural bent seemed 
in the line of obstetrics as a specialty. In 
1902 he associated with him Dr. E. W. 
Palmer. 

On June 12, 1889, Dr. McLaughlin mar- 
ried Ella Keiffer, daughter of the late Sam- 
uel Keiffer. of near Hagerstown, Md. Their 
home has been blessed with two sons: 
Charles Keiffer. born in 1902; and William 
Perry, born in 1904. In 1898 Dr. Mc- 
Laus-hlin erected a beautiful home on South 
■Carlisle street, where the many friends of 
the family are cordially welcomed. Fra- 
ternally the Doctor is a Mason, and profes- 
sionally he belongs to the American Medical 
Association and the Franklin County Medi- 
cal Society. He and his wife are active 
members of the Refor;ned Church. 

GEORGE SKELLY, a prominent and 
successful farmer of Guilford township, 
Franklin county, is pleasantly located on the 
new Franklin and Falling Spring road, five 
miles southwest of Chambersburg. He was 



born in Cumberland county, near the Frank- 
lin county line, and is a son of George and 
Lydia (Cramner) Skelly. 

(I) ALEXANDER SKELLY, the 
grandfather, came of a good old Scotch- 
Irish family. 

(II) GEORGE SKELLY, the father, 
was born in Cumberland county, as was his 
wife, but they died in iM-anklin county. He 
was a farmer by occupation. In politics he 
was a Republican, and in religion a Lu- 
theran. The family born to himself and wife 
was as follows : 

1. Mary married Jacob R. Tro.xler. 

2. Rebecca was the second wife of 
Jacob R. Troxler. 

3. William is deceased. 

4. Peter is deceased. 

5. Elizabeth married Peter Cramner 
and is a widow, in Kansas. 

6. Lydia is deceased. 

7. George (III). 

8. John died in Missouri. 

9. Catherine married John Gelwicks. 

10. Jacob is deceased. 

11. Samuel is deceased. 

(III) GEORGE SKELLY remained 
upon the farm until 1862, when he enlisted 
in the 158th Pennsylvania Infantry under 
Col. McKibbon, of Chambersburg, and he 
served in the southern campaign, being out 
nearly a year, when, his term expiring, he 
was honorably discharged and returned to 
his home, to take up again the peaceful occu- 
pation of farming. On Dec. 17. 1863, he 
was married to Elizabeth Shull, of Guilford 
township, born near New Franklin, a daugh- 
ter of George and Anna (Nicholas) ShuU, 
of the same locality. Five children have been 
born of this marriage, namely : 

1. Anna married Thomas Wisterman, 
of Ohio, and has two children : Elizabeth and 
Blanche. 

2. George is a farmer, living at Jack- 



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son Hall, Pa. He married Emma ■ 

of New Franklin, and has two children, 
Catherine and Shull. 

3. Mary E. married Frank Hassler, of 
Guilford township, and has one child, Eva 
Helen. 

4. Edward S., a farmer of Guilford 
township, married Nellie Wilkinson, and has 
one son, Lewis. 

5. Frank married Clara Shireman, of 
Ohio. 

In politics our subject is a Democrat. He 
has long been a consistent member of the 
Lutheran Church, in which he has served as 
elder and deacon for thirty-five years. His 
farm is an excellent piece of property of sev- 
enty-seven acres, and he owns another of 
eighty-eight acres, both places well im- 
proved. At Jackson Hall, Pa., he has a 
highly cultivated little farm of thirty-six 
acres. Mr. Skelly has always taken an ac- 
tive part in the afifairs of the township, has 
served two terms as school director, and at 
various times as member of the election 
board. 

The early history of the Shull family, of 
which Mrs. Skelly is a member, begins as 
far as there is definite record with grand- 
father (I) Peter Shull, who lived in Cham- 
bersburg. He was a member of the old 
Shull family which emigrated to America 
about 1738, and its members became very 
early settlers of Franklin county, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

(II) GEORGE SHULL. the father of 
Mrs. Skelly, was born in Chambersburg, 
Pa., July 25, 1806, and died Nov. 30, 1892. 
During a long and active life he became one 
of the prosperous farmers of Guilford town- 
ship. His children were: 

1. Elizabeth, Mrs. Skelly, Ijorn .\pril 
21, 1834. 

2. D.-^NiEL, born Feb. 29. 1836. 

3. Benjamin F., bom May 31, 1839. 



4. David F., born Oct. 2"], 1841. 

5. Samuel P., born in 1844. 

6. George A., of Chambersburg. 

7. May E., born in 1850, married Rev. 
J. Milton Snyder, of Indiana county. 

8. Rebecca^ born in 1852. married Dr. 
Mathew Lantz, of Peters township. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Skelly stand very 
high in their neighborhood, being good 
Christian people and reliable friends. In 
their comfortable home they dispense a gen- 
erous hospitality and welcome their many 
friends. 

SAMUEL PHILLIPPY, a representa- 
tive of one of the oldest families of the State, 
and a man widely known and highly re- 
spected, was born Feb. 2"], 1833, on the old 
homestead in Antrim township, Franklin 
county, a son of Samuel and Catherine 
(Ranch) Phillippy, the latter a daughter of 
Henry Ranch. 

(I) CHRISTIAN PHILLIPY, grand- 
father of Samuel, married Barbara Reed, 
and their children were : 

1. Samuel (II). 

2. John married (first) a Miss Speal- 
man, by whom he had three children, Mary, 
John and William. His second wife was 
Fannie Culp. and they had Andrew and a 
daughter. 

(II) SAMUEL PHILLIPPY had chil- 
dren as follows : 

1. JoN.\THAN married Catherine Har- 
bauch. 

2. Eliz.\beth married John Young 

3. Mary .A.nn married Christian Whit- 
more. 

4. Isaac married Catherine Schank. 

5. Christian married Uria P. Smith, 

6. Samuel (III). 

7. Jacob married Susan Lesher, daugh- 
ter of Henry Lesher. 

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9. Margaret married Adam Van- 
derau. 

Tlie maternal grandfather, Henry Raucli, 
was a farmer of .-Vntrim township. His chil- 
dren were : 

1. Catherine, Mrs. Phillippy. 

2. Mary married Peter Loose. 

3. Christian. 

4. Margaret. 

5. Elizabeth married Frederick 
Brindle. 

6. Martha married Joseph Brindle. 

7. Sarah married Jacob Hade. 

8. Henry married Ann Snively. 

9. David, a physician, married and 
moved to Michigan, where his death oc- 
curred. 

(Ill) SAMUEL PHILLIPPY, the 
subject proper of this sketch, attended 
school in Antrim tow'nship, and has always 
lived upon the old homestead, which con- 
sists of 160 acres. This farm was purchased 
in 1 82 1, by Christian Phillippy, who came 
from Lebanon to Franklin county. It is be- 
lieved that the first of the family in this 
country located in Lebanon county. I\Ir. 
Phillippy has an old eight-day clock which 
his grandfather brought with him from Leb- 
anon county, and despite its age, it keeps ex- 
cellent time. Naturally Mr. Phillippy is very 
proud of this old family relic. 

In 1864 Mr. Phillippy married Miss 
Mary, daughter of John and Magdalena 
(Strock) Grove, and their children are: 

1. John G. married Annie, daughter of 
Abraham Hassler. 

2. Myron married a daughter of Abra- 
ham Carbaugh. 

3. James Franklin married ^Mary 
Eva John, daughter of Paul John, of Cham- 
bersburg. 

Mr. Phillippy is a member of the Lu- 
theran Church of Greencastle, in which he 
has been an elder some years. He is an ex- 



cellent farmer, and has made a success of his 
life work. His friends are many and 
strongly attached to him, and he is enjoying 
his declining years, surrounded l)» the com- 
forts secured by ample means. 

BENJAMIN ANDREW HOOVER, 

M. D., a rising young physician of Wrights- 
ville, York Co., Pa., and a man widely and 
favorably known personally as well as pro- 
fessionally, was born May 4, 1873, in Let- 
terkenny township, Franklin Co., Pa., a son 
of Abram \V. and Elizabeth Ann (Rohrer) 
Hoover. 

(I) HEINRICH VON HUBER, the 
first of whom is any definite record in the 
Hoover family, was born in Switzerland in 
1761, and died in February, 1833. He was 
a farmer and weaver, and, desiring to avail. 
himself of the liberty offered in ^the New 
World, crossed the ocean, and settled in 
Dauphin county. Pa., about 1767. Later he 
moved to Franklin county and took up land, 
and died wealthy and highly respected. His 
issue was as follows : 

1. John (H). 

2. Christian. 

3. Jacob. 

4. Henry. 

5. Martin. 

6. Michael. 

7. Barbar.\ married Jacob Wengart. 

8. Mary married John Sollenberger. 

9. Elizabeth married Martin Win- 
gert. 

10. Nancy married Christian Ober- 
holser. 

(II) JOHN HOOVER was also a 
weaver by trade, but later in life devoted 
himself to farming. For some years he lived 
near Upper Strasburg. He married Miss- 
Annie Myers, who was born in Franklin 
county, Dec. 4, 1787 — and died June 16^ 
1819. Their children w-ere : 



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1. Henry J. (III). 

2. Barbara married Jacob Brechbill. 

3. Mary married Daniel Sollenberger. 

His first wife dying, John Hoover mar- 
ried Barbara Brechbill, by whom there was 
no issue. His death occurred in 1852, and 
with his two wives, he is buried in the Burk- 
holder graveyard, near Pleasant Hall. 

(III) HENRY J. HOOVER was a 
farmer of Letterkenny township, and a pros- 
perous man. He joined the River Brethren 
Church, and was very prominent in its good 
■work. He married Barbara .Wenger, who 
was born in 1814 and died in 1893. Henry 
J. Hoover died in 1882, and he and his wife 
are interred in the Burkholder graveyard. 
Their children were : 

1. Elizabeth married Jacob R. Hos- 
tetter. 

2. Annie married Rev. Abram W. 
Wingert. 

3. Joseph married Mary J. Holby. 

4. Abram VV. married Elizabeth Ann 
Rohrer (IV). 

5. Maria married John Myers. 

6. Barbara married Jacob Brechbill. 

7. John married Nancy Turner. 

8. Benjamin married Elizabeth Brech- 
bill. 

(IV) ABRAM W. HOOVER, father 
of Dr. Hoover, was born Oct. 6, 1842, in 
Letterkenny township, and during his boy- 
hood days attended the public schools of his 
township, then entering the Chambersburg 
Academy, which he attended for a time. .Af- 
ter this he taught school for six terms. He 
then went West for two years, when he re- 
turned and located on a farm in Greene 
township, but after two years he settled at 
his present home, near Pleasant Hall, where 

'he owns a fine farm and comfortable home. 
In February. 1882, he was appointed post- 
master at Pleasant Hall, by President 

.Arthur, and has been continuously appointed 



by the succeeding Presidents, he being the 
oldest postmaster in the county, and one of 
the ablest. Needless to say he is a stanch 
and prominent Republican, although his 
township is strongly Democratic. 

In October, 1868, Mr. Hoover was mar- 
ried to Elizabeth Ann Rohrer, of Greene 
township. They are consistent memjjers of 
the York Brethren Church. Their children 
are : 

1. John E., a farmer, married Annie 
Gayman. 

2. Alvin H. operates the homestead 
farm. 

3. Dr. Benjamin A. married Mar- 
garet S. Shoemaker (V). 

4. Barbara C. married Jacob Gayman. 

5. David R. is a school teacher. 

(V) BENJAMIN A. HOOVER first 
attended the township schools in winter and 
select schools in summer and then went for 
two sessions to the Northern Indiana Normal 
school, at Valparaiso, Ind. During this time 
he taught school — having in all taught six 
terms. Then he entered the Medico-Chirur- 
gical College of Philadelphia, from which 
he was graduated in May. 1901. He imme- 
diately located at Upper Strasburg, and be- 
gan practice, working up a very flattering 
list of patrons. A large field presenting it- 
self at Wrightsville, York Co., Pa., he re- 
moved there in June, 1903, and there he is 
now enjoying the confidence and good will 
of the people, as evidenced by his large and 
lucrative practice. While he was attending 
lectures Dr. Hoover read medicine with Drs. 
Maclay and Ramsey, of Chambersburg, and 
gained the benefit of their experience. Pro- 
fessionally Dr. Hoover is a member of the 
York County Medical Society, the Pennsyl- 
vania State Medical Society, and the .Ameri- 
can Medical Association, while fraternally 
he is a member of the I. O. O. F. 
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conversant with modern methods and prac- 
tices, and has been exceedingly successful in 
some very serious cases. Personally he is 
genial and courteous, and possesses a manner 
which inspires a trust his skill and ability 
sustain. 

The Doctor was married, July 7, 1903, 
to Miss Margaret S. Shoemaker, of Upper 
Strasburg, Pa., and one child, Philip .\bram, 
was born to them April 30, 1904. 

HANCE CAMPBELL. Path Valley is 
essentially a farming region and its fertile 
soil has been the source of wealth to many 
who have tilled its fields, for it has ever 
given a ready response to those possessed of 
industry and perseverance. Among the lar- 
gest landholders in that vicinity is Hance 
Campbell, whose home is the same in which 
he first saw the light, sixty-four years ago, 
April 30, 1 84 1. He was the youngest son 
of John and Ann (Johnson) Campbell. 

(I) JAMES CAMPBELL, the grand- 
father, with his wife, Martha (Robinson) 
Campbell, came from Ireland, and after 
reaching this country finally settled among 
the pioneers of Path Valley. He was a 
weaver by trade, but gave all his attention to 
farming after coming here. He enlisted in 
the war of 181 2 and did good service. He 
and his w-ife had eleven children, of whom 
three died young, the others being: 

1. Thomas. 

2. S.^MUEL. 

3. Alexander. 

4. Robert. 

5. John (II). 

6. William. 

7. LuCINDA. 

8. Barbara. 

(IT) JOHN CAMPBELL was born on 
the ocean in 1796, three days from land, 
while his parents were coming to America. 
As he grew up he made many moves up and 



down the Valley and even to Perry county, 
but finally settled down in 183 1 on the pres- 
ent Campbell homestead :md there spent the 
rest of his life. Politically Mr. Campbell 
was a Democrat and in religious faith a 
Presbyterian. He married .Ann, daughter of 
James and Jane (.Vnderson) Johnson, and 
member of a family who were among the 
early settlers oi Perry county and who were 
several times driven out i)y the Indians. Of 
the children born to John and Ann Camp- 
bell fi\'e sons reached manhood, viz. : 

1. James R. 

2. Alexander W. 

3. Johnson J. 

4. Robert S. 

5. Hance (III). 

(Ill) HANCE CAMPBELL was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Path X'alley, 
and after leaving school worked on the home 
farm. In the spring of 1871 he assumed en- 
tire charge of the same and has now become 
one of the large farmers and landowners of 
the locality. He also owns two good farms- 
in Burns Valley, altogether having about 
500 acres of farm land and several hundred 
acres of mountain timber land. Starting in 
life, as he did, a poor man, this achievement 
represents much hand work and the exercise 
of untiring energy and pluck. 

On April 20, 1871, Mr. Campbell was 
married to Miss Bathsheba Long, daughter 
of Frederick Long. The latter was born in 
Wurtemberg, Germany, and was I^rought to 
America when five years old by his parents, 
Matthias and Christina (Fogel) Long. As. 
his parents were poor he was for years 
obliged to help support theiu, but eventually 
became w^ell off, married Miss Agnes J. De- 
vore, of Cumberland \^alley and lived on a 
farm in Burns \'allcy. Mrs. Bathsheba L. 
Campbell, who died in 1S89, bore her hus- 
band four children, as follows; 

I. Johnson, a farmer near Doyles- 



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burg, married Miss Agnes Doyle and has 
four children. 

2. Minnie is at home. 

3. Frederick married Miss Jennie 
Doyle, and has one son, Rush. 

4. Russell is a teacher in Path Valley. 
In 1898 Mr. Campbell was married 

again, to Miss Carrie Widney, daughter of 
-Charles and Annie (Taylor) Widney, of 
-Path Valley. They have two daughters : 

1. Vad.\. 

2. Gertrude. 

Mr. Campbell is a man of importance in 
the community, where he has always taken 
an active part in public affairs, although he 
has never sought to hold office. He supports 
the Democratic party. In his religious be- 
.lief he is a Methodist. 

CLARENCE A. CHRITZMAN, M.D.! 
one of the rising young physicians of 
Upton, Antrim township, Franklin Co., Pa., 
as well as a highly honored resident of that 
place, was born June 13, 1870, in Montgom- 
ery township, Franklin Co., Pa., a son of 
Dr. Henry G. and Emma (Newcombe) 
Chritzman. 

Dr. Chritzman gained his primary edu- 
•cation in the district schools, after which he 
studied medicine with his father, and subse- 
quently entered Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, from which he was graduated 
in the spring of 1891. Returning home, he 
began practice with his father at Welsh Run, 
but after about five years he removed to 
Greencastle, Pa., and in February, 1903, he 
located at Upton, Pa., where he has rapidly 
risen in fa\or and now controls a \'ery large 
and constantly increasing practice. 

The first marriage of Dr. Chritzman took 
place in January. 1895, to Edith McClellen 
Flickinger, daughter of Joseph Flickinger, 
of Fannettsburg, Franklin Co., Pa. On 
June 21, 1900, Dr. Chritzman married Mrs. 



Kate Shank, widow of David Shank, of An- 
trim township, by whom she had two chil- 
dren, Bertha and Elizabeth. 

Dr. Clarence A. and Kate Chritzman had 
issue as follows : 

I. Henry G.. Ijorn May 26, 1901. 

Dr. Chritzman is a member of the Order 
of Red Men, and also the Royal Arcanum, 
C. V. Council No. 990, Chambersburg, Pa. 
In politics he is a prominent Republican. 
He is a genial, courteous young man, well- 
read, and thoroughly versed in his profes- 
sion, and possesses many friends through- 
out the township in which he is making his 
liome. 

/' REV. ABRAM W. WINGERT, a 
minister of the River Brethren Church, and a 
resident of Letterkenny township, Franklin 
county, was born in that township in 1850. 
He is of Swiss descent, his great-grandfather 
having been a native of Switzerland, whence 
he emigrated to America, settling in Lan- 
caster county. Pa. He was a farmer by oc- 
cupation. ^ 

(I) ABRAHAM WINGERT, grand- 
father of Abram W., was also a farmer, and 
passed most of his life on a farm in Letter- 
kenny township, where he died. He was a 
minister of the River Brethren Church. He 
married Detwiler, and they had chil- 
dren as follows : 

1. John married a Miss Byers. 

2. J.\coB married a Miss Hoover. 

3. Christian (II) was the father of 
Abram W. 

4. Abram died at the age of twenty- 
one, unmarried. 

5. Annie married John Gayman. 

6. Elizabeth married Daniel Myers. 

7. Maria married (first) Benjamin 
Gayman, and (second) A. M. Dayhoof. 

(II) CHRISTIAN WINGERT was 
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stead in Letterkenny township, and passed 
all liis life there, engaged in agricultural pur- 
suits. He married Annie Myers, who 
survived him. dying in 1901. He died 
in 1866. Their remains rest in the Air 
Hill cemetery in Letterkenny township. 
They were the parents of the following 
named children : 

1 . B.\RBAR.\ married Christian Rrech- 
bill. 

2. Nancy married Amos Sleighter. 

3. Elizabeth died unmarried. 

4. Susanna died unmarried. 

5. Maria married David Copenbarger. 

6. Christi.\n married a Miss Byers. 

7. AbramW. (III). 

8. Sarah married Samuel Cayman. 

(Ill) ABRAM W. WINGERT at- 
tended the public schools in his native town- 
ship, was reared to agriculture, and has fol- 
lowed that calling all his life. In 1889 he 
was ordained a minister of the River Breth- 
ren Church, by Bishop Oberholser. He had 
always been active in the work of the church 
and prior to his ordination was superinten- 
dent of the River Brethren Sunday-school. 
On Oct. 2, 1884, Rev. Abram W. W'ingert 
was married to Annie Hoover, daughter of 
Henry J. Hoover. 

! 

JOHN F. MILLER, proprietor of the 
popular hotel at Dry Run, Pa., and an 
affable, courteous gentleman, was born near 
Willow Hill, Franklin county. May 29, i860, 
a son of Jeremiah S. Miller. The Miller 
family came originally from Lancaster 
county, according to old records, and the 
first of whom there appears to be any definite 
record is 

(I) SIMON [MILLER, the grandfather 
of John F. Miller. He was a prosperous 
farmer and died full of years. He married 
Annie Evert, and the issue of this marriage 
was as follows : 



3- 
4- 

5- 
Crouse. 
6. 

7- 

nell. 

8. 
9- 



Eliza married John Johnson. 
Marlv married Daniel W'ademan. 
Harriet died in young womanhood. 
John died in infancy. 
Sarah .Ann m.irried Solomon 

Simon married Martha Jane Elder. 
Margaret married Thomas McCon- 



Henrv C. married Sarah Fisher. 

David B. was killed in the army, 
while serving in the 77th Pennsylvania In- 
fantry. 

10. Joanna married Stephen Ham- 
mond. 

11. Jeremiah S. (II). 

(II) JEREMIAH S. MILLER, father 
of John F., and youngest of the above fam- 
ily, married Isabel M. Burkholder, daughter 
of Jacob and Eleanor (McGrath) Burk- 
holder. They had issue: 

1. Mary Ellen, deceased. 

2. John F. (III). 

3. Hettie Ann died in infancy. 

4. Sarah C. died in infancy. 

5. David B. married Ida Svvanson. 

6. Jacob A. (IV). 

The great-grandmother on the paternal 
side bore the maiden name of Flickmver. but 
nothing further is known of her. 

JACOB BURKHOLDER. the maternal 
grandfather, had thirteen children bv his 
wife Eleanor (McGrath) Burkholder: 

1. \\'n.LL\M died in infancy. 

2. John married Margaret Elliott. 

3. Chrlstian \\'. married Jane Allen- 



der. 
4- 
5- 
6. 

Miller. 

7- 
8. 



Mary C. died in infancy. 
Sarah M. married Robert Lytle. 
Isabel M. married Jeremiah S. 

Adam M. died in infancy. 
Josiaii died in infancy. 
James died in infancy. 



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10. Thomas died in infancy. 

1 1 . Robert died in infancy. 

12. David C. died in infancy. 

13. Daniel T. died in young manhood. 

(III) JOHN F. MILLER, die subject 
proper of this article, was educated in the 
pubhc schools of Metal township, and when 
he attained to mature years embarked in the 
lumber business, in which he continued, also 
farming, until 1897, at which time he rented 
the hotel at Dryrun. He' conducted the 
house until August, 1901, when it was de- 
stroyed by fire. Mr. Miller then bought the 
ground, and built a modern hotel, fully 
equipped with every convenience, and com- 
modious enough to accommodate a large 
number of guests. The stables are ample, and 
a large business is carried on. The hotel is 
so well managed that it is a favorite with the 
traveling public, and the Miller brothers have 
many warm personal friends all over the 
country, who remember most gratefully the 
hospitality shown by these model hosts. 

(IV) JACOB ALBERT MILLER, son 
of Jeremiah S. Miller, was born Jan. 16, 
1869, at Willow Hill. :\Ietal township. His 
education was obtained at the public schools 
of Metal township, and after he completed 
his schooling he worked upon a farm for sev- 
eral years, and then entered a machine shop 
at Du Bois, Pa. There he spent six months, 
after which he clerked in a hotel at that place 
for two years. His next change was made 
when he went to Pittsburgh, where he 
worked in the machine shops a short time. 
About then the patriotic spirit waged high, 
and he enlisted, becoming a pri\ate in Com- 
pany K, 14th P. V. I., May 10, 1898, for 
service in the Spanish-.\merican war. He 
was sent to Fort Motte, where he spent three 
months, and was then transferred to Camp 
Mead, later to Camp Marion, S. C. near 
Summerville, and there remained until Feb. 
28, following, when he was mustered oiit. 



He then came to Dryrun, and embarked in 
the hotel business with his brother John F. 
Miller. 

A. T. HIGHLAND, one of the highly 
respected and successful farmers of Guilford 
township, Franklin county, living on his 
well improved farm at Duffield, Pa., was 
born in Southampton township, Cumber- 
land Co., Pa., May 12, 1852, a son of Alex- 
ander and Margaret Highland, of the same 
county. 

(I) ALEXANDER HIGHLAND was 
a farmer. He was a Democrat, and took an 
active part in politics. Religiously he was a 
Presbyterian, and one of the honorable men 
of his day in both secular and religious life. 
He became the father of nine children, eight 
of whom grew to maturity : 

1. JosEPHi.NE married William Max- 
well, of Wichita, Kansas. 

2. William, of California. 
3- A.T. (II). 

4. John, of Illinois. 

5. Elizabeth, of Franklin county, 
married Milton Brant, a farmer. 

6. Robert, of Cumberland county. 

7. Samuel, of Michigan. 

8. Flor.\ married William Hays, of 
Cumberland county, a farmer. 

(II) A. T. HIGHLAND was reared in 
Cumberland county, during his youth learn- 
ing the carpenter's trade and attending the 
public schools. On Aug. 16, 1874, he mar- 
ried Miss Mary Marquart, of Cumberland 
county, daughter of Abraham and Frances 
(Snively) Marquart, of the same county. 
They have no children. In 1880 Mr. High- 
land came to Franklin county, and purchased 
the farm near Dufifield, in Guilford township, 
where he now resides. He has made exten- 
sive improvements upon the property, includ- 
ing a nice residence and fine barns. In poli- 
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■seeker. In religious matters he is a member 
•of the Reformed Church. Starting in life 
a poor boy, he has made his own way and 
now is justly regarded as one of the progres- 
sive farmers and excellent managers of Guil- 
ford township. 

Mrs. Highland is one of a family of eight 
•children : 

1. George. 

2. Cl.\ra married Thomas Gill. 

3. Alice is married. 

4. Effie is deceased. 

5. Is.\BEL married John Stephenson, of 
Harrisburg. 

6. John, of Philadelphia. 

7. Samuel, of Philadelphia. 

8. Mary, Mrs. Highland. 

BENJAMIN F. WENGER, of Letter- 
kenny township, is one of the represen- 
tative men of Franklin county. He was 
born March 27, 1850. in Greene township, 
this county, a son of Joseph R. and Eliza- 
beth (Kuhns) Wenger. His grandfather 
Wenger was a farmer in Greene township, 
and is buried in the Braucher Church Ceme- 
tery. His children were: 

1. Martin. 

2. Abram married a Miss Zook. 

3. Henry. 

4. Michael married a Miss Gelsinger. 

5. John married a Miss Zimmerman. 

6. Franie married Peter Sellenberger. 

7. Barbara married Henry Hoover. 

8. Katie married Henry Erb. 

9. Joseph R. (II). 

fll) JOSEPH R. wenger was a 
farmer in Letterkenny township. He died 
a firm member of the River Brethren 
Church. His wife, Elizabeth (Kuhns) 
\\'enger, is also deceased. They had one 
■child : 

I. Benjamin F. (III). 

John H. Kuhns, of Franklin county, the 

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maternal grandfather, was a farmer. He 
married Susan Haller, by whom he had 
children as follows : 

1. Isaac married a Miss Haltry. 

2. John married Alice Strine. 

3. Elizabeth became the mother of 
Benjamin ¥. Wenger. 

4. Susan married John F'uiik. 

(Ill) BENJAMIN F. WENGER 
received his early education in his native 
township, and until 1884, lived upon the 
farm in Letterkenny and in Lurgan town- 
ship. He then located at Abilene, Kans., 
and engaged in an implement and machin- 
ery business until 1893. He then went to 
Chicago, and was employed on the Soutli 
Side elevated road, and the Lake street road 
for about six years. Returning to Letter- 
kenny township in 1899, he has since been 
upon the farm. In politics he is a stanch 
Republican, and he has served for a year as 
constable. Mr. Wenger is widely and favor- 
ably known, and he has many friends 
throughout the county, his excellent traits 
of character being universally recognized 
and appreciated. 

Mr. Wenger married Lidy Greenwalt, 
daughter of Peter and Sarah (Cover) 
Greenwalt ; issue : 

1. Annie A. died at the age of six 
years. 

2. Bertha M. married John Spahr, a 
native of Adams county, Pa., and they re- 
side at Chicago. 

SAMUEL HOUSTON JOHNSTON, 
who has become indentified with the social 
and business interests of Franklin county, 
and particularly with those of Mercersburg, 
came to the county twenty years ago. He 
is a son of James Johnston, who was a con- 
tractor in the building of what was known 
as the Tapeworm Railroad. 

The Johnston family is of Scotch ex- 



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I 



traction and traces descent to Archibald 
Johnston, Earl of Warriston. The founders 
of the American branch came to Lancaster 
county and settled in the Pequea Valley 
about 1720. 

(I) THOMAS JOHNSTON, grand- 
father of our subject, moved to Franklin 
county in 1794, and married Ana Hous- 
ton, and their issue being : 

1. John. 

2. Samuel. 

3. James (II). 

4. Alexander. 

5. Thomas. 

6. Mary married John Hunter of Mer- 
cersburg, who, at a later date, went to 
McConnellsburg, where he amassed a for- 
tune. Their daughter, Mary Ann, married 
Rev. Thomas Clarkson, who was pastor of 
the Associated Church of Mercersburg. 

(II) JAMES JOHNSTON, son of 
Thomas, married Nancy Rankin, daughter 
of Archibald Rankin of Mercersburg, a 
prominent farmer. This marriage took 
place in Mercersburg in 1820, and their 
children consisted of five sons and three 
daughters, namely : 

1. Marion married J. Smith John- 
son and had children, Clarkson, John Bruce, 
Ralph, Erskin and a babe that died in in- 
fancy. 

2. Thomas became a minister ; he mar- 
ried Sarah McNaughton and they had three 
sons : Findlay, a lawyer at McConnellsburg; 
Houston, a lawyer in Allegheny; and Wal- 
ter, a physician at Seattle. 

3. Mary Agnes married D. W. Hous- 
ton, of New Wilmington, Pa., and they had 
children, James, a lawyer in Kansas; 
Thomas, a missionary in Japan ; Victor 
Grant, born the^'day on which Gen. Lee sur- 
rendered to General Grant, now a real estate 
man in Kansas. 

4. Archibald married Jane Kendall, 



of Fulton county, they had four children, 
Findlay, a farmer of Fulton county : Elmer, 
a farmer in Iowa; Miss Ella, at home; and 
Warrinton. 

5. John went to ^Mexico where he died, 
unmarried. 

6. Walker, in 1866, married Jennie 
Marrow, of Allegheny, and they have 
twelve children, Richard, a farmer in Colo- 
rado; Jessie, wife of T. A. Patterson, of 
Fulton county ; Mary, who married Wil- 
liam Kendall, of Fulton county ; Houston, 
who married Margaretta Kendal ; Ralph, of 
Pittsburgh ; and Helen, Blanche, Florence, 
Charles, Mary, Grace and Norman. 

7. Samuel Houston (III). 

8. Anna C. resides unmarried, in Kan- 
sas. 

(Ill) SAMUEL HOUSTON JOHN- 
STON was born at Fairfield, his father being 
at that time a contractor on the Tapeworm 
Railroad. He was educated in the public 
schools of Fulton county, and grew up on 
the farm which he subsequently owned> 
having purchased the place when his father 
retired. In 1877 he removed from Fulton 
county and settled on the old Bard farm, 
near Lemasters, where he continued until 
1890, when he occupied the Thomas John- 
son farm near Mercersburg. In 1901 he 
erected a residence in the city of Mercers- 
burg. 

On Jan. 10. 1870, Mr. Johnston married 
Elizabeth Bard McDowell, daughter of 
Alexander and Margaret (Bard) McDowell, 
and granddaughter of Judge Bard of Le- 
masters. Four children have been born to 
this marriage, as follows : 

1. James McDowell was educated at 
Mercersburg Academy. 

2. Maggie. 

3. Nannie received, as did her twin 
sister, Maggie, public school and academic 
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4. Mary was educated at the Academy 
at Mercersburg. and then at Wilson. 

The family belongs to the Presbyterian 
Church. In politics Mr. Johnstoij is iden- 
tified with the Republican party. 

ISAAC MEYERS, one of the substan- 
tial farmers near Greencastle, Franklin 
county, was born at Welsh Run, this county, 
Dec. 16, 1858, a son of John S. and Mary 
(Hollinger) Myers. 

(I) MEYERS, grandfather of 

Isaac, was from either York or Adams 
county. He had issue as follows : 

1. John S. (II). 

2. Abraham. 

3. Noah died in 1864. 

4. Fannie married John Hoover. 

5. Barbara married Samuel Heisy. 

(II) JOHN S. MEYERS was a mem- 
ber of the River Brethren Church. By oc- 
cupation he was a farmer, and his death oc- 
curred at Welsh Run, Franklin county. His 
issue was : 

1. Noah married Sarah Zimmerman. 

2. Elizabeth married Martin Nis- 
Avander. 

3. Daniel married Susan Hoover. 

4. John H. married Barbara Breckbill. 

5. Barbara married Daniel Hawbaker. 

6. Louisa. 

7. Abraham married Annie Slothour. 
■ 8. Isaac (III). 

9. Jacob married Annie Jacobs. 

10. Mary married John Miller. 

11. Annie married Levi Sollenl^erger. 

12. Francis married Jacob Sollen- 
berger. 

13. Samuel married Minnie Myers. 

14. H.\RRY. 

(III) ISAAC MEYERS attended the 
public schools of Montgomery township, and 
was reared upon the farm at Welsh Run. In 
1893 he bought 106 acres of the old Shank 



homestead, which had fdrmerly been the 
Bushey homestead. On Dec. 11, 1884, he 
married Miss Mary Shank, daughter of 
Jacob" and Martha (Strite) Shank. Issue: 

1. Martha. 

2. Harry. 

3. Clarence. 

4. Mary. 

5. Emma. 

6. Ida. 

7. Bertha. 

8. Cora. 

Mrs. Meyers is a consistent member of 
the Mennonite Church, and a very estimable 
woman, while he is recognized as one of the 
leading farmers and responsible citizens of 
Greencastle township. 

On his mother's side, Mr. Meyers' grand- 
father was a native of Franklin county, of 
near Waynesboro. His children were : 

1. S.-^muel married Elizabeth Funk. 

2. M.\RY was the mother of our sub- 
ject. 

3. Annie married John Oiler. 

4. Daniel married Hannah Singer. 
All the members of the Hollinger family 

were connected \\ith the Ri\-er Brethren 
Church. 

JAMES ]M. JONES, a prosperous 
farmer of Richmond, in Metal township, 
Franklin county, and an extensive stock 
dealer of this locality, was born on the farm 
he now owns June 17. 1849, ^ son of John 
E. and Elizabeth (Little) Jones, both now 
deceased. 

(I) JOHN A. JONES, the founder of 
the family in this country, came to the 
L'nited States as a soldier in the King's 
army, but later espoused the cause of the 
Americans, and entered service in their 
army. After the conclusion of hostilities 
he first settled in Culbertson's Row, in 
Franklin county, coming to the valley over 



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one hundred years ago. By birth he was 
a Welshman, and inherited many of the 
excellent qualities of that hardy race. 

(II) JOHN A. JONES, Jr., son of 
the emigrant, was the father of thirteen 
children by his first wife, Sarah McElvey: 

1 . Betsy. 

2. Malinda. 

3. Sar.'^h. 

4. Isabel. 
5- Jane. 

6. Ann. 

7. Mary. 

8. Susan. 

9. Samuel. 

10. Joseph. 

11. John E. (III). 

12. George. 

13. One died young. 

By his second wife, Nancy McElvey, a 
sister of his first wife, John A. Jones, Jr., 
had seven children : 

1. James. 

2. Harrison. 

3. Sarah. 

4. Emily. 

5. Nancy. 

6. Taylor. 

7. Scott. 

(III) JOHN E. JONES, father of 
James M., was born in 1820 and died in 
1899. He married Elizabeth Little,, and 
their children were : 

1. George E., a Presbyterian clergy- 
man, is deceased. 

2. David W., of Metal township. 

3. John is deceased. 

4. Jennie M. married Oliver Yetter. 

5. James M. (IV). 

6. Aretta married R. G. Jones, of 
Fannettsburg. 

7. Oliver, a physician, of Kansas City. 

8. Harry W., an attorney of Indiana. 



9. Carrie B. married Charles Gyer. 

10. A. Lincoln, a farmer of Path 
Valley. 

(IV) JAMES M. JONES was reared 
upon the homestead, and went to the district 
school, as did the majority of the boys of his 
neighborhood. In 1873 'i^ married Miss 
Margaret E. Witherow, of Path Valley, 
daughter of James and Fannie Witherow, 
and the following children have been born to 
them : 

1. Charles, of Pittsburgh. 

2. MiNTA. 

3. Edna. 

4. Grace. 

5. James B. 

6. Dessie. 

7. Ethel. 

After completing his education Mr. 
Jones taught school for five years, after 
which he was a railroad postal clerk for 
twelve years. Then he began fanning and so 
continued until 1893. when he was made 
deputy sheriff under R. G. Jones, of Frank- 
lin county, and Samuel Greenewalt, and in 
1898 he returned to his farm. This prop- 
erty is a very valuable one, consisting of 184 
acres, and he also owns and operates what is 
known as the old Elliott farm of 186 acres. 
In politics he is a very prominent Republi- 
can, and has considerable influence in his 
party. His religious affiliations are with the 
Presbyterian Church, in the work of which 
he and his family take an active part. Both 
Mr. and ]\Irs. Jones are very hospitable and 
their delightful home is often the scene of 
pleasant gatherings. Personally Mr. Jones 
is very popular, making friends everj'where 
by his genial manner, while as a business 
man he stands high in the confidence of the 
community. As a stock dealer he has been 
eminently successful, and he is justly recog- 
nized as one of the representative men of 
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AlICHAEL D. MILLER, who is a 

successful tanner antl prominent resident of 
Strasburg, Letterkenny township, Frankhn 
Co., Pa., was born March ii, 1S33, in Cum- 
berland county, a son of Michael and Eliza- 
beth (Pisle) Miller. 

(I) MICHAEL MILLER was reared 
in Cumberland county, where he died in 
1838, and he lies buried at Newburg, Cum- 
berland county. He was a distiller during 
his active life. His children were : 

1 . Peggie A. marrietl George Meredith. 

2. Catherine married Frederick Eis- 
enhower. 

3. Nancy. 

4. Elizabeth. 

5. Keziah married John Weist. 

6. John married Fannie Reif. 

7. Jacob married Jemima Shoemaker. 

8. Benjamin F. married Martha 
Shwoup. 

9. Samuel married. 

10. Michael D. (II). 

(II) MICHAEL D. MILLER attended 
pubhc school in Cumberland county, and 
when only sixteen years of age commenced 
learning the tanning trade with Wilson 
Frazier, of Sodom. Cumberland county, re- 
maining with him for six years. He then 
worked for William Hume three years, and 
next movetl to Strasburg, in 1859, and oper- 
ated the Strasburg tannery on commission 
for several years. In 1862 he enlisted in 
Company B, 158th Pennsylvania infantry, 
and was honorably discharged in August, 
1863, going out as a private and rising to the 
rank of first lieutenant. During the time he 
was in the service a manager looked after his 
tannery interests, and when he returned he 
resumed his connection with the tannery, for 
some time on commission and later on his 
own account. He continued thus until he 
entered upon the commission arrangement 
which still obtains. The tannery is one of 



the oldest in the county, and is known as the 
Gilmore Tannery, and its product meets with 
a ready sale over a wide territory. For twelve 
years Mr. Miller has served as school direc- 
tor, and he also served two years as township 
auditor. He was elected on the Democratic 
ticket. He is recognized as a wideawake, 
substantial man. and he takes an active part 
in local affairs. 

In 1858 Mr. Miller married Sarah A. 
Miller, daughter of Samuel Miller, of Cum- 
berland county, and they had children as fol- 
lows : William, who married Annie Bond, 
and is in business with his father; McClellan, 
who married Jennie McGown; Charles N., 
who married Ora Heflfner; Samuel H. (mar- 
ried) ; Jennie: Leila: Elizabeth: Blanch; 
one that died in infa'ncy unnamed: Carrie, 
deceased : and two others who are deceased. 
Mr. Miller is a consistent and active 
member of the Methodist Church, with which 
he has been connected for twenty-five years, 
and of which he has served as trustee, stew- 
ard and Sunday-school superintendent. In 
all his church work he has been very success- 
ful, and is regarded as one of the leading 
men of his congregation. Not only does he 
endeavor to teach the gospel as he under- 
stands it to others, hut he also seeks, and suc- 
cessfully, to set an excellent exami)le, so that 
others may be helped to live upright and 
God-fearing lives. Few men are better qual- 
ified to help in advancing the interests of the 
church in a material way, and he has raised 
many dollars in the good cause. During the 
Civil war he fought bravely for the cause he 
espoused, although he left an excellent busi- 
ness and young wife to do so, and when he 
returned he took up the burdens of civil 
life once more, and since then has worked 
hard and long to bring up his family and 
provide for his wife. Needless to say Mr. 
Miller has many warm personal friends, and 
the respect of all who know him. 



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WILLIAM S. FRANKLIN. The 
beauty and appearance of general prosperity 
of a city are in a large measure due to the 
ability and artistic skill of the contractors 
and builders who have constructed the vari- 
ous residences and business blocks. Cham- 
bersburg, Pa., is no exception to this general 
rule, and among those who come in this class 
is William S. F'ranklin, a native of Franklin 
county, who was born at Roxbury, Aug. 5, 
1859, son of Adam and Sarah (Palmer) 
Franklin. Tracing back in the family his- 
tory it is discovered that the paternal grand- 
father was 

(I) JOHN FRANKLIN, who was born 
in England, and came to this country when 
a young man, settling in Franklin county, 
where he followed his- trade of blacksmith- 
ing. He married a Miss Longsdorf, and 
they had the following children : 

1. John. 

2. Henry. 

3. Richard. 

4. Jonathan. 

5. George. 

6. Adam (II). 

7. Mary married Philip Lawyer. 

8. Susan married Ezra Weaver. 

(II) ADAM FRANKLIN was born in 
Cumberland county. Pa., and married Sarah 
Palmer, one of the three children of George 
Palmer, the others being Levi and Jacob. 
By occupation Mr. Franklin was a black- 
smith, and he came to Franklin county about 
1845. During the Civil war he enlisted in 
Co. B, 158th Pa. Infantry, Capt. Elias Leh- 
man, and after the close of the war he en- 
gaged in farming in Franklin countv ior 
twelve years. He then resumed his trade, 
and worked at it until his retirement from 
business. He is still living at a ripe old age, 
being long past three score and ten. The fol- 
lowing children were bcirn to himself and 
W'ife : 



1. George. 

2. Levi. 

3. Jonathan. 

4. David. 

5. William S. (HI). 

6. Emma married Henderson Paxton. 

7. Samuel. 

8. James. 

(Ill) WILLIAM S. FRANKLIN, 
after receiving a common school education in 
his native township, learned cabinetmaking 
with Joseph Gabler, and after w-orking for 
him for three years went to Clear Spring, 
Md., and worked at his trade for two years. 
He then moved to Middletown, Dauphin 
county, but after working at his trade there 
for aljout a year he went to Wilmington, 
Del., and worked in the Jackson Sharp car 
works for another year. Returning to ]\Iid- 
dletown, he worked there six months, when 
he removed to Canton, Ohio, and worked as; 
a carpenter for a short time, when he saw an 
opportunity to better himself at Cleveland, 
Ohio. After but a short time, however, he 
returned to Franklin county, and w-orked at 
Waynesboro for two years as a carpenter, in 
the Geiser shops. After that he went to 
Carlisle, and for six months was employed at 
his trade, finally coming to Chambersburg,. 
and working for John Anderson at carpenter 
work. He also worked for Samuel INIonath,. 
later for the Wolf Co., and in 1890 formed a 
partnership with George Orris in contracting 
and building, this connection lasting three 
years. The following two years he spent in 
farming, and then returned to Chambers- 
burg and entered into a partnership with 
John ]\Ionath, but after a year they dissolved 
and since' then Mr. Franklin has carried on 
his operations upon his own account, meet- 
ing with marked success and being connected 
with some of the finest building in the city 
and vicinity. 

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Forbes, and one child has been born to this 
union : 

I. Charles L. 

Fraternally Mr. Franklin is a member of 
the orders of Modern Woodmen, Red Men, 
Golden Eagle, Junior Mechanics, etc., and is 
very popular in all. He is an industrious, 
hardworking man, sober and thrifty in his 
habits, and the success whicli has come to 
him has been well earned. 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER HAYES, a 
retired farmer of Mercersburg, is a son of 
Robert Hayes, and grandson of David 
Hayes, of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. 

(I) DAVID HAYES, born in 1737, 
died July 17, 1809, after a life spent in the 
active pursuit of his trade and farming. He 
married Martha Wilson and had nine chil- 
dren of whom are mentioned : 

1. David. 

2. Patrick. 
Thomas. 
William. 



3- 

4- 
5. 
6. 

7- 



Robert 
James. 



(11). 



Jane Inarried Mr. Ferguson and 
later Stephen Culbertson. 

8. \\'iLSON married a Miss Culbertsan. 

(II) ROBERT HAYES, the father of 
William A., was born April 5, 1782. He 
married Mary Sterrett McCune. daughter 
of John and' Bethsheba Sterrett McCune. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCune had eight children : 
Samuel, John, Robert Alexander, Mary 
Sterrett, jane, Bethsheba and Rosanna. The 
place of birth of Robert Hayes was in either 
Dauphin or Franklin counties. Pa. How- 
ever, it is certain that he farmed for a nnm- 
ber of years in Franklin county. Being an 
exceedingly generous man, and easily im- 
posed upon, he was just as likely to work for 
the benefit of his neighbors and friends as for 
himself, but in spite of this at one time he 



owned two large farms, and he certainly had 
the friendship of many of the leading people 
of the county. The family born to Robert 
and Mary S. Hayes was as follows: 

1. Amelia S., born in 1809, died in 
1865, aged fifty-six years, unmarried. 

2. Bethsheba (born Oct. 11, 1811— - 
died June 28, 1881) married Edward C. 
Boyd and had children : Rcjbert Hayes and 
Toseph. both of Aledo, Mercer Co., 111.; and 
W'illiam and James, who died young, near 
Mercersburg. 

3. John M. (born July 9, 1815— died 
Jan. 8, 1895) was married three times and 
"left a large family. His first wife, Phcebe 
Grantham, of Virginia, bore him three chil- 
dren : one that died in infancy; Mary 
Kate; and John, who lives in Oxford, 111. 
The second wife, Nancy Hawkinbury, bore 
him one daughter, Ella May, who is now 
married and lives in Nebraska. The third 
wife, Hattie Epley, also deceased, bore him 
eight children : David, Harley, Albert, Alta, 
Margaret, Elizabeth, and Robert and James,, 
who died young. 

4. D.wiD E. (born Aug. 24, 181 7) 
never married and lived with William A. for 
fifty-two years, in Montgomery township, 
lying at midnight of Dec. 31, 1900. He was 



a military man and for years captain of a 
company of cavalry. 

5. Jane (born June 8. 1819), married 
•Emanuel Brosius, of Franklin county, and 

died Feb. 23, 1901. She had four children, 
three of whom are living: Martha B., lx)rn 
in December, 1857, married George L. Kuhn 
and lives in Hagerstown, Md. (she has no 
children) ; Dr. W. H. Brosius. who lives at 
Mont -Mto. married Miss Rouse : Wilson L. 
Brosins is unmarried and lives in Mercers- 
hurg with William A. Hayes, his uncle; 
Daniel died in infancy. 

6. Margaret Rosanna (born Nov. 5, 
1824) married John Creigh. lived in Illi- 



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nois and l^ft a family; Mary Jane, of Illi- 
nois ; William, of Illinois ; John, of Iowa ; 
Ida, of Illinois ; Maggie, deceased ; Alice, of 
Illinois; David, of Missouri. 

7. William Alexander (III). 

8. Samuel Stewart (born April 19, 
1828 — died April 22, 1880), married Eliza 
Stahl, and they had two children : Mary 
Catherine married Charles Spangler, of 
Hagerstown ; Ida Amelia married Charles 
Landis, of Frederick City, Md., and they 
left two children. 

(Ill) WILLIAM ALEXANDER 
HAYES, the subject proper of this sketch, 
was born April 16, 1826, in Peters town- 
ship, on the farm. He was educated in the 
Franklin county schools and his first work 
was as salesman for Stephen Culbertson, of 
Shippensburg. Later Mr. Hayes engaged in 
merchandising in Juniata county for about 
t\\o years, after which he went to Ohio and 
became associated with F. and S. D. 
Campbell, whose brother later became Gov- 
ernor of that State. After two years, how- 
ever, he moved back to Franklin county and 
engaged in farming. When he reached 
Franklin he had but seventy dollars in his 
pocket, but he also possessed an immense 
amount of grit and determination to win 
out in his life work. Soon thereafter he pur- 
chased a farm from Judge Chambers of 
Chambersburg, and later bought a farm 
from Crawford Dufiield, of Montgomery 
township, and one of twenty-five acres from 
the Blair estate. The first of these properties 
was deeded to William McClure by William 
Penn, through whom it came to the Chani- 
bersburg bank and was then purchased by 
Judge George Chambers. Living there until 
1886, Mr. Hayes then purchased the house 
in which he now resides from Mathew 
Smith's heirs. He was urged to accept the 
post of burgess, but as he has always disliked 
ofificial duties he has refused. He is a verv 



s rong Republican, however, and supports 
all measures he deems will prove beneficial 
to his town and county. For many years 
he has been a very important factor in the 
Presbyterian Church of Mercersburg, and is 
now one of its trustees. 

HECK BROTHERS, merchants of 
Greencastle, Franklin Co., Pa., are succes- 
sors to Zeigler & Heck Bros., who succeeded 
George \Y. & D. Zeigler. of the well known 
Zeigler family, who in their connection with 
the business and social life of the commun- 
ity are mentioned elsewhere. The firm con- 
sists of Fred Z. and George S. Heck, both 
natives of W^aynesboro. Franklin Co., Pa., 
where their father was located, in charge of 
the Lutheran Church. He was the well 
known and revered 

REV. JOHN HECK, a native of Frank- 
lin county, who was reared in Chambers- 
burg. He took a theological course at Penn- 
sylvania College, Gettysburg, and after 
graduating entered the ministry, his first 
charge being at Newville, this State. Later 
he was transferred to Waynesboro, and 
there remained twelve years. He then went 
to Smithburg, W'ashington Co., Md., where 
he died March 11, 1861. His life was de- 
\'oted to the work of his Master, and he was 
a most excellent Christian man. His father 
was Ludwig Heck. 

Ill 1847 Rev. John Heck married Miss 
.Vnnie Zeigler, a daughter of Frederick 
Zeigler. and she was reared near Leiters- 
burg. Her death occurred Feb. 28, 1901, 
w hen she was eighty years of age. Five chil- 
dren were born these good people, four of 
whom lived to maturity: 

1. Fred Z. 

2. Lewis Luther, a printer of Green- 
castle. 

3. John M.. a tailor of Greencastle. 

4. George S. 



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The present members of the hrm of Heck 
Uros. were educateil like the rest of the 
family in the public schools of Greencastle, 
and learned their business as clerks in the 
establishment of which they are now the pro- 
prietors. Fred Z. entered the store in 1868, 
ami his brother two years later, and they 
continued to clerk until ]^larch 8, i8g8, when 
the firm of Zeigler & Heck Bros., was 
formed. It continued until April 7, 1901, 
and on April 8, 1901, the present style was 
ado])ted. The new firm has continued along 
the same line of business, and controls a very 
fine class of trade. A choice stock of dry 
goods is carried, while a complete stock of 
shoes is handled separately from the other 
articles; there is also a full line of caps, hats, 
groceries, and in fact almost everything 
found in a good general store. It is unneces- 
sary to state that all of the articles placed on 
sale by Heck Bros, are first class in every 
particular. A large business is done annu- 
ally, and it is constantly increasing, owing 
to the energetic efforts of the brothers. The 
house is one of the oldest in this locality, 
having been founded in 1833 by an uncle of 
the present members of the firm. The senior 
member is a member of the Lutheran 
■Church, and both are young men of probity, 
uprightness of dealing and thorough busi- 
ness methods. 

GEORGE T. SNIDER, proprietor of 
tlie Waynesboro Steam Laundry, was bom 
in Waynesboro, Frankhn Co., Pa., Sei^t. 6. 
1876, son of Philip ^I. and Clara (Mich- 
aels) Snider. 

( I) RE\^ JACOB SNIDER, the grand- 
father, was a native of Germany, whence he 
emigrated to the L'nited States, landing at 
Philadelphia, and going thence to luilton 
county. Pa. In 1873 ^''^ removed to Waynes- 
boro. He was a shoemaker by trade. L^pon 
remming to Waynesboro he engaged with 



his son Charles in the retail men's furnish- 
ings trade, and continued in business until his 
death, in 1901, at the age of about seventy- 
eight years. He was a minister in the Ger- 
man Baptist Church. He and his wife had 
eight children, all yet living. 

(II) PHILIP M. SNIDER, father of 
George T., was born on a farm in Fulton 
county. Pa., in 1848. He also learned the 
shoemaker's trade, at which he has worked 
for many years, and is still so engaged in 
Waynesboro. For a period of six years he 
was in business with his father, conducting a 
shoe store. Mrs. Clara (Michaels) Snider 
was born in McConnellsburg, Fulton Co., 
Pa., in 1852, one of a family of seven chil- 
dren, all living at the present time. To PhiUp 
M. and Clara Snider the following children 
have been born, all living in Wayneslx)ro : 

1. Ernest. 

2. George T. (III). 

3. Clarence. 

4. Virginia. 

5. Mary. 

6. Norman. 

7. Howard. 

8. Richard. 

9. Julia. 

(Ill) GEORGE T. SNlDhlR was reared 
in Waynesljoro and was educated in the pub- 
lic schools. He began clerking in a store, 
during vacations, when he was only twelve 
years of age. In 1890, as a boy, he entered 
the Waynesboro Steam Laundry, when it 
was established by J. E. Frantz. continued 
in the establi.shment under John E. Hershay, 
and succeeded the latter gentleman as pro- 
prietor in February, 1899. 

The Waynesboro Steam Laundry was 
established in 1890 by J. Elmer Frantz at its 
present location. No. 227 Ringgold street. 
In 1893 John E. Ilershay purchased the 
plant and business, and operated it until 
1899, when he sold it to Mr. Snider. When 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



established the laundry business was only on 
a small scale, but it has grown from year to 
year until the establishment is now the lar- 
gest laundry in Waynesboro and the Cum- 
berland Valley. It is equipped with modern 
machinery, including two washers, extrac- 
tor, collar and cuff starcher, collar and cuff 
ironer, shirt-bosom ironer, neck-band and 
wrist-band ironer, body ironer, collar and 
cuff shaper, mangle, dry room, etc., most of 
which have been added by Mr. Snider. There 
are twenty people employed in the laundry. 
The field occupied by the trade embraces 
Waynesboro, Mercersburg Academy, Car- 
lisle, Chambersburg, Shippensburg, New- 
ville. McConnellsburg, Hancock, Pa., and 
Martinsburg, W. Va., and other towns. 

Mr. Snider was married in December, 
1902, to Miss Dora Funk, who was born in 
Waynesboro, Pa., daughter of Harry and 
Ktbecca Funk, the former of whom is de- 
ceased. Mr. Snider is a member of the Ger- 
man Baptist Church, with which the family 
has been long connected. His success in 
business commands the respect of all, and 
his personal qualities have gained him many 
friends. 

JACOB Y. MILLER. On Jan. 26^ 
1834, at the old Miller homestead he owns 
at Guilford Springs, Guilford township, 
Franklin Co., Pa., was born Jacob Y. Miller, 
who is now retired from active life as a 
farmer. He was born to John Miller, who 
was also a farmer, born in 181 1 in Guilford 
township, and died Sept. 25, 1888. 

The founders of the Miller family in this 
countr}-, came from Germany and were 
among the earliest settlers of Lancaster 
county. The first of whom there is any defi- 
nite knowledge was Peter Miller, who came 
to Franklin county from Lancaster county, 
about 125 years ago, and became the owner 
of 300 acres of fine farming land, which has 



been handed down from generation to gen- 
eration. 

(II) JOHN MILLER, son of Peter 
Miller, was a farmer of Guilford township- 
He married and had issue : 

1. John of John (III). 

2. Samuel. 

3. Rebecca married Isaac Deardorff. 

(III) JOHN of J. MILLER, father of 
our subject, had four children by his wife,. 
Elizabeth Young : 

1. J.\coB Y. (IV). 

2. Susan married John Miller. 

3. Rebecca. 

4. John, deceased. 

In politics John of J. ]\Iiller, was a Re- 
publican, while in his religious belief he was i 
a German Baptist. In every respect he was 
regarded as a worthy, good man. 

(IV) JACOB Y. MILLER was reared 
upon the homestead farm, receiving a good, i 
common school education, and he has fol- ' 
lowed farming all of his life. The farm 
owned by j\Ir. Miller is a very finely culti- 
vated one, and is a portion of the original 
Miller farm. He also owns a comfortable 
home at Guilford Springs, and is regarded as 
one of the leading farmers of this locality. In 
politics he is a Republican, but he has not 
sought office. 

On Nov. 6, 1879, he married Lizzie 
Lehman, of Guilford township, daughter of 
John and Elizabeth (Landis) Lehman, of 
Fayetteville, Pa., deceased. One son has 
been born of this marriage: 

I. John Lehman. 

Mrs. ^liller is a member of a family of 
six children born to her parents : Nancy mar- 
ried a Lehman, and both are now deceased; 
Elizabeth married Mr. jMiller: Fannie mar- 
ried Benjamin Heye of Scotland ; Mary mar- 
ried Christian Strite ; Leah is unmarried, and 
lives at Fayetteville ; Susan married John E_ 
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Daniel Lehman, grandfather of ]\lrs. 
Miller, was one of the early farmers of 
Greene township, and was the father of a 
large family : Daniel, Peter, Annie, Eliza- 
beth, Barbara, Susanna, Jacob, John, Sam- 
uel and David. 

With the ^filler family, the Lehman 
family came from Lancaster county to 
Franklin some 125 years ago, and since then 
the representatives of both have been num- 
bered among the responsible, solid farmers 
of F'ranklin county, belonging either to the 
Baptist or Alennonite churches, and uphold- 
ing all measures calculated to prove bene- 
ficial to the general welfare of the com- 
munity. 

CHARLES S. GLASS, proprietor of 
one of the best meat markets in Greencastle, 
was born in Scotland, F'ranklin Co., Pa., 
March 13, 1861, a son of Jacob and Sarah 
(Guthrie) Glass, both of whom are now de- 
ceased. 

(I) DANIEL GLASS, his grandfather, 
a carpenter by trade, resided at Green \"il- 
lege. His family was as follows: 

1. Sarah married Obed Gsell. 

2. Caroline (deceased) married Jacob 
Pence. 

3. Nancy married Henry Bitner. 

4. Eliza married John Ambich. 

5. John. 

6. Jacob (II). 

7. William. 

8. Mathew died from wounds re- 
ceived in front of Petersburg. 

9. George was killed in the battle of 
Antietam. 

(II) JACOB GLASS, father of Charles 
S., was born in Franklin county and reared 
at Green village. In early life he was a ma- 
son, but later bought a farm in Scotland, 
upon whiclT he lived for many years, finally 
retiring to Greenvillage. He was a prom- 



inent contractor and builder and was con- 
nected with many of the building operations- 
in the county. Iking a public-spirited man,, 
he always advocated what he believed would 
conduce to the well-l3eing of his neighlwrs,. 
and as a member of the Methodist Church 
did much good both by precept and example. 
1 le married Sarah Guthrie, a native of Ches- 
ter county. Pa., and they had children as 
follows : 

1. James, who dietl unmarried, was a 
nine-months soldier and died soon after re- 
turning home. 

2. Belle, who died May 2, 1899, mar- 
ried John Allen, of Northampton county,. 
Pennsylvania. 

3. George A. is a retired business man 
of Funkstown, Maryland. 

4. J. WiNFiELD is a merchant of Funks- 
town, Maryland. 

5. John W., of Hutchinson, Kansas, 
is a farmer. 

6. Elizabeth tlied unmarried. 

7. Jennie died in infancy. 

8. Ch.'KRLes S. (III). 

9. W. Ellsworth is a baker and con- 
fectioner of Greencastle. 

(Ill) CHARLES S. GLASS was 
reared in Scotland, being educated in the 
])ublic schools of that place, and at twenty 
years of age he began for himself, farming 
about a year. He then took up the butcher 
business which he learned at Prospect. Ohio, 
where he remained until 1886. There he en- 
gaged in business with his brother John, as 
stock dealers and butchers, for two years, 
when he sold his interest and returned to 
Pennsylvania, and after a business career of 
about eight months at Newville he settled in 
Greencastle, in 1887, and embarked in his 
present profitable enterprise. He conducts a 
meat market on South Carlisle street, and 
commands a fine retail trade. For three 
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as borough councilman, and he has been 
judge of election. He and his wife are num- 
bered among the representative people of 
■Greencastle, and they have many friends in 
the community. 

On Sept. 2, 18S5, Mr. Glass married 
Sarah Scott, of Pittsburgh, a daughter of 
Archibald Scott. Six children have been 
born to them : 

I. Hugh F. 

Sarah Esther. 

3. Helen Jacobs. 

4. Charles Edward, deceased. 
Jeax Guthrie. 
Perkins. 



PETER SHANK, a prosperous and in- 
'dustrious farmer of Antrim township, 
Franklin county, was born Nov. 10, 1851, in 
Washington county, Md., a son of Frederick 
and Susan (Eshelman) Shank, 

(I) CHRISTOPHER SHANK, his 
grandfather, married Sophia Harsh. By 
occupation he was a farmer in Washington 
<:ounty, Aid. Religiously he was a member 
of the Mennonite Church. The children 
.born to himself and wife were as follows : 

1. Henry married Sophia Myers. 

2. Jonas married Fannie Myers. 

3. Christian married Maria Myers. 

4. Jacob also married. 

5. Frederick (II). 

(J I) FREDERICK SHANK, who 
■died in 1863 at the place of his birth, carried 
on farming. He was a Mennonite in re- 
ligious faith. He married (fir.>;t) Susan 
Eshelman, who died in 1854, and had issue: 

1. Mary married John Strite. 

2. Noah married Martha Strite. 

3. Elizabeth married John Lesher. 

4. Christl\n married Mary Strite. 

5. Peter (III). 

The children by the marriage of Fred- 



erick Shank and Alary Lesher, daughter of 
John Lesher, were: 

1. Annie married Daniel Lehman. 

2. John married Elizabeth Eshelman. 

3. Susan married Henry J. Myers. 
(Ill) PETER SHANK attended school 

in Washington county, Md., and was reared 
to farm work. He came to Antrim town- 
ship, where in the spring of 1881 he bought 
a farm of 1 1 1 acres, located one and one-half 
miles from Greencastle. It is the old Pen- 
singer homestead, the father of Sherifif Pen- 
singer having owned the property. Upon 
this land Mr. Shank carries on general 
farming. Like his father and grandfather 
he is a member of the Alennonite Church. In 
the fall of 1880 Air. Shank married Martha 
Grove, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth 
(Lesher) Grove. The children born of this 
marriage are : 

1. Elizabeth. 

2. Katie. 

3. David. 

4. Rhoda. ! 

5. Abram. 

AIARTIN L. WYAND, one of the well- 
known young business men of ^Vaynesboro, 
Franklin county, proprietor of two bakeries 
and confectioneries, located at No. 9 Cleve- 
land avenue and No. 46 East Main street, 
was born in Washington county. Aid., Aug. 
25. 1878, son of Aaron C. and Jenny ( East- 
erdale) Wyand. 

(I) AARON C. WYAND was born in 
\\'ashington county, Aid., in 185 1. son of 
Christian Wyand, and died Sept. 16, 1899. 
He was for many years engaged in general 
merchandising in Alaryland, and was ap- 
pointed postmaster of his town under the 
first term of President Cleveland, continuing 
in office until his death, in 1899, a period of 
fifteen years. In religious matters he was a 






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{ member ul the Uni(jii Baptist Lliurcli, ami 
an excellent citizen in every way. He mar- 
ried Jenny Easterdale, who \\as born in< 
Frederick county, Md., in 1856, and died in 
1882. To them were born children as fol- 
lows : 

1. Charles L. is a traveling; salesman 
for a Baltimore firm. 

2. JosEPHus E. (deceased) served five 
years in the United States Marine corps, and 
was a yeoman on board the battleship 
"Texas" during the Spanish-American war, 
when the Spanish fleet was destroyed. He 
died May 29, 1901, at Port Royal, S. C, 
w hile in the ser\ice, and his body was buried 
in the government cemetery at Beaufort, 
South Carolina. 

3. Orange Judd lives at the old home 
in Maryland, having succeeded his father as 
merchant and postmaster. 

4. Martin L. (II). 

5. Jenny, deceased. 

(II) MARTIN L. WYAXD was a 
child of only four years when his mother 
died, and when he was seven he was bound, 
out to a farmer of Keedysville, Md. Until 
he was fourteen years of age he worked upon 
a farm in the summer, and attended school 
during the winter, and was then apprenticed 
to Jacob Roessner. to learn the trade of a 
baker. After three years he was able to 
work as a journeyman, cr ntinuing thus until 
1899, when lie removed to Waynesboro, and 
in 1900 he emliarked in business for himself 
by purchasing the bakery at No. 9 Cleveland 
avenue, from John Miller. This establish- 
ment had a capacity of 500 loaves of bread 
daily, besides cakes, pies and pretzels. The 
next year he added a line of confectionery, 
and on Feb. 21, 1903, he bought the bakery 
and confectionery establishment at No. 46 
East Main street, formerly owned by J. V. 
Delaplane. At the present time he operates 
both, but will eventuallv sell the Cleveland 



avenue bakery, or consolidate liie two. The 
bakery at No. 46 East Main street has a 
daily capacity of 2,500 loaves of bread. The 
confectionery establishment is the largest in 
the city. Mr. W'yand is the only manufac- 
turer of pretzels in W'ayne.slxiro. and owing 
to the superior quality of his goods, and his 
honcjraljlc manner of doing business, his 
trade shows a steady and healthy increase. 

^Ir. Wyand married Jean Cole, daughter 
of Samuel B. Haverstock, a leading citizen 
of Waynesboro, of whom a sketch appears 
elsewhere. To them have been born two 
children : 

1. Maktix Eugene, hnn in May, 
1900, died May 2^^ 1900. 

2. Margaret Irene^ born Aug. 2, 
1902. 

HARTZ FA.MILY. MOSES HARTZ 
(born in Berks county) was a farmer and 
miller. His father and grandfather were 
also nati\es of the same county. He mar- 
ried Magdalena Xightengal, daughter of 
Peter Nightengal, a native of Switzerland, 
who died at sea, while on his way to Amer- 
ica. At the time of her father's death, Mrs. 
Hartz was only seven years old. Moses and 
Magdalena Hartz had issue: 

1. Mary married John Staltzfus. 

2. Elizabeth died aged three years. 

3. Rebecca marrie<l Christian E. 
Fisher. 

4. Jacob. 

5. D.WID. 

6. Moses N. (II). 

(II) MOSES N. HARTZ (born at 
Morgantown. Berks county, June 13, 1864), 
son of Moses and Magdalena (Nightengal) 
Hartz, was educated in the public schools of 
Berks and Lancaster counties. At the age of 
twenty he began the milling business on his 
own account at Morgantown. Three years 
later, in T^f^j. he accepted the position of 



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superintendent of the Oxford Milling Com- 
pany, at Oxford, Pa., where he remained 
.thiee years. In 1890 he traveled for a brief 
period as salesman for B. F. Star & Co., of 
Baltimore, and then until January, 1902, for 
the Wolf Company, of Chambersburg, mak- 
ing his headquarters in Philadelphia. \\''hen 
the Wolf Company was reorganized in Jan- 
uary, 1902, he became secretary and treas- 
urer, and is at present looking after the in- 
terests of the company in Philadelphia. He 
lis a stockholder in the Morgantown Milling 
•Company. Fraternally he is a member of 
the B. P. O. E. and religiously of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hartz mar- 
ried Nov. 3, 1899, Susan E. Good, daughter 
of Elias Good, of Baltimore; they have one 
daughter : 
I. Ruth. 

J. FRANK HOOVER, a prominent 
farmer residing two miles south of Cham- 
bersburg, Guilford township, Franklin Co., 
Pa., was born on the place he now occupies 
Feb. 13, 1864, a son of Joseph S. and Mary 
(Small) Hoover. 

(I) CHRISTIAN HOOVER, grand- 
father of J. Frank, was a native of Franklin 
county. The family originated in Germany. 
where the name was known as Huljer. An- 
cestors came from Germany and were 
among the early settlers of Pennsylvania. 
About 1853 Christian Hoover bought the 
place where he made his home. In politics 
he was a Whig, and in religion he was a 
member of the German Reformed Church. 
Early in life he was a miller, but abandoned 
that calling for farming. He married a 
Miss Strock, and they had three children : 

1. Joseph S., deceased. ' • 

2. D.\NIEL S., of Mansfield, Ohio. 

3. M.\RV S., married Luthur Overcash. 

(II) JOSEPH S. HOOVER was Ikm-u 
in Franklin county, near Chambersburg, 



Jan. 30, 1832, and died Feb. 2, 1900. On 
Jan. 8, 1863, he married Mary Small, 
daughter of Adam and Margaret (Van- 
draw) Small, of Guilford township, mem- 
bers of old families of Franklin county. 
Seven children were Ixirn of this mar- 
riage : 

1. J. Frank. 

2. Catherine married Edwin S. 
^Vertz, of F'ayetteville, who died in August, 
1903. 

3. William H., a farmer of Guilford 
township. 

4. Adam S., a farmer. 

5. Christine died young. 

6. Margaret E., a stenographer in 
Philadelphia. 

7. Mary E., a stenographer in Phila- 
delphia. 

The father of the atove family was a 
Republican in politics, in religion a member 
of the German Baptist church. He owned a 
fine farm of eighty-five acres, and was a 
prosperous and highly respected man at the 
time of his death. His wife passed away 
Feb. 12, 1898. 

(Ill) J. FRANK HOOVER was 
reared upon the farm and attended the pub- 
lic schools. All of his life he has followed 
farming and he is a very successful man. 
On Dec. 21, 1889, he married Alice K. 
Hege, of ]\Iarion, Pa., daughter of C. B. 
and .\nna (Grossman) Hege, of Marion. 
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Hoover : 

1. Chester H. 

2. \Vinnefred, deceased. 

3. Vera Viola. 

In religion Mr. Hoover is a member of 
the Reformed Church. His political opin- 
ions make him a stanch Republican, and he 
has held the position of township assessor 
for four years ; township auditor for three 
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one of tlie active politicians of his com- 
munity for the past ten years. 

Mr. Hoover was one of the promotors 
of tlie Friendship Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company, of Franklin county, and at present 
is one of its directors. After the death of 
Edwin S. Wertz Mr. Hoover purchased a 
one-half interest in the Fayetteville Elevator 
Company, at East Fayetteville, and on Oct. 
16, 1893, started business at the above named 
place, later disposing of his farm to his 
brother, William H. Hoover. Mrs. Hoover 
is one in a family of four children torn to 
her parents, as follows: Alice K. ; E. B., a 
farmer in Guilford ; S. E., of Denver, Colo. : 
and R. Grace, of Chambersburg, who mar- 
ried E. K. Raff. 

H. S. MYERS, one of the highly re- 
spected residents of Fayetteville, Franklin 
Co., Pa., and for many years a justice of the 
peace, was born in Greene township, near 
Orrstown, this county, Dec. 17, 1844. son of 
John S. and Mary Ann (Lauton) Myers, of 
Franklin county, now deceased. 

(I) HENRY MYERS, grandfather of 
H. S. Myers, was a blacksmith of Franklin 
county in its early days. The Myers family 
originated in Germany, and was founded in 
America many years ago, although there is 
no definite record back of the grandfather. 
He was the father of a large family, the 
children by his first union being: 

1. Henry, of Omaha, Nebraska. 

2. John S. (II). 

3. Michael (deceased) was a l)lack- 
smith. 

4. Mary married Christian \\'eaver, 
and both are now dead. 

5. Susan married Samuel Lantz, and 
they are deceased. 

6. Elizabeth married a Mr. \\'ork- 
ing. 

Henry Myers married a second time, the 



.surname of his wife being Bitner, and by this 
union had chililren as follows: 

1. Matilda married Adam l-"ranklin, 
of Franklin county. 

2. Amanda married .\dani Hickman. 

(II) JOHN S. MYERS, father of H. 
S. Myers, was bom in 181 6. and died at 
I'ayetteville at an advanced age. He was 
a farmer and merchant and a very worthy 
man. He was a consistent member of the 
Reformed Church, and a stanch Democrat, 
although he never aspired to political honors. 
He married Mary Ann Lauton, and became 
tlie father of seven children, five of whom 
grew to maturity : 

1. H. S. (III). 

2. Robert L., of Waynesboro, Pa., is 
a machinist. 

3. Jane married Frederick Statler, of 
Marion. Pa. 

4. Annie married Rev. J. D. Garns, 
of Greene township, a farmer and minister 
of the Reformed Dunkard Church. 

5. John W. was killed in a sawmill at 
Fayetteville. 

(III) H. S. MYERS, like other coun- 
try l)oys. was reared upon the farm, and 
attended public school in his neighborhood. 
At an early age, in 1863. he enlisted in 
Company B, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, for 
a period of si.x months, and at the expiration 
of that time re-enlisted for three vears, un- 
der Capt. James Mickly. He was mustered 
out in July. 1865, having served his country 
bravely and faithfully. During his term of 
service he participated in the battles of Cold 
Hartor, \'a., Weldon Road, Va., Peters- 
burg, and other engagements. 

.At the close of the war Mr. Myers re- 
turned home to his wife, whom he had 
married in 1864. She was Miss Sarah Har- 
man, daughter of George and Barbara 
(Coughbaugh) Harman. of Fayetteville, 
Pa., people of prominence in their locality. 



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The following- children have been born of 
this marriage. 

1. J. Grant, of Fayetteville, is a pros- 
perous contractor and builder. 

2. Robert L. is in partnersliip with. 
J. Grant. 

3. George G. is also a resident of F'ay- 
etteville. 

4. Annie M. is at home. 

5. Alice died young. 

6. Laura U. married R. N. Harvie. 
Mr. Myers is a strong Republican and 

has been justice of the peace for a quarter of 
a century. He has Ijeen school director of 
Greene township for several years. He is 
a wheelwright by trade, and followed that 
calling for some years after the war. but 
later entered into a furniture and undertak- 
ing business at Fayetteville. Still later he 
became a contractor and builder, but retired 
from that business in 1903, his sons now 
carrying on the business. In 1883 he was 
appointed engineer at the State capitol at 
Harrisburg, for a period of two years, and 
has held many positions of trust and re- 
sponsibility, discharging his duties ably and 
to the entire satisfaction of e\erybody con- 
cerned. Mr. Myers is greatly interested in 
G. A. R. work, and is a prominent member 
of Capt. Stevens Post. No. 317. Fayetteville, 
in which he has held almost all the ofifices. 
He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., the 
K. of P. and the Golden Eagles, and is very 
active in all these organizations. Mr. Myers 
has been one of the leading business men 
of Fayetteville for the past thirty years, and 
has been a faithful worker in the ranks of his 
party for forty years. He is a man of sound 
judgment, is well read upon many subjects, 
and is an excellent and convincing conversa- 
tionalist ; as a justice his decisions are seldom 
reversed. 

ROBERT LAUTON, Mr. Myers' ma- 
ternal grandfather, was born in the north of 



Ireland, some time between 1780 and. 1795, 
and emigrated from his native land with his 
wife's relatives. He first went to Canada, 
locating at Toronto, later came to Wash- 
ington county. Pa., where he followed farm- 
ing, and thence moved to Franklin county, 
where he passed the remainder nf his life, 
dying at his home there in 1856. He bought 
a farm in Letterkenny township, upon which 
he residecl, and in time became a very large 
landowner, having several farms. He was 
an intellig'ent man. and active in the com- 
munit}^ in which he settled, where he was 
long looked upon as one of the leading citi- 
zens. He married Jane James, and they had 
four children : 

1. Mary Ann married John S. Myers. 

2. Sarah J.vxe married James Kell. 

3. Elizabeth married Abraham 
Shirk. 

4. Robert J. 

JACOB POTTER, of Staufferstown, 
Guilford township, the well known steward 
of the Franklin county poor, was born Sept. 
14, 1841, son of Jeremiah and Sarah (Car- 
baugh) Potter. 

(I) . GEORGE POTTER, a farmer 
and native of Franklin county, came of Ger- 
man parentage, and he is the first of whom 
there is any definite record. His family was 
as follows : 

1 . J.^coB was a farmer and hotel keeper. 

2. Rebecca married (first) George 
Clippinger, and (second) Rev. Samuel Wilt. 

3. D.\NiEL, a farmer, died unmarried. 

4. Jeremiah (II). 

5. Henry, also a farmer, married Eliza 
Benedict. 

(II) JEREMIAH POTTER (bom in 
Franklin in 1819 — died in 1862) was an old 
line Whig. In his religious belief he was a 
Lutheran. About 1839 he married Mary 
Carbaugh (born in 1816 — died in 1900), 





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daugliter of George Carbaugh, of Wasliing- 
ton township, Franklin county, and they liad 
ten children born of this marriage : 

1. William H., a farmer of Antrim 
township. 

2. Jacob (HI). 

3. George died in i8yo. 

4. David C., of Chanibersburg, is a 
millwright by trade. 

5. Jeremiah, a carpenter of Washing- 
ton township. 

6. John A., a justice of the peace of 
Waynesboro. 

7. Mary E. died unmarried at the age 
of twenty-eight years. 

8. Daniel C., a farmer of Washing- 
ton township. 

9. Alice married Cyrus Funk, of 
Washington township, a boilermaker by 
trade. 

10. Abraham L., a farmer of Washing- 
ton township. 

(Ill) JACOB POTTER was reared 
on the homestead, and attended the pul)lic 
schools. He followed farming until he was 
twenty-one years of age, and then enlisted 
in Company G, 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
under Capt. L. B. Kurtz, in September, 
1862, and remained in active service until 
September, 1865, serving in the Army of 
the Potomac, and acting as one of Sheridan's 
escorts on his celebrated ride. He took part 
in many of the hard fought battles of the 
war, being in fifty-five engagements, and a 
portion of the time acting as special scout. 
Among the principal engagements in which 
he participated may be mentioned Chancel- 
lorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilder- 
ness, Spottsylvania. Cold Harbor, Winches- 
ter, Cedar Creek, Five JMirks. etc. In spite 
of all this long service, he never had to spend 
a day in the hospital. Entering as a private 
he was promoted to be sergeant, quarter- 
master sergeant, and was mustered out as 
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second lieutenant. After his return from 
the war for fifteen years he followed farnv 
ing, ;uid in 1880 went to Waynesboro, and 
accepted a position as foreman in the Geiser 
works. In 1893 he came to Chambersburg, 
and was elected county steward, which re- 
sponsible position he still holds, but when 
his duties end he e.xpects to return to his 
fine farm in Peters township. He has al- 
ways taken an active part in politics, and is 
a stanch Republican. 

On Jan. 5. 1869, Mr. Potter married 
Miss Rebecca Sarbaugh, of Washington 
township, Franklin county, daughter of 
George and Sarah Sarbaugh, who came from 
Adams county. She was one of a family of 
ten children, the others being: Solomon, 
William, George W., Hattie, Sarah, Eliza- 
beth, Jacob, John and Franklin E. Five 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Potter : 

1. John Calvin married Miss Susan 
Burkholder, and they have a daughter: Re- 
becca. 

2. Lalra M. married Guy Price, of 
Waynesboro, and they have issue : Helen G. 
and Walter W. 

3. Sadie A. married Ira Funk, of 
Waynesboro. 

4. M. Gertrude married Edgar Etter, 
of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 

5. Jacob Ernest is a clerk in Cham- 
bersburg. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Potter are members 
of the Reformed Church, in which they are 
very prominent. He is a member of George 
W^ishington Lodge. F. & A. M. ; Mystic Cir- 
cle, of Chamberslnirg: Heptasopiis; Shield 
of Honor of Waynesboro, and a member of 
John E. Walker Post, G. A. R., No. 287. As 
a soldier fighting for his country, as a peace- 
ful citizen, or as a public official. Mr. Potter 
has faithfully discharged the various duties 
pertaining to his position at the time, and 



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has firmly established himself in the confi- 
dence of the community and made for him- 
self a host of warm personal friends. His 
family name is an old one in Franklin 
county, and its representatives are among 
the leading men and women of the several 
localities in which they make their homes. 

JAMES HULL BRECKINRIDGE, a 
well known farmer of Fayetteville, belongs 
to the famous Breckinridge family, whose 
name is a familiar one all over the country, 
and the Franklin county branch comes from 
the same stock as did Vice-President Breck- 
inridge, of Kentucky. James H. Breckin- 
ridge was born Aug. 21, 184S, son of Sam- 
uel and Mary Ann (Hull) Breckinridge. 

(I) SAMUEL BRECKINRIDGE, the 
paternal grandfather, of Scotch-Irish de- 
scent, was a farmer near Culbertson's Row, 
Franklin county, and was the father of four 
children : 

1. James. 

2. S.'^Li.iE, wife of Samuel Riffle, of 
Ohio. 

3. Sarah, wife of James Campbell. 

4. Samuel (II). 

(II) SAMUEL BRECKINRIDGE, 
father of J. H., was born Sept. 9, 1807, in 
Culbertson's Row. In early life he was a 
fuller by trade, but later a farmer and hotel- 
keeper. In 1843 'i^ purchased the present 
family homestead near Fayetteville, the orig- 
inal purchase being 100 acres, to which, 
finallv, fifty more were added. Politically, 
he was a life-long Democrat, and a promi- 
nent citizen of the county. The M. E. 
Church had in him one of its most devoted 
adherents and active workers. Samuel 
Breckinridge died June 11, 1870, leaving 
a wife and four children. Twice married, 
he had no ciiildren l)y his first wife, Catli- 
erine, daughter of Capt. Reditt. His sec- 
ond union was with Miss Marv Ann Hull, 



daughter of Jacob and Anna (Sweigert) 
Hull, of Carroll county, Md., and to this 
marriage four children were born, namely : 

1. Emma V., wife of Dr. J. R. Bixler, 
of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 

2. William H., unmarried, a farmer 
in Greene township. 

3. James Hull (III). 

4. Ida, wife of David L. Renfrew, of 
Franklin county. 

(Ill) JAMES H. BRECKINRIDGE 
grew up on his father's farm and was given 
a good education in the public schools and 
in Fayetteville Academy. On reaching man- 
hood he decided upon farming as his occu- 
pation, and now owns a fine farm of 125 
acres in Greene township. He has also been 
quite extensively engaged in stock dealing 
for the past twenty years, and is one of the 
successful men of the township, well known 
and very highly regarded. Being a Breck- 
inridge, he is naturally a Democrat, and a 
meml)er of the M. E. Church. 

Mr. Breckinridge was married Dec. 28, 
1882, to Miss Martha Crawford, of Guil- 
ford township, the daughter of Walter B. 
and Mary (Benedict) Crawford, one of 
the old county families. There are no chil- 
dren in the family. 

WILLIAM MIDDLEKAUFF. one of 
the prosperous citizens of WaynesIx)ro, 
Franklin Co., Pa., was born on the Bellevue 
estate, near Hagerstown.Md., Aug. 25. 1859, 
a son of Solomon Middlekauff. From 1859 
to 1876 he continued upon the farm upon 
which he was born, and his early education 
was obtained in the district schools and in 
those of Hagerstown, but after his parents 
removed into the Leitersburg district he at- 
tended the excellent high school of that lo- 
cality, and also spent a year at the Hagers- 
town Academy. He then returned to his 
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Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster 
Co., Pa., where he spent a year. Having 
now fitted Iiimself for teaching he returned 
lionie. and the following year was appointed 
to a school in the Leitersburg district. He 
spent the ne.xt summer in Newark, N. J., at- 
tentling Coleman's Commercial Colleee 
Upon his return he once more taught, contin- 
uing in the Leitersburg district for two and 
one-half years, but in December, 1886, he re- 
signed his school to accept a position as sten- 
ographer with the Frick Co., and for sev- 
enteen years continued in that capacity; his 
ability and thorough grasp of affairs soon 
made him \er\- useful to the heads of the 
■concern. Mr. Middlekauff has been a di- 
rector of the Waynesboro Gas Company for 
two years, and also secretary of the com- 
pany for the past year. 

Fraternally Mr. Middlekauff is a mem- 
ber of the Mystic Circle, in which he is very 
popular. His religious affiliations are with 
the Lutheran Church, and he is secretary of 
the council of the church. He is a man very 
highly respected in \\'aynesboro, his suc- 
cess having come to him through hard work 
and untiring enterprise. 

On Nov. 6. 1886, Mr. Middlekauff mar- 
ried Elva C. Mentzer, daughter of Joseph S. 
Mentzer, a full sketch of whom appears else- 
where. 

ALEXANDER FAAHLY. REYNOLD 
ALEXANDER came into Path Valley be- 
fore the purchase of the Indian title, and was 
one of the settlers e\icted by the magistrates 
of Cumberland county. 3\Iay 30. 1750. He 
submitted with as much cheerfulness as was 
possible under the circumstances to the order 
of the Proprietaries, and as soon after the 
purchase of 1754 as peace with the Indians 
made it safe for him. he returned with his 
family, and some of his descendants to this 
<lav have lived on the lands that he acquired. 



His home was south of the village of Dry 
Run, in a lovely and romantic situation, well 
suited to a family descended from the "Clan 
Colla." He was one of the founders of the 
Presbyterian Church at Spring Run. and one 
of the trustees to whom the grant of the 
church was made by John Penn, in 1764. 
The name of his wife has not been ascer- 
tained. He had issue : 

1. Robert (II). 

2. James (III). 

3. WlLLI.\M (IV). 

4- M.^RY (Polly) married David 
Campbell. 

(II) ROBERT ALEXANDER (died 
in 181 5), son of Reynold Alexander, the pio- 
neer, was a farmer in Path Valley. By his 
wife, Margaret (surname unknown), he had 
issue : 

1. George M. (V). 

2. R.ANOLD. 
M.^RG.ARET. 

M.\RY ( Polly) married John I'lick- 



4- 
inger. 



(III) JAMES ALEXANDER (died 
in 1810), son of Reynold Alexander, the pio- 
neer, was a farmer in Path X'alley. In his 
will he directed that his son, John, should re- 
ceive a liberal education if it could be accom- 
plished. He married a Miss Harper and had 
the following issue : 

T. John (VI). 

2. M.^RY (Molly). 

3. M.\RG.\RET (Peggy). 

(IV) WILLIAM ALEXANDER 
(born in Path A^alley. near Dry Run. in 1767 
— died March 4, 1838), .son of Reynold 
Alexander, the pioneer, was prominent in 
Franklin county politics and held a number 
of offices, being county commissioner. 1810- 
11; sheriff. 1811-14; and county auditor. 
181 5-17. He was a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania House of Representatives. 1824-26. 
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fairs, and was captain of the company that 
marched from' Path Valley to the defense <jf 
Baltimore as part of Col. Findlay's regiment. 
in 1814. He had previously been lieutenant- 
colonel commanding the 64th Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Militia. Colonel Alexander 
married in 1786, Anna jMoore. daughter of 
William and Mary IMoore. They had issue : 

1. Thomas (born in Path Valley, near 
Dry Run) succeeded his father as sheriff of 
Franklin county. 18^4-17. He removed to 
the West. He married, in 1808, Susan 
(Walker) Elder; they had issue: William 
and James. 

2. \\'iLLiAM (born in Path \'alley, near 
Dry Run, died at Newville, in August, 
1837) was a member of the Pennsylvania 
Legislature from Cumberland county, 1S29- 
33. He married Anna Osborn ; they had is- 
sue : William. 

3. James went with his father's com- 
pany to the defense of Baltimore in 1814. 

4. Robert. 

5. Randall (VII). 

6. Margaret married Ebenezer Mc- 
Ginley. 

7. Mary married David Elder. 

8. Anna married Andrew Wilson. 

9. Temperance married Edward Kirk- 
patrick. 

10. Janet married John Templeton. 
(V) GEORGE M. ALEXANDER 

(born at Dry Run. Oct. 20, 1780— died Dec. 
25, 1856), son of Robert and Margaret 
Alexander, was a farmer in Path Valley. 
He married, in 181 1, Agnes (Nancy) Stew- 
art (born Aug. 30, 1783 — died Oct. 30, 
1857) ; they had issue: 

1 . Randall. 

2. Watson S. (born in Path Valley in 
1824 — died Jan. i, 1879) married Elizabeth 
Brown (died April 9, 1882). daughter of 
Joseph and Elizabeth (Cramer) Brown ;thev 
had issue: Joseph B. (VIII), John S.. 



James, Nancy E. (married C. McDonald, of 
Bradford, Pa.), Mary S. (married John 
Stewart), and Martha J. 

3. Robert (born in 1829. died April 25, 

1869) married Mary , and they 

had two children: John C, born March 2"], 
1858, who died Nov. 9, 1862; and Thomas 
A., born June 17, i860, who died Aug. 28, 
1862. 

4. ' Martha married Samuel Elder 
[Elder Family]. 

(VI) JOHN ALEXANDER I born in 
Path Valley, near Dry Run, May 15, 1799 — 
died July 27, 1875), ^o" '^^ James, and 
grandson of Reynold Alexander, received a 
liberal education in accordance with his 
father's will, but feeble health compelled him 
to abandon his studies, and he returned to 
the homestead of his grandfather, Reynold 
Alexander, whicli had come to him by inlier- 
itance. He became a successful farmer and 
acquired a large estate. He was a county 
commissioner of Franklin county, 1852-55; 
and was a ruling elder of the Lpper Path 
Valley Presbyterian Church. Mr. Alexan- 
der married in March, 1822. Anna INIcCurdy 
(born March 22, 1802 — died Feb. 2t^, 1878), 
daughter of Major James and Mary 
(Brown) McCurdy; they had issue: 

I. James H. Alexander (born in Path 
\'aliey July 10, 1825 — died IMarch 6, 1864) 
was reared on a farm but studied surveying, 
which he followed as a profession. He mar- 
ried in October, 1855, Jane C. Stitt (born 
Nov. II. 1831 — died Oct. 6, 1894). and had 
issue : 

(a) Annie J., born Jan. i, 1857, mar- 
ried W. E. Welch,, of Spring Run. Pa., Jan. 
I. 1884. 

(b) John W.. bom March 17, 1858. 
was reared on a farm and owns 180 acres of 
limestone land in Path Valley, this being 
part of the lands taken up by Reynold Alex- 
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Jennie Richardson, who died in i8S8. He 
was married (second) Oct. 2. 1894, to Car- 
rie Fields. 

( c) WilHam McGinley (IX). 

(d) George Washington, l)orn May 16, 
i86j, married in i88y ^Myrtle .\pplehy: 
they had issue: Guy, Annie and Mary \V. 
He died May 9, 1895. 

2. Mary Ann marrietl WilUam Mc- 
Ginley. 

3. Margaret married Mr. Blair. 

4. Sarah Jane, born Nov. 18, 1832, 
died Dec. 19. 185 1. 

(VII) RANDALL ALEXANDER 
(born in Path Valley, near Dry Run, died 
in 1854), son of William and Anna ( Moore) 
Alexander, removed to Shirley township. 
Huntingdon county. Pa., where he was for 
many years a justice of the peace. In 1836 
lie was the Democratic candidate for the 
Legislature. Mr. Alexander married Feb- 
iiary, 1831, Sarah Henderson Carothers 
(born Oct. 30, 1806 — died May 30, 1894). 
daughter of Samuel Carothers ; they had 
issue: 

1. William (born in 1831) was grad- 
uated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, in 
1858, and at the Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary in 1861. He served successfully as 
pastor of Presbyterian congregations at Wil- 
liamsport. Pa., and Beloit, Wis., and in 1869 
was called to the church at San Jose, Cal. 
He became president of City College. San 
Francisco, in 1871, and in 1873 he joined 
with Dr. Scott in founding a theological sem- 
inary of the Presbyterian Church at San 
Francisco, under the auspices of the Synod 
of the Pacific. He became professor in the 
Seminary. Dr. Alexander received the de- 
gree of D. D. from Wooster University, in 
1876. Dr. Alexander married in Decem- 
ber. 1861. Minerva Osbom : they had issue: 
William, Thomas Newton and Paul Clifton. 

2. Samuel Carothers (born near 



Shirleysburg, in 1833 — died in September, 
1901) was graduated at Jefferson College, 
Canonsburg, in 1858, and at the seminary at 
Columbia. S. C. in 1861. During the Civil 
war he was pastor of Steele Creek Church, 
Mecklenburg county, X. C. He was later ac- 
tive in founding Biddle University, at Char- 
lotte, N. C. In 1873 he accepted a call to 
the Upper Path Valley Presbyterian Church, 
of which his great-grandfather was one of 
the founders, and from 1887 until his death 
he was pastor at Xewport and Millerstown. 
Mr. Alexander married, March 25, 1862, 
Nannie R. Price., daughter of Thomas B. 
and Margaret (Neagle) Price, of Charlotte, 
Mecklenburg county, N. C. ; they had issue : 
.Mice M., William. Jessie L., Clara B., 
George E. and .\nnie K. 

3. John T. (X). 

4. James died aged sixteen years. 

5. Thomas Jefferson (born at Shir- 
leysburg March 13, 1838) served in the Civil 
war and has a fine record. He removed to 
Nebraska and became a merchant. He was 
a member of the Nebraska Legislature. He 
is unmarried. 

6. Robert McClellan (born at Shir- 
leysburg, Jan. 10, 1840) was educated at the 
public schools, Shirleysburg .Xcademy. the 
luniata Seminary and the Tuscarora Valley 
College. While a pupil in these institutions 
he taught school three terms. He enlisted 
June 21. 1861. in Company G. 5th Pennsyl- 
vania Reserves, and was promoted to be sec- 
ond lieutenant Aug. 23, 1863, and brevet 
first lieutenant. March 13. 1865. and was 
mustered out with the Company June it, 
1864. He was in all the principal actions in 
which the Reserves were engaged, from 
Drainesville to Bethesda Church, and was 
slightly wounded at Fredericksburg. .After 
the war he studied dentistry with Dr. G. W. 
Stewart, and began to practice at Landis- 
burg. Perry county. Pa. .\fter one year he 



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removed to Loysville, where he remained 
some years, and he has since been establislied 
at New Bloomfield, Perry county. He is a 
member of the G. A. R. Post No. 448 ; tlie 
L O. O. F. and the Jr. O. U. A. M. Dr. 
Alexander married (tirst) June, 1868, Mary 
W. Rakerd (born in 1828 — died March 4, 
1887), daughter of George B. and Elizaljeth 
(Scott) Rakerd; they had issue: Charles 
died aged five ; Mary married J. E. Sweger ; 
Arthur C, William L., Robert Malcolm, and 
two that died in infancy. He married { sec- 



ond) March 



1 89 1, Laura V. Sheibley, 



daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Emerick) 
Sheibley ; they had one daughter : Laura 
Jeannette. 

7. Randall McGinley (born at Shir- 
leysburg March 12, 1846) was educated in 
the public schools and at Shirleysburg Acad- 
emy. He began the study of medicine with 
Dr. William P. McKnight, attended a course 
of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, and was graduated M. D. at 
the LIniversity of New York in 1873. He 
began practice at Fannettsburg in 1870, and 
has been actively engaged in the duties of 
his profession ever since. He is a member 
of the Franklin County ^ledical Societv, of 
the Cumberland Valley Medical Society and 
of the Pennsyhania State Medical Society. 
He is examiner for the Pennsylvania Mutual 
Life Insurance Co., and for the Manhattan 
Life Insurance Co., of New York. He is 
a Democrat, and has served fi\-e terms as 
.school director. Dr. Alexander married. 
March 15, 1871, Mary Jane ^McGaughey. 
daughter of James X. McGaughey, of Fair- 
field, .\dams county. Pa., and they have three 
sons; James N., chief surgeon St. James 
Hospital, Butte, Mont., who married Teresa 
Kelly, of Chicago; Frank M., who is prac- 
ticing medicine at Encampment, W'yo. : and 
William A., who is attending Jefferson Med- 
ical Colleo:e. 



8. George Edmund (born at Shirleys- 
burg Oct. 15, 1847) \vas graduated M. D. at 
Jefferson Medical College, F'hiladelphia, in 
1874. He removed to California and prac- 
ticed at San Ramon, and has acquired high 
repute as a surgeon. He is now at Harvard. 
He married Mary Lynch, and they have one 
child, Archibald. 

9. David N. is a resident of Riverside, 
Cal. He has a fine war record. 

10. Ann Jane married John Adams. 

11. Mary E. married Rev. H. P. Dun- 
ning. 

(VIII) JOSEPH B. ALEXANDER 
(born in Path Valley Dec. 18. 1848), son 
of Watson S. and Elizabeth (Brown) Alex- 
ander, is a farmer and stock raiser near Wil- 
low Hill, in Metal township. Soon after his 
marriage he went to Clarion county, and was 
an operator in the oil products of that sec- 
tion for two years. He married in February, 
1874, Paulina T. Gamble, daughter of 
Michael and Elizabeth (Pomeroy) Gamble, 
and they had issue: Matthew G., Joseph 
Case, Carrie E., Jessie M.. Mary E. and 
Bertha Frances. 

(IX) WILLIAM McGINLEY ALEX- 
.■\NDER (born in Path Valley June. i86o). 
son of James H. and Jane C. ( Stitt ) .\lex- 
ander, engaged in the dry-goods business at 
Dry Run in 1881. In religious faith he was 
a Presbyterian, for twenty years having 
been an elder in the L^pper Path \"alley 
Church. He has been a director in the Path 
\'alley Mutual Fire Insurance Company 
since 1891, and secretary of that company 
since 1893. He is one of the charter mem- 
bers of the Tuscarora Bank at Blairs Mills, 
Pa., and a director in that bank. He own.s 
180 acres of the original tract of land taken 
up by the pioneer Reynold Alexander, which 
has been in the Alexander name ever since. 
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daugliter of John Wolff, of Fannett town- 
sliip, and they have issue : 

I. James M. 

(X) JOHN TEMPLETON ALEX- 
ANDER, son of Randall and Sarah Hen- 
derson (Carothers) Alexander, was a farmer 
for many years, but at the time of his death 
was engaged as a general merchant at Shir- 
leysburg. In politics he was a Democrat, 
and in religion a Presbyterian, serving his 
church as elder for many years. He died 
June 26, 1870. He married Mary J. Mor- 
rison, daughter of William Morrison, of 
Huntingdon county, Pa. She now lives 
with her daughter, Mrs. Johnston. They 
had issue : 

1. Sarah A. married Alexander A. 
Johnston, of near Scotland, and had issue: 
Russell, Marshall, Mary and Raymond. 

2. William received an academical edu- 
cation. He studied law^ in Chambersburg, 
was admitted to the Franklin County Bar 
May 5, 1883, and has since practiced his pro- 
fession in Chambersburg. 

3. Minerva B. died unmarried in San 
Rafael, California. 

4. Anna Mary is the wife of William 
H. Thorn, of Philadelphia. Issue: Althia, 
William H. and Alexander. 

STILWELL A. CLEYENGER, a 
well-known citizen of Waynesboro and clerk 
of the courts of Franklin county. Pa., was 
lx)rn in Fulton county, this state. May 17. 
1 861, a son of J. W. and Mary (Palmer) 
Clevenger. 

(I) JOHN CLEVENGER, the pater- 
nal grandfather, was also a native of Fulton 
county, of German descent. 

(II) J. W. CLEVENGER was born in 
March, 1838, in Fulton county, and he mar- 
ried Mary Palmer, who was born there in 
April. 1839, daughter f^f Elijah Palmer, an:l 



she still surxives, making her home in 
Franklin county; Mr. Clevenger passed 
away in Octoljer, 1900. He was a farmer 
by occupation, a Republican in politics, and 
in religion a member of the Old School 
Baptist Church. To him and his wife were 
horn the following children: 

1. AiiiMAAZ resides at Hancock, Mary- 
land. 

2. Stilwell a. (III). 

3. Samuel is deceased. 

4. Martin L. resides in Franklin 
county. 

(Ill) STILWELL A. CLEVENGER 
w'as brought up upon his father's farm, and 
after he had attended the common schools 
of his neighborhood was given the advan- 
tage of a course at the county normal. Like 
so many farmers" sons, before deciding 
upon his life's work he began teaching, tak- 
ing up that work in Inilton county, where he 
taught five terms in .succession. In 1885 he 
came to Waynesboro to take the position of 
bookkeeper with Daniel Shocky, a contractor 
and lumber dealer, with whom he remained 
five years. Following this he .spent a year 
in the shops and on the road for the Gciser 
Mfg. Co., and then engaged in a retail to- 
Ijacco and news business in Waynesljoro, 
continuing same until Jan. i, 1903. 

For many years Mr. Clevenger lias been 
prominent as a Republican, and has been 
elected to various public positions, serving 
as tax collector of the city during 1891-92, 
and in 1902 receiving the nomination of his 
party for clerk of the courts, to which im- 
jiortant office he was duly elected at the 
regular election by a normal majority, for a 
term of three years ; he assumed the duties 
thereof Jan. 5, 1903. 

Mr. Clevenger was married to Effie E. 
Beaver, daughter of Jerome Beaver, of 
Waynesboro, where she was l)orn in Fel)- 



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ruary, i860. To this union one daui^liter 
has been bom : 

I . Pearl. 

Mr. Clevenger is a member of tlie fol- 
lowing lodges : Acacia Lodge, No. 586, F. 
& A. M., of Waynesboro ; Hagerstown 
Lodge, No. 317, B. P. O. Elks; Waynesboro 
Lodge, No. 219, I. O. O. F., representative 
to the Grand Lodge in 1897; the Encamp- 
ment, I. O. O. F. ; Waynesboro Conclave. 
No. 217, I. O. Heptasophs, of which he has 
been secretary since 1892, was representative 
of the same at the Supreme Conclaves held 
at Louisville, Ky., 1897. and Buffalo, N. Y., 
1899, and has been district deputy since 
1901 ; and Wayne Camp, No. 47, Woodmen 
of the World (of which he has been clerk 
for three years). He and his family are 
consistent members of Trinity Reformed 
Church of Waynesboro. 

CRAIG FAMILY. Among the Scotch- 
Irish settlers of Lancaster county in the 
eighteenth century were John and William 
Craig. John Craig, who died during the 
winter of 1793-94, was an extensive land 
owner in Lampeter township. He was com- 
missioned Justice of the Peace March 31, 
1770; was a member of the Legislature from 
Lancaster county 1782, 1783 and 1784. He 
married Agnes Moore, daughter of Andrew 
and Sarah Moore, of Londonderry town- 
ship, Lancaster county (now included in 
Dauphin county), but dying without issue. 
he divided his estate between his wife and 
the children of his brother William. 

(I) WILLIAM CRAIG was the an- 
cestor of the Craig family of Franklin 
county. The name of his wife has not been 
ascertained. He had issue : 

1. John (II). 

2. Hugh was a tanner with his brother 
John at Campbellstown, l)ut went W'est in 



the last decade of the eighteenth century, and 
was one of the first settlers at Cincinnati. 

3. William (III). 

4. Jane married a Bush. 

5. Elizabeth married Mr. Boyle. 

6. Anne married John Means, of Mont- 
gomery county, Kentucky. 

(li) JOHN CRAIG (died Sept. 2, 
1801), son of William Craig, in company 
with some friends, made an exploring trip 
through the Cumberland \'alley. While 
near McDowell's Mill, afterward Bridgejwrt, 
they were captured by nine Delaware In- 
dians, but fortunately made their escape. 
This adventure influenced him to settle in 
the older and less frontier-like county of 
Lancaster, and the following year he estab- 
lished his tannery at Campbellstown, Lon- 
donderry township, where he lix'ed until his 
death. He was a farmer as well as tanner 
and currier, and owned considerable real 
estate. During the Revolution he was an 
earnest patriot, and served as a private in 
Capt. John Boyd's company of the "Flying 
Camp," in the New Jersey campaign in the 
summer of 1776. He was an influential 
member of the Derry Presbyterian Church, 
being a trustee and afterward a ruling elder. 
Mr. Craig married, Sept. 8, 1791, Jean Boyd 
(born June 13, 1770, died Oct. 22. 1826), 
daughter of Benjamin and Jennett (Elliott) 
Boyd, of Derry. They had issue : 

1. William, born July 8, 1792, died 
unmarried Sept. 30, 1829. 

2. William (IV). 

3. John, born May 24, 1797, died un- 
married Aug. 26, 1870. 

4. Jesse (V). 

5. Hugh (VI). 

In 1 81 2 the widowed mother and her 
boys mo\-ed from their home in Dauphin 
county to a farm of 175 acres three miles 
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5- 



the Mason and Dixon line, and there they 
made their home until the mother's deatli. 

( III) \\4LLIAM CRAIG, son of Wil- 
liam Craig, settled at Mercersburg, hut after 

\1831 removed with his family to P>ucvrus, 
Ohio. He married May 29, 1817, Lilias 
Skinner, daughter of Enoch and Elizabeth 
(Wilson) Skinner, of Skinner's Gaj), above 
Mercersburg. They had issue : 

1. John Andrew, born in 1818. 

2. Eliz.\ Jane, born in 181 9. 
M.\Rv Ann, born in 1S21. 
Saraii Skinner, born in 1823. 
Caroline Porter. 

(IV) WILLIAM CRAIG (bom Oct. 
19, 1794 — died Oct. I, 1855), son of John 
and Jean (Boyd) Craig, had not yet attained 
his majority when, in 1814. he accompanied 
his four brothers and widowed mother from 
Campbellstown to Franklin county. He then 
purchased several liundred acres of land, 
known as "The Three Cousins," being a part 
of the Mahn estate of Conococheague. This 
tract of land is still in the possession of the 
Craig family, and the homestead is known to 
all of them as "Locust Hill." Mr. Craig was 
a progressive and successful farmer, a man 
of influence in the neighborhood, active for 
many years as a school director and a stanch 
churchman, being a ruling elder for more 
than twenty years in the Welsh Run Pres- 
byterian Church. Mr. Craig married. Aug. 
12, 1828, Mary Vance Watson, daughter of 
John Watson, Esq., of Greencastle. They 
.had issue : 

1. John Watson (VII). 

2. Hugh Boyd (VIII). 

3. ?>[arv Elizabeth (born March 2, 
1833 — died in 1895) married, May 14, 1856, 
George Eyster (born Feb. 10. 1832 — died 
Dec. 29, 1886), son of George S. and Elea- 
nor f Allison) Eyster.of Chamber.sburg. Mr. 
Eyster was educated at the Chamber.sburg 
Academy, and was graduated at Pennsylva- 



nia College, Gettysburg, in 1851. He was 
admitted to the Franklin County Bar April 
12, 1854; was editor of the licposilory and 
Transcript. 1855-56; District .Attorney, 
1860-63 ; Provost Marslial, witii rank of Cap- 
tain. 1863-65; and Assistant Treasurer of 
the United States at Philadelphia. 1869-86. 
They had issue : Jane Craig, bom May 10, 
1857, died Dec. 16, 1877; and Sally Judson, 
born July 26, 1859, died Jan. 7, 188 1. 

4. Jane (born Feb. 19, 1835 — died 
Sept. 30, 1863) married, May 2, i860, Rev. 
John Riddle Warner, D. D., and had a 
daughter. Alary (b<jrn .\pril 1 1. 1862), mar- 
ried June 4, 1885, John Milton Moore. 

5. William Henry (bom Feb. 15, 
1837 — died Nov. 6. 1899) married, May, 
1861, Sarah Ellen Key.ser, and had issue: 
Mary, John Keyser and .\nna. 

6. David Vance (IX). 

7. Jesse died young. 

(V) JESSE CRAIG (born May 27, 
1 799 — died Sept. 22, 1869) , son of John and 
Jean Boyd Craig, came to Franklin county 
with his mother and brothers. He married 
Feb. 2. 1824, Elizabetii Davison, daughter 
of Joseph and Margaret (Br<i\\n) Davison. 
They had issue : 

1. Jane Boyd (born I""eb. 11, 1825 — 
died Oct. 26, 1902) married, b'eb. i i, 1851, 
Joseph P. Nevin, of Shippensburg. Tiiey 
had no children. 

2. John (born Jan. 2j. 1827 — died 
Dec. 18, 1861), married, Feb. 14, 1857, 
.\nna Mary Roberts, daughter of James 
Roberts, of near Mercersburg. They had 
issue : Jesse, Roberts and Elizal)eth Da- 
visqn. 

3. Joseph Davlson, born Jan. 4, 1831, 
died unmarried July 21, 1896. 

4. James Smith (born .\pril i, 1833 — 
died Jan. 2^. 1902) married. Dec. 21, 1871, 
Mary Elizabeth Bowles, daughter of Thomas 
Bowles, of Welsh Run. They had no issue. 



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5. Mary Elizabeth (born June 15, 
1835) married, May 23, i860, John Rob- 
erts, and had issue: Ehzabeth married Kirke 
Kinney ; Jesse Nevin married Mary Hunter 
Morrison, and has Jesse Nevin ; WilHam 
Craig married Bertha Sophia Helbert, and 
lias Bertha Mary ; and Mary Ehzabeth. 

6. Louisa Margaret (born July 17, 
1838— died March 6, 1868) married, May 
5, 1865, Rev. John McAtee. 

(VI) HUGH CRAIG (torn Jan. 9, 
1801 — died July, 1876), son of John and 
Jean (Boyd) Craig, was a farmer in Dau- 
phin county. He married, June, 1826, Ra- 
chel Boyd, daughter of William and Mary 
(Orr) Boyd, of Derry. They had issue : 

1. William Boyd (X). 

2. John Anderson (XI). 

(VII) JOHN WATSON CRAIG (born 
at Welsh Run, Franklin county, July 3, 
1830), son of William and Mary V. (Wat- 
son) Craig, passed his boyhood on the farm 
at Welsh Run. At his father's death in 
1855 he purchased a farm in the same vicin- 
ity as the home, and its cultivation occupied 
his attention until 1862, when he moved to 
the old Crossan farm, remaining there until 
1864, when he went to Shippensburg, Cum- 
berland county. In 1871 he went to Federal 
Hill, in Chambersburg. remaining until 1878, 
in 1875 being elected county c^ immissioner. 
He purchased property in Mercersburg in 
1879, removing there at the same time, but 
in 1882 he returned to Chambersburg. He 
belongs to the Falling Spring Presbyterian 
Church. For a number of years he has been 
a director in the National Bank of Chambers- 
burg. His personal integrity has never been 
questioned and his character is above re- 
proach. On Jan. 21, 1852, Mr. Craig mar- 
ried Caroline Crossan, of Greencastle, born 
April 13, 1829, daughter of Thomas Cros- 
san, a member of a Scotch-Irish familv of 
Bedford county; she died June 8, 1905, at 



Chambersburg, Pa. The fiftieth anniversary- 
of their wedding was celebrated Jan. 21, 
1902. They had issue: 

1. William Paxton, born June 22, 
1853, died Dec. 11, 1855. 

2. Thomas Canby (born Nov. 3, 
1855) was educated in the Chambersburg 
Academy, and was graduated from the Med- 
ical Department of the University of Penn- 
sylvania in 1880, becoming an assistant sur- 
geon in the United States Navy in 1881, and 
was surgeon of the battalion that landed at 
Honolulu, at the time oi the revolution and 
overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in January, 
1893. ^^ ^^''^^ ™^ acti\-e duty during the 
war with Spain in 1898, but was placed on 
the retired list of the navy in that year be- 
cause of physical disaijility. On Sept. 20, 
1882, he married Hattie C. Danby, daugh- 
ter of Captain and Chief Engineer Robert 
Danby, of the United States Navy. They 
have one daughter, Mary Watson, lx)rn 
in 1885. 

3. Henry Prather (born July 23, 
1857 — died in 1890) was educated in Cham- 
bersburg Academy and Lafayette College. 

4. Clark R.\nkin (born May 15, 
1859) graduated from Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 1892, and is prac- 
ticing in Philadelphia. In 1884, he married 
Ella Rosamond Spencer (died Nov. 17,, 
1901 ), of that city, who bore him one daugh- 
ter, Carola, born 1894. He married (sec- 
ond) April 14, 1904, Emma Mulford Bur- 
rows. 

5. John MacDovvell, born March 18^ 
1862. 

6. George Eyster, twin to John, bonii 
March 18, 1862, married, in 1899. Narcissa 
Brewster, of Newville. Pennsylvania. 

7. Arie (born 1865) married, 1884. Dr.. 
Meredith Dabney Jones, of St. Louis. Mo.,, 
formerly surgeon United States Navy, re- 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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N., born 1888; and Meredith Cabel, born 
1895. 

8. Marv Watson (born 1868) gradu- 
ated from Wilson College, in 1887. 

9. Martha Caroline (twin to Mary 
Watson, born 1868). 

(VIII) HUGH BOYD CRAIG (bom 
at the Craig homestead, "Locust Hill," Nov. 
2, 183 1 — died at Greencastle, Feb. 9, 1904), 
son of William and Mary V. (Watson) 
Craig, attended academies in Shippensburg, 
Newville and Mercersburg, and taught for 
several years in the public schools. He was 
prepared for college at Eldersridge Acad- 
emy, and was graduated at Jefferson College 
in 1857. He was an intelligent and success- 
ful farmer in Montgomery township, but in 
1898 retired and settled in Greencastle. An 
earnest church worker, he was Sunday-school 
superintendent and ruling elder in the Welsh 
Run Presbyterian Church for more than 
forty years. In politics he was a Republican, 
and for several years was school director, and 
he also held other local offices. Mr. Craig 
married. May 8, 1861, Martha Agnes Orr 
(born Nov. 30, 1831 — died Jan. 2, 1902), 
daughter of William Orr, of Cumberland 
county. They had issue : 

1. Mary Watson (born July 28, 1862) 
married. May 3. 1888, Ira Haynes Shoe- 
maker; they have no children. 

2. John Orr (born Dec. 4, 1865) mar- 
ried, June 2, 1896, Elizabeth Cushwa 
Brewer, daughter of Melchoir Brewer, of 
Welsh Run. They have issue : Susan 
Brewer and Mary Watson. John Orr Craig 
was educated at the Shippensburg Normal, 
and now lives at his father's old home in 
Greencastle. He is managing the farms in 
Montgomery and .Antrim townships. In 
politics lie is a Republican and lias served in 
the town council for many years, and as 
judge of elections. He lielongs to the Pres- 
byterian Church. 



(I.\) DAVID VANCE CRAIG (born 
July 2;^, 1 84 1 — died Sept. 10, 1878), son of 
William and Mary V. (Watson) Craig, was 
a farmer. He married, Oct. 20, 1870, Louisa 
J. Reed, daughter of Jacob Reed, of Welsh 
Run. They had is.sue: 

1. Mary Elizabeth (born Oct. 5, 
1871) married, Dec. 13. 1900, Harvey A. 
Shartle, and have a daughter, Ruth, born 
Jan. 14, 1902. 

2. Florence \'irgi.via (born June 2y, 
1873 — *1'^<1 Dec. 31, 1903) married, Dec. 
13, 1900, Samuel Resley Schnebley. and had 
a daughter, Mary Louisa. JDorn Dec. 24, 
1902. 

3. Henry Wallace (born Oct. 13, 
1876) married, Nov. 16, 1899, Grace Flem- 
ing Duffield. 

4. Howard Eyster. 

(X) WILLIAM BOYD CRAIG (born 
at Campbellstown, June 27, 1827), son of 
Hugh and Rachel (Boyd) Craig, of Derry, 
was graduated at Jefferson College in 1853, 
and at the Western Theological Seminary in 
1856. He was licensed to preach by the 
Pre.sbytery of Carlisle in June, 1855, and 
ordained in June, 1856. He was pastor of 
the New Bloomfield, Sherman's Creek and 
Duncannon charge. Perry county, 1857-68, 
and at Congruity, Westmoreland county, 
1870-80. He afterward lived in retirement 
at Shippensburg. Mr. Craig married, IMarch 
18, 1858, Katherine H. Singer. They had 
issue : 

1. William died in infancy. 

2. Hugh Singer, a lawyer, married, 
October, 1899, Jessie Hill. 

3. Sami^el was a lawyer in Philadel- 
phia, and died unmarried. 

4. Katherine married. May. 1894. Ed- 
ward Criswell, of Shippensburg, and they 
have a .son, William Craig. 

5. Rachel married. March. 1897, 
Frank Holler, of Shippensburg. 



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(XI) JOHN ANDERSON CRAIG 
(born in 1832), son of Hugh and Rachel 
(Boyd) Craig, married, January, 1858, 
Martha Philhps. They had issue: 

1. Hugh Boyd married, December, 
1885, Elizabeth Sharpe, and they have issue: 
Hugh Boyd. Samuel Sharpe, John Ander- 
son and Elizabeth. 

2. Jean Colvvell married Jan. 8, 1889, 

, and they have issue : 

Jean Craig and Mary Boyd. 

3. Bella. 

4. James Harper married, January, 
1898, Alice Morrow, and they have a son, 
John Boyd. 

5. Mary Orr died in childhood. 

6. Georgiana married Frederick W. 
Truscott. 

ARMSTRONG FAMILY. The Arm- 
strongs of the Cumberland Valley, it is prol> 
able, were all of the same stock from which 
■sprang Gen. John Armstrong, the hero of 
Kittanning. Gen. Armstrong came from 
Enniskillen. Others of the name, including 
the family of Capt. Joseph Armstrong, of 
Hamilton township, and WlJUiam — Arm- 
strong, an early settler on the West Con- 
ococheague. came from the same neighbor- 
hood in the Counties of Fermanagh, Mona- 
ghan and Cavan. From a very early period 
of the Scotch settlement in Ireland they 
intermarried with the Grahams of Netherby. 

(I) WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, the 
father of the late Judge John Armstrong, 
was probably a son of William and Sarah 
Armstrong, whose children are named in the 
record of Rev. Dr. John King of the mem- 
bership of the L'pper West Conococheague 
Presbyterian Church about 1770, as fol- 
lows : Arthur, Sarah, Wijliam, John and 
J^Qies. William Armstrong, the second son 
of William and Sarah Armstrong, kept a 
hotel at Greencastle earlv in the nineteenth 



century. He married Agnes Withney, 
daughter of William and Nancy W'ithney, 
who lived near the present village of Will- 
iamson. Mrs. Armstrong's sister Jean mar- 
ried Thomas Kirby, the ancestor of the 
Kirl)y family of Chambersburg, and another 
sister, Ehzabeth, married William Kennon, 
who became a judge in Ohio. William and 
Agnes (Withney) Armstrong had issue: 

1. Alexander. 

2. John (II). 

3. James. 

4. . Augustus. 

5. George. 

6. William. 

7. Thomas. 

8. Nancy. 

9. Jane. 

(II) JOHN ARMSTRONG (born at 
Greencastle in 1804 — died in 1883), son of 
William and Agnes (Withney) Armstrong, 
received a common school education in his 
native town, and learned the trade of a hat- 
ter as a young man. but never followed that 
occupation. While still young he began 
business as a merchant in Chambersburg, 
duulucting a successful dry goods trade for 
many years. He was deputy under Sheriff 
Skinner, 1853-56, and then became cashier 
for a newly established Savings Fund in 
tlie Ludwig building, in South Main street, 
that was popularly known as "the Dutch 
Bank." This institution was discontinued 
after the burning of Chambersburg, in 1864. 
Mr. Armstrong was a Democrat of the old 
school and an ardent War Democrat. He 
was county commissioner, 1865-68, and an 
associate judge, 1867-71. He was a Mason, 
and a member and officer of Trinity P. E. 
Church. He exhibited uusual proficiency as 
a mathematician, a family trait with the 
Armstrongs. His uncle. Prof. John Arm- 
strong, of Xenia, Oliio, solved a problem 
of such difficultv that all (.ther metlieniati- 



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cians failed, and was awarded a Royal (En- 
glish) Medal in recognition of his skill. 
Judge Armstrong married Ellen Graham, 
daughter of Capt. William and Mary 
(Humphreys) Graham, of New Jersey; they 
had issue : 

I. Mary Graham, married Frederick 
Swentzel (III). 

(HI) MARY GRAHAM ARM- 
STRONG (born June i, 1857), daughter 
of Judge John and Ellen (Graham) Arm- 
strong, married April 24, 1879, Frederick 
Swentzel (born April 5, 1859 — died Feb. 
18, 1891), son of Rev. Frederick and Mar- 
garet (Teese) Swentzel. His grandfather 
was Christian Swentzel, of Lancaster, who 
married Charlotte Snyder (born Sept. 8, 
1800 — died March 17, i860), daughter of 
John and Margaret (Peters) Snyder, of 
Chambersburg. His father, Rev. Frederick 
Swentzel,. D. D., was a minister of the 
Methodist Protestant Church, but a few 
months before his death, in 1880. was afl- 
mitted as a candidate for orders in tlie 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese 
of Maryland. Mr. Swentzel was admitted 
to the Baltimore Bar Sept. 3. 1883. Later 
he lived in Chambersburg, where he died. 
Frederick and Mary G. (Armstrong) 
Swentzel had issue : 

1. John Armstrong died in infancy. 

2. Graham Armstrong, born April 
II, 1883. 

3. Marguerite Withney, born Feb. 
9, 1889. 

WILLIAM JOSEPH COOPER JA- 
COBS, one of the leading citizens of 
Waynesboro, manager of the Pennsylvania 
Telephone Exchange at that place, was born 
at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1856, .son of 
George and Hettie (Mack) Jacobs, 

The Jacobs family is one of the old ones 
of Frederick county. Md., where it is traced 



back to the great-great-grandfather of our 
subject, a stonemason by trade, who held 
sub-contracts on the building of tlie national 
capitol at Washington, D. C, and was well 
acquainted with President Wasliington. 

(I) IGNATIUS JACOBS .the grand- 
father of W. J. C. Jacobs, was a soldier in 
the war of 1812, and died at the advanced 
age of ninety years. 

(II) GEORGE JACOBS was hm\ 
March 28, 1826. in Frederick county. Md.. 
and his wife in Bedford county. Pa. Soon 
after their marriage they removed to Wheel- 
ing, W. \"a., where the father engaged in 
a tobacco business. They ne.xl moved to 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Mr. Jacobs continuing in 
the same business. There the mother died in 
1862, and from there the father removed to 
the vicinity of Lima, Ohio, where he was 
engaged in farming. Thence he went to 
Carthage, Mo., and still continued farming, 
now making his home in Carthage. By 
his first marriage, to Hettie Mack, two sons, 
were born : 

1. William Jo.sepii Cooi-kk (111). 

2. George M. resides at Carthage, 
Missouri. 

The father was a second time married, 
and by that union also had two sons : 

1. P. F., of Carthage, Missouri. 

2. I. M., of Carthage, Missouri. 

(III) WILLIAM JOSEPH COOPER 
JACOBS was sent to an aunt, Mrs. Sarah 
Cooper, in Pennsylvania, in whose pleasant 
family he was reared and received a fair 
education. His first business enterprise was 
the establishment, Sept. 12, 1876, of the 
Keystone Gacette, he having served an ap- 
prenticeship at the printer's trade on the 
I'illage Record, and he continued to issue his 
paper until 1879, when he engaged in a cigar 
and stationery business. In 1880 he inducer! 
the Chesapeake & Potomac (Bell) Tele- 
phone Co. to enter Waynesl)oro, and build a 



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line into the city. At that time there were 
no other companies in the city, and tliis one 
liad full sway. Mr. Jacobs was placed in 
charge of the telephone interests in Franklin 
county, and built up the business (now owned 
by the Pennsylvania Telephone Co.) to its 
present mammoth proportions. Until 1899 
Mr. Jacobs was manager of the Franklin 
county interests, but at that time the press 
of business became too great, and he re- 
signed the county work, confining his efforts 
to Waynesboro. Wiien the company first 
established itself in Waynesboro it had four 
subscribers. Through the industry, pluck 
and wonderful executive ability of Mr. Ja- 

. cobs the exchange list numbers at the present 
day 460 subscritjers — the largest list of any 
locality of the size of W'.aynesboro in the 

. entire State. 

In 1884 Mr. Jacobs retired from his 

. cigar and tobacco business, and in 1885 
was appointed bv the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Co. western passenger agent, and then was 
made traveling passenger agent for the B. 
& O. Railroad Co., which responsible posi- 
tion he still retains. There appears to have 
been no limit to his energy and business 
ability, for in 1881 he became lessee and 
manager of the Academy of Music, and so 
continues. gi\-ing the people of Waynesboro 

. a very fine clJiss of entertainments and look- 
ing some of the best companies on the road. 
In 1899 lie established the Twentieth Cen- 
tury Job Printing Office, which he is con- 
ducting with marked success. Fraternally 
Mr. Jacobs is a member of the Royal Ar- 

. canum. the Elks, and the Heptasophs. Trin- 
ity Reformed Church, of which he is a con- 

■ sistent member, also profits from his enter- 
prise, and seldom is anything undertaken in 
that body without first consulting Mr. Ja- 
cobs in order that his advice and ready con- 
tribution may be obtained. 

In 1880 Mr. Jacobs married Sadie A.. 



daughter of James A. and Julia (Burgesser) 
Tisler, old residents of Waynesboro, where 
Mrs. Jacobs was born. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Jacobs have come the following children : 

1. Lydia, born in 1882. died in 1892. 

2. Julia F., born .\ug. 30, 1888. 

3. George Wayne, born April 9, 
1897. 

At the recent Centennial Celebration of 
Waynesboro Miss Julia Jacobs unveiled the 
monument erected to the soldiers in Green 
Hill cemetery, lia\-ing been asked to perform 
this graceful act by the committee. 

JOHN S. GROVE, one of the prosper- 
ous retired farmers of Greencastle, Pa., was 
born in Antrim township, one and one-half 
miles northeast of Greencastle, Oct. 30, 
1843, ^ son of Philip and Catherine ( Small) 
Grove. 

(T) PHILIP GROVE was a son of 
John Grove, and was born and reared in 
Guilford township, Franklin Co., Pa., spend- 
ing his life there. He was born in 1816, and 
his death occurred in February, 1895, while 
his wife was born in 1820, daughter of John 
Small, of near New Franklin, this county, 
and died Dec. 9, 1897. Until a short time 
prior to his death Philip Grove, who had 
been reared upon a farm, pursued farming, 
and was one of the leadig representatives of 
that calling in the county. Xot only did he 
accumulate a large property, but he aided 
his sons in establishing themselves. In poli- 
tics he was one of the stanch Republicans of 
the township. He and his wife were con- 
sistent members of the Dunkard Church. 
Four children were born to them : 

1. John S. (II). 

2. Mary married Jacob Kurtz, of 
\'(irk. Pennsylvania. 

3. Samuel became a farmer of .An- 
trim township. 

4. D.wii) died in infancy. 



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(II) JOHN S. GROVE was bom and 
reared on the homestead farm, and received 
a common school education in ihc Imnie 
neigiiborhood. He remained at home until 
the spring of 1866, wlien he began farming- 
on his own account, and continued agri- 
cuhural pursuits until 1887. when he retireil, 
taking up his residence in Greencastle, where 



THOMAS J. CLARY, for several 
years a prominent shoe merchant of Green- 
castle, Pa., is a native of Antrim township, 
Franklin Co., Pa., bom .April 21, 1864, son 
of Pinkney and Rebecca (Zeigler) Clarv. 

Mr. Clary was reared upon the farm, and 
was educated in the common and high 
schools of his neighlxirhood, being gradu- 



he has since made his home. His fine farm ated from the Greencastle high school in 

1888. He then accepted a clerkship with 
Mr. Elliott, in his mercantile establishment, 
and there spent some seven years, at which 
time he succeeded Mr. John Gates in the 
shoe business, in 1896. He continued to 
conduct the establishment until quite re- 
cently, when he sold. He carried a full line 
of boots, shoes, rubbers and goods of like 
character, and also had a repair department. 
his being the only exclusive shoe house 
in the town. Fraternally Mr. Clary is a 
member of the Royal .\rcanum. of which 
he is trea.surer. and of the Jr. O. U. .\. M., 
in which he has served as secretary. At 
present he is serving as treasurer of the 
town council. 

In 1897 he was married to Miss Maud 
Shank, daughter of Jacoli and Susan ( Dei- 
trich) Shank: they have had no children. 
They are consistent members of the Luth- 
eran Church, in which he is Deacon, and also 
a teacher in the Sunday-school, as well as 
secretary of the same. He has always been 
one who gave freely toward supporting all 
the good works of the church and Sunday- 
school, while his private charities are numer- 



of 112 acres lies some three miles east of 
Greencastle. Before he left the farm he had 
begun selling fertilizers, and since then has 
been cjuite actively engaged in that line of 
business. For four years he represented the 
Walter A. Wood Mfg. Co., then the Johnson 
Machine Co. for six years. When he first 
located in Greencastle Mr. Grove was for 
two }'ears also successfully engaged in 
handling and gathering cream. He has a 
fine team, and carries parties to Penn Mar 
Park. 

Fraternally Mr. Grove is a member of 
the Royal Arcanum and the Jr. O. U. A. M., 
and is very popular in both organizations. 
He has been twice married, first in Novem- 
ber, 1865, to Rebecca Deardorf. daughter of 
Isaac Deardorf, of Antrim township. She 
died in the spring of 1872, leaving one child. 
Daniel E.. who is with the Adams Express 
Co. in Philadelphia, Pa., and is married to 
a lady of that city. In 1873 Mr. Grove mar- 
ried Annie E. Miller, a daughter of Jacob 
D. Miller, who lives near Welsh Run. Two 
daughters have been born of this union, Lulu 
May and Rhoda E., both graduates of the 
Greencastle high school, and also of the Cum- 
berland \'alley State Normal, and now en- 
gaged in teaching. Miss Lulu is in the 
Greencastle schools, while Miss Rhoda is 
teaching in Antrim township. Mrs. Grove 
is an active and consistent member of the 
German Baptist Church. ]\Ir. Grove is rec- 
ognized as one of the leading and most 
popular men of the township. 



ous, although not always known of men. 
Conscientious in his business life. u])right 
in all his dealings, a good, practical Chris- 
tian, he sets forth in his daily life an e.xample 
which works untold good, and demonstrates 
that a man can follow the teachings of his 
church without in any way disturbing his 
attainment of success in the other relations 
of life. 



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GEORGE W. SHEARER. Among 
the present representatives of the old Shearer 
family in Franklin county is one George 
W. Shearer, a well known farmer and influ- 
ential citizen of Metal township. He was 
born on the old homestead, a quarter of a 
mile north of Willow Hill, Oct. 23, 1851, 
a son of Jacob and Agnes (Campbell) 
Shearer. 

(I) JACOB SHEARER, his great- 
grandfather, married Elizabeth Bottar. 
He was the first of the name born in Amer- 
ica and moA-ed from Berks county (where 
his father settled on coming from Germany) 
to Franklin county about 1780. 

(II) JACOB SHEARER, the grand- 
father, married Elizabeth Bossard. 

(III) JACOB SHEARER, son of Jacob 
and father of our subject, was also born on 
the old family home, Jan. i, -J^oi, and died 
there Oct. 5, 1867. His wife was a daugh- 
ter of William Campbell, and she outlived 
her husband many years, passing away Jan. 
12, 1881. Of their children five reached 
maturity, viz. : 

1. Maria E. 

2. Josephine. 

3. Anna. 

4. Jacob F. 

5. George W. (IV). 

(IV) GEORGE W. SHEARER grew 
up on his father's farm, received a good edu- 
cation in the schools of Metal township, and 
has been a farmer all his life. After his 
father's death he took charge of the home- 
stead and has lived there ever since. It is 
a fine property of 120 acres, and it is inter- 
esting to note in this connection that George 
Shearer's grandfather bought the farm from 
Mrs, Shearer's uncle, Alexander Flickinger. 
Mrs. Shearer was Miss Anna Flickinger, 
daughter of Jacob and Lavina (Clippinger) 
Flickinger, and a member of one of the old 
and honored families of Path \"allev. She 



was born Aug. 21, 1852, and was one of a 
family of ten children, seven of whom out- 
grew childhood, viz. : 

1. Chambers married Margaret 
Keasy. 

2. Mary Ellex married J. M. Wil- 
helm. 

3. Edgar M. married Ada Elder. 

4. W. A. married Minnie Hill. 
3. Ann.\ is Mrs. Shearer. 

6. Albert married Anna Neil. 

7. Clara S. married John A. Burk. 
Mr. and Mrs. Shearer were united in 

marriage Feb. 10, 1876. No children have 
been torn to their union. Mr. Shearer has 
been prominent in the Presbyterian Church 
and, like his father, has served it as elder for 
many years. He has also done good work 
on the school board : politically he is a Re- 
publican, and though never specially active 
in party affairs is yet firm in his convictions. 
His upright life and estimable character have 
made many friends for him, and he is one of 
the respected citizens of his locality. 

HIRAM V. SAIALL, a retired farmer 
of Guilford township, Franklin Co., Pa., was 
born June 10. 1847, '^''' '^'''^ '^''^ homestead 
he now owns and occupies, a son of Adam 
and Margaret (\"anderau) Small, of Guil- 
ford township. 

(I) JOHN SMALL, the grandfather of 
Hiram V., was a farmer of Guilford town- 
ship, and one of the early settlers of that 
township. He became the owner of a 
large fann and grew wealthy. He and his 
wife, Mary, had children as follows, all 
now deceased : they lived good, honorable 
lives and were highly respected : 

1. Adam (II). 

2. Samuel. 

3. Henry. 

4. George. 

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6. William. 

7. Polly married a Byers. 

8. Catherine maTried a Mr. Grove. 

(II) ADAM SMALL was torn in Guil- 
ford township Feb. 17, 1808, and died in 
1883. He was the father of twelve children, 
eleven of wliom grew to maturity : 

1. John, deceased. 

2. Adam^ of Greene township. 

3. Catherine (twin of Adam), 
widow of Samuel McKinzie. 

4. Sarah married Daniel Yaukey. 

5. M.^RY married Joseph Hoover and 
both are deceased. 

6. Henry, a farmer of Franklin 
county. 

7. Hiram V. (III). 

8. Margaret married John Grove, of 
Guilford township. 

9. Fr.\nklin, of Guilford township. 

10. Abraham, deceased. 

11. Emm.\ married Jerry Knepper, of 
Guilford township. 

At the time of his death .\dam Small 
owned about 500 acres of land, which was 
all excellent farming land. He was a Ger- 
man Baptist in religion, and a most excel- 
lent and highly respected man. 

(III) HIRAM V. SMALL was brought 
up according to the usual custom in those 
days, attending school during the winter 
months, and working on the farm in the 
summer. On Jan. 4. 1877, he married 
Amanda Deiter, of Ouincy townshij), a 
daughter of Andrew and Lizzie (Hoover) 
Deiter, deceased. Two children were born 
of this marriage : 

1. Clark B. was a farmer on his fath- 
er's farm, and is now deceased. 

2. Elizabeth died at the age of eleven 
years. 

Mr. Small owns a fine farm of 217 acres, 
well cultivated, and conveniently located. 
As he is a natural mechanic, he attends to 
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all the carpenter and blacksmith work on the 
farm. In politics Mr. Small is a Republican. 
l'\)r the i)ast twenty years lie has been a 
member of the German Baptist Church, in 
which he is quite active. 

Mrs. Small comes of a large and promi- 
nent family, her parents having children as 
follows : 

1. Annie is the widow of Isaac Win- 
gert. 

2. Maria married Henry Wingert, a 
farmer of Quincy township. 

3. John is a farmer. 

4. Margaret is unmarried. 

5. Elizabeth is unmarried. 

6. Amanda married Mr. Small. 

7. Daniel is a fanner of Whiteside 
county, Illinois. 

8. Susan married .Abraham Wingert, 
of Guilford township. 

9. Michael is a resident of White- 
side county, Illinois. 

10. Sarah is the wife of John Bechtold, 
of Whiteside county, Illinois. 

The Deiter family is an old one in Frank- 
lin county, and originated in Germany. 

BLAIR FAMILY. JAMES BLAIR, 
grandfather of John H. Blair, of Hamilton 
township, was a native of County Tyrone, 
Ireland. He was twice married, his second 
wife being Isabella Scott, a native of Scot- 
land, by whom he had issue: 

1. Jame.s (II). 

2. Margaret married David White in 
Ireland ; they emigrated to Pennsylvania, 
and lived and died in Westmoreland county : 
no issue. 

3. JoMN emigrated to Pennsylvania and 
settled in I'hiladclphia. but later went to 
Wisconsin, where he was a farmer near Fond 
du Lac: in 1897 he removed with his family 
to South Dakota. 

4. Jane came to America with her 



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brother John, and married Andrew Hamil- 
ton, in Philadelphia. She lives near Latrobe, 
Westmoreland county, and has two children 
(surname Hamilton) : Martha, married to 
James Jenkins ; and James. 

( II ) JAMES BLAIR (born near Clady 
Hill, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1817 — died 
in Westmoreland county, Sept. 17, 1876), 
son of James and Isabella (Scott) Blair, emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania when he was only 
twenty years old, and went to Pittsburg, 
where he found employment. After his mar- 
riage he went to Westmoreland county, 
where he began farming in L'nity township, 
but later settled on a farm in Franklin town- 
ship, where he lived until his death. He mar- 
ried Jane Humes (born in Westmoreland 
county in 1822 — died Nov. 6, 1882), daugh- 
er of Thomas Humes, a farmer. James and 
Jane Blair had issue: 

1. John H. (III). 

2. Margaret (born in 1847) married 
John Speer, in Westmoreland county; they 
had issue: Isabel! (deceased), and Priscilla - 
(a teacher). 

3. Sarah Jane, born in 1849, 'li*^d """ 
rnarried. 

4. James C. (born in 1851 — died in 
1885) married Annie Nappenberger ; they 
had issue : Mary and Belle. 

5. Elizabeth G.-(born in 1853) is liv- 
ing at East Liberty, near Pittsburgh: she 
married John George, now deceased, and 
they had issue : Homer, John and Mabel. 

6. Davu) (born in 1855) lives on the 
old Blair homestead in Westmoreland 
county ; he married Annie P'orster. 

7. Mary, twin sister of David, is un- 
married. 

8. Anna Belle (born in 1857) mar- 
ried Craig Shields ; no issue. 

9. Martha (born in 1859) married 
Robert Boreland ; they have issue : Aimie, 
John and an infant. 



(Ill) JOHN H. BLAIR (born in 
Westmoreland county May 18, 1844), son 
of James and Jane (Humes) Blair, was 
brought up on the paternal farm and edu- 
cated in the schools of his native county. As 
a young man he taught school for five winter 
terms, first at Loffer's Hollow, and then at 
the Jackson school. In 1865 he went West 
to view the country, and spent a year in In- 
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin. He was for 
five years a farmer in Westmoreland county, 
luit in 1878 he determined to remove to 
Franklin county, where his wife had an in- 
terest in the Wilson farm in Hamilton town- 
ship, the Shields family having inherited all 
the Wilson property. He bought the re- 
maining interests in the farm, and now owns 
370 acres of the choicest land in the neigh- 
borhood. He remodeled the farmhouse and 
barn in 1879, and put up all the other build- 
ings. Mr. Blair, who is still strong and vig- 
orous, continues to be actively engaged in 
farming. He had been an extensive stock 
raiser, making a specialty of Shorthoni cat- 
tle, and horses ; at one time he had an interest 
in an imported Percheron horse valued at 
$2,000. He is not a politician, but has served 
as a school director in Hamilton township, 
and as judge and inspector of elections. 
Being an independent voter, he often acts 
with the Prohibitionists. In Westmoreland 
county he was a ruling elder in the Congruity 
Presbyterian Church, and is now a member 
of the Central Presbyterian Church of Cham- 
bersburg. He married (first) Dec. 26, 1872, 
Anna E. Shields (born Jan. i, 1849 — died 
Feb. 21, 1893), daughter of David Shields; 
they had issue : 

1. Ida M. (Ixirn Nov. 7, 1873) was 
graduated at the Cumberland \'alley State 
Normal School, was a teacher, and is now 
the wife of John L. Metz. 

2. Sarah Jane (born Feb. 2, 1876) 
married Joseph Kreider, and has one son, 



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John; Mr. Kreider died in September, 1904. 

3. James S. (born April 9, 1878) was 
-educated at the Chambersburg Academy and 
at Duff's College, Pittsburgh ; he is now a 
merchant at Pittsburgh. 

4. Anna Rhea (born June 3, 1881) is 
a music graduate of Wilson College, and 
lives at home. 

5. Scott H., born Aug. 25, 1883. died 
Dec. 9, 1884. 

6. Elizabeth (born April 18, 1886) 
was educated at the Cumberland Valley State 
Normal School, Shippensburg. and is en- 
gaged as a teacher. 

7. John LeRoy, born June 6, 1888. died 
Dec. 20, 1892. 

Mr. Blair married (second) Priscilla 
Haymaker, daughter of Hon. George R. 
Haymaker, of Westmoreland county. 

HORACE M. FRITZ, M. D., a lead- 
ing citizen of Ouincy township. Franklin 
county, and a prominent memljer of his 
profession, was born Nov. 30, 1852, in 
Berks county, Pa. After attending the com- 
mon schools of the neighborhood Dr. Fritz 
took a business course at Pottstown, and 
then entered the Normal School at Kutz- 
town, Pa. He left that institution to engage 
in the study of medicine with his friend Dr. 
T. J. B. Rhodes, of Boyertown, Pa. In 
1879 'le received his diploma from Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, and the fol- 
lowing May he located in Ouincy, and be- 
gan the practice of his profession, meeting 
with marked success. He is now a member 
of the Academy of Medicine (^^'aynesboro), 
and of the County and State Medical .\sso- 
ciations. Fraternally he is a member of 
W'aynesboro Lodge No. 219, I. O. O. F., 
of Franklin Ruling No. 117, Mystic Circle, 
and the P. O. S. of A. His religious 
•connection is with the Lutheran Church. 
In 1897 Dr. Fritz associated himself 



with \\'illiam B. Tody, in a general 
merchandise business at Quincy, the firm 
being Tody & Co. Today he is a 
director of the Citizens National Bank of 
Wayneslxjro, and has other business inter- 
ests in that city. 

On Jan. 8, 1881, Dr. Fritz married Clara 
O. Stauffer, who was born in Wadsworth, 
Ohio, Dec. 13, 1854, daughter of Isaac and 
Sarah (Crouse) Stauffer. The family re- 
moved to Quincy in 1877, where Mr. Stauf- 
fer engaged in a hotel business. The mother 
died at the home of Dr. Fritz May 20, 
1902, Mrs. l-'ritz having passed away Jan. 
25th, of that same year. The children born 
to Dr. and Mrs. Fritz are : 

1. Virginia Blanche attended the 
common schools, took a two years' course 
at the Woman's College, Frederick City, 
Md. ; and then a two years' course at Kee 
Mar College, Hagerstown, from which she 
was graduated June 4, 1902. 

2. Horace M.. Jr. 

DR. DA\'ID BLAIR GROSH. a well- 
known and successful dentist of Mercers- 
burg, is the son of Joseph Grosh. 

(I) ANDREW GROSFI, grandfather 
of David Blair, was born in Lancaster 
county of German ancestry, although but 
little is known almut him. He married and 
left six children : 

1. William, deceased, married Sarah 
Shaffer and had a family. 

2. Andrew married and went to In- 
diana, and it is Ijelievetl he left a family. 

3. Joseph (II). 

4. JoH.v married Mary Buckley, and 
died leaving a widow and family. 

5. Maria died unmarried. 

6. Rebecca married Martin Ridenour, 
and died, leaving a family. 

(II) JOSEPH GROSH, father of 
David Blair, was born in Lancaster county 



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in 1 8 16, and was married to Sarah Blair, 
daughter of Andrew Blair, a farmer of that 
county. The Blair family took up a small 
tract of land in Blair Valley, and used to go 
to Fort Frederick for protection from the 
Indians when necessary. Children as fol- 
lows were born to the marriage of Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph Grosh : 

I. Maria, born Jan. 5, 1840, died un- 
married. 

2. Jane, born May 24, 1841, married a 
Mr. Zook, and had one child, Jane, who died 
in 1867. 

3. David B. (III). 

4. Martin Luther, born Jan. 16, 

1845, married, and lives in Missouri. 

5. Ann Rebecca, born Aug. 25, 1846, 
married James Templeman, deceased. She 
lives in Mercersburg. 

6. Andrew Jackson, born Aug. 25, 

1846, died Nov. 27, 1901, unmarried. 

7. John Denton, born Oct. 4, 1848, 
died aged two years. 

8. Joseph, born Sept. 20, 1850, married 
Ella Harrow, and lives in Missouri. 

(Ill) DAVID BLAIR GROSH was 
bom April 18, 1843, '" Washington county, 
Md., and reared on his father's farm, where 
he received his early education. Later he at- 
tended the schools of Mercersburg. On Aug. 
5, 1863, he enlisted under Sheridan's com- 
mand, in the 22d Pa. Vol. Cav., and served 
until the close of the war, being mustered out 
Oct. 21. 1865. He participated in the bat- 
tles of Winchester. Bolivar Heights and 
about nineteen other fights, always proving 
himself a brave and gallant soldier. After 
being mustered out, he returned to Washing- 
ton county, Md., and locating at Hagers- 
town took up the study of dentistry with 
Tobias Schlosser. 

On July 17, 1868, Dr. Grosh married 
Elizabeth Martin, daughter of Tames Mar- 



tin, of Mercersburg. Their eleven children 
are as follows : 

I. Eva (born Jan. 31, 1870) was edu- 
cated in the Mercersburg schools ; she mar- 
ried Hervey Gillon, since deceased, and had 
one child, Reamer, born Feb. 8, 1894. 

. 2. Annie B., born Dec. 23, 1871, un- 
married. 

3. Charles B., born Aug. i, 1873, mar- 
ried Ida Jones, and lives in Philadelphia. 
They have children : Floyd, Ralph, Elwin, 
Eva, Beatrice. 

4. Norman B., born Oct. 30, 1875, un- 
married, lives in Philadelphia. 

5. JosiE, born Sept. 5, 1879, deceased. 

6. WiLMER, twin to Josie. also de- 
ceased. 

7. Mary B., born June 14, 1882, at 
home. 

8. Joseph, born Sept. 17, 1884. died in 
infancy. 

9. Floyd, born May 17, 1886, at home 
and unmarried. 

10. ChesteRj Ixirn Aug. 21. 1888. 

II. Golden Rebecca, bom Sept. 26, 
1890. 

In 1868 Dr. Grosh located in Mercers- 
burg, where he has since I>een engaged in 
his chosen profession, and has built up a 
large and constantly increasing practice. In 
politics he is a stanch Republican, and has 
been honored by many olifices, having been 
elected a burgess from 1896 to 1899, and 
prior to that had been a member of the town 
council, as well as meml^er of the school 
board. In 1900 he was a candidate for the 
Legislature, and although he received a flat- 
tering vote at the convention, he did not re- 
ceive the nomination. The Doctor and his 
family are associated with the Lutheran 
Church, and both sociallv and in a business 
way he has become closely identified with 
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lix'cs, and he is highly respected botli as a 
professional man and a genial, kind-hearted 
friend. 

JOHN M. SHEARER. The Shearers 
of Pennsylvania are of German descent and 
their ancestors were among the very first of 
their countrymen to come to America and 
settle. Originally they located in Berks 
county. Pa., but were not long confined to 
that locality. 

(I) JACOB SHEARER, son of the 
orig'inal colonist, married Elizabeth Botter, 
and moved from Berks to Franklin county in 
the latter part of the eighteenth century. 

(II) JACOB SHEARER, son of 
Jacob, married Elizabeth Bossart and had, 
it is thought, twelve children; of these nine 
are named, as follows : 

1. Jacob. 

2. Christopher. 

3. catherine. 

4. Susannah. 

5. Frederick. 

6. Elias. 

7. Amos (III). 

8. George. 

9. Martha. 

(III) AMOS SHEARER, the father 
of John M., was born on the old Shearer 
homestead July 7, 1817. and died Dec. 8, 
1867. He was a farmer by occupation. He 
married Miss Maria Brown, bom Jan. 30, 
18 1 5, deceased May 16, 1899. His religious 
faith was that of the Presbyterian Church, 
to which he belonged, and his political belief 
that of the Republican party. His children 
^\ ere : 

1. Elizabeth, deceased. 

2. Martha, deceased. 

3. Joseph B. 

4. Amanda J. 

5. John McGinley (IV). 

6. A. A., deceased. 



7. Susannah, deceased. 

8. Lucinda, of Metal township. 
(IV) JOHN M. shearer was born 

on the old Jacob Shearer homestead Marcli 
20, 1850, was reared there, and received 
his education in the Fannett township 
sciiools. On reaching manhood he decided 
upon farming as his life work and has been 
so occupied ever since. On the farm which 
he now owns tiiere stood in the early days 
a sawmill, a gristmill and a powdermill and 
the spot was a thriving little business village. 
Mr. Shearer has always been a Republican 
and has held several minor township offices 
in which he has done good public ser\-ice, 
but he has never desired to hold any ix>litical 
position proper. He has been almost a life- 
long member of the Presbyterian Church and 
is a citizen who is looked up to with respect 
and esteem by those about him. 

The domestic life of Mr. Shearer has 
been a happy one, blessed with a goodly fam- 
ily. He was married, on Christmas Day, 
1873, to Mary, daughter of David Gamble, 
a resident of the valley and of Scotch-Irish 
descent. Their children are: 

1. Harry. 

2. Myrtle. 

3. Lillie, deceased. 

4. David. 

5. Bruce. 

6. Thomas. 

7. Gamble. 

8. Alonzo. 

J. ELMER FRANTZ. secretary and 
treasurer of the Landis Tool Co., and one 
of the best-known business men of Waynes- 
boro, Pa., was bom Feb. 7. 1867, near Up- 
ton, in Fraioklin county. Pa., son of Chris- 
tian and Leah (Stouffer) Frantz. 

(I) CHRISTIAN FRANTZ was a 
farmer near Quincy, Franklin county, and 
moved thence to Ui)ton. He operated a mill 



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for about twenty years, at the same time car- 
rying on farming. His last residence was 
near Upton, where his death occurred in 
February, 1884. His wife was born near 
Chambersburg, Pa., daughter of Jacob 
Stouffer, and died in April. 1897. Eleven 
children were born these worthy people, as 
follows : 

1. Elizabeth married Simon P. Haw- 
becker and now resides in Chicago. 

2. Sar.^h is the widow of Thomas O. 
Daily, and lives in Baltimore. 

3. Albert resides in Waynesboro. 

4. Benjamin married Annie, daughter 
of Jacob Frick, and resides near Smithburg, 
Maryland. 

5. Annie died unmarried. 

6. Christian married Sarah C. Noble 
and resides near Niagara Falls, New York. 

7. Jacob married Annie Stouffer and 
resides in Waynesboro. 

8. Emma died young. 

9. Martha died young. 

10. Etta is unmarried. 

1 1. J. Elmer (II). 

(II) J. ELMER FRANTZ worked 
upon his father's farm until he was twenty 
years of age. In his boj'hood and youth he 
attended the common schools, spending in 
addition two years at G. Fred Zeigler's select 
school at Greencastle, Pa., and also attended 
the Sterling (111.) business college. In the 
spring of 1888 he engaged as shipping clerk 
with the Sterling (111.) Wagon Company, 
remaining there two years. Returning to 
Waynesboro, he took a position in 1890 in 
the office of Landis Brothers, as bookkeeper, 
remaining about one and one-half years, and 
then established the Waynesboro Steam 
Laundry. In March, 1894, he returned to 
Landis Brothers. When the Landis Tool 
Co. was organized Mr. Frantz became secre- 
tary and treasurer. In addition to other in- 
terests he was the first president of the Fred 



Frick Clock Co. He is a thorough business 
man, methodical in his methods, and upright 
in all his dealings. He has served as asses- 
sor of the borough of Waynesboro, and is 
very popular politically. 

Mr. Frantz was married to Edith C. 
Herr, daughter of Amos Herr. of Lancas- 
ter county. Pa., and they have one son: . 

I. Raymond, born July 7, 1896. 

BENJAMIN F. HARTMAN, principal 
of the Rouzerville Academy, in Franklin 
county. Pa., was born on the Pen Mar road, 
on the edge of Rouzerville, July 31, 1865, 
son of Solomon and Mary (Coy) Hartman. 

(I) Solomon Hartman was born near 
Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pa., Aug. 8, 1820, 
and was a son of George Hartman, who. 
came of German descent. By occupation 
he was a brickmaker, and he went from 
Adams county, Pa., to Washington county, 
Md., where he met and married Mary Coy, 
who was born in Washington county, Md., 
in 1 818. After that he moved to Franklin 
county, settling near Rouzerville, during the 
latter part of the fifties, and there he worked 
at his trade for many years, dying Feb. 24, 
1901, on the place which had been his home 
for so many years. Mrs. Hartman died 
JNIay 22, 1896. She and her husband were 
originally Lutherans, but in later life were 
connected with the German Reformed 
Church. Six children were born of this 
congenial union : 

1. Daniel, miller of Falling Spring, 
near Chambersburg, married Catherine, 
daughter of Jacob and Nancy Hoover. 

2. JosL\H, employed by the Geiser 
Mfg. Co., of Waynesboro, married Sarah 
Hoover, daughter of Jacob Hoover. 

3. Elizabeth married William H. 
Ambrose and resides on the Deitrich farm,. 
near Antietam Junction. 

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5. Martha is deceased. 

6. Benjamin Franklin (II). 

(II) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
HARTMAN was born and reared in the 
house which is now his residence, and wiiich 
lias always been his home. After attending 
common school he was given the further ad- 
vantage of a course at a select school kept by 
ex-county superintendent J. S. Smith. He 
then attended the Keystone State Normal, at 
Kutztown, Pa., for three spring terms and 
one full year, being graduated therefrom 
in 1890, after which he resumed his pro- 
fession of teaching in Washington township, 
having taught several temis while he was 
pursuing his school work, his first being in 
Warren township. While thus emplined he 
still attended school in the spring, and in 
1890 his efforts were rewarded by his ap- 
pointment to the Waterloo school, which he 
had attended when a boy. After teaching 
several terms he located in Rouzerville, and 
became one of the teachers in the academy 
at that place. Waynesboro claimed him 
within a few years, but in 1897 he returned 
to Rouzerville to assume charge oi the 
Rouzerville Academy, of which he had been 
principal before leaving. Prof. Hartman is a 
most excellent scholar, a man of a high order 
of attainments, who keeps well read on cur- 
rent events, and tlioroughly informed re- 
garding all branches of his profession. Pos- 
sessing as he does, in a marked degree, those 
winning qualities almost necessary in rui in- 
structor, he wields a strong influence over 
his pupils, and sends them forth to battle with 
the world better equipped than many, for 
they have been given something which no 
books can impart, a practical knowledge of 
life and its countless exacting demands. 

Such a man as Prof, Hartman is an 
honor to his profession, which he exalts into 
a science, and he is not only a great favorite 
with the young, but is honored and revered 



by his assistants, and most highly esteemed 
by his neighbors and follow townsmen. Still 
a young man in years, although mature in 
learning and experience in his chosen calling, 
a bright future is I>efore our disting^iished 
subject, and the biiigra])her is safe in jire- 
dicting that, no matter how exalted the ])nsi- 
tion may be to which he shall \>c called. Prof. 
Hartman will discharge its duties with the 
same fearless, conscientious adherence to 
what he l)elieves to be right, which has al- 
wa)s characterized his actions. 

Fraternally Prof. Hartman takes an in- 
terest in the Junior Order of American Me- 
chanics and is one of its prominent members ; 
he also belongs to the Royal Arcanum. For 
a number of vears he has been one of the 
most influential members of the German Re- 
formed Church. 

Prof. Hartman was married to Emma, 
daughter of Henry and Catherine Creps. who 
came from Maryland, where Mrs. Hartman 
was born. She is a most charming lady, a 
worthy helpmate to her talented husband, 
and greatly beloved in Rouzerville, where 
she has a host of admiring friends. Both 
Prof, and Mrs. Hartman are important fac- 
tors in the social life of Rouzerville. Two 
children have been born to grace their home, 
namely : 

1. Coy Shaeffer. 

2. Robert Creps. 

DE\'OR FAMILY. Tradition chims 
that the original stock were Huguenots 
banished from France to England and Ire- 
land, whence they emigrated to America at 
an early date, unknown. The Devores came 
from New Jersey, and as that State was 
settled by Swedes and Finns such extraction 
might be possible. The Devors of Path \'al- 
ley are descended from Joseph Daver (as 
his name is spelled in his will), a native of 
Scotland, who settled at Spring Run, where 



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he bouglit what has since been the Devon 
homestead in 1795. He hved to advanced 
age, and is buried at Spring Run. The name 
is variously spelled,, but the forms most 
commonh- used In- Juseph Daver's descend- 
ants are Devor and Deavor. Forms adopted 
by some branches of the family are De Vor, 
Dayvor, Dever, Devere, Deaver, Deever, 
Deavour and Devore. Mr. Daver was first 
married in Scotland, but the name of his 
wife has not been ascertained; they had 
issue : 

1. James (II). 

2. Jacob (III). 

3. Jesse (IV). 

4. Eleanor married Joseph Hallins- 
vvorth, and had a son, Jesse. 

5. Esther married Feb. 9, 1797, 
David Neal ; they had issue : Henry, David, 
Nancy, Elizabeth, Mary, Ruth, William, 
Amy and Esther. 

6.' Mary. 

7. Elizabeth. 

8. Nancy. 

Mr. Daver married (second), Sept. 30, 
1794, Mrs. Sarah Ellen (Roles) Ragan, 
born Roles, and they had issue : 

I. Albina married a Robinson. 

(II) JAMES DEVOR (born in Scot- 
land — died at Spring Run, aged eighty- 
seven years), son of Joseph Daver, married 
(first) Mary Ann Elizabeth Taylor, and 
(second) Lydia Roles; by his second mar- 
riage he had issue : 

1. Joseph (died in 1823) married Oct. 
7, 1813, Ann Marrow; they had issue: Wil- 
liam, Bathsheba, Catherine and Agnes. 

2. John married (first) March 18. 
1 81 7, Ann Thompson, and (second) Mary 
Barr. By his first wife he had issue: Mary 
Thompson married James Peterson ; Jacob 
Porter married Mary Ann Hossler; David 
Hermon ; Thompson John White was killed 



in the Civil war; Agiies Ann died young; 
and Elizabeth married Elias Rose. 

3. Richard lived at Newburg. 

4. Joshua was a United Brethren 
preacher. 

5. RoLLAND (born in 1800 — died in Iti- 
diana in 1876) was a teacher. He married, 
in 1824, Elizabeth M. Defrees; they had is- 
sue : Emma Rebecca, Joseph Defrees, Mary 
Annette, James Rolland, John D., Elizabeth 
Lavina and Victoria V. 

6. James (born in 1801 — died May 7, 
1881) was a contracting mason. He mar- 
ried Rebecca Fleck (born in 1802 — died 
Aug. II, 1870), and had issue: J. Edward, 
Basil J., Elizabeth, Mary, Hannah, Marga- 
ret, Jane, a son who died when three years 
old, and a son who died when five years old. 

7. Hannah married Barney Fagan. 

8. Jemima married William French; 
they had issue: RoJjert and Nancy. 

9. Ann married Robert Graham. 

10. Lydia married John Graham, a 
brother of Robert. 

11. Catherine married Joseph Evitts 
(or Everetts). 

(Ill) JACOB DEAVOR (born in 
1779 — died in Fulton county, April 3, 
1840) son of Joseph Daver, was a noted 
school teacher. He married Oct. i, 1799, 
Hannah Piles (died Oct. 8, 1836), and they 
had issue : 

1. Martha (Ixirn Dec. i, 1800 — died 
Aug. 28, 1865) married Jan. 8, 1824, Vin- 
cent Stevens (born May 5, 1797 — died Oct. 
25, 1886), and lived in Fulton county; they 
had issue : James Lane, Philip Deavor, 
Joseph Deavor. Jacob Taylor, Rev. Benja- 
min Fletcher. Rev. I. C, Mary J., Martha 
M., and John Wesley. 

2. Philip Piles died unmarried aged 
twenty-two. 

3. Joseph (born in 1804 — died Janu- 



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ary. 1877) married Mary Houck : lliey liad 
no issue. 

. 4. Marv, liorn Oct. 22, 1806. died un- 
married September 14, 1877. 

5. James (born in 1811 — died in 
1888) married Hannah Steven.s (torn in 
1814 — died in 1890), and had issue: Eliza- 
beth, deceased; Jesse .\llen ( liied in 1883), 
a physician: ?i[ary Ellen married Jacob F. 
Salkield; Martha Rebecca married Samuel 
\V. Salkield: John M., deceased: Sarah Ann, 
deceased : Josiah Vincent married Mary E. 
I^aidig. 

6. Annie married Jacob Lamberson. 

7. Jesse died aged three years. 

8. Adam. 

9. Hannah married Peter Dyke and 
Jacob Cromer. 

(IV) JESSE DEVOR (torn in 1771 
— died in 1833), son of Joseph Daver. was 
a farmer in Path Valley. He married in 
1815, Amy Peterson; they had issue: 

1. Jane (born in 1816 — died Dec. 24, 
1893) married Dec. 31, 1840, David French, 
son of James A. h'rench : they had issue: 
Joseph ; William ; Melvina married James 
McClain; Margaret married Solomon 
Crouse ; Amy married William Richardson ; 
Lucinda married John Sanno; Mary; 
Jemima Jane, deceased. 

2. Mary (torn in 1818) married 
Henry Shearer: they had issue: .Vmos mar- 
ried Margaret Hammond ; Jane married 
Elisha Kling; Jonathan married Ellen 
Crouse: Jesse married Elizatoth Crouse: 
William married Laura Fink; David mar- 
ried Jane Clarke; Emma married John P. 
Nesbit; and Michael married Jane Camp- 
bell. 

3. Joseph (born in 1820 — died in 
1892) married Jan. 6, 1848, Maria Shetler 
(torn Nov. 17, 1 821— died Dec. 13, 1872), 
and had issue : Jane, .\nnie. Martin, and one 
-deceased. 



4. James (born in 1822 — died in 
1887) married Malinda Peterson; they had 
issue: Mary, Mrs. Drake. 

5. David (born in 1824) married .May 
31, 1849, Mary .\nn Laird; they had issue: 
John. Josei)h, Amy and (jne unnamed. 

6. Jacob (V). 

7. Elizabeth (born in 1829) married 
Jan. 25, 1833, William (iill; they had is- 
sue : .\nios and Emma, deceased. 

8. Amos McGinley (VI). 

(V) JACOB DEVOR (bom in 1827), 
son of Jesse and Amy (Peterson) Devor, is 
a farmer on the old Devor homestead at 
Spring Run. He married (first) March i, 
1849, Elizabeth Brinley (died in 1886), and 
(second) in 1890 Maria Lettice Work. By 
the first union there were ten children : 

1. Margaret Ellen (torn Feb. 24, 
1850) married Jan. 19, 1875, Winfield A. 
Walker (born Jan. 18, 1850), and had is- 
sue: Mary Lydia, Ira Jacob, Nora Elizabeth, 
Samuel Alexander. Jesse Winfield. Ola 
Belle, John Brinley, Charles Devor and New- 
ton Hayes. 

2. WiLLiA.M M.\CKEy ( born Oct. 5, 
1852) w-as graduated at the University of 
Wooster (Ohio) in 1881. and at the 
Western Theological Seminary, .Mlegheny 
City, in 1884. He is a Presbyterian min- 
ister. Mr. Devor married Sept. 10, 1885, 
Lulu L. Finney ; they have issue : William 
Jay Bruce and Galen Leslie. 

3. Mary Elizabeth (torn Oct. 25, 
1855) married Dec. 5, 1871. Amos M. Kirk- 
patrick (torn June 24, 185 1 — died Sept. 
13, 1887), and had issue: I^demma .\., 
Locea D.. Jacob M., and Luetta May. 

4. Serepta Jane (torn Eel). 28. 1857 
— died Oct. 19, 1886) married Feb. 22, 
1886, David W. Haynes; she left no chil- 
dren. 

5. Doras McGinley (torn Sept. 12, 
1861) married Sept. 2-j. 1882, Alice Ham- 



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mond ; they had issue : One that died in in- 
fancy, Sadie, Carrie and Martin. 

6. John Elmer, born Nov. 5, 1863, 
died in Indiana Oct. 31, 1886. 

7. Anna Susan (born May 21, 1866) 
married May 23, 1889, Arthur A. Johnson; 
they have issue : Jay Corwin and Lester 
Wendell 

8. LuETTA May (born May 9, 1868) 
married Dec. 23, 1895, WilHam T. Steele. 

9. Jessie Catherine (born Jan. 22, 

1871) married March 30. 1893. Max Skin- 
ner. 

10. HuLDAH Eleanor (born July 7, 

1872) is a teacher. 

(VI) AMOS McGINLEY DEVOR 
(born Nov. 26, 1832), son of James and 
Amy (Peterson) Devor, is a blacksmith 
and a noted teacher of music. As a smith he 
has no superior in the valley. He served 
in Company E, 82d Regiment, P. V., en- 
listing Nov. 14, 1864, and receiving his dis- 
charge July 13, 1865. He participated in 
the battles of Petersburg and Sailor's Creek, 
and was at the surrender of Lee at Appomat- 
tox. His early life was spent at Spring 
Run, but in 1861 he removed to Fannetts- 
burg, where he has since lived. In politics 
he is a Reiniblican and served as a school 
director for a numl.er of terms. He was for 
many years a leading elder in the Lower 
Path Valley Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
Devor married, April 6, 1854, Margaret 
Brinley (born Oct. 9, 1829), and they had 
issue : 

1. John H. (VII). 

2. TiRZAH A. married (first) a Mr. 
Hashinger, who died in Kansas City soon 
after his marriage. She returned to Fan- 
nettsburg, and for many years was a teacher 
in the public schools. She married 
(second) Samuel Lanthers and lives at 
Orbisonia, Pennsylvania. 

3. NoRA E. is living at Fannettsburg. 



4. Margaret Susan is a teacher im 
the public schools. 

5. Amos McGinley is a blacksmith 
and wagonmaker. He married Nettie Robi- 
son : they have issue : Ethel and Ruth. 

6. Cora Weldon was graduated at 
Wilson College in 1892. 

7. James G. is a blacksmith. He mar- 
ried Ada Miller; they have three children. 

In 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Devor celebrated' 
the golden anniversary of the wedding most 
appropriately by holding" a family reunion^ 
and the following account of same which- 
appeared in a local paper, will be of interest : 

"A most happy and joyous time was 
spent Thursday, June 9th, by the children 
and grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Amos 
Devor at their home in Fannettsburg, Pa. 
Amos Devor and Margaret Brinley were 
married April 6, 1854, by the Rev. \Vm. 
A. West then pastor of LTpper Path Valley 
Presbyterian Church. To this union were- 
born seven children all of whom are living" 
namely, John H., Tirzah A., Amos Mc, 
and James G. married Nora E., -Margaret 
S., and Cora M., single. Those present were 
Dr. J. H. Devor, wife and three sons,. 
Donald, Jenner and Eugene, of Fort Lou- 
don ; Mr. and Mrs. Lanthers and son Cree, 
of Orbisonia, Huntingdon county ; Amos- 
Mc. Devor, and daughter Ruth, of Cham- 
liersburg; James G. Devor, wife and t\vo> 
sons, Paul and Brinley, of Wayneslxiro. 

The absent members of the family were 
Mrs. Amos Devor and daughter, Ethel, of 
Chamtersburg. The guests were strictly 
limited to the family connection. The total 
number present was nineteen. A family 
dinner was given and the occasion was one 
full of delight." 

(VII) JOHN HENDERSON 
DEVOR, M. D. (born at Spring Run, Aug. 
15- 1855), son of Amos M. and Margaret 
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lie school and high school at Fannettsburg 
and attended the State Normal School at 
Shippensburg three years. After being 
graduated at the Normal School he was a 
teacher in the public schools for a number 
of years. In 1882 he began the study of 
medicine with Dr. E. James Zook, continu- 
ing with him for one year, and in the autumn 
of 1883 entered the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, of Baltimore, from which he 
was graduated in 1885. He then settled at 
Fort Loudon, where he has been in the active 
practice of his profession ever since. In 
the autumn of 1895 he began his post-grad- 
uate work in the Polyclinic Hospital of 
Philadelphia. He is a member of the 
Franklin County Medical Society, and has 
served as president of same; he is also a 
memljer of the State Medical Society, and 
has been a delegate from the county society 
at the meetings of the State Society. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has served 
for twelve years on the school board of 
Peters township. He is also a member of 
the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of the 
Golden Eagle and the Patriotic Order of 
Sons of Veterans. Dr. Devor married April 
II, 1887, Ada B. Smith, daughter of John 
Smith, of Fort Loudon; they have issue: 

1. Donald Smith (lx>rn Jan. 24, 
1889) graduated from Mercersburg Acad- 
emy in May, 1905. 

2. Jenner H. (born May 20, 1891) 
is a student at Mercersburg Academy. 

3. Eugene H. (born May 26, 1894) 
is at home. 

4. Garnet is deceased. 

Mrs. Devor is a member of the Re- 
formed Church. 

GEORGE W. MIDDOUR, Justice of 
the Peace, is a resident of Quincy, Franklin 
county, Pennsylvania, where he carries on 
the harness business. 



AMBROSE WATTS THRUSH, 
M. D. Among the prominent physicians of 
Franklin county, Pa., may be mentioned Dr. 
Ambrose \V. Thrush, of Greene township, 
a worthy scion of an old Lancaster county 
family of German descent. The tradition is 
that the family originally came from Hesse- 
Darmstadt and Hesse-Cassel, more likely the 
former, and emigrated to this country dur- 
ing the tide of German emigration between 
the years 1767311(1 1774-75. 

(I) LEONARD THRUSH, the Doc- 
tor's grandfather, came from Lancaster coun- 
ty, and settled in Southampton township, 
Franklin county, near the Cumberland county 
line, where he passed the rest of his days 
■ r. farming. He was born in 1799, and died 
in 1883. He and his wife, Nancy (Fisher), 
had the following children : 

1. Daniel Webster (II). 

2. Elias died leaving no children. 

3. Mary Ann married Israel J. Bollin- 
ger, of Greene township. 

4. Sarah S. died unmarried. 

5. David L., of Oakville, Cumljcrland 
county. 

(II) DANIEL WEBSTER THRUSH 
was born Aug. 12, 1829, and was reared 
on the old family homestead near Shippens- 
burg. He attended the district schools and' 
completed his education in Gettysburg Col- 
lege, graduating from the latter institution. 
It was his first intention to enter the' 
Lutheran ministry, and his studies had been 
pursued to that end. In early life he was a 
teacher in the common .schools, later becom- 
ing a college professor, and for a number of 
years he was principal of the Shippensburg 
Academy, .-^s an instructor he met with 
remarkable success, not alone on account of 
his own wide learning, but because of his 
ability to impart it to others. Purchasing 
the Shippensburg Xczcs. he was its proprie- 
tor and editor for a number of years, in the 



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meantime being admitted to the Cumberland 
County Bar. He practiced law from that 
time until his death, Aug. 9, 1875, finding 
in the intricate legal tangles the mental 
pabulum for his exceeding energetic intel- 
lectuality. He was always a Republican, 
and was always interested in the cause of 
education. His religion, as may have been 
inferred, was that of the Lutheran faith, 
and he belonged to the church of that de- 
nomination in Shippensburg. On Feb. 2, 
1865, he married Mary Ann Bollinger, 
daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Johns) Bol- 
linger, originall)' of Lancaster county. Two 
children were born to them : 

1. Ambrose W.'Ktts (HI). 

2. Nancy L. 

(HI) AMBROSE WATTS THRUSH 
was born Dec. 23, 1865, in Shippensburg, 
where he remained until he was eleven years 
of age, when he accompanied his mother 
(his father in the meantime having died) 
to a farm in Greene township. He attended 
the public schools, and in his young man- 
hood taught there for eight years. He then 
for about three years attended the Shippens- 
burg State Normal School, and his medical 
studies were begun under the direction of 
Dr. David Maclay, of Chambersburg. In 
the spring of 1890 he graduated from Jeffer- 
son Medical College, Philadelphia. Return- 
ing home he bought out a practice in Green 
Village, and at once began the active prac- 
tice of his profession, in which he has met 
with so very great success. 

On Sept. 22, 1 891, Dr. Thrush was mar- 
ried to Mary Jane Keefer, of Green Village, 
'daughter of Cyrus Thompson and Lydia 
(Britton) Keefer, of an early settled family 
in Franklin county. They have two chil- 
•dren : 

1. W.-^LTER Keeper. 

2. Mary Lydia. 

In his political views Dr. Thrush is a 



stanch Republican, and from 1893 ^° i8g6 
he served as coroner. Socially he is a mem- 
ber of the Royal Arcanum, and profession- 
ally he is a member of the Franklin County 
Medical Society. He has won success for 
himself, and by careful study and no little 
natural skill he has climbed to the top of 
his calling. He is highly esteemed for his 
many admirable personal qualities as well, 
and is looked upon as one of the substantial 
citizens of the town. 

AVILLIAM B. SHIELDS is a member 
of the firm of Shields & Horst, of Cham- 
bersburg, Franklin county. Pennsylvania, 
dealers in all kinds of agricultural imple- 
ments and repairs, engines, wagons, buggies, 
silos, fertilizers, etc. 

J. LESHER & SON. The first of the 
Lesher family to land in this country, was 
Henry Lesher, who, with two sisters, orphan 
children, came with Hans Hege from Swit- 
zerland, their home in that country having 
been near Zweibrucken, at Ebersten, Haff. 
The good ship "James Goodwill" from Rot- 
terdam, with Da\-id Crocket, captain, 
brought them to the port of Philadelphia, 
on the 27th of Sept., 1727. They belonged 
to a company of fifty-four families. Hans 
Hege and his brother-in-law Hans Lehman, 
were both kindred of Henry Lesher, who 
was then a lad of sixteen years, and all were 
members of the ISIennonite Church. 

After landing the emigrants appeared 
before the proper authorities and repeated 
and then signed the British declaration, 
promising to bear true allegiance to King 
George the Second. This ceremony per- 
formed they were permitted to pass on to 
Lancaster county and there they settled on 
the verdant and fertile lands of Rapho town- 
ship, near Hanheim, then denominated 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



ried. we find no account, but tlie record of 
liis children is as follows : 

1. John died single. 

2. Christi.\n married Miss Hockman. 

3. Henry married Miss Zette. 

4. Mari.\ married Peter Brubaker. 

5. Jacob (II) married Fannie Ginge- 
rich. 

6. Barb.JiR.\ died single. 

7. Casper married Elizabeth Hummer. 

8. Ann.\ died single. 

(II) JACOB LESHER (died Dec. 31, 
1 81 3) was the great-grandfather of the 
senior subject of this sketch. He married 
Fannie Gingerich, who died Feb. 26. 1798. 
They lived near Greencastle. Franklin coun- 
ty, and reared a family of five children, as 
follows : 

1. John (HI). 

2. Henry died single aged seventy 
years, eleven months. 

3. M.\ria married John Hege. 

4. Fannie married .\brahani Brech- 
bill. 

5. M.\RTHA married Jacob Hege. 

(III) JOHN LESHER (died Jan. 27. 
1833), son of Jacob, was a farmer in .An- 
trim township, Franklin county. He prob- 
ably owned 285 acres of valuable land in 
Antrim township. He devoted his life to 
the cultivation of his land and led a quiet, 
unassuming, pious life, and passed away re- 
spected by all who knew him. He was a con- 
sistent memljer of the Dunker Church, and 
married Catherine Detrich, They had issue : 

1. F.^NNiE married Jacob King. 

2. Andrew married Martha Shank. 

3. John married (first) Barbara 
Senger and (second) Elizabeth Baker. 

4. M.\RY married Christian Newcomer. 

5. Nancy married Jacob Shank. 

6. Chri.stian married Mary Bovey. 

7. Samuel (IV) married Sarah 
Young. 



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8. Lewis marrietl Martha Baker. 

These children all married in this locality 
except John and Lewis, both of wiiom re- 
moved to Darke county, Ohio, wiiere the 
former died. Lewis subsequently removed 
to New Carlisle, Clark county, Ohio, where 
he still lives engaged in farming. Mary also 
went far from home, removing to Ringgold, 
Washington county, Md., but the others 
passed their lives in their native county, the 
only survivors of the grandfather's family 
being Samuel and Lewis. 

(I\') SAMUEL LESHER (born Aug. 
2, 1817, in .Antrim township) received a good 
district school education, but he was only 
si.xteen years old when he lost his father. 
His responsibilities then began although he 
was employed by his brothers. At the age 
of nineteen years he was apprenticed to 
learn the carpenter's trade, at which he served 
two years and then married. .After this 
event he purchased a small farm located three 
miles southeast of Greencastle and upon this 
he settled and began fanning and made his 
home until 1864. Originally there were 
sixty-two acres, and u> this he added thirty 
acres, and gave his whole attention to the 
improvement and cultivation of this land. 
Here he erected substantial buildings, planted 
orchards, built fences and set out sufficient 
trees to make pleasant groves, and. until 
1864, as mentioned, ke])t busilv engaged 
here. Then he retired from active work, 
and in 1891 moved into (ireencastle. 

Air. Lesher has been a very prominent 
man in his locality ever since he was ap- 
pointed, in the early forties, first lieutenant 
of the local militia, by the Governor. Three 
years later he was appointed captain and 
served as such for four years in the loth 
company of the Sixth regiment tif the Sec- 
ond brigade, and is still known as Captain 
Lesher. He has always taken a livelv in- 
terest in public affairs and has most ably filled 



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aluiost all of the township offices. He was 
supervisor for three years, five years school 
director, three years assistant assessor, one 
year inspector and one year township clerk. 
On Oct. 1 8, 1839, Capt. Lesher married 
Miss Sarah Young (born Sept. 15, 1820, 
in Virginia — died Oct. 9, 1863), a daughter 
of George and Mary (Nickem) Young. 
Two children were born to this marriage, 
namely : 

1. JosiAH (V) born July 30, 1840. 

2. Mary Catherine (born Sept. ir, 
1841) married (first) J. A. Stover, and 
(second) J. K. Wordebaugh, of Wilkes- 
barre. 

(V) JOSL\H LESHER was reared on 
the farm and was educated in the common 
schools of Franklin county. When he 
reached manhood he made a trip to Ohio 
where he spent five months with his uncle 
Lewis. In the spring of 1865 he began 
farming his father's place and remained so 
engaged until 1891, when he removed to 
Greencastle. He had also been extensively 
engaged in the sale of farm machinery. For 
se\'eral years our subject remained out of 
business, but in 1896 he and his son suc- 
ceeded to the stove and hardware business 
of C. R. Hoover, under the firm name of 
J. Lesher & Son. This business is one of 
general hardware, including roofing and 
plumbing and has taken a prominent place 
among the successful houses of Greencastle. 
Mr. Lesher is a leading citizen and has ably 
served on the borough coimcil for the past 
three years and is interested in every move- 
ment looking to the permanent improve- 
ment of the city. 

On Oct. 8, 1854, Mr. Lesher married 
Miss Martha Faust, born April 10. 1840, a 
daughter of Henry and Mary ( Fogwell ) . 
Faust, both of whom were born in Antrim 
township. A family of four children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Lesher : 



1. Marv died at the age of thirteen 
years. 

2. Samuel (VI). 

3. Arthur died at the age of six years. 

4. Effie also died at the age of six. 
(VI) SAMUEL LESHER (born April 

22, 1869) is his father's capable assistant. 
His education was secured in the Greencas- 
tle public schools and a Pittsburg business 
college and he is a very reliable, enterprising 
and successful business man. On Oct. 5, 
1899, he married Miss Sarah Ellen Blauser, 
bora May 13, 1868, in Alanchester, York 
Co., Pa., daughter of Mathias and Caroline 
(Spahr) Blauser. One daughter has been 
born to this union : 

I. Helen Louise. 

The family belongs to the Lutheran 
Church in which Mr. Josiah Lesher is an 
elder, and in which Mr. Samuel Lesher has 
been one of the deacons, and at present is 
the treasurer of the church's benevolent fund. 

PAXTON M. CANTNER is a member 
of the hardware firm of D. B. Keefer & Co., 
of Greencastle, Franklin county, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

WATSON FAMILY. Among the 
sturdy Scotch Presbyterians who fled to the 
North of Ireland during the persecutions of 
the seventeenth centur}- were the Watsons. 
They took a prominent part. in the famous 
siege of Derry in 1689, and were among the 
earnest promoters of a petition to Governor 
Shute of New England in 171 8, urging him 
to allow them "a refuge in his excellent 
plantation." This privilege being refused 
them they found a shelter in the Quaker col- 
ony of the Penns. 

In 1730 John Watson, of Donegal, Ire- 
land, came to Leacock township, Lancaster 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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for which lie was granted a warrant in 1734- 
36, when warrants were first issued in Lan- 
caster county. He married in 1731 Ann 
Stephenson, daughter of James Steplienson, 
of Donegal. Lancaster Co., Pa. Five cliil- 
dren were born of this marriage, and failli- 
fully instilled by their parents with religious 
and patriotic principles. The sons David 
and James were both officers in the army of 
the American Revolution, and each of the 
three daughters married officers in the same 
army. 

JAMES WATSON received a commis- 
sion as "captain of a company of foot in a 
battalion raised in Lancaster county for the 
flying camp," on July 8, 1776, this commis- 
sion being the third one issued. On July i. 
1777. he received a commission as colonel of 
the Second Battalion, Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers. This battalion served with distinction 
in the battle of Long Island, and was faithful 
. in the famous retreat through New Jersey. 
After the Revolution, Col. Watson came to 
Franklin county, and bore a prominent part 
in the affairs of the town of Greencastle, 
which had been laid out in 1782 by his 
friend and brother officer, Col. Allison. He 
purchased Lots 5 and 8 in the new town, and 
more than 1,000 acres of land in the country 
adjacent. He was appointed justice of the 
peace "of the township of Greencastle in 
1795," and when the town was incorporated, 
in 1805, he was elected first burgess. His 
son John was appointed first postmaster of 
Greencastle in 1799, and the active duties 
of the office were attended to for almost 
thirty years by Col. Watson himself. His 
Inisiness interests lay in tanning and agri- 
culture, and for many years previous to his 
death were superintended by his son John. 
Col. Watson was a man of fixed principles, 
and great force of character, l)ut was most 
unostentatious in manner and speech, and 
was highly honored and revered by the com- 



munity in which he lived. He died Julv 2, 
1 83 1, at the age of eighty-eight, and is buried 
in the old Moss Spring graveyard. 

On June 25, 1766, he married Elizabeth 
Long, daughter of Hugh Long, of Chestnut 
Level, Lancaster county. Twelve children 
were born of this marriage, and of these 
four (lied in early childhood, and three — Isa- 
bella, David and Elizalieth. never married. 
.Mary married James Rankin, of Mercers- 
hiu-g: John married Rebecca \'ance. of 
Chambersburg: Hugh married Susannah 
Crunkleton, of Greencastle; Martha married 
-Abraham Prather, of Greencastle: James 
married Charlotte Crawford, of Chamliers- 
hurg. 

}0HX WATSON was born May 2, 
1769, in Leacock township. Lancaster Co., 
Pa., and was the eldest son of Col. James 
W'atson and Elizabeth ^jrtup;. He was edu-'S^ 
cated in the schools of Lancaster county and 
Greencastle, Pa., and was a prominent and 
progressive citizen of that town. He was a 
tanner and farmer, a member of the first 
town council and the first postmaster of the 
town. He was a charter trustee of the Mer- 
cersburg, Greencastle and Waynesboro 
Turnpike Company, and was also very active 
in church afifairs, being a ruling elder in the 
Presbyterian Church. 

On June 21, 1796, he married Reljecca 
\'ance. daughter of John and Elizabeth 
Vance, of Chambersburg, Pa. Two children 
were born of this marriage: Mary \'ance, 
who married William Craig, of Montgomery 
township, Franklin Co., Pa., and Elizabeth, 
who married James Clark Rankin, of Mer- 
cersburg, Pennsylvania. 

D. E. BAUGHEY. Ciiaml)ersburg. 
Franklin Co.. Pa., is manager at tiiat place 
for Fred G. Shaffer, of Denver, Colo., dealer 
in investments, high-class securities, mines. 



\-^ 



4" 



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bonds, stocks, reports. 



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CHARLES E. BARNHART. con- 
fectioner and baker of Greencastle, and a 
prominent business man of that locality, is 
a native of Antrim township, Franklin Co., 
Pa., born Aug. 17, 1866. son of Daniel and 
Elizabeth (Rearick) Barnhart. 

The farm upon which he was born was 
the home of Mr. Barnhart until he was 
seventeen, when, after having received a 
common school education at Middleburg. 
and learned how to conduct a farm, he en- 
tered the mercantile establishment of his 
brother, Fred W. Barnhart, in Greencasfle, 
clerking for him two years. He next went 
to Wayneslj(jro, and clerked in a grocery 
store for a year, going thence to Hagers- 
town, Md., and clerking for an uncle, Abra- 
ham Barnhart, for two years. His next 
change was to Greencastle, when he formed 
a partnership with his brothers D. H. and 
U. B. under the firm name of D. H. Barn- 
hart & Bros. These brothers conducted 
their establishment on the old stand on the 
Diamond, and also had a store at Middle- 
burg and one at Upton, continuing the jjart- 
nership for seven years, when our subject 
withdrew from the firm. The L'pton st(5re 
was sold, the father took the ]\Iiddleburg 
store, and Charles E. went into the latter 
as his father's clerk, thus continuing for two 
years. He then returned to Greencastle and 
worked for his brother U. B. Barnhart until 
the fall of 1901, when he succeeded U. N. 
Speilman in the bakery and confectionery 
business at the southeast corner of the Dia- 
mond. Here he conducts a bakery, doing 
his own baking, manufacturing ice cream 
and has a popular ice cream parlor during 
the season, during the winter montlis ha\-ing 
an oyster house. The ice cream is sokl both 
wholesale and retail, as is also his bread. 
His establishment is recognized as one of 
the best in the county, and his trade extends 
to Upton and Williamson, including also 



Shady Gro\'e, Clay Hill and Kauffman dur- 
ing the busy season. Six persons are given 
employment, and customers are given every 
attention. Mr. Barnhart is also engaged in 
an ice business, packing and selling, and 
handling considerable manufacturcfl ice. He 
is one of the leading and prosperous men of 
Greencastle. 

In the spring of 1894 Mr. Barnhart was 
married to iNIiss Zula Phipps, daughter of 
Clayton Phipps. They are members of the 
Reformed Church, in which they take an 
active part, and are important factors in 
the social life of the community. Mr. and 
Mrs. Barnhart have two children : 

1. Howard. 

2. Merle. 

CHARLES H. FALLON, the well- 
known hardware and implement merchant 
of Mercersburg, is the son of Michael Fal- 
lon, and his family record is as follows : 

(I) MICHAEL FALLON, the grand- 
father, came from Ireland and had the fol- 
lowing family : 

1. Robert lived and died in Missouri, 
leaving a son Robert. 

2. ^VILLIAM, a Rocky Mountain guide 
and fur trader, was killed by the Indians in 
the mountains : he was married and left a 
child. 

3. Wesley, a carriage maker in St. 
Louis, Mo., died there. He had two chil- 
dren, a daughter, now li\-ing-. and a son, 
deceased. 

4. Michael ( II ). 

5. M.\RY died unmarried. 

(II) MICHAEL FALLON, son of 
Michael, was born in Mercersburg on Oct. 
31, 1820, and was educated in Mercersburg, 
where he married Margaret M. Wilkins, 
born March 18, 1824, daughter of James 
Wilkins, a silversmith who made many of 
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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



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Michael Fallon had seven children, five Iwys 
and two girls : 

1. Wesley, born Aug. 9, 1845, '" Mer- 
cersburg, married a Miss Annie Johnson, of 
Cumberland, Md., and they have seven chil- 
dren, Cora, James, Annie, Alice, Bessie, 
Lula and Walter. 

2. William E., born in Mercersburg, 
married Mrs. Lucy Hannancamp, of St. 
Louis, where they live, he being in the hat 
and fur business. They have three children, 
Edward, Richard and Lucy. 

3. Charles H. (III). 

4. John F., born in Independence, 
Mo., married Cora Fallon, of St. Louis. 
He was a coach builder, but is now deceased. 
He left no children. 

5. Addison L., born Oct., 1858, in 
Mercersburg, married Rachel Derrydinger, 
from Lancaster. 

6. Cora, born May 28, 1869. 

7. M.\RYj born Feb. 18, 1870, resides 
with her sister, Cora, in Mercersburg on the 
old homestead. 

After his marriage Michael Fallon went 
to Independence, Mo., and built Santa Fe 
wagons. Later he removed to St. Louis, and 
engaged in business, but finally came back 
to Mercersburg, where he farmed, ultimately, 
however, going into the hardware business. 
He was justice of the peace and burgess for 
one or two terms, as well as school director, 
and he died March 4, 1885. The mother 
survived her husband until 1898. 

(Ill) CHARLES H. FALLOX was 
born in St. Louis April 7, 1850, but his 
parents moved to Mercersburg when he was 
a boy, and he was educated in the academy 
of that place. For ten years he was a clerk 
for his father, and later entered Martin & 
Baker's store, but in 1876 he commenced 
dealing for himself in Mercersburg in the 
building known as the "Noah's Ark" on the 
Square. Having been connected with the 
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hardware trade all his life, he naturally 
turned to that, and now is one of the leaders 
in his line in this portion of the State, being 
widely known as a man of integrity who 
handles none but the best goods. On Jan. 
24, 1878, he married Elizabeth G. Lowe, 
born in Mercersburg, Oct. 13, 1848, daugh- 
ter of Charles G. and Mary S. (McFarlan) 
Lowe. Mr. Lowe was a cabinetmaker, and 
owned the "Mansion House," the leading 
hotel of Mercersburg, but he died Jan., 1878. 
and his wife in 1861. Three children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Fallon : 

1. Anna Margaret, born Jan 15, 
1879, is unrnarried, at home. 

2. Charles Edg.\r, bom Nov. 15, 
1882, is in business with his father in Mer- 
cersburg. 

3. Mary Lowe, born Aug. 15, 1889, 
is attending the high school. 

Mr. Fallon has served for three terms as 
burgess, as town councilman many times, 
and as member of the board of health. He 
is trustee of the Presbyterian Church. In 
politics he is a stanch Republican. Mr. Fal- 
lon is one of the public-spirited men of Mer- 
cersburg who ha\'e done much to advance 
the material prosperity of. the city and main- 
tain its financial strength. 

CHARLES L. RUMMEL. secretary of 
the Shippensburg Manufacturing Company, 
and also well known in this section of the 
State in his connection with the Y. M. C. A., 
was born in Shippensburg .-\ug. 3. 1875. ''"•^ 
has passed all his life here. He is the only 
son of J. C. and Alice (Lone) Rumniel. the 
former president of the firm of Rummel, 
Himes & Co. 

Charles L. Hummel was educated in the 
public schools of Shippensburg. attending 
the high school, and was afterward a student 
in the Eastman Business College, at Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., where he received his com- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



mercial training. Returning to Shippens- 
burg he entered the employ of the Shippens- 
burg Manufacturing Company as book- 
keeper, and in 1894 was promoted to the 
position of secretary, which responsible office 
he still fills. He is a stockholder and secre- 
tary of the incorporated concern of Rummel, 
Himes & Co., of which his father is presi- 
dent, and enjoys substantial standing among 
the business men of the place. He is a 
stockholder in the People's National Bank of 
Shippensburg. 

Mr. Rummel has taken especial interest 
in the Y. M. C. A., of which he is now 
serving as president, and he was one of 
twelve members of the building committee, 
F. J. Gates being the vice-president, J. S. 
Omwake treasurer, G. M. Conner, secretary. 
The members of the board are : George W. 
Himes (treasurer of Rummel, Himes & 
Co.), W. H. Robertson (member of the 
firm of Hamilton & Robertson, hardware 
merchants), J. L. Barnett (of Thrush & 
Slough, carriage manufacturers), J. W. Mc- 
Pherson (of J. W. McPherson & Sons, hard- 
ware merchants), W. J. Lutz (of W. J- 



Lutz & Co., manufacturers), Lewis Craig 
(of Lewis Craig & Co.), William E. Reddig 
(merchant), William E. Shapley (insurance 
and real estate) and W. A. Neckles (general 
merchant). The present secretary of the or- 
ganization is N. W. Wolfinger, who was for- 
merly assistant secretary of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, with headquarters at Altoona, Pa. 
The Y. M. C. A. here was organized in 
April, 1896, the first president being Dr. E. 
S. Berry, whom Mr. Rummel succeeded in 
January, 1897; he has held the office con- 
tinuously since. He is also serving as secre- 
tary of the Cumberland Valley Hose Com- 
pany. 

In 1903 Mr. Rummel married Miss Mary 
Bender, daughter of Dr. J. W. Bender, a 
prominent citizen and professor in the Cum- 
berland Valley State Normal College, Ship- 
pensburg. Mr. and Mrs. Rummel hold mem- 
bersliip in the Presbyterian Church, and he 
also takes an interest in Sabbath-school 
work, serving as secretary of the school. He 
is a man of genial nature, and has made 
many friends by his faithful discharge of the 
many duties imposed upon him. 



INDEX 



PAGE. 

Agiiew Family 426 

Agnew, James 430 

Agnew, Dr. Samuel 429 

Alexander Families 520, 675 

Alexander, John T 679 

Alexander, Joseph B 520 

Alexander, Randall M., M. D. 678 

.Mexander, William 679 

Alexander. William M 678 

Amberson, James B., M. D.. 600 

Amberson, William S 600 

Anthony Family 585 

Anthony, Bishop William A. 585 

Armstrong Family 684 

Armstrong, John 684 

Anghinbaugh F'amily 266 

Aughinbaugh. Rev. George 
W., D. D 266 

Ballance Fainily 297 

Bard, Cephas L 34 

Bard Family . 18 

Bard, Robert M 30 

Bard, Thomas R 32 

Barnhart, Charles E 704 

Barnett Family 293 

Baughey,> D. E 703 

Beaver Family 467 

Beaver, Gen. James A 483 

Beaver, Peter 472 

Beck, J. Edward 523 

Benchoff Family 596 

Benchoff, Loudon F 597 

Benedict, Frank W 553 

Benedict, Peter 553 

Blair, Edwin 368 

Blair Family 689 

Blair, John H 690 

Blair, William .367 

Bloser Family 579 

Bloser, George F 579 

Bollinger, Newton T 535 

Bonbrake, Emanuel J 123. 

-Bonbrake Family 120 

Bonbrake, Henry X., M. D. . 125 

Booth Fain- y 300 

Bcwers Family 536 

Bowers, Oliver C 537 

Bowman, Benjamin, M. D. . 132 

Brandt, C'lristiaii 472 

Brandt Family 574 

Brandt, Levi C 574 

Brechbill Family 559 

Brechbill, John G 560 



PAGE. 

Breckcnridge Family 674 

Breckenridge, James H 674 

Brereton Family 318 

Brereton, Dr. John A 319 

Brereton, Capt. Thomas J... 319 

Brereton, Thomas J 320 

Brewer Family 316 

Brewer, Jacob N 316 

Britton Family 175 

Britton, William 175 

Brosins Family 647 

Brosius, William H., iL D... 647 

Brownson, Dr. James 1 103 

Brubaker Family 499 j 

Brubaker, Granville M., M.D. 499^ 

Burger Family 583 

Burger, John ^,^3 

Burk Families 532, 612 

Burk, J. A 612 

Burk, J. C 5,32 

Burkholder, David H 642 

Burkholder Family 641 

Burns Family ... 324 

Burns, Samuel R.... .. 325 

Bush, John H 519 

Campbell Family 653 

Campbell, Hance 653 

Cantner, Paxton M 702 

"Carbaugh Family 447 

'Carbaugh, George H 447 

Carl, Adam, M. D 62 

Carl, Charles B 63 

Carl, John 63 

Chambers. Col. Benjamin... i 
Chambers, Mrs. Emmaline. . t6 

Chambers Family 1 

Chambers, Judge George.... Tl 

Chambers, William L 15 

Chritzman, Clarence A., M.D. 654 
Chritzman, Harry B., M. D. . 631 
Chritzman, Henry G., M. D. . 630 

Clarke, John C 37 

Clarke, Lyman S 35 

Clary, Thomas J 687 

Clayton, Charles B ,362 

Clayton, Hon. James H . . . . 361 

Clevenger, St il well A 679 

Coffman Family 323 

Coffman, John J., M. D 323 

Coover Family 531 

Coover, George S 531 

Corbett, John G 459 

Corpus Chri "i Church 540 



PACE. 

Craig Family 680 

Craig, Hugh B 683 

Craig, John W 682 

Crawford Family 400 

Crawford, F>cderick B 403 

Crawford, Frederick M... 

Crawford, John B 40*) 

Crawford, John H 405 

Crawford, Joseph . .• 402 

Crawford, Sliiion 403 

Crawford, judge Thomas H. 403 

Crebs Family 576 

Crebs, Joseph H 576 

Criswcll F'amily 414 

Criswell, Dr. J. C 414 

Croft, Daniel C 247 

Croft Families 244,604 

Croft, John 246 

Croft, J. Walker, M. D 604. 

Croft, Samuel ,. 247 

Culbertson, F.unuind, ^^ D. . 131 
Culbertsor,, Mrs. Ellen. H... 131 

Culber'son Family :.-. -wfi.,^. 

Cuiinmgham Family 439 

Cunningliam, Smith W 439 

Curriden,' Edward W 181 

Curriden Family 181 

Curriden, Mrs. Kate -A 184 

Cush wa, D. 594 

Cushwa Family 594 

Davis, Charles T 545 

Davis Family 545 

Davison F'amilies 313, 409 

Davison, John B 41 1 

Davison, Joseph R 411 

Davison, Watson R 410 

Davi.son, William G 314 

Davison, William H 410 

Detrich Family 371 

Detrich, Gen. David .371 

Detrich, Jeremiah S 372 

Detrich, William S 373 

Devilbiss Family 572 

Devilbiss, Henry C 572 

Devor, .Xmos >I 698 

Devor Family 095 

Devor, John H.. M. D....... 698 

Dick.son (or Dixon) Family. 1.36 

Dickson. Bishop h>hn 1.38 

Diehl, Edgar B 270 

Diehl Familv if^ 

Diehl, John A 269 

Dixon F.unily i^*^ 




INDEX. 



PAGE. 

1, William D 139 

I ,. :i (or Dickson) Family. 136 

i)' nin, John 394 

I < ,iin, Mrs. Susan 394 

■;eld. Cassius W 364 

: .-Id Family 362 

hart. Adam J 461 

'1 Family 608 

I . Jeremiah 608 

: .: an, Augustus 640 

i ,11 ■ an Family 638 

. '.);.. 1, Gen. Samuel 154 

llhe y Family 580 

iilK"^ y, John R 580 

i.ly Family 3:^3 

i bj . Samuel H 333 

I'.ck'-i Family 489 

!'-':e , John 490 

;'l-- Family 134 

'•- ■. Irvin C 49 

-. James G 135 

. John W 136 

■ .11,1. lert Far^ily 545 

i-'i 1! .ert, Frank N., M. D. . . . 545 

I iiur.ert, John 258 

inmiert, Joseph F 258 

s Family 529 

, r. i s, Joseph, j\I. D 529 

I'.i-..--' Family 534 

!irn^., Frederick 534 

i\tter Family 555 

i-Jter Henry 555 

1 , JZharle ■ H 704 

' ""yb 704 

-^el J 458 

. id W 45S 

ilj ..... . 457 

I .imily 577 

Mei icr, Louis H 579 

I .ickinger, David 549 

'■''ckinger, Mrs. Elizabeth J. 550 

l-l:ck.nger Family 549 

'.ilt: Barnet 210 

j-"it/. Christian 209 

' !' Cyrus 213 

' '/ Daniel 212 

Family 208 

Frederick P 213 

George B 216 

George W 211 

Martin L 216 

•.•111. JNIoses A 214 

■•■■]'.; William E 215 

t Family 602 

t, Jacob H 603 

Ellis F 17 

lin Family 662 

lin, William S 662 

. Benjamin, M. D 278 

Families 278. 693 

, Jacob 623 

, J. Elmer 693 

Abraham 464 

Ezra 513 

Family 512 

George 512 

Horace M., M. D 601 



Frommeyer, Clement Augus- 
tus 187 

Frommeyer Family 185 

Funk, Amos F 556 

Funk, Benjamin F 414 

Funk Families 

408, 414, 443, 556, 575 

Funk, Jacob R 408 

Funk, Martin S ',75 

Gehr, Daniel 331 

Gehr Family 330 

Gehr, Hastings 332 

Geiser, Daniel 302. 432 

Gtiser, Joseph F 3or 

Geiser, Peter 302 

Gel wicks, Cyrus C 359 

Gelwicks and Gelwix Family. 356 

Gelwi.x Family 356 

Gelwix, Samuel 359 

George, Benjamin R t6 

Gerbig Family 375 

Gerbig, John C 375 

Gillan, Charles : . . . 193 

Gillan, David 194 

Gillan Family :c,2 

Gillan, James D iq^ 

Gillan, John W. 

Gillan. John W. 

Gillan, W. Rush 

Gi'more Family 

Gilmore, James 

Glass, Charles S 

Family 

William E 

David M., Jr 

Families 24. 

Jacob F 

J:cob S 

Victor B 

Family 

Rev. 'j. Smith.... 



( 1840) . 
( 1859) . 



R. 



Glass 

Glass, 

Good, 

Good 

Good, 

Ggou. 

Good, 

Gordon 

Gordon, 

Greenawalt, 

Greenawalt, 

Greenawalt 

Greenawalt. 

Greenawalt, 

Greenawalt, 

Greenewalt, 

Greenewalt, 

Grosh, 

Grosh 

Grove 

Grove, 

Grove, 



Daniel W 

Davison 

Families 325, 

Henry 

Samuel F 

Samuel G 

Henry C 

Dr. John C 

David B 

Family 

F'amilies 540, 

John S 

Dr. Norman C 



193 

196 

194 
240 
241 
667 
667 

598 

242 

44^ 
441 
442 

444 
351 
351 
325 
453 
45-' 
452 
453 
455 
404 
406 
691 
691 
686 
686 
540 



Hafer Family 582 

Hafer. Samuel J 583 

Harbaugh Famihes 273, 567 

Harbaugh. Dr. Henry 276 

Harbaugh. James F. Linn.. 277 

Harrison. Benjamin loB 

Hartman. Benjamin F 694 

Hartman, Solomon 694 

Hartz Family 669 

Hartz Moses N 669 

Hartzell. Charles A., M. D.. 342 

Hartzell, Dr. Ezekiel Z 342 

Hartzell Family .34-' 



Hassle- Family 613 

Hassler, George W 613 

Havcrstick, Samuel B 433 

H'lwbecker Family 343 

Kawbecker, S. Z 344 

Hawk, Aaron 206 

Hayes Family 663 

Hayes, William A 663 

Heck Brothers 664 

Heck, Fred Z 664 

Heck, George S 664 

Heckman Family 599 

Heckman, John A 599 

Hege. Christian 203 

Hege, Christian B 207 

Hege. Daniel 205 

Hege Family 200 

Hege, Rev. George 206 

Hege, Henry G 205 

Hege, Henry L 203 

Hege, Rev. Jacob 202 

Hege, Jacob W 205 

Hege, John B 207 

Hege, Samuel G 204 

Heisey Family 514 

Heisey. Henry H 514 

Henneberger, John W 440 

Henneberger, William A.... 441 

Hess, Daniel W 601 

Hess, John M 629 

Heyser Family 160 

Heyser, Hon. Jacob 161 

Heyser, Jacob 164 

Heyser, William (deceased). 161 

Heyser. William 162 

Hiester Family 569 

Hiester. Henry M 569 

Highland. A. T 656 

Hoch Family 571 

Hoch, Philip S 571 

Hoeflich Family 560 

Hoeflich, John R 590 

Hoeflich, Samuel 560 

Hoerner Family 346 

Hoerner, John H 348 

Hoerner, William S 348 

Hoke, Mrs. Annie M 266 

Hoke Family 264 

Hoke, H. Elias 264 

Hoke. Jacob 265 

Hoke. John W 266 

Hollinger Family 392. 635 

Hollinger. Jacob A 637 

Hollinger, Simon G. 392 

Hoover, Abram W.... 652 

Hoover. Benjamin A 651 

Hoover, Daniel 448 

J Hoover Families 

327, 448. 651. 670 

Hoover. J. Frank 670 

Hoover, Percy D., yi. D 449 

Hoover, Sc.nuiel 327 

Horst, A. H 53° 

Horst Family 53° 

Hosfeld. Rev. Casper S 643 

Hosfeld Family 643 

Hostetter Family 270 

Hostetter, Jacob 270 

Hostetter, Samuel P 271 



INDEX. 



Vll 



PAGE. 

Huber, Benjamin F 518 

Huber, Benjamin G 527 

Huber Families 516, 526 

Huber, Hcilman S 518 

Huber, John 518 

Huber, Solomon A 519 

Hutton, C. T 544 

Hutton Family 544 

Irvine, William M., Ph. D.. 190 

Ives, Chauncey 335 

Ives Family 333 

Jacobs Family 685 

Jacobs, William J. C 685 

John, Paul 614 

Johns, Benjamin F 551 

Johns Family 550 

Johnston. Daniel 591 

Johnston Families 

....456. 566, 591, 598, 618, 657 

Johnston, George M 618 

Johnston, John .\ 566 

Johnston, Robert 591 

Johnston, Robert C. . . 456 

Johnston, S. Houston 657 

Jones Family 659 

Jones, James M 659 

Karper, William 476 

Kauffman Family 621 

Kauffman. George R., M. D. . 75 

Kauffman, John F 621 

Kauffman. Leslie M.. M. D.. 77 

Keefer, Cyrus T 477 

Keefer Families 184, 465 

Keefer, Henry 473 

Keefer, Henry D 482 

Keefer, Isaac H 477 

Keefer, John P 184 

Keefer. Jonathan 484 

Keefer, William S 477 

Kemptcr. J. Elmond, M. D.. 568 

Kennedy Family 38 

Kennedy, James F 44 

Kennedy, Mrs. Louisa W.... 44 

Kennedy. Moorhead C 48 

Kennedy, Thomas B (1827). 45 
Kennedy, Thomas B. ( 1870) . 48 

Kennedy, Thomas J 380 

Kieffer. Hon. Christian 469 

Kieffer, Dewald, Descendants 
of Kieffer and Keefer 

Family 465 

Kieffer. Rev. Dr. Moses 471 

Kieffer, Rev. Ephraini 473 

Kieffer. Peter, Descendants of 483 

King. John 153 

Kinneard Family 469 

Kirkpatrick Family 462 

Kirkpatrick, William G 462 

Knepper. Peter 457 

Kyner Family 645 

Kyner, George A .' 647 

Landis. .Abraham B 49 

Landis, Benjamin N U7 



PAGE. 

Landis Family iib 

Landis, Franklin F 118 

Lantz Family 348 

Lantz, William O., M. D.... 348 

Lauton, Robert (372 

Lawrence Family 366 

Lawrence, John L 366 

Ledy Family 624. 626 

Ledy, Joseph H 626 

Ledy, Samuel S 624 

Lehman, Benjamin 303 

Lehman Families 303, 434 

Lehman. Jacob S 434 

Leidig Family 594 

Leidig, Jacob 594 

Lemaster Family 114 

Lemaster, John A 115 

Lemaster, Maurice D 116 

Lesher, Aaron F 512 

Lesher, Abraham 509 

Lesher, Rev. .\braham S.... 506 

Lesher, Rev. Benjamin 509 

Lesher, Christian D 506 

Lesher Families 504, 700 

Lesher, George W 506 

Lesher, Henry, Lineage 504 

Lesher, Isaac 511 

Lesher, Israel 1 511 

Lesher, Jeremiah 511 

Lesher, J. & Son 700 

Lesher, Josiah 702 

Lesher, Samuel 702 

Lesher, Sebastian. Lineage.. 507 

Lesley. Edward -A 034 

Lesley Family 632 

Lesley, Mrs. Matilda K 634 

Lindsay, Frank 166 

Lindsay, John V 165 

Lindsay. Thomas C 165 

Linn, .\le.xander M 179 

Linn Family 176 

Linn, Samuel M 178 

Lloyd Family 565 

Lloyd, Morris 566 

Long, Daniel M 5'5 

Long. .David C 360 

Long Fam'ly 515 

Ludwig F'amily 168 

Ludwig, George 169 

Ludwig, Jacob D 170 

McCleao' Family 573 

McCleary. James M 573 

McCormick, William B 341 

McCurdv Family 550 

McDowell Family 80 

McDowell. John McFarland. 106 
McDowell, John McLanahan 96 

McDowell, Mary A 96 

McDowell. Tench 105 

McElroy Family 586 

McElroy. John R 586 

Mcllvainc Family 619 

Mcllvaine, John S 620 

McLanahan Family 140 

McLanahan, Thomas John- 
ston 144 

McLaughlin, Charles M., 
A. M., M. D 648 



McLaughlin, Perry B. . 
.\lcNulty, Howard B. . 
.\lcNulty, Gen. William C. 



PAGE. 
. 648 

. eo6 
606 



Maclay, Dr. Charles T 153 

Maclay, David 155 

Maclay Family 144 

Maclay, Judge William 151 

Mahon Family 156 

Mahon. Nathaniel K 157 

Mahon, Robert, Esq.. 157 

Mahon, Thaddeus MT. 158 

Main Family 431 

Main James M 431 

Martin Family 460 

Martin, Samuel H ■ 460 

Mentzer Family 364 

Mentzer, Joseph S J65 

Mentzer, Walter S 364 

Meyers Family 659 

Meyers, Isaac 659 

Michael, Dr. Charles 190 

.Michael Family 199 

Middlekauff, William 674 

Middour, George W 699 

Middower l-amily 492 

Middower. J. .A 492 

-Milev. Harry M.. M. D 285 

Miller, Charles P 498 

Miller Families 

.... .349. 420. 487, 497, 65s, 666 

Miller Franklin 349 

Miller, Jacob A f>='^ 

Miller, Jacob B 

Miller, Jacob Y.... 
Miller, John P, <:'.... 

Miller, J. CaUin 

Miller. Michael D 

■ iller, S;.inuel 

Miller, Simpson R o- 

Miller, Solomon 420 

Minehart Family 384 

Minehart, Jacob S 387 

.Minehart. Thomas Z 384 

Minick Family 196 

Minick. William L 196 

Minnich Family 502 

Minnich, George A 502 

.Minter Family 522 

Minter, John N 522 

Montgomery Family 495 

Montgomery, James H., M. D. 497 

.Montgomery, John 496 

Montgomery, John C 497 

Montgomerv, P. Brough. >! 

D : 496 

Morgal, .Aaron H ='1 

Morgal Family 521 

Morganthall. .\. D 166 

Myers Families 377, 382, 671 

Myers. George W 382 

Myers, H. S. . 671 

Neil Family 49.; 

N'cil. John A 49. 

Nelson. T. .MolOowell lo; 

Nicodemus, David 463 

Xicodemiis Family 463 

Nimmon. .Major John S ssf 

Noble Family 54^ 



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INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Joble, William R .548 

Noel, The Very Re\-. Fran- 
cis C 543 

:)ller, Jacob F 43-2 

)ller, Jesse R 126 

Oiler, Joseph J 432 

'Jinwake Family 167 

Jmwake, William T 167 

)rr Family 394 

^.irr. Col. James B 397 

Orr, John G 397 

Orr, William 396 

Palmer, Dr. Charles F 272 

Palmer Family 272 

Park, John 341 

.Park William J 34i 

Parret, Philip H 5'° 

Patton F-amily S88 

J 'atton, William F 59© 

J ;'tton, William J 59° 

Peckman Family 533 

I'eckman, Samuel F 533 

t eiisinger Family 488 

Fensinger, John T 488 

I'hillippy Family 650 

j 'hillippy, Samuel 650 

'■'abterer, Conrad 547 

I aBterer, James B 547 

.1 Family . I97 

George F . i9<^ 

in-. A. Nevin 255 

Fainib' 248 

. . Major Toh 254 

IndRe ^h^mas. .. . 251 

_ J. 672 

^'•)tter, Jacob 6« 

Price, Abraham E 5' 

Price, Benjamin 432 

Price Family 5' 

•..^nickel Family 133 

Kahauser Family 605 

Rahauser, George W 605 

K:imsey Family 112 

R.-.msey, Robert W.. M. D. . 113 

R mkin Family 126 

R nkin, James C 128 

ii.mkin, John W 128 

Ktaser, M. H., Ph. D 79 

Red, Fred B 392 

R-ed, William G 39° 

Reformed iNlennonite Church 435 

t -nf rew Family 525 

tuifrevv, R. U 525 

Rhine Family 53^ 

Rhine, John W. ., 532 

K'loads Family 554 

]:iioads, .Maurice R 554 

r.ice, D. Fdgar I34 

Ki ;e F'amily ^33 

idnehart, Samuel B 644 

Kippey Family 52 

robinson I'amily 370 

i.ngers, Albert L 4'3 

Kcgers Family 4U 



PAGE. 

Rose Family 50t 

Rose, Rev. James G 501 

Ross, Benjamin C 16 

Ross, Mrs. A. V 17 

Rouston, Harvey T 607 

Rouzer, Peter 326 

Rowe, Judge D. Watson.... 74 

Rowe Family 7-= 

Rummel, Charles L 705 

Runk Family 25b 

Runk, John M 256 

Russell F'amily 260 

Russell, George B., A. M., 

D. D., LL. D 280 

Sarbaugh F'amily 450 

Sarbaugh, Jacob 450 

Schaetfer Family 490 

Schaetfer, William C 491 

Schaff F'amily 284 

Schaff, Jacob G. (.deceased). 284 

Schaff, Jacob G 286 

Schnebly, Andrew R 298 

Schnebly Family 289 

Seiber t F'amily 398 

"SeTbFrt, John P 400 

"Seilliamer F'amily 107 

Seilhanier, George O in 

Seilhamer, William 11 1 

Selheimer Family 107 

Shank, Ephraim S 379 

Shank Families 378, 634, 668 

Shank, Peter 668 

Shank, S. R 634 

Shank, William H 379 

Sharpe Family 64 

Sharpe, J. McDowell 68 

Sharpe, Joshua W 71 

Sharpe, Walter K 71 

Shearer, Denton 610 

Shearer Families. .. .610, 688, 693 

Shearer, George W 688 

Shearer, John M 693 

Sheely, Calvin J 595 

Sheely Family 595 

Shields, William B 700 

Shirey, James 425 

Shively, George G., M. D 179 

Shively, Mrs. Jeanne McC. . 181 

Shoemaker Families 374. 553 

Shoemaker, Isaac H 553 

Shoemaker, Philip M 374 

Shontz Family 229 

Shontz, Jonas B 231 

ShuU, George 650 

Sibbett Family 546 

Siebert, Dr. C. L 628 

Siebert, Samuel 628 

Skelly Family 649 

Skelly, George 649 

^Skinner, Clinton 1 238 

Skinner, Daniel 236 

Skinner, David D 236 

Skinner, David J 237 

Skinner, Ezra 238 

Skinner Family 232 

Skinner, George W 239 

Skinner, John W 238 

, Skinner, William 237 



Skinner, William F 240 

Sleichter, Henry 424 

Sleichter, Miss Mary E 424 

Slick, Milton J 437 

Slyder, Frank H 644 

Small Family 688 

Small, Hiram V 688 

Smith, E. M 390 

4--Smith Families 389, 423 

Smith, George F 603 

Smith, George W 637 

Smith, John 164 

Smith. William B 423 

Snider Family 665 

Snider, George T 665 

Snively, A. Barr 228 

Snively, Benjamin 223 

Snively. Benjamin F 227 

Snively F'amily 216 

Snively, Isaac N., M. D 225 

Snively, 1. Newton, M. D. . . . 227 

Snively, John K 224 

Snively, Joseph 220 

Snively, Joseph .L, M. D.... 227 

Snively, Lemuel 224 

Snively, Melchi 223 

Snively, Samuel 221 

Snively, Samuel B 223 

Snyder Family 2S8 

Snyder, Henry S 524 

Snyder, William 525 

Snyder. William H 288 

Solenberger, Abraham L.... 422 

Solenberger, Noah W 422 

SoUenberger, Aaron B., AL D 539 

Sollenberger Family 315 

SoUenberger. M. E 315 

Spangler Family 445 

Spangler, Henry 444 

Spangler, Henry H 446 

Sprenkle Family 321 

Sprenkle, Rev. Isaiah 321 

Stewart. .Alexander 62 

Stewart, Judge John 60 

Stewart. William W 58 

Stoner, David B 439 

Stoner Families 439. 623 

Stoner, Henry G 623 

Strealy Family 355 

Strealy. Jacob 355 

Strealy. Matthew W 356 

Strickler. .Amos S 308 

Strickler, Abraham H., M. D. 307 

Strickler, Dr. Charles M 306 

Strickler Family .304 

Strickler, Henry 306 

Strickler. Snively 200. 306 

Strite Family 55^ 

Strite, Jacob A 558 

Strock Family 641 

Strock. Frederick G 641 

Suesserott Family 627 

Suesserott. LewMS F 627 

Summer, Benjamin R 377 

Susong Family 524 

Susong. William A 524 

Sweney, James 609 

Sweney, John 609 

Sw^ntzel, Mrs. Mary G 685 



INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Thrush, Ambrose W., M. D. O99 
Thrush Family 699 

Vanderau Family 529 

Vanderau, James S 529 

Waddell Family 383 

Waddell, Thomas A 383 

Wagner Family 528 

Wagner, J. A 528 

Walker, Samuel E 606 

Walter, Charles 278 

Walter Family 273 

Walter. John 277 

Warehime, John W 421 

Washinger Family 615 

Washinger, William H 616 

Watson Family 702 

Watts Family 261 

Watts, Judge Frederick 262 

Watts, Frederick 263 

Watts, Kathleen B 264 

Weagly Family 312 

Weagly, Jeremiah 312 

Weagly, Theodore H., M. D.. 313 

Weisz, Rev. Dr. Israel S 212 

Welty. Hon. Benjamin F.... 320 

Wenger, Benjamin F 657 

Wenger Family 657 



PACE. 

Whistler Family 538 

Whistler, Samuel P 538 

White, Andrew J 309 

White Families 309, 346 

White, Hiram M 310 

White. John 346 

Wilhelm Family 406 

Wilhelm, J. M 406 

Wilson, A. C 494 

Wilson College for Women. . 77 

Wilson Family 494 

Wineman, Jacob B 114 

VVinger, Col. Benjamin F... 329 

W'inger Family 328 

Winger, Joseph 328 

Wingert, Rev. Abram W 654 

Wingert Families 376, 654 

Wingert, Isaac 376 

Witherspoon, .Andrew H.... 340 

Witherspoon Family 336 

Witherspoon, James VV 339 

Witherspoon, John W 340 

Witmer Family 562 

Witmer, Jacob S 562 

Wolf, .•\ugustus 352 

Wolf Familv ■?52 

Wolf, Harry G \=,a 

Wolf, Wm.'E. P 354 

Wolfersberger, Mrs. Anna. . 443 



PAT.'- 

Wolfersberger, Jaco'. ; 

Wolff, Barnard 

Wolff, Daniel 4^^ 

Wolff Families ;6o, ^19 

Wood Family :(4 

Wood, George A 45 

Wood, Theodore B. . 14 
Wood, Theodore M 
Wyand, Martin L. . . 

Yaukey, D. H -^ 

Yaukcy Family 51. 

Yaukey, Jeremiah "•" 

Young Family . . . 
Young, John P. .. 

Zacharias Family . . 
Zacharias. William .1 . 

Zarger Family 

Zarger, Thomas G 

Ziegler I'amily . . . 

Zieglcr, George 1". 

Ziegler. George W j 

Zollinger I-'amily . ... i/j 

Zollinger. George i-.. '74 

Zullinger Families 38c, ' ' "" 

Zullinger, George 

Zullinger. John A 



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